Old World Sioux City, Iowa 

I'm from Sioux City you are right the courthouse is phenomenal and Sioux City has a secret underground tunnel system

Obelisks were all the rage to build by cowboys, prospectors, and orphans in 1855.

I have lived in sioux city a majority of my life and i learned a few things on this video for sure. I never really paid attention to these old massive buildings as i thought they were normal tbh. I just saw them as old. Alot of them are abadoned/repurposed. The whole downtown area (including historic 4th st) looks like this. The Castle on the Hill (the castle highschool) is impressive and was remodeled interiorly and now serves as an apartment building. I grew up two blocks from the museum castle on 30th and Jackson St. Its a very cool building but is now privately owned so you cant go in there anymore. Jackson St. in general has awesome and very big houses all along it from downtown to upper 30th blocks. I remember hearing the stories of Al Capone and little chicago. I think one of the most interesting things about the city thats not talked about alot is that its the major city that connects 3 states. Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. I can literally drive 5 minutes in each direction and be in a different state. Its literally a hub off the Missouri River.

Born and raised in Sioux City a lot of these buildings are still standing .

A big challenge that comes up when I think of explaining all of this, is it means American history is a lie. And that means Native American history is also a lie. If the an advanced civilization existed prior to the 19th century, Indians were a part of it, and they didn't live as we're told they did. They had big cities too. Could a few hundred years of taking children from their homes and educating them as to who they were, and where America came from be enough to erase their memory of what was here prior to the reset?

Lot of old world in brazil and others countries, stunning. Thank you for the content.

Iowa is riddled with old worldly things. The entire Midwest north to south was a a giant megatropolis

I live in Sioux City. I'll give you credit for making this video, making the city look more interesting then it really is. Most of the places you showed that are still standing are either apartments, bars, casinos, or just completely abandoned, minus a few of the churches. I see others from the city getting angry at your video LOL. It makes me laugh because the community here is a joke. I quite enjoyed the video, thanks for taking the time on our little city.

Watching this made me giggle. Sioux City was started as a main crossroads for livestock and pretty much all trade goods. There's lots of money in livestock and trade goods. German immigrants migrated to Iowa as early as the 1830s. Most of these buildings are still around. The Badgerow building is now apartments. The Battery building is now a Hardrock Casino. The Boys and Girls Home was turned into flats, but I think it's now a family service building for old people. The high school is now apartments. St. Joseph Hospital building is now part of the Grinnell College campus. Many Victorian homes were demolished, but a lot are also still around mainly as museums or apartments/duplexes. The old city library is apartments (lol). I'm new to your channel this is the first video I've watched of yours. Do you think aliens made these buildings or time travelers? I feel like I'm missing what your hinting at.

Definitely a better mic. maybe add a bit of bass, tiny bit less highs. √ I wonder... there are quite a few images of the tops of steeples having four-armed antenna, snap two arms off and it turns into a cross....... just saying. Love your work! I'm about 10 years deep, myself! Sophie of newearth was my into. And,..... wait..... I will always remember the first video on mudflood, it was a calm-speaking Canadian who questioned the narrative and covered Ottawa, the parliament etc... and his YT channel was actually called mudflood, my first time reading that word. Then POOOFFFF gone. Soon found newearth, FLATEARTHBRITISH, auto didactic, JonLevi and his dog, Michelle Gibson in how she is so meticulous, Everything Inside Me is awesome, My Lunch Break cracks me up.... This awareness truly brings us solid ground to stand on. WE DIG IT!!! (did you like puns?)

@2:52 the little dog 🐕 infront of the rail car , looking at the camera, knows everything that happened!

My great grandfather was the architect for the city.. I have city street plans and full architectural plans for most of the original buildings. From what I have looked at over the years.. you are on to something I will not discuss on this platform. great video

The City Hall interior was completely rebuilt in the 1980’s. The old structure was meticulously dismantled, a new interior built and meticulously replaced the outer stonework.

Corn palace. Still one in Mitchell South Dakota, big tourist stop. 🤔🧐🤫. 2 hour drive away. Chris I've been wondering how all the bricks were produced. Some of the areas had many yards, and today zero? How did they all disappear?

I live in Sioux City and I'm still questioning why city officials built the convention center.

I live in sioux city and my ancestors are Lithuanians who migrated to work in the Stockyards, living in what was called South Bottoms. My mom use to take me to a beautiful catholic Lithuanian church. I fell in love with it as a child. It just felt so alive with old vibrations. I felt that as only children can. They tore it down with no explanation at all. When I say no explanation, nothing was said about it. An entire Lithuanian heritage just tore down without any reason. Now it's just an empty lot with weeds. Why?

