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Omaha was established in 1871 as a stop along the Springfield and Illinois South Eastern Railway. A baggage master working for the railroad, Henry Pearce, named the settlement for Omaha, Nebraska, where he had previously worked as a baggage master. After an initial attempt at incorporation failed in 1875, Omaha successfully incorporated in 1888 ...
A malt house (1880) in Lessines, Belgium. A malt house, malt barn, or maltings, is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout and then drying it to stop further growth. The malt is used in brewing beer, whisky and in certain foods. The traditional malt house was largely phased out during ...
(1929) Harry Buford House, 1804 N. 30th St., North Omaha; designated an Omaha Landmark in 1983 (1929) Henry B. Neef House, 2884 Iowa St., North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 (1908) John E. Reagan House, 2102 Pinkney Street, North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014
The malt house is another massive 6 or 7-story building built around 1882 and repaired in 1901 after a fire. It contained barley-steeping tanks, malting chambers, and malt kilns. [12] The bottling house is a 2.5-story building clad in cream brick, with crenelated towers, again in a German Renaissance Revival style.
They filled in the creek that ran along 50th Street and added sidewalks and the Dundee lights. Homes in the area reflected the Colonial, Georgian and Tudor Revival styles. Omaha annexed Dundee on June 20, 1915. At that time it was 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km 2) and had 2500 residents. [3] The district includes 30 known works by Omaha architect F. A ...
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During Prohibition it was popular to homebrew beer, and was not frowned upon by Omaha authorities when it was for home consumption. Willow Springs manufactured malt, a key ingredient in homebrewing. In the early 1930s a worker at the distillery failed to notice when a batch of malt was burned, and an entire batch of malt was bottled and shipped ...
Morris & Company was founded by Nelson Morris in Chicago. [1] In 1902, with Nelson's son Edward Morris as president, it agreed to merge with the other two (Armour & Company and Swift & Company) to form a giant corporation called the National Packing Company. [2]