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   Citation: 162.898.2-5 (Full image size: 111Kb)

Ames High School on the west side of Clark Avenue opened for classes in the fall of 1939. This photo, with students sitting and standing to the right of the main entrance, was probably taken around 1955, given the students' style of clothing. This building served as the high school until a new building was constructed at Twentieth Street and Ridgewood Avenue. When the new building opened in 1961, this building became Central Junior High School, which it was until the middle school came into existence in the fall of 1986. At that time the building was vacant until it was renovated and opened as the new Ames City Hall in April, 1990.

   Citation: 162.899.1-4 (Full image size: 142Kb)

The west entrance on the east side of Clark Avenue of the 1912 Ames High School building. After the new high school opened, directly across the street from this one, on the west side of Clark, in 1939, this building was used as the junior high school until 1961. From 1961 to 1981, it was a classroom annex to Central Junior High School which occupied the west building. In 1981, the east building was razed and the site is now [2004] a parking lot.

   Citation: 162.899.5 (Full image size: 92Kb)

This is the 1939 Ames High School building, looking north at the front (east) side of the school. This building, on the west side of Clark Avenue, served first as the high school and then (1961-1986) as Central Junior High School. Since April, 1990, remodeled as Ames City Hall, this building has housed city offices and council chambers. (See also: 162.900.1-5)

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