The native Americans and other Native tribes like Bolivia they handed down stories from the past. Thats how they hand down stories some are just hard to believe. I believe I was watching a Brian Forester video, he was at the Pumapunku site with an engineer and a guide. The guide said there was an old story handed down from the native people that the entire structure of Pumapunku was built in a day. They said the pieces all flew into place to construct the building. I found that rather shocking. With the perfection of these buildings it makes ones imagination wander. I know the Egyptians did not build the Pyramids The Myan's didn't build their city either etc. So my only conclusion was that the builds came first then the inhabitants. I am always on pause when a Griffen or Gargoyle or distorted face or unknown creature is displayed on a building always thinking what is that all about. Thanks Chris for all your hard work. Its a mystery.

One of my favorite Canucks at it again 💪 The microphone takes away a lot of excess little noises and adds a much more professional sound . I have to say , after years of watching this research , everyone wearing hats , using umbrellas , all of the awnings on the building wondows ... looks like they were scared of the sun ? The "fire pictures" look like natural gas explosions . Just food for thought . God bless bud (and your future explorers)

Your post modernist take on my city is laughable. Youre forgetting when a lot of these were built world wars hadnt happened yet. The people here were industrious, honest, virtuous, hard working people. They wanted to build their city as beautifully and as long lasting as they could. The endurance of their work doesnt need your amateur scrutiny.

If you want a great video exploration , look into portland/south portland Maine ... incredible incredible old world stuff bud

I'm new here. What's this narrative you are always mentioning?

Never knew there was a corn palace in Sioux City, IA; thought only South Dakota. Until your channel, never thought to question these buildings in light of the populations of the times. Once you see, you can't unsee. Thanks for the video.

So, so much missing here. You need to actually go there and visit their outstanding local museum.

I live in sioux city, its a good place to live for the most part

this is a great channel, and the ominous background music is awesome!

Looked like griffins. Yes.. all a cover up..

Hello, I’ve been looking into this stuff for probably 4 or 5 years now but have been concentrating on it for the past several months. I guess what exposed me initially was a video I saw about giant petrified trees and whatnot, then that led me to the mudflood, world’s fairs and tartaria. I kind of dropped it for a while then ran across the “my lunch break “ channel which was initially interesting but he went off into pretty crazy stuff like….continent sized hibernating dragons under the Antarctic ice cap, so I quit watching. I was searching for a new channel that dealt mainly with the old world architecture and yours fit the bill. Great stuff by the way and I would really like to purchase your book if it is available. I had a few ideas about how all this information could be laid out so it would be easier to understand and access. Imagine like a map, like when you are searching for the location of a particular photo you have taken on your phone. It would be neat if all these structures could be categorized by when they were built, how long it took to build them, if they are still standing, if they were destroyed , how they were destroyed, architectural style, architect's name, construction company (if any), what the building was designated for and any other pertinent information. Make it like google earth where you can zoom around the planet. I’ve heard some fascinating theories the past few days and have had some theories of my own. The timeline is definitely corrupted. It occurred to me that maybe the colonization of America happened similar to what they are saying but it took much longer that what we are told. We had free energy and magnificent buildings and it was really a utopia but evil people from across the pond didn’t like what we were doing over here so they came and killed most of the population off and or there was the cataclysmic scenario that happened and then evil people got involved in the repopulation efforts and molded our current society into what it is today. Something like that anyway. That’s just an idea that popped into my head the past few days. Great work and keep the vids coming!

So much evidence! Thank you for keeping on at it so well Regards and have a good weekend brother ❤‍🔥 🗽

I live near Sioux Falls. Stone is potentially a more locally sourced building material than wood. Potentially a contributing factor to the architectural choices.

Is it possible to explore South Sioux City?

👏👍 23:13 - horizontal keystone makes no sense, the pouch, pillars, house, all made of stone- how bizarre

Chris, I wish I could have filmed a gentleman's reaction about your channel Today that I referred him to your channel a few weeks ago, And he's from Boston and grew up, right By the bunker hill tower! Life-changing to say the least! His reaction was priceless! He's kind of a normal guy you could say, but I dont any longer!! So Grateful for your work.!!

