The historic Dewey and Stone building, built in 1876, was razed in 1988 to make way for a new downtown office project across the street from what was then called the Central Park Mall. The facade features were spared for preservation, but essentially were forgotten.
LYNN MEYER
The cast-iron columns and stone pieces of the facade from the historic Dewey and Stone building now reside at the Douglas County farm of a collector named Frank Horejsi. “I didn’t want to see them scrap it,” he said.
LYNN MEYER
Two arches saved from entrances to the Corey-McKenzie building in downtown Omaha were reassembled into an archway feature on the Gene Leahy Mall. This photo was taken in 1980.
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The historic Dewey and Stone building, built in 1876, was razed in 1988 to make way for a new downtown office project across the street from what was then called the Central Park Mall. The facade features were spared for preservation, but essentially were forgotten.
The cast-iron columns and stone pieces of the facade from the historic Dewey and Stone building now reside at the Douglas County farm of a collector named Frank Horejsi. “I didn’t want to see them scrap it,” he said.
Two arches saved from entrances to the Corey-McKenzie building in downtown Omaha were reassembled into an archway feature on the Gene Leahy Mall. This photo was taken in 1980.
