The Dr. Samuel D. Mercer House was built in 1885 in the historic Walnut Hill neighborhood of

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, United States. Samuel Mercer was the chief surgeon of the

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, and the founder of Omaha's first hospital. A grand 23-room red brick

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built in the Queen Anne style, the key feature of the home is a three-story square tower that rises above the south side main entrance. The cost of the structure was $60,000. The home is the crown jewel of the neighborhood Mercer platted in the 1880s. In the 1880s the city's cable cars stopped at the Mercer House. The house has been subdivided into apartments and much of the elaborate Victorian trim was removed in 1926. The house was listed on the

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in 1976.(nd
National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Nebraska
Retrieved 7/8/07.

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History of North Omaha, Nebraska Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Omaha, Nebraska Landmarks in North Omaha, Nebraska Queen Anne architecture in Nebraska Architecture in Omaha, Nebraska {{Omaha-NRHP-stub

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