I grew up in Sioux City, born in 1967. I've talked to old people, that knew old people, and I don't get what doesn't sit right with you. We're on the Missouri river, so boats and barges brought supplies up and down the river. Railroad hub to every direction. Massive local resources called the brickyard, between Sgt Bluff and Sioux City, that had all the raw materials to make brick. Sioux City did have a Corn Palace, and why wouldn't you dress it up to the 9's if it's something special? I still remember the smell of the stock yards as a kid, hearing the hundreds or thousands of cows braying as I lay in bed to go to sleep. No air conditioner, slept with the windows open. If the wind was coming from the west we could smell it too. Oh ya, there was a hide plat too, that smelled even worse! If you needed a bigger building, and didn't necessarily have a lot of room, knock that stuff down and start over. Saw it happen. Neat old building, get the ball swinging and knock it down. I watched them rip the tracks that went to the elevated rail out of the brick road that was underneath the asphalt in front of our house. Actually, the elevated rail columns still stand. I've been inside these fabulous structures that are shown. True craftsmanship. Maybe delete this video and figure out why it was called Little Chicago. Al Capone loved it here. He loved "Lower 4th Street". This is where he came when he felt the "heat" in Chicago. I talked to old guys that had seen Al Capone and his Tommy Gun toting watchmen as kids. Then connect it with Templeton Iowa, as this was where his favorite Rye whiskey came from. Lower fourth was a place for hookers, bums, and lots of nefarious goings on. Believe it or not, the El Alforestero Motorcycle gang began the restoration of lower fourth street. I don't think you've been around any central plains people, when we say we'll get something done, it gets done. if you want a castle built, and you've got the money, you'll get a castle built, like right now. That's all........

are those building from the millennial reign of Christ?

Sadly smith school (one of the castle-lookinh buildings), which was on the national registry of historical places was torn down to build a different school that combined several into one big one. Also- being called little Chicago was due to Al Capone was a very frequent visitor here. There are tunnels under historic 4th aka lower 4th that connected buildings. Being born, raised and still living here and being related to the person who originally laid out the city (called Thompson town/thompsonville). I could tell you soooooo much!!!!

I would say the reason for the great architecture in Sioux City was that the city was the center of wealth for a large region. All the area bankers, business owners and others lived there. I bet if you look at outlying towns, villages and farms they would not look so prosperous. Some areas looking even poor.

My fam8ly is from souix city...not sure what the heck your talking about. In the 1800s Germans were brought to south Dakota in mass...maybe you should do 44search rather than just doubt things because you haven't got a clue

I would question fire escapes on old buildings… And NO fire escapes on new glass buildings? Like the World Trade Center, building 7…

It would be cool to figure out where the funding for the demolitions came from. Demolishing a building is no small feat. And it's expensive. People don't even tear down old barns because it's costly and a pain. And that's just old rotted wood. Who had the extra proprietary funds to waste on just getting rid of these things? We've got nasty old crappy built strip malls, vacant for years, no one pays to tear them down.

It's so sureal seeing a video about my city especially one about my city come up on my recommended. A lot of our older buildings are cool to explore, but most are integrated into more modern buildings now. The battery building still stands, but as of like 2010, it's now a hard rock

The Roads Themselves are absolutely unexplainable and uncomprehensible How they could possibly make something so magnificent You could do a video just on the roads, amazing.!!

why did this pop up on my typ i live in sioux city is yt stalking me 💀

With regard to Midwestern towns I don't think it's unusual that the inhabitants of Sioux City wanted castles (I live there) The majority of immigrants in the area came from the region of Schleswig-Holstein. I know for a fact St.Paul's Lutheran was built by immigrants. Yes it's impressive and they are serious structures but they were not built earlier than stated. There are written records of the construction. The reason a lot of these were torn down because of the lack of professional architects caused these structures to be unstable.

what are you talkin about? "Something not riht about the time frame"? You could actually research in stead of speculate? Are you high?

Thats my Home City Ive started collecting old worlds fairs books and history books

I'm somehow reminded of house and hotel game pieces of Monopoly games. Injection molded ish looking. Appreciate your content thank you💯

I recently visited Colorado and went to lakeside amusement park. It's the old classic electric park with old world hints.

As the crossroads connecting the cross-country railroad meeting the Missouri River, Sioux City was expected to develop into a major Metropolitan. That's why all these large buildings were erected.

Any idea about where all the red brick was manufactured for all these buildings?

The old newspapers (before syndication) to get a broader sence of history than just looking at pictures and dates. There are tons of fascinating stories surrounding many of the buildings around here. My favorite is the Peirce Mansion. Peirce swindled a ton of people out of money by holding a raffle to raffle off his mansion to cover his debts on the place. Of course his friend "won" it after paying Peirce a hefty price for the building in advance of the raffle drawing. It's now owned by the Public Museum and rented out for events with occasional tours of the home.

