ORD 30701 - Landmark Designation - Kennedy Building ORDINANCE NO. ien2e/:/-!
AN ORDINANCE to designate the Kennedy Building, located at 1517 Jackson 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 Kennedy Building is located at 1517 Jackson Street, which is on
the following described land, to wit:
Lot 4 and one foot adjacent on south, Block 171, City Lots, as surveyed, platted
and recorded in 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 Kennedy Building are hereby deemed
significant and worthy of preservation.
Section 3. That the "Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and
Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings", as may be from tune to time amended, are
hereby adopted as the design standards to be applied in the enforcement of this Ordinance
and Chapter 24, Article II of the Omaha Municipal Code.
Section 4. That the Kennedy 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 5. 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
APPROVED:
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF OMAH DATE
PASSED JUN 18 1985
ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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RE5OLUTICN-EXHIBIT 1
KENNEDY BUILDING
LAN]]iIARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COhMMISSICN
RESOLVED BY THE MS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF OMAHA:
WHEREAS, the Union Plaza Apartments Partnership is the owner of the Kennedy
Building; and,
WHEREAS, Richard R. Knudson, Jr., representative of the Union Plaza
Apartments Partnership, on April 12, 1985 requested that the Kennedy Building
be designated a Landmark under the City of Onaha's Landmark Heritage Preservation
Ordinance; and,
WHEREAS, the Kennedy Building presently known as the Union Outfitting
Building was built in 1910; and,
WHEREAS, the Kennedy Building was designed by the prominent Omaha architectural
firm of Fisher and Lawrie; and,
WHEREAS, the Kennedy Building is architecturally significant as a unique
local adaptation of the Commercial style of architecture, exhibiting such
representative features as Chicago windows, a facade composition that expresses
the skeletal nature of the building's structural frame, a moderately projecting
cornice and an even compositional balance between vertical and horizontal lines;
and,
WHEREAS, the Kennedy Building exhibits a local adaption of Chicago architect
Louis Sullivan's method of giving unity to a multi-story building by dividing
the facade into the tripartite scheme of base, shaft and capital; and,
WHEREAS, this case application and supporting data are attached hereto as
exhibits, and incorporated herein by this reference.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANLMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION
COMMISSICN OF THE CITY OF OMAHA:
THAT, the Kennedy Building, 1517 Jackson Street, be designated as a Land-
mark of the City of Omaha.
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