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The Livestock Exchange Building in Omaha, Nebraska, was built in 1926 at 4920 South 30 Street in South Omaha. [3] It was designed as the centerpiece of the Union Stockyards by architect George Prinz and built by Peter Kiewit and Sons in the Romanesque revival and Northern Italian Renaissance Revival styles.
Livestock Exchange Building. The second exchange building was constructed in 1885 by J. E. Riley and designed by Mendelssohn and Fisher. It was a substantial structure, complete with amenities and apartments for traders, as well as elaborate convention rooms, in recognition both of the growing importance and Omaha's ambitions for the industry.
After a downturn in the market and changes in the livestock industry, the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha lost value through the 1960s. In 1973 the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was sold to the Canal Capital Corporation of New York. In 1999 the Union Stockyards were closed by the City of Omaha, and replaced with a business park. [9]
Tucked behind the Exchange Building are about 200 livestock pens— all that remain of the roughly 2,600 pens that once stood in the Stockyards. This aerial photograph of the Fort Worth Stockyards ...
Livestock Exchange Building. Known as “The Wall Street of the West,” USA Network’s Alice Braga-starring Queen of the South used the site — which was built in 1902 as an office for cattle ...
Bill Haw Sr. ran one of the nation’s largest cattle feeding businesses for nearly 30 years out of his office at the Livestock Exchange Building. Businessman who preserved scenic Flint Hills and ...
Livestock Exchange Building may refer to: Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City, Missouri; Livestock Exchange Building, part of the NRHP-listed Fort Worth Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas; Livestock Exchange Building (St. Joseph, Missouri) Livestock Exchange Building (Omaha, Nebraska)
The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange building was the headquarters of the former historic Kansas City Stockyards. It is located at 1600 Gennesse in Kansas City, Missouri , in the West Bottoms . The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by Bill Haw.