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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Even the women did some digging when this ground breaking ceremony for Epworth Methodist Church was held in 1909. The site is at Twenty-fifth St. and Avenue B. The small church, at right, was used until a new…

Today...after two remodeling jobs, the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church looks like this. The church was first remodeled about 1906; then again in 1924, when the brickwork was added. And today, both streets are smoothly paved.

Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Around the turn of the century, this is how the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church looked at the corner of Eighteenth St. and Fifth Avenue. The church was originally built in 1889 on a site fronted with a dirt street, and a…