ORD 29307- Landmark Designation - Webster Telephone Exchange Building ORDINANCE NO O, ?3 D 2
AN ORDINANCE to designate the Webster Telephone Exchange Building, located at 2213
Lake Street as a Landmark pursuant to the Landmark Heritage Preservation
Ordinance of the City of Omaha
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA
Section 1 That the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is located at 2213 Lake
Street, which is legally described as follows
Lot 27, Paulsen's Addition, Douglas County, Nebraska
Section 2 That for the reasons recited in Landmarks Heritage Preservation
Commission Resolution attached hereto as Exhibit I, and made a part hereof as if fully set
forth herein, the architectural characteristics of the Webster Telephone Exchange Building
are hereby deemed significant and worthy of preservation
Section 3 That the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is hereby designated
pursuant to Section 24-61 of the Omaha Municipal Code, and hereby subject to all of the
provisions of Landmark Heritage Preservation, Ch 24, Art II of the City of Omaha
Section 4 That this Ordinance shall be in full force and take effect fifteen (15) days
from and after the date of its passage
INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMEMBER
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APPROVED
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RESOLUTION - EXHIBIT I
WEBSTER TELEPHONE EXCHANGE BUILDING
LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION
RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF OMAHA
WHEREAS, Bertha Calloway is the properly authorized representative of the Great
Plains Black Museum, and,
WHEREAS, this representative, on July 2, 1980, requested that the Webster Telephone
Exchange Budding be designated as a Landmark under the City of Omaha's Landmark Heritage
Preservation Ordinance, and,
WHEREAS, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building was designed by renowned
Omaha architect Thomas R Kimball, and,
WHEREAS, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building, constructed in 1907, is
eclectic in style using neo-classicism in the symmetrical arrangement of the facade and
Jacobethan Revival elements in the building's details, and,
WHEREAS, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building was constructed by the Nebraska
Telephone Company, the most successful and dominant telephone company in the State of
Nebraska during 1890s and 1900s, and,
WHEREAS, the Webster Telephone Exchange since 1933 has served as the center of
community life for the Near North Side neighborhood
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OMAHA
THAT, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building, 2213 Lake Street, be designated
as a Landmark of the City of Omaha
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