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Renovated building in Lincoln celebrates auto history Follow Us Question of the Day By LIBBY SELINE - Associated Press - Sunday, January 31, 2021 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The building on the corner of 16th and O streets, which once featured bricked-in windows and a leaking roof, now has new life as apartments and commercial space - and a home on Lincoln’s list of historic places. About a century ago, Lincoln had one of the highest per capita automobile ownership rates in the nation, and prominent attorney Edmund...

Omaha church added to National Register of Historic Places December 23, 2020 GMT OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 107-year-old Omaha church is now part of the National Register of Historic Places. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Hope Lutheran this month was added to the register, along with three other Omaha institutions. The church played an active role in Omaha’s civil rights movement. David Calease, the National Register of Historic Places coordinator with History Nebraska, said that given the events involving the racial justice movement in 2020, stories like those from Hope Lutheran “are mo...

Take a look at the top photos from 2020 as captured by the photojournalist of the Omaha World-Herald Generations of Omahans have stepped though the doors of the church on the corner of 30th and Corby Streets, where it remains, as it has for 107 years, a place of community and faith. For decades, leaders and members of Hope Lutheran, an integrated church in a time of segregation, were active in Omaha’s civil rights movement. This month, History Nebraska announced that the church was among four Omaha institutions recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. David Calease, th...