Omaha Modern Group Announces Meetings
2020 Omaha Modern Preservation Organization announces its next meeting dates on its updated website.
February 18, 2007
February 7, 2007
For Fun; Omaha’s Fav Modern List
A group of supporters of midcentury modern Omaha have agreed to send in their top five buildings, structures and landscapes from the recent past Omaha. I will attempt to compile the list here.
- Fire station #52 107th & Pacific - TS
- South Omaha Fire station - RP
- Benson Post Office - MM
- Max I Walker Saddle Creek Rd neon - RP
- Northern Natural Gas office tower 24 at Dodge - RP
- Original Commercial Federal Bank Saddle Creek Rd, hyperbolic parabaloid drive thru - RP
- Original Commercial Federal Bank South Omaha, hyperbolic parabaloid drive thru/pylons - RP
- Mount Vernon Gardens - RP
- Federal Building (art deco) - RP
- Stateline Motel (60th & L-Atomic Design) - JR
- Bronco’s Drive In & Sign (45th & Leavenworth) - JR
- Polski House (Neutra style modern) - JR/TLS
- Omaha World Herald Bldg (streamlined modern corner) - JR
- Circular Bank, Marvin Martian style (18th and Dodge) - JR
- Chop’s Bowling Alley - MS
- City Office (south 24th street) - MS
- Christ the King church (banded windows, enormous screen wall) - MS
- Frito Lay plant - MS
- Rocket Slide? - RP
- Thermos Bottle House - RP
