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Omaha Children's Museum Holland Performing Arts Center The atrium of the Joslyn Art Museum. Dale Chihuly's Chihuly: Inside and Out can be seen at the far end. Great Plains Black History Museum General Crook House Museum Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo Joslyn Castle Rose Theatre Orpheum Theatre Omaha Community Playhouse
Facebook site, History and culture of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, includes photos, artwork, arrowheads, beadwork, and musical instruments Anna Bemis Palmer Museum: York: York: Central: Local history: Located in the York Community Center, includes period rooms and businesses, geology, Native Americans, pioneer days, military and local ...
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.
The Vinton Street Commercial Historic District is located along Vinton Street between Elm Street on the west and South 17th Street on the east in south Omaha, Nebraska.This district is located adjacent to Sheelytown, a residential neighborhood that had historically significant populations of Irish, Poles, and Eastern European immigrants.
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]
"Omaha Black Heritage Sites" on NorthOmahaHistory.com includes 165 locations, addresses and references in Omaha. Nebraska Black Oral History Project finding aid and digital collection, digitized by Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries; original held by History Nebraska.
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Early in the city's history business owners built their homes close to their factories and businesses near downtown Omaha. Many of Omaha's most elite early settlers built mansions in this area. The hills along South 8th and South 10th Streets, from Mason Street to Riverview Park , was first recognized as the city's "Gold Coast" in the 1880s.