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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
In 1887, the home of George A. Keeline stood on the hill at 129 Park Avenue. Not the small tree in the foreground and the figure standing on the front porch.
[print photo is captioned: Residence of Mr. Geo. A. Keeline
[print photo is captioned: Residence of Mr. Geo. A. Keeline
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
The A.B. Walker home stood at 705 Sixth Ave. in 1887. Building had an iron pipe fence around it. Streets were unpaved. Walker was a real estate dealer.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
This is the Council Bluffs Mail Terminal as it appear in 1887, when it was known as the Union Pacific Transfer. A hotel, one of the finest in the nation, was housed in the three-story brick building. It was patronized largely by railroad workers…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Looking up Main Street toward Broadway this was the picture in 1887. Groneweg and Schoentgen were wholesale grocers. other businesses occupied the two buildings immediately north of the grocery warehouse. The wooden building with the horse tied in…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is one of the early "Iron Horses" that chugged into Council Bluffs as the city became a leading railroad point shortly before the turn of the century. The billowing black smoke and the old fashioned "coal car"…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The old Citizens State Bank was one of five banks available to Southwest Iowans in 1889. It stood on the corner of Main St. and First Ave. in what was known as the Shugart-Beno block. Other offices in the building…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was a temporary Missouri River crossing of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1872. The bridge was raised above ice level on pilings. During the summer months railroad cars were reportedly ferried…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is the old Council Bluffs High School as it appeared in 1887 when it served the entire city, In 1900 Abraham Lincoln was built and it was the lone high school until the addition of Thomas Jefferson in the early…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Pierce Street is paved for the first time in 1903 by this crew of workmen who used muscle power rather than mechanical mixers. One workmen [sic] is throwing water onto a pile of crushed stone. Cement will be added and…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This sidewalk-laying crew pauses for a photo around the turn of the century as Council Bluffs launched an improvement program. Scene is at 917 S. Main St., and workmen are from the Wickham Paving firm. The Hermsen…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This crew is paving Vine Sts, in the vicinity of North Second St. in Council Bluffs' "horse and buggy" days. The job is done with paving bricks, many of which remain in city streets today. Photo from F.E. Moses, 2641…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is Grace Street at Carson Avenue in the early 1900s. The bank at rear is being dug away, evidently to make room for Carson Avenue which runs parallel to it. Grace Street, left, was a mud trail, marked with the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is the scene in the spring of 1921 looking west along Broadway from Seventh St. The dilapidated building at left is a barber shop with a sign in front reading: "Shines...Haircuts...Ur Next." Note the early model…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This scraper is pulled by both a steam tractor and a pair of mules as original Broadway surfacing is torn up 50 years ago. The surface was replaced by paving bricks. Rigs such as this made slow methodical work out of…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Another old picture from a collection of Ray Wickham, contractor, shows Holy Family Church being completed in 1908. The unit is located at Avenue B and 23rd St.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--From 1860-1888 St. Francis Xavier Church was located on Pearl St. just South of Willow Ave. This later became the site of the Miriam Block, which was removed in the late 1940s.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back around 1900, this is how the Fenlon and Foley Wood and Coal Yard appeared at the corner of Seventh St. and Broadway. Standing near the door are A.G. Witzke, left, and George McCoy. The picture comes from Albert…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1886 a man by the name of Harry Schmidt was operating this photography gallery at 220 S. Main St. Later Schmidt moved closer to the center of town. Owner of the picture, Mrs. Marie Kern, 600 Third St., says…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Right in the center of town in 1866 there were lots of horse and wagons, plus ox teams pulling loads down Broadway, one merchant was buying hides and furs for cash. This picture of an earlier time was furnished by…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 1900 this residence on Frank St. stood among a fine grove of trees, bore a sign for rent. One of a series of photos that made a panorama of Frank St in that period, comes from Lavrene Tollinger, 219 Frank St.