Articles from June 2026

Bethel AME concept rendering

Plans finalize for memorial site of former Bethel AME Church

Thursday, June 4, 2026
University of Iowa students presented Tuesday to City Council plans to turn the site of the former Bethel AME Church at 303 South Third St. into an open-air memorial. The students of the university’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department brought to the Council the concept of a site at which the existing steps leading up to the entrance of the church become those of recreated limestone that lead to an ADA-accessible landing from where the memorial in its entirety can be viewed.