National Historic Landmark · Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pottawattamie County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence

Added to the National Register in 2023, and a National Historic Landmark.

National Historic LandmarkListed 2023

The record

Property typeBuilding
Address226 Pearl St., Council Bluffs, IA
CountyPottawattamie County
ListedDec 11, 2023
Listed forArchitecture, Social history
Reference number100009825

Visiting

Address226 Pearl St., Council Bluffs, IA
Also in Council Bluffs35 listed places in Council Bluffs → · walking tour →
Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.
Limited data for this unit

No photograph, no construction date, no encyclopedia article or coordinates for this listing yet. The Register record above is complete; the enrichment is not.

The NPS spatial layer is re-read every Saturday, and Wikidata on the first Saturday of each month.

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Local history books for Council Bluffs

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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Iowa

  • Archaeological Guide to Iowa
    William E. Whittaker and Lynn M. Alex, 2015
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  • WPA Guide to Iowa
    Federal writers' project, 2013
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  • Grant Wood's Iowa
    Wende Elliott and William Rose, 2013
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Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.

Reference

Questions people ask

When was Pottawattamie County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence listed on the National Register?

Dec 11, 2023. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.

Source: National Park Service

Where is Pottawattamie County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence?

226 Pearl St., Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.

Source: National Park Service

Has the Pottawattamie County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence listing changed since 2023?

1 Register action since listing, most recently national historic landmark designated on Dec 11, 2023.

Source: Register actions

Sources

Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. No source has a map point for it. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 100009825. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.

Register actions

Dec 11, 2023National historic landmark designated