108.589.1-2

Ames High School when newly built in 1912. A three-story structure on the east side of Clark Avenue, this building was used first as a high school; then as Central Junior High School after the new high school was opened in the fall of 1939 on the west side of Clark (after 1990, the west building became the Ames City Hall); and finally, after a new building was opened as Ames High School in the fall of 1961 at 20th and Ridgewood and the 1937/39 building became Central, as a secondary classroom building for the junior high. The inset in the corners of the building on the north and south, as shown in this photograph, were changed in the 1920s when the building was enlarged. This building was razed on August 22, 1981 and the site is now [2004] a parking lot for City Hall. (See also: 106.581.1)