The Eugene C. Eppley Administration Building is located on the
University of Nebraska at Omaha north campus in
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. List of ...
.
History
After attending an Omaha University football game with then-college president
Milo Bail in 1949,
Gene Eppley
Eugene C. Eppley (April 8, 1884 – October 14, 1958) also known as Gene, was a hotel magnate in Omaha, Nebraska. Eppley is credited with single-handedly building one of the most successful hotel empires, by the 1950s the largest privately owned ...
was asked what the growing university needed. Milo told him that a library was in order for their new campus, to which Eppley wrote a check for $850,000, the entire cost of the two-story structure. Seven years after his death in 1958, the
Eppley Foundation donated $50,000 to assist the university's hiring of new professors, and in 1976 the original Eugene Eppley Library became the current Eppley Administration building. Eppley's gift and the building of the Eppley Administration Building is credited with accelerating the growth of Omaha University. Several buildings, including the student center and engineering buildings, were built soon after the opening of the Eppley Building. The overall growth of the university in the years after the building's dedication is attributed to the opening of the library, as well.
Undergraduate catalog"
University of Nebraska at Omaha. Retrieved 6/7/08.
References
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Libraries in Omaha, Nebraska
Library buildings completed in 1956
University of Nebraska Omaha
University and college administration buildings in the United States
University and college buildings completed in 1956
1956 establishments in Nebraska