Why are the there so many Longfellow schools

Souix city Iowa is a shit hole now source: I live in elk point SD

The Battery building is now The Hard Rock Casino, I have A store across the street.

The same thing happened in Australia in the same time frame you have mentioned. Ive had a skim through population records of the time and they don't seem to add up to the amount of labor required in relation to the size of the population to construct all the Capital cities, let alone all the major regional centers. Central Railway Station in Sydney, was said to be the largest station in the British Empire at the time of construction.

In the old world people was living in castles 🏰 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and working in castles 🏰 🇲🇦 and now people is living in and working in boxes to brick 🧱 to glass boxes that's a step down

Great video as always.. I had to do a Louis and Clark project in 5th grade... It was worth quarter of our grade

Ok, back to reality! Local contractor Klinger Construction tore down the city hall and built one like it in less than a year. The only part that remains is the clock tower which was heavily renovated. The ornate detail you pointed out at the front door is less than 30 years old.

...LOVE YOUR POSTS. !!

Not sure why you keep saying “ to fit the narrative”? I know for a fact as my great grandfather was in the masonart business and these building were built when they say. Like the old central high school. My Grandpa graduated from there. Keep in mind it was the ONLY high school in that city at that time so every kid went. I’ve been inside and now it’s all apartments. At one point in history Sioux City was the biggest stock yard exchange in the world. Thanks to the river easy transport. Have you been to Sioux City? You should visit before you say apparently or to fit the narrative. There is ALOT of history here. Sioux City was supposed to be a big city like Chicago that’s why they started building all the old style buildings. ALSO over time each building has had refacing done because of age and weather and obviously since it’s 2024 and not 1855 the buildings will look more modernized.

This stuff never gets old. Pun intended. Thank you sir as always.

Organized crime was active before focus shifted to Las Vegas. Also Epiphany windows were said to be funded by my friends grandmother, a madam on 4th st. Meatpacking industry brought in workers, today it's much more laid back compared to colorful early days. Central high-school is converted into apartments

I don’t understand the point of this video, literally everything you said in this video is false. Ive lived in Sioux city for my entire 39 years

The castle on the hill was supposedly brought here block by block

The Anderson Dance Pavilion looks interesting. Usually round memorials are old mounds and other Native structures.

No surprice we have accounts of the conquistadores explaning these great cities to their kings and askinn to be viceroys. Thats was until they instructed the Catholic church to write a false narrative/history.

Pshh people have little to zero knowledge of how large the brickmasons union is and has been for quite some time. Dudes would move across the country even back in those days for a large job. And the strength of stone and brick work does come down to angles and bonds its pretty wild old school work, went to school for it but got injured after an left the trade.

"battery building" 🤔

Modern construction can create enormous buildings 1km into the air, and you dont think we can build a brick church anymore? Wow😅

Sioux City was a major river port on the Upper Missouri River. It supplied commerce to all points NW on the river. Dozens of riverboats lined Sioux City’s riverfront and were loaded with supplies which were sent as far as Ft. Benton, MT.

I was born at St Joe's hospital and the place smelled like hog shit

I love that you used world on fire for your outro

2:22 - 2:53 is my exact thoughts on everything indeed great wordplay….they’ve truly hidden the truth(true history) with their these false mind altering/controlling images 😢 in my search for the truth I’ve come to terms with the fact that we are living in a total different realm, than the realm that they have presented to us since birth and also with great precision have made sure to program and propagate generations with these false truths and straight up lies about our reality of the true realm which is way stranger than I think any1 could ever believe

Have you ever been to sioux city or are u just googling all this?

Those building don’t have original windows so these weren’t built in the 60’s just rehabilitated.

The Sioux City City Hall was torn down in 1990 and rebuildt to look like the old building and cost a lot more than the plain building across the street. Also Sioux City had before 1920 a half dozen brick makers and brick building use 1 mason overseeing up to 20 unskilled workers bricklaying is not hard, even you could lay bricks

Hot damn!!! Friday night in Sioux City,

Great stuff, Chris!!! 👍

Very interesting, thank-you! North Western Depot picture looks altered. I kept looking and felt there was a much larger raised structure behind. I thought maybe an above ground train station/ structure? 27:55. Then I see towrds the end of your video shows an above ground section of train.? Much more here, so much hidden, altered truth.

Your comments about the City Hall show how wrong you are. The building was built in 1891. Then, in 1994-1997 it was completely disassembled and rebuilt from the same stones. It's a new building made out of the original stone.. DO SOME RESEARCH.

