National Register of Historic Places

First Unitarian Church of Omaha

Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
Listed
March 26, 1980
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
80002448

About this property

The First Unitarian Church of Omaha, Nebraska is a Unitarian Universalist Church located at 3114 Harney Street in the Midtown area. 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 as their first joint project. 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. In the 1930s, Sarah Joslyn gave the church its Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.

Location

3114 Harney St.
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
41.25695, -95.95811

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Sources

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When was First Unitarian Church of Omaha listed on the National Register?

First Unitarian Church of Omaha was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1980.

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First Unitarian Church of Omaha is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for First Unitarian Church of Omaha is recorded as the industrial era.

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