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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
Located on the Missouri River between Omaha and Fort Calhoun (undisclosed location) Yes [19] No Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church: 1910 3105 North 24th Street Yes Yes Center School (Omaha, Nebraska) 1893 1730 South 11th Street Yes Yes Charles D. McLaughlin House: 1905 507 South 38th Street Yes No Christian Specht Building: 1888 1110 Douglas ...
The South Omaha Main Street Historic District is located along South 24th Street between M and O Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Home to dozens of historically important buildings, including the Packer's National Bank Building , the historic district included 129 acres (0.52 km ...
The Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, roughly bounded by Jackson, 15th, and 8th Streets, as well as the Union Pacific main line, is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Today this historic district includes several buildings listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places , including the Union Pacific Depot and the ...
In 1976 she opened the Great Plains Black History Museum, in the Western Telephone Exchange Building. This had been a community center for recovery efforts after the disastrous 1913 tornado. From 1933 to 1952, it was used by the Urban League as a community center, featuring a variety of services, such as medical, a library and others.
Old West Trail Center: Odell: Gage: Southeast: Local history: Area transportation history and local history [55] Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame: Omaha: Douglas: Eastern: Hall of fame: Omaha Children's Museum: Omaha: Douglas: Eastern: Children's: Otoe County Museum of Memories: Syracuse: Otoe: Southeast: Local history: Includes church with ...
The development of Jobber's Canyon mirrored Omaha's emergence as a central hub in the United States transportation system of the late 19th century and early 20th century. . As the "Gateway to the West" serving several historic trails the Canyon housed several warehouses, grocers, and other dry goods outfitters for merchants throughout the Old West, particularly those along the Great Platte ...
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Country , William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha.