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Fairacres is a neighborhood and historic district in Omaha, Nebraska. It is south of Dundee and west of Midtown. It is roughly bounded by Underwood Avenue to the north, Dodge Street to the south, North 69th Street to the west, and North 62nd Street to the east. It is primarily residential, and was annexed into Omaha in 1941.
Map of the United States with Nebraska highlighted. Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 census, Nebraska was the 37th most populous state with 1,961,504 inhabitants [1] and the 15th largest by land area spanning 76,824.17 square miles (198,973.7 km 2) of land.
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 ...
The City of Florence was annexed by Omaha in 1917. Hayes was a historic town located two miles from Bennington that evaporated in the 1870s, when the railroad failed to come to the town. Millard is a broad area of southwest Omaha, originally a separate city and annexed in 1971. The original town site is near 132nd and Q Streets.
Located in the formerly affluent and prosperous mixed-use neighborhood west of downtown Omaha, the Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments were built between 1916-1921 by William B. Drake, a prolific builder who held more than four million dollars' worth of apartments throughout Omaha in 1925.
The second site, located on the west, was the Omaha Field Club. Founded in 1900, it was Omaha's first country club and golf course, and is the namesake of the neighborhood. By the turn of the 20th century, many of Omaha's most noteworthy citizens had houses designed and built in the district by many prominent architects of the time.
(1910) Lizzie Robinson House, 2864 Corby St., North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and designated an Omaha Landmark in 1992 (1902) Porter/Thomsen Residence, 3426 Lincoln Boulevard, North Omaha; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated an Omaha Landmark in 1981
The first comprehensive preservation ordinance in Nebraska was adopted by the Omaha City Council in 1977. [11] The commission was created after the demolition of the Old Post Office, when the pro-preservation organization Landmarks, Inc. advocated its creation.