HistoricOmaha

You probably know that you can look up your home’s (or your neighbor’s) property tax valuation on the Douglas County Assessor’s web page. This is one of my wife’s favorite pasttimes.

You probably didn’t know that you can also access surveys and plats. Why would you want to? How about reading the original surveyor’s plat for […]

From the registration form:
We are excited to announce the Restore Omaha Conference, Exhibition, and Tour November 5 and 6 at Mutual of Omaha Dome.
Restore Omaha offers current and potential owners of older properties an opportunity to learn from local and regional craftsmen how to restore, revive and preserve their structure. In addition, architects, engineers, contractors, […]

Omaha World Herald
Published Monday August 29, 2005
BY SIBYL MYERS
Backyard: Neighborhood grants get new chance to shine
Neighborhood associations may apply for grants of up to $10,000 through a newly revived program of the Peter Kiewit Foundation.
If you have ideas for a grant proposal in our neighborhood, contact DMPA President B.J Reed or past president Bill Kelly.
–HistoricDundee

The […]

Omaha World Herald
Published Sunday, August 28, 2005
BY KEVIN COLE
Any day is a good one for James Traylor and his infant daughter to hang out in Dundee, but the neighborhood’s annual festival is always a “must-sit-and-watch-the world-pass-by” event.
Traylor and 10-week-old Ella Donna were perfectly positioned to people-watch at a table in the shade outside Blue Line […]