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The Anton Hospe Music Warehouse is a building located at 101 S. 10th Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska.It was designed by commercial architect George Fisher and built in 1919 for Anton Hospe, who began business as a picture framer in 1874 and ultimately expanded to a major wholesale and retail dealer in art and musical instruments.
The Christian Specht Building is located at 1110 Douglas Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It is the only existing building with a cast-iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built in the state. [2] The building was deemed an Omaha landmark in 1981, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [3]
This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The CHI Health Center Omaha is an arena and convention center in the central United States, located in the North Downtown neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska.Operated by the Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority (MECA), the 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000 m 2) facility has an 18,975-seat arena, a 194,000 sq ft (18,000 m 2) exhibition hall, and 62,000 sq ft (5,800 m 2) of meeting space.
Crossroads Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, at the intersection of 72nd and Dodge Streets.Originally opened in 1960 by Omaha's Brandeis department store, the mall has been home to several major chains, including Sears, Target and Dillard's before the store closed in 2008.
The company was founded as a gift shop in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska, by Harry Watanabe. The company expanded to 17 shops in the Midwest. The company expanded to 17 shops in the Midwest. During World War II , with restrictions against imports from Japan, the company shrank back to its Omaha base.
The mall opened in 1991. [5] Official opening ceremonies held on October 3 of that year, and included an appearance by Vanna White.At the time, the 730,000-square-foot (68,000 m 2) mall was the first enclosed mall to be built in Omaha in over 20 years.
The Prague Hotel on South 13th Street in the heart of the Little Bohemia. Little Bohemia, or Bohemian Town, is a historic neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska.Starting in the 1880s, Czech immigrants settled in this highly concentrated area, also called "Praha" (Prague) or "Bohemian Town", bounded by South 10th Street on the east, South 16th Street on the west, Pierce Street on the north, and Martha ...