Boscobel is a historic two-story house in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was built in 1879 for Rollin M. Rolfe, a grocer, banker and co-founder of the Midland Pacific Railway who served on Nebraska City's city council as a Republican in 1873. With The house was designed in the Italianate style, with "paneled and bracketed cornice" and "stone

quoin Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

s." Rolfe moved out of the house in 1886. It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

since June 17, 1976. It was deemed a "fine example" of Italianate style in Nebraska, though like other surviving examples it is modest in its implementation of the style, forgoing extra flourishes. The name "Boscobel", as applied apparently first to the 1632-built

Boscobel House Boscobel House () is a Grade II* listed building in the parish of Boscobel in Shropshire. It has been, at various times, a farmhouse, a hunting lodge, and a holiday home; but it is most famous for its role in the escape of Charles II after the B ...

in England, associated with the escape of King Charles II after being defeated by Cromwell at the

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, was believed to derive from the Italian phrase ''bosco bello'' meaning "in the midst of fair woods".

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National Register of Historic Places in Otoe County, Nebraska Italianate architecture in Nebraska Houses completed in 1879 1879 establishments in Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub

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