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Brothers Nathan Phillips and Grenville Mellen Dodge started the Dodge Company in 1855. While working as a land surveyor for the railroads in the Missouri River Valley, Grenville wrote to his younger brother Nathan Phillips (1837–1911) and told him to "forget high school" and come join him. N.P. worked his way out on a surveying crew in 1853 and together the brothers started a small land ...
What's done cannot be undone. – To bed, to bed, to bed!" [3] Shakespeare did not coin the phrase; it may actually be a derivative of the early 14th-century French proverb: Mez quant ja est la chose fecte, ne peut pas bien estre desfecte, which is translated into English as "But when a thing is already done, it cannot be undone".
On March 16, 1982, the Omaha City Council designated the house a local landmark. [1] This red-brick building has been home to a law firm since at least 1998. [2] It was designed by architect F. A. Henninger in the Prairie style [3] made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was designated as an Omaha Historical Landmark in 1982. [4]
This article covers Omaha landmarks designated by the City of Omaha Landmark Heritage Preservation Commission. In addition, it includes structures or buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places and those few designated as National Historic Landmarks , indicating their varying level of importance to the city, state and nation.
(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
Husker City [11] The Star City [12] Steak Capital of the World [13] Loup City – Polish Capital of Nebraska [5] Petersburg, Nebraska - A Great Place for a Home Town; North Loup – Popcorn Capital [6] North Platte. Little Chicago [14] Flat Rock [15] Oakland – Swedish Capital of Nebraska [5] O'Neill – Nebraska's Irish Capital [5] Omaha. Big ...
The city's southern suburb became home to the Strategic Air Command in the late 1940s; in 1950 the Rosenblatt Stadium in South Omaha became home to the College World Series. Labor unrest in the 1930s resulted in organizing of the meatpacking plants by the CIO-FCW, which built an interracial partnership and achieved real gains for the workers ...
In 1919 Omaha mayor James C. Dahlman ordered the destruction of the top section of the tower, and in 1950 the building was completely renovated, destroying the original facade. [4] In 1962 the City of Omaha Public Works Director officially classified the building as dangerous, and in 1966 Mayor A.V. Sorensen sold it to the Woodmen of the World. [5]