ORD 30894 - Landmark Designation - Mason School H1-85-5
ORDINANCE NO. ( e9V
AN ORDINANCE to designate the Mason School, located at 1012 South 24th Street
as a Landmark pursuant to the Landmark Preservation Ordinance of the City
of Omaha.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA:
Section 1. That the Mason School is located at 1012 South 24th Street ,
which is on the following described land, to wit:
The South 38 feet of Lots 39 and 46 and all of Lots 40 through 45
and the North 1/2 of the West 280 feet of Lot 59, Redicks 2nd
Addition, 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 Mason School 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 time 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 Mason School 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.
Ordinance No. 30S"yl.
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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
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RESOLUTION-EXHIBIT 1
MASON SCHOOL
LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION
RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION OMISSION OF THE CITY OF CMAHA:
WHEREAS, Mamas Paltani is the owner of Mason School; and,
WHEREAS, the owner, and developer Bradley Lee on February 22, 1985, .iekuested
that Mason School be designated a Landmark under the City of Qnaha's Landmark
Heritage Preservation Ordinance; and,
' NV S, Mason School, built in 1888, is the oldest extant school building in
Omaha; and,
WHEREAS, Mason School was designed by the prominent early Omaha architectural
firm of Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie, and,
WHEREAS, Mason School is architecturally significant as one of the finest of
only a very few Richardsonian Romanesque style buildings extant in Omaha; and,
WHEREAS, Richardsonian Rananesque was the architectural style used for many
of Quaha's finest early buildings, now destroyed, including the 1887 Omaha Bee
Building, the 1889 City Hall and the 1892 Post Office Building; and,
WHEREAS, this case application and supporting data are attached hereto as
exhibits, and incorporated herein by this reference.
NUN, IB EREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS HERITAGE PRESERVATION
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CMAHA.
THAT, Mason School, 1012 South 24th Street, be designated as a Landmark of
the City of Omaha.
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