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Photo Opportunities Omaha Lee Van Grack If you're planning to visit Omaha, Neb., there are a few places – and times of year – that should definitely be on your list, in order to get the best ...
City of Omaha: The Road to Omaha: TD Ameritrade Park Omaha: 1999 () John Lajba: sculpture: bronze: City of Omaha: Toreador Red: Peter Kiewit Institute: 2000 () Dale Chiluly sculpture: blown glass: 17' x 7.3' University of Nebraska at Omaha: Totem: W. Dale Clark Library: 2005 () Catherine Ferguson sculpture: steel: 25' x 8.5' City of Omaha ...
No longer functioning in Omaha. [7] New York Life Insurance Company: 1845 Omaha Country Club: 1899 Omaha Public Power District: 1946 Omaha World-Herald: 1885 Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. Peter Kiewit Sons: 1884 Packaging Corporation of America: 1959
The Omaha Club was established in 1883 by business and professional men as a private male-only social club. [1] After several temporary locations, the first permanent building, an Italian Renaissance design by architect Thomas Rogers Kimball was opened on New Year's Day 1895 at the northwest corner of 20th and Douglas Streets. [ 2 ]
Omaha's Burnt District was a particular area of downtown where most of the city's brothels were located. The most notorious of the brothels was called "the Cribs", and consisted of rows of shacks with alleyways filled with young girls. Contemporary estimates placed the number of sex workers at over 1,600 women.
The South Omaha Main Street Historic District is located along South 24th Street between M and O Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Home to dozens of historically important buildings, including the Packer's National Bank Building , the historic district included 129 acres (0.52 km ...
The neighborhood housed many of Omaha's cultural and financial leaders between 1900 and 1920, taking over from Omaha's original Gold Coast in prominence. [ 3 ] After the area was developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s the area had mostly middle- and upper-class residents, and it included mansions and single family homes, and also some ...
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