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Revision as of 08:48, 14 December 2015
DISCUSSION ITEM #1
“Proposal for an eight-story office building, probably for 13th & O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. [19][d]”
Then Note d. might read:
“d. The George A. Berlinghof Manuscript Collection at Nebraska State Historical Society includes a rendering for an eight-story office building, inscribed “Geo. A. Berlinghof—Arch’t--1918.” The setting is a corner parcel which is very narrow on one frontage and much longer on the other street façade. The site is unidentified and the surrounding buildings are depicted in a generic manner, but the proportions of the parcel are characteristic of downtown Lincoln’s main commercial street—O Street—which features 25’x142’ lots in the Original Plat of 1867.
Another perspective drawing--inscribed “Ellery Davis Archt.”--was published in 1918 depicting a proposal for a building of matching height and proportions. The location was identified as the northwest corner of 13thand O streets in downtown Lincoln. [Reference x] Berlinghof and Ellery L. Davis had dissolved their partnership in the preceding year. By 1918 they apparently were competing to design an office building for the prominent corner directly north of the Miller & Paine Department Store, designed by them in partnership. The caption accompanying the published design by Davis explained that the leaseholders on the northwest corner lot held a 99 year lease “with the proviso that a new fireproof building of at least six stories in height…be erected there within a given number of years.” [Reference x]
Five years later in 1923, the lease requirement was met with a six-story bank and office building constructed for National Bank of Commerce. Its architect was Frederick C. Klawiter (1889-1983) of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in association with Davis and Wilson of Lincoln.[Reference xx] Klawiter specialized in Neo-classical banking temples, with one-story examples in Highland and Knoxville, Illinois; Gays Mills, Wisconsin; and Minot, North Dakota. Davis and Wilson presumably supplied not only local knowledge and superintendence, but also experience with much taller downtown buildings.
References:
x. “Building to Be Erected at the Northwest Corner of Thirteenth and O Streets by Turner & Holmes,” Sunday State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska), January 6, 1918.
xx. City of Lincoln Building Permit application, #11056, April 25, 1923. The Klawiter/Davis and Wilson design is depicted in Lincoln: Nebraska’s Capital City, 1867-1923, Lincoln: Lincoln Commercial Club, 1923, p. 101.
And the captions for the GAB rendering could probably use a touch of editing, at least to drop “unidentified,” if not to add 13th & O.
DISCUSSION ITEM #2:
Note h associated with Crawford Co. Courthouse, 1904, is incorrect; its reference is only to the earlier First National Bank. I see no other note that references that courthouse. Should that note simply be deleted from the courthouse listing, or do you know of a note that is missing here?
