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Dundee–Happy Hollow Historic District

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efforts to restore 328 historic cast-iron poles. They pushed to be named a neighborhood conservation and enhancement district. The neighborhood offers a variety of architecture as well as two major parks in Omaha, Nebraska. The city has made many substantial efforts to improve the daily life within the neighborhood. They decided to allocate “$ 550,000 of $ 2.2 million needed to implement merchant-funded street-scape master plan (2009) to improve traffic flow, increase parking, and add amenities.” Dundee Neighborhood Conservation-Enhancement District Plan has also preserved a two block district for historical preservation.
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The houses did not initially sell well and the developers set out to create the neighborhood as a self-contained village. Developers planted 2,000 maple trees along the roadways (one of which was named Underwood for one of the developers). In 1905 developer Luke Toot O'Keefe offered free lots if the
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Dundee-Memorial Park district has been named one of APA's Great American Places of 2011 because of the neighborhoods pro-active vibrant community. The community has developed a street car plan and they seek National Register status. The community also created an adopt-a-streetlight program with
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C.C. and J.E. George laid out Happy Hollow Boulevard and developed the area south of Dodge and west of 50th to Elmwood Park. They filled in the creek that ran along 50th Street and added sidewalks and the Dundee lights. Homes in the area reflected the Colonial, Georgian and Tudor Revival styles.
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on October 30, 1888 noted neighborhood covenants required that the buildings be for residential purposes only, stand at least 25 feet away from the street, cost at least $ 2500, and not be "used for any immoral or illegal business, nor shall any spirits or malt liquors be sold or bartered away."
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is a historic, traditionally Episcopalian school. St. Margaret Mary's school is the local Catholic school. SMM was rated the city's best private school when it received the "Blue Ribbon Award" in 2006. On the outskirts of Dundee is Harrison Elementary School, which is also part of the
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into a planned residential development called Dundee Place and they hoped to do the same in Omaha. Unlike other suburban development where the houses look similar, the houses in Dundee were built to look distinctive.
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buyer built. If the buyer stayed for more than a year he got a bonus of $ 500. Interest in the neighborhood skyrocketed and the developers expanded to be south of Dodge Street and north of Cuming Street.
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The Shannon Brothers of Kansas City were hired to construct six homes between 48th and 52nd Street, Capitol to California. The brothers had just converted the Kansas City Fairgrounds on the edge of
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campaign by the Japanese military to cause mass chaos in American cities. However, the story was suppressed by the American military until after the war was over. Nobody was hurt in the explosion.
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Omaha annexed Dundee on June 20, 1915. At that time it was 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km) and had 2500 residents.
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This central Omaha neighborhood is home to Dundee Elementary School, which is in the
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The neighborhood was developed in 1880 and has been dubbed Omaha's first suburb.
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American Planning Association's Great American Places of 2011
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The district includes 30 known works by Omaha architect
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exploded over Dundee. The incident was part of a large
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Dundee, Nebraska
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Warren Buffett
Dundee–Happy Hollow Historic District is located in Nebraska
Dundee–Happy Hollow Historic District is located in the United States
Omaha, Nebraska
41°15′54″N 95°59′25″W / 41.265034°N 95.99038°W / 41.265034; -95.99038
Thomas Rogers Kimball
05000726
Midtown Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Warren Buffett
Jeff Koterba
Alexander Payne
Henry Fonda
Downtown Kansas City
Omaha Herald
F. A. Henninger
fire balloon
World War II
Omaha Public Schools
Brownell-Talbot School
Omaha Public Schools
Omaha Central High School
Memorial Park
Elmwood Park
Dundee Dell
Dundee Theatre

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