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Sioux City is the principal city of Woodbury County and the "Siouxland" region, and is home to 85,025 people, with 124,130 in the Sioux City metropolitan area. This industrial city is located on the banks and confluence of the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers and is 198 miles northwest of Des Moines, 97 miles north of Omaha. Marked as a prominent location along Lewis and Clark's early 19th Century travels, Sioux City is tucked between the two rivers and the scenic Loess Hills bluffs making it a natural place for commercial and industrial activity to originate. Serving as the agricultural and industrial center of the Upper Missouri River area, Sioux City proved to be a magnet for attracting food processing and meatpacking businesses with a busy port along the river making transportation in these industries very efficient. Other manufacturing plants in a variety of industry sectors settled in Sioux City before the advanced manufacturing of Gateway Computer Corporation and the white collar employment base became larger players during the late 20th Century. Sioux City has always been one of Iowa's most inherently important urban centers, as evidenced by these photo pages.

Click on the following link to learn more about Sioux City's history: siouxcityhistory.org.

Galleries:

• Downtown Sioux City

• 4th Street/Warehouse District

• Neighborhoods

Downtown Sioux City is the centralized hub of the "Siouxland" region, featuring much of the commercial office space, government offices, cultural and entertainment venues and industrial land. Recent revitalization efforts happening all over downtown have begun to transform downtown into a dynamic, yet historic place of business, leisure and living. The following two galleries highlight the notable structures of downtown, skyline views, new riverfront attractions and the Tyson Events Center.

Downtown Gallery

Riverfront & Arena District Gallery

The 4th Street/Warehouse District is one of the most architecturally interesting portions of the downtown area. The city of Sioux City started efforts in the mid 90’s to identify buildings and uses for refurbished properties in hopes of preserving city historic buildings while creating a district of retail, restaurants and entertainment. The Historic Fourth District contains the best concentration of late 19th century commercial buildings in Sioux City. Most of the larger buildings in the district are notable for their distinctive Richardsonian-Romanesque style, an architectural style popular in the late 1890's. Two blocks long from Virginia to Iowa Streets, Historic Fourth contains 15 buildings dating from 1889 to approximately 1915. Two of the buildings, the Evans Block and Boston Block are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

4th Street Gallery:

KD Station/Industrial District Gallery:

Sioux City took a prominent role in Iowa's history as a major city early on. Reflective of this early prominence are the many architecturally detailed historic neighborhoods that are dotted throughout the bluffs overlooking downtown and along the former streetcar lines that crossed the city. Seen below are just a fraction of interesting buildings, mostly taken from the "midtown" area north of downtown.

Neighborhoods Gallery: