The Poppleton Block is located at 1001 Farnam Street in
Downtown
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Omaha
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest city ...
,
Nebraska. The building was built in 1880 for Omaha lawyer and politician
A.J. Poppleton, and was designated an
Omaha Landmark on July 13, 1982, and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places later that year.
About
Designed by architect
Henry Voss in the High Victorian
Italianate style, the
City of Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission
This article covers Omaha Landmarks designated by the City of Omaha Landmark Heritage Preservation Commission. In addition, it includes structures or buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places and those few designated as Nation ...
says it, "exemplifies the type of commercial building constructed in Omaha before the turn-of-the-century."
Poppleton used part of the three-story building to house his law firm but never actually worked there himself. The rest was leased out as office and commercial space. Over the years it continued to be used primarily for commercial purposes, and today it is still utilized as office space.
[, Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 2/7/08.] The building includes heavily bracketed
cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
s and window openings that featuring a combination of round, segmental and stilted segmental arches. There are
cast iron storefronts on the building, as well.
See also
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History of Omaha
References
External links
Modern photo
{{NRHP Omaha
Omaha Landmarks
National Register of Historic Places in Omaha, Nebraska
Commercial buildings completed in 1880
Office buildings in Omaha, Nebraska
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska
1880 establishments in Nebraska
Italianate architecture in Nebraska