Historic General Dodge House

Chicago architect W. W. Boyington designed this Second Empire mansion, built in 1869 for Grenville M. Dodge (1831–1916), a Union Army general in the Civil War and chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad during the building of the first transcontinental railroad. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and the City of Council Bluffs bought the house in 1963 and operates it, together with the neighboring Beresheim House, as a house museum.

The museum itself says that many visitors, volunteers and staff "would say yes" when asked whether the house is haunted, and it hosts evening candlelight and flashlight tours at Halloween. Stories told there include General Dodge himself sitting in his rocking chair, small flashes of light and a faint smell of smoke around the lawn, and the sound of two men arguing near dusk.