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ORD 29806 - Landmark Designation - Poppleton Block ORDINANCE h'O. cif a (J‘ 1 AN ORDINANCE to designate the Poppleton Block, located at 1001 Farnam Street as a 2 Landmark pursuant to the Landmark Heritage Preservation Ordinance of the City of 3 Omaha. 4 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: 5 Section I. That the Poppleton Block is located at 1001 Farnam Street, which is on 6 the following described land, to wit: 7 Lot I, Block 134, Original City of Omaha 8 Section 2. That for the reasons recited in Landmarks Heritage Preservation 9 Commission Resolution attached hereto as Exhibit I, and made a part hereof as if fully set 10 forth herein, the architectural characteristics of the Poppleton Block are hereby deemed II significant and worthy of preservation. 12 Section 3. That the Poppleton Block is hereby designated pursuant to Section 24-61 13 of the Omaha Municipal Code, and hereby subject to all of the provisions of Landmark 14 Heritage Preservation, Ch. 24, Art. II.of the City of Omaha. 15 Section 4. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and take effect fifteen (I5) days 16 from and after the date of its passage. INTRODUCED BY COUN MBER ifaisce / ‘,yyr, ) v, APPROVED: YOR OF CITY 0 OM�1 DAT a t. PASSED JUL 13 1982 f/ ATTEST: 1 R APPROVED AS TO FORM: .el„ "---'Tnyglece2 PL/8:7C3:54 . ,.I Alt.0 diassialm ek 0 414. '1 4' *A Ass fikao,sisa‘ 1' , RESOLUTION-EXHIBIT I POPPLETON BLOCK LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: WHEREAS, Glenn LeDioyt, Louis Canar, Eudice Canar, R.M. Canar, and Esther S. Canar are the owners of the Poppleton Block; and, WHEREAS, these owners on July 7, 1981, requested that the Poppleton Block be designated a Landmark under the City of Omaha's Landmarks Heritage Preservation Ordinance; and, WHEREAS, the Poppleton Block was built in 1880; and, WHEREAS, the Poppleton Block is significant as a fine example of the High Victorian Italianate style of architecture popular in the Midwest during the latter part of the nineteenth century; and, WHEREAS, the Poppleton Block provides an extant and basically unaltered example of the type of commercial building constructed in Omaha before the turn of the century; and, WHEREAS, the Poppleton Block was built by A.J. Poppleton, a prominent Omaha attorney whose successful defense of Ponca Indian Chief Standing Bear set legal precedents in granting Indians status as persons under the law ; and, WHEREAS, in 1890 a one-story addition was constructed directly south of the Poppleton Block; and, WHEREAS, this one-story addition is also architecturally and historically important and is considered to be a part of what is referred to as the Poppleton Block. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: THAT, the Poppleton Block, 1001 Farnam Street, be designated as a Landmark of the City of Omaha. ,� © O rt C T c V coay C .z z CO S o - rax.. w O \ - z D m CO _ "' S ill ifi s -orwD �� Q CFrO o st a o z Do 1 v 3 SO ta .1 .. ,; ` z � � o n Z N �' -. O pa co i N O O T D mii j Q>1 4 m 6. 3 8- It- Ns i , .� ' t Fa A ar, 1 [lt) I i o = i g, ay a O tea Es }7\/ () ' : f\ ki \q\/\)q \ q-(°!o ! ihm / ! )/(!nl,7f 2 �\;:®e § / §q 2!`U, `„E20 Iti ` | ! »* N§!w w ; Ng }i( k~`� 8 e q. ONO ) g } A 4 7 4„,g 2 q l;A cr.fra � bQ.4 § } I