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Today...a few buildings remain the same as in the 1918 photo. For the most part, however, remodeling and new buildings have kept up with the times.

Today...the State Savings Bank occupies the Shoe House site and that of several other stores that were removed from the old Everett Block in 1946. The bank building was opened in 1947. The Wickham Building is at upper right.

Future plans...look bright for the Wickham-Beno buildings in the 500 block of West Broadway, but for many months now, windows have simply been papered over.

The common wall joining the First National Bank and the Beno building on West Broadway has become a $13,000 stumbling block in proposed demolition of the long-vacant Beno, Wickham, and Kresge buildings. Mayor Tom Hanafan said he would veto a…

Broadway looking east from 700 block. Among businesses pictured: Strand Theater, Liberty Theater, Wickham Building. ca 1960?

Photographs of the Wickham Building at 522 W. Broadway

Beno/Wickham Bldg.
Scott St & Broadway
See also: downtown redevelopment 3

The Wickham building in downtown Council Bluffs is one of three properties proposed for development by an investment group that includes real estate salesman Ted Campbell. Other properties in the project would be the Pacific House (left) and former…

The Wickham Building...at Scott Street and Broadway resembles an ear of corn if you take the round turret in the building's southwest corner into account. The site of the building was the location of Pacific House, a turn-of-the-century hotel.

Corner (Scott St. and Broadway) of Beno/Wickham Building; doors and windows boarded up

Photo of corner of Beno/Wickham Building (looking east); windows and doors boarded up, sidwalk closed

Detail of brick arches, and carved friezes and column caps of the Wickham Building

interior of department store, ca. 19th century
Oriental rugs on floor, several men and women standing by rugs

interior of department store, ca 19th century
display counters with stools for customer seating, clerks behind counters