The Poppleton Block is located at 1001 Farnam Street in
Downtown
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Omaha,
Nebraska
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. 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
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later that year.
About
Designed by architect
Henry Voss in the High Victorian
Italianate
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style, the
City of Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission 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
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s and window openings that featuring a combination of round, segmental and stilted segmental arches. There are
cast iron
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storefronts on the building, as well.
See also
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History of Omaha
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian C ...
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