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The northern section, called J.J. Pershing Drive, was finished by 1920; Gifford Drive in South Omaha was designed to do the same. However, influential Omaha architect John Latenser was adamant about preventing this project from coming to fruition in Downtown Omaha, where he saw the boulevard potentially impeding on his plans for the Port of ...
The park has recreational athletic facilities including a baseball field, football pitches, disc golf, tennis courts, soccer fields and a recreational skate park. [1] The baseball field hosts American Legion Baseball and the UNO Mavericks. [2] It also features a soap box derby track and a skeet shooting range. [1] The park is located on the Big ...
In 1854 Alfred D. Jones drew four parks on the original map of Omaha City. They were called Jefferson Square, which was paved over by I-480; Washington Park, which is where the Paxton Block currently sits at North 16th and Farnam Streets; Capitol Square, where Omaha Central High School is now located, and; an unnamed tract overlooking the river with Davenport Street on the north, Jackson ...
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
The park was designed as a private park for the employees and residents of the area. When the City of Omaha annexed South Omaha in 1915, the park fell into city hands. [ 1 ] A former dairy farm was converted into the original Spring Lake golf course in 1933. [ 2 ]
Hanscom Park is a historic neighborhood in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Its namesake public park is one of the oldest parks in Omaha, donated to the City in 1872. [1] U.S. President Gerald R. Ford was born in a house in the Hanscom Park neighborhood. [2] Its boundaries are Woolworth Street on the north, South 42nd on the west, Interstate 480 on the ...
Midtown Crossing at Turner Park is a vibrant mixed-use development in midtown Omaha, featuring retail, office, residential spaces, and green areas. Renowned for its bustling local business scene and year-round community events, this 16-acre seven-building development hosts more than 30 retail and office tenants, 297 condominiums, 196 apartment units, and picturesque Turner Park.
Elmwood Park, founded in 1889 at 802 South 60th Street, was one of Omaha's largest parks through the 1950s. [6] Soon after the city acquired an initial 55-acre (220,000 m 2) donation of land for the park, the Omaha Bee described it as a "wild and romantic place... containing a wooded ravine that followed the course of a small stream." They ...