In 1951, firefighters had to inspect the theater front's terra cotta decorations after several chunks of concrete toppled to the sidewalks, narrowly missing pedestrians.
Caption: Congregational Church erected in 1854 & 1855 on Pearl St. ground now occupied by [...] block begun in Aug 1854 and finished in Spring of 1855. Vacated Sept. 12, 1869.
Photograph showing construction on the front entrance of Council Bluffs High School (Abraham Lincoln High School). Notes on back of photograph read, "Entrance New High School - April 21, 1901."