The Nye House, also known as the Louis E. May Museum, is a historic building in
Fremont, Nebraska
Fremont is a city and county seat of Dodge County in the eastern portion of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. The population was 27,141 at the 2020 census. Fremont is the home of Midland University.
History
From the 1830 ...
. It was built in 1874 for Theron Nye, who lived here with his wife, née Caroline Colson, and their four children.
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History
Nye was a farmer and the founding president of the First National Bank of Fremont.
He designed the house in the
Italianate style
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
.
His son, Ray Nye, served as the first mayor of Fremont.
He hired
Ferry & Clas
Ferry & Clas was an architectural firm in Wisconsin. It designed many buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. George Bowman Ferry (1851 - 1918) and Alfred Charles Clas (1859 - 1942) were partners.
The partners ...
to redesign the house in the
Georgian Revival architectural style;
the remodel was accomplished during 1901-12.
From 1921 to 1968, it housed a Lutheran seminary known as the Western Theological Seminary.
It was later turned into the Louis E. May Museum.
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 November 23, 1977.
References
External links
Louis E. May Museum
National Register of Historic Places in Dodge County, Nebraska
Georgian Revival architecture in Nebraska
Houses completed in 1874
Museums in Dodge County, Nebraska
History museums in Nebraska
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