NRHP: States Ballroom

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States Ballroom (Bee Community Building)

States Ballroom (Bee Community Building)

NRHP Reference #: 81000375

NRHP Listing Date: 19811014

Location

NWC Elm & 2nd, Bee, Seward County, Nebraska

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Summary

Located in Bee, the States Ballroom is a twelve-sided reinforced concrete structure. It is a notable product of modernistic design conceived by a local architect-builder, Vladimir Sobotka. The building has played an important recreational, entertainment, and cultural role in the surrounding Czech and German community. It was constructed in 1938-40 as a relief project of the Works Progress Administration.

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