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Phelps County Courthouse (Nebraska)
The Phelps County Courthouse is a historic building in Holdrege, Nebraska, and the county courthouse for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was built in 1910–1911. With It was designed in the Beaux Arts style by architect William F. Gernandt William F. Gernandt (September 1872-September 26, 1943. in David Murphy, Edward F. Zimmer, and Lynn Meyer, compsPlace Makers of Nebraska: The Architects. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society.)was a German-born architect who was based in Nebr .... It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 10, 1990. References National Register of Historic Places in Phelps County, Nebraska Beaux-Arts architecture in Nebraska Government buildings completed in 1910 {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub ...
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Holdrege, Nebraska
Holdrege is a city in Phelps County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 5,495 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Phelps County. The Nebraska Prairie Museum is located in Holdrege. History Holdrege was established in 1883 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for George W. Holdrege, a railroad official. Holdrege was designated county seat in 1884. Holdrege was settled primarily by immigrants from Sweden in the 1880s and was named after George W. Holdrege, general manager of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Company. He constructed most of the line's mileage in Nebraska, including a section through this small settlement in Phelps County. On December 10, 1883, the first train arrived in Holdrege, a little pioneer town inhabited by 200 people. In 1884, a campaign was started to move the county seat from Phelps Center to Holdrege, and an election was scheduled for October. By that time, the town had acquired a block of ground on w ...
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William F
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germa ...
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Phelps County, Nebraska
Phelps County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 9,188. Its county seat is Holdrege. The county was formed in 1873, and was named for William Phelps (1808–1889), a steamboat captain and early settler. In the Nebraska license plate system, Phelps County is represented by the prefix 37 (it had the 37th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). It is considered part of the Kearney μSA's development and expansion plans. Geography Phelps County terrain consists of low rolling hills, mostly devoted to agriculture, sloping to the east, and dropping off toward the river basin along its northern boundary line. The Platte River flows eastward along the north line. The county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is water. Major highways * U.S. Highway 6 * U.S. Highway 34 * U.S. Highway 183 * Nebraska Highway 23 Adjacent counties * ...
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an List of federal agencies in the United States, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government within the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all List of areas in the United States National Park System, national parks, most National monument (United States), national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties with various title designations. The United States Congress, U.S. Congress created the agency on August 25, 1916, through the National Park Service Organic Act. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., within the main headquarters of the Department of the Interior. The NPS employs approximately 20,000 people in 423 individual units covering over 85 million acres in List of states and territories of the United States, all 50 states, the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, and Territories of the United States, US territ ...
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Beaux-Arts Architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, Baroque elements, and used modern materials, such as iron and glass. It was an important style in France until the end of the 19th century. History The Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI. French architectural styles before the French Revolution were governed by Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, by the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. The Academy held the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome in architecture, which offered prize winners a chance to study the classical architecture o ...
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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 value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners a ...
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National Register Of Historic Places In Phelps County, Nebraska
__NOTOC__ This is a list of more than 1,100 properties and districts in Nebraska that are on the National Register of Historic Places. Of these, 20 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in 90 of the state's 93 counties. Current listings by county File:Nebraska counties map.png, 600px, Nebraska counties (clickable) rect 514 320 555 360 Adams County rect 548 114 591 176 Antelope County rect 225 196 276 237 Arthur County poly 42 191 102 196 101 231 41 228 Banner County poly 549 175 590 174 591 220 587 220 585 223 573 223 572 225 569 225 567 226 550 227 Boone County poly 99 107 160 109 160 150 163 150 163 161 101 159 101 149 97 148 Box Butte County poly 546 75 538 74 530 75 526 73 522 74 516 71 510 70 506 69 501 66 497 66 490 60 479 65 464 72 464 47 529 48 533 55 547 61 Boyd County poly 384 157 430 156 429 116 429 115 428 79 425 80 417 79 412 76 407 76 400 74 395 75 388 72 389 70 383 66 382 75 385 75 384 114 385 115 Brown County poly 450 278 513 278 513 ...
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Beaux-Arts Architecture In Nebraska
Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts is a French term corresponding to fine arts in English. Capitalized, it may refer to: * Académie des Beaux-Arts, a French arts institution (not a school) * Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, a Belgian arts school * Beaux-Arts architecture, an architectural style * Beaux Arts Gallery, an important gallery of British modern art * Beaux-Arts Institute of Design a.k.a. BAID, New York City based art and architecture school * Beaux Arts Magazine, French magazine * Beaux Arts Trio, a classical music chamber group * Beaux Arts Village, Washington, a small town in the Seattle metropolitan area * École des Beaux-Arts, several art schools in France ** École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon ** École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris * Fine art, a style of painting popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the source of the generalized concept of "fine arts", i.e. art for art's sake * Palais des Beaux Arts The Centre for Fin ...
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