First Unitarian Church of Omaha

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First Unitarian Church of Omaha
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Omaha Landmark
View from south, across Harney Street
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Location	Omaha, Nebraska
Coordinates	41°15′25″N 95°57′28″W / 41.25694°N 95.95778°W / 41.25694; -95.95778Coordinates: 41°15′25″N 95°57′28″W / 41.25694°N 95.95778°W / 41.25694; -95.95778
Built	1917^[1]
Architect	John McDonald, Alan McDonald^[1]
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	80002448^[2]
Added to NRHP	March 27, 1980
Designated OMAL	February 13, 1979^[1]

The First Unitarian Church of Omaha, Nebraska is a Unitarian Universalist Church located at 3114 Harney Street in the Midtown area.^[3]

History

First Unitarian Church of Omaha was incorporated on August 22, 1869, by twenty-six men and women. Its regular minister was Reverend Henry E. Bond, and its first chapel was a small brick building located at 17th and Cass that was dedicated in 1871. In the fall of 1889 Reverend Newton M. Mann came to serve the church. Mann was the first American minister to promote evolution.

The present Colonial Revival building at 31st and Harney was designed by Omaha architects John McDonald and his son Alan McDonald. Former U.S. president William Howard Taft, who was then president of the Unitarian Church Conference in the United States and Canada, presided at the 1917 cornerstone-laying ceremony. The building was dedicated in September 1918.^[4] In the 1930s, Sarah Joslyn gave the church its Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.

References

1 2 3 "Omaha Landmarks". Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ First Unitarian Church of Omaha website. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
↑ Kidd, Daniel. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: First Unitarian Church of Omaha". Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-10-25.

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