June 22, 2013: The very stately Glidden school, now Glidden-Ralston High School.
Carroll Times, March 16, 1922:
Attend dedication of Glidden school
County Superintendent George Galloway and Superintendent of Schools J.N. Cunningham took part in the dedication of Glidden’s new consolidated school building Friday, a building recently completed at a cost of about $200,000 and said to be one of the most modern school buildings in this part of the state. …
The new consolidated school is planned to care for the needs of the district for many years to come. It has a modern heating and ventilation system, two assembly rooms for junior and senior high school pupils, a large gymnasium, large, well-lighted class and study rooms, natural sciences laboratory, large libraries and every convenience of a modern school building. The building is practically fire proof and is conveniently located.
(“Practically” in this context is basically asking for the smite button, but luckily no doom this time. — Ed.)
A highway-related note about this school: Construction of the school, and later the sports complex, resulted in the closure of four blocks of Nevada Street in Glidden. Nevada Street was the route used in Huebinger’s Iowa Official Transcontinental Route (1912), which was used as the basis of the Lincoln Highway in Iowa. The business district is on Idaho Street, a block west of Nevada. It appears that the south route through Glidden to Ralston fell out of favor for the north route shortly after the Lincoln Highway was officially dedicated, although it lives on as a Heritage Byway loop route using Idaho.
CORRECTION 10/13/22: Huebinger’s map of Glidden is wrong. Nevada Street never ran north of 5th Street (that is, behind the school/between the school and ball diamonds) and was never part of the Transcontinental.