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Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Ready to deliver a new kitchen stove in his wagon is Sherman Sellers. This old picture was made at the intersection of Main St. and First Ave. in 1898 and came from L.R. Sellers of Route 1, a brother of Sherman. In…

Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This is the Grand Hotel, as it is pictured on a postcard dated 1915. The hotel burned in 1925, along with several other buildings in the 100 block on Pearl St. This picture is from a postal card collection of Arthur…

Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Grand Hotel and First Ave. and Pearl St., said to be the finest hotel in the West at its opening in 1891, burned to the ground in a million dollar fire in 1925. Sketch was made by Gail Connelly, 3325 Ave. B. from an…

Photographs of the Grand Hotel fire.

Postcard of the Grand Hotel Council Bluffs

Postcard of the Grand Hotel in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Postcard of the Grand Hotel, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

August 2002 Historical Society newsletter