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Question of the Day By LIBBY SELINE - Associated Press - Sunday, January 31, 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The building on the corner of 16th and O streets, which once featured bricked-in windows and a leaking roof, now has new life as apartments and commercial space - and a home on Lincoln’s list of historic places.
About a century ago, Lincoln had one of the highest per capita automobile ownership rates in the nation, and prominent attorney Edmund Strode purchased the property downtown to serve as a repair shop and dealership. The Strode Building has hosted numerous auto-related businesses since it opened in 1917, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
Omaha church added to National Register of Historic Places
December 23, 2020 GMT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A 107-year-old Omaha church is now part of the National Register of Historic Places.
The Omaha World-Herald reports that Hope Lutheran this month was added to the register, along with three other Omaha institutions.
The church played an active role in Omaha’s civil rights movement. David Calease, the National Register of Historic Places coordinator with History Nebraska, said that given the events involving the racial justice movement in 2020, stories like those from Hope Lutheran “are more relevant than ever.”
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The church that stands today was built by the Pella Danish Lutheran Church in 1913 after the Easter Sunday tornado, which destroyed a church that stood a few blocks away.
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Generations of Omahans have stepped though the doors of the church on the corner of 30th and Corby Streets, where it remains, as it has for 107 years, a place of community and faith.
For decades, leaders and members of Hope Lutheran, an integrated church in a time of segregation, were active in Omahaâs civil rights movement. This month, History Nebraska announced that the church was among four Omaha institutions recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.
David Calease, the National Register of Historic Places coordinator with History Nebraska, said working with Hope Lutheran was âan eye-opening experience.â