So in the decades of 1880 to 1930 Sioux City grew over 71,000 people. After 1930 what happened? Almost 100 years and Sioux City hardly grew much. 🤔

Your knowledge and experience have negatively impacted your politics. This makes for you being a person putting forth false news.

In 1848 there was a revolution throughout Europe, a genersl uprising. This was followed by the unification of Italy and of Germany Somewhat different timelines but both began around 1860 and ended by 1871. The results Don't find much analysis in history books but we're not favorable to Are there many germans or southern Italians. Ornate architectural detail and complex architecture in the YS Correlates with mobs of highly skilled craftsmen being paid dirt cheap. If you look at the history of new york Some of the richest men in the country built themselves political residences on fifth avenue and the west side drive, Most of which were demolished within a few decades For buildings of apartments even though they looked as if could last for centuries. I wish I knew what the ultimate narrative us that you are proposing proposing. Growth happening on an exponential scale And likely projected to continue At that rate of change, compounded, far into the future. This fashion was the only way people knew how to build... And immigrants were used to working six days a week 12 to 16 hours a day. In recent decades More contemporary historians have brought to light Some massive architecture in australia where children As late as the early twentieth century chikdrrn ( Supposedly orphans but sometimes their families were tricked into giving up custody ) were shipped to Australia to live in orphanages... But first they had to build the massive of dwellings. Don't overlook the orphan trains of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century I was driving across the prairie in Kansas Heading east And notice some familiar Church towers on the horizon, And worked my way over to find a small town Where are the centerpiece That looked Very much like the catholic church in my hometown on CT, Except That the church on the prairie had much Larger bricks Than the one in the east. Both were named saint joseph. However , the insides were different with the insides of the prairie church looking more like the insides of saint peter's church in the same town in connecticut . I found myself making up a story that Some community needed a church ...and the bishop called the vatican To pull up some arcjotevtural.plans... Ended the conversation with something like "How about a saint joseph we haven't had one of tjose for 300 to 600mmiles." Until then I hadn't questioned who came up with the design or the building plans.. But when I was growing up And the catholic church was still leaning on parishioners for their building fund for convents, rectories, schools etc. I wouldn't be at all surprised if outsiders were brought in to build these piles. Even a few years ago , there was a massive housing construction building om downrown And the work. Ers were easily observed to be from out of town just by their professional equipment and helmuts. But I also had a friend who did heavy construction and got gone at a cheap rate in a larger city And learned that most of his coworkers were brouGht To VT from TX. However I soon learned that they were not originally from Texas but ftom zguatsmala. from guatemala

Please reference John Schmidt’s outstanding book “An Historical Profile of Sioux City” for accurate information.

I would look into Frank Lloyd Write’s first building, supposedly it was a church that burned down, he didn’t like it and wouldn’t admit it was his design

Of course Most of the stonework is façade. With steel or concrete beams supporting. I’ve lived in Sioux City all my life other than when I went to Iowa State for architecture

Spires used to 'recharge' electrostatic propulsion of airships / blimps ?

Most of our modern economy didn't exist then. I believe more out the population were skilled builders and laborers. They had more time to spend on such projects as we now waste most of our time with entertainment.

The city haul is new, it was completely rebuilt about 20-25 years ago, took a few years to build

the elevated train is now the L Train in Chicago.... it was shipped to Chicago in pieces

Some aren't pictures there drawings 6:27 plus where are the brick factory's n stone

Hi! Very intersting, new to this channel. I believe this has been asked but how come it was possible to build Empire State Building in just 13 months in the 30's

The large size of so many churches for a town not that big in population tells you that everyone went to church back then. And I mean everyone. What a huge cultural change from today.

Hate to think at all the documents (photographs, books, footages) lost through time. Museums, archives always destroyed or "burned". And what they will erase in future.

lol u keep stating theres "something wrong with thw narrative" without proposing an answer. Just ask questions is stupid when you have no incentive to find the truth

I live in Sioux City the belview ballroom is amazing and the history of the building lived there for 1 year ,a fortress

Microphone is perfect

Aside from the timeline you speak of here is an alternative concept ..... what if there were many many more people than they are saying ? And more people died in wars etc than they are saying ?

Meanwhile we can brew, bottle and share cases of an excellent beer in our garage or living room. 😂

Several of the Dakota sandstone residences still exist. Dakota sandstone was mined in nearby South Dakota and was an easy available building material.

You should do Fort Dodge, IA. Quite the rabbit hole.