Today we have a small but interesting case study: 311 South Happy Hollow Boulevard, situated upon Lots 22 and 23, Block 6 of Evanston Addition (those tidy numerals so beloved of municipal order). Lot 23 is to the north, and has always been
Tag: Dundee
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I was in the office when the initial letter informing of the Walter Harkert house clues was delivered by messenger. While organizing file folders, photographs and books and listening to the Enchanted Cottage from another room, I observed the
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The residence at 6852 Dodge Street possesses a rare regal, yet girl next-door quality that captured my curious eye long ago. She is Omaha’s petite Monticello, as in Thomas Jefferson. Always a tad shabby, a smidge unfinished, which I found to be
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I have always been infatuated with the Black House at 52nd and Dodge and I know I am not the only one. Although I have heard its library was once lined with only the best smelling leather-bound books, the silver kept polished by servants and the
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I received a mysterious night telegram from 9402 Pacific Street, possibly emitted from the warning trees, which caused me to hurry up to the property without delay. I cannot be sure how I got there, but I had cast off my thick Hudson and bed
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The Omaha wrecking ball was in full swing last week. As we, lovers of the long purview, intone our well-worn phrases, light our little candles and murmur the custom platitudes of pities, I will admit I can’t really keep up with this pace. The
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When I was in high school there were the best little thrift stores dotted all over town, very often in shunned neighborhoods. Aided by a ripped out phonebook yellow page, we would seek to find every single shadowy store, foraging for the
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As I had mentioned in Park Avenue Recollection, when I first saw the building at 501 Park Avenue, evidently, I took no great interest in it. Carelessness on my part but there were many eyefuls in the surrounding neighborhood, which claimed my
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When we last dispersed and everyone was tucked into bed, I ventured out alone in the darkness. I pressed on, searching, as the Hidden House’s Byzantine plot swirled with other smoky ringlets in the air. I hope you can excuse my secret beat. I
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There I was pleasantly chiseling away at an uphill investigation when a My Omaha Obsession reader notified the office of a dubious plot afoot on South 50th Street in Dundee. A local, Dave Schinzel, had recently initiated a petition apprising