The Cozad Downtown Historic District in

Cozad, Nebraska Cozad is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,977 at the 2010 census. The town is on the Great Plains of central Nebraska, along the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Route 30, just north of the Platte River. The ...

is a historic district which was 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 ...

in 2018. The

Hendee Hotel The Hendee Hotel is a historic hotel building in Cozad, Nebraska. It was built in 1879 for John J. Cozad, the founder of the city of Cozad. With One of his sons, Robert Henri, became a painter. Cozad shot a man in 1882, and he sold the hotel to St ...

in Cozad, built in 1879 for John J. Cozad, the founder of the city of Cozad, is not included in the district (in fact is just outside of its borders) but is already listed on the National Register. With The listing included 37

contributing resources In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...

and one already-listed property. The district is generally described by History Nebraska:

In the 1910s and 1920s, the original route of the
Lincoln Highway The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913 ...
passed through downtown Cozad greatly influencing its development until rerouted south of downtown in 1926. The district contains an intact collection of late-nineteenth- and early-to-mid-twentieth-century commercial buildings that reflect seven decades of commercial development in Cozad."

The already-listed building was

Allen's Opera House Allen's Opera House is a historic commercial building in Cozad, Nebraska. It was built by Charles Hart and Mr. Shanholt in 1906 for Charles E. Allen, a businessman and banker who co-owned the Cozad State Bank and the Allen General Store. With Bot ...

. Not included was the NRHP-listed

a.k.a. Robert Henri Museum, a few doors away. The 100th Meridian Museum appears to be adjacent (se
https://www.cozadhistory.org
) but is not NRHP-listed. Selected buildings in the district are: *

(1906), 100 E. 8th St. *Atkinson Building (1890), 711-715 Meridian Avenue, the oldest building in the district *Brown and Bennison Building (1897), 746 Meridian Avenue, with 1905 addition stretching down 8th street to 113 East 8th Street.

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* National Register of Historic Places in Dawson County, Nebraska Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Cozad, Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub