Omaha Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• Creighton University

  Jesuits founded Creighton University here in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1878. It was founded by the Society of Jesus and established as Creighton College on September 2, 1878 through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who stipulated in her will that a school be created in memory of her husband, Omaha businessman Edward Creighton.

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  First National Bank Tower

  Cast-in-place concrete carries the First National Bank Tower up 45 stories and 634 feet, the tallest completed building in Omaha and all of Nebraska. Rising to 634 feet (193 m) and 45 stories, this building became the tallest in Omaha and the state when it overtook the nearby 30-story WoodmenLife Tower upon its completion.

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  Joslyn Castle

  Lynhurst is the official name and Joslyn Castle the local nickname for the 35-room Scottish Baronial home George and Sarah Joslyn built in 1903 at 3902 Davenport Street. This Scottish Baronial mansion was built in 1903; its 35 rooms rise across four stories.

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  Joslyn Art Museum

  Sarah H. Joslyn opened the Joslyn Art Museum in 1931 in memory of her husband George, and it remains the largest fine arts museum in Nebraska. This building began as Sarah H. Joslyn’s vision; she opened it in 1931 in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn.

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  Old Market

  Brick-paved streets from the turn of the 20th century run through the Old Market, the Downtown Omaha neighborhood between South 10th Street and 13th Street, Farnam Street to the north and Jackson Street to the south. This is a place of restaurants, art galleries and upscale shopping, where the feel of an older city is preserved: brick-paved streets dating from the turn of the 20th century, horse-drawn carriages and covered sidewalks in some areas.

All 22 stops

• Old Market (Old Market)

  Brick-paved streets from the turn of the 20th century run through the Old Market, the Downtown Omaha neighborhood between South 10th Street and 13th Street…

• Durham Museum (Downtown Omaha)

  Your walking tour brings you to the Durham Museum, housed inside Omaha's former Union Station at 801 South 10th Street.

• J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store Building (Central Business District)

  Eight Neo-Renaissance stories rose here in 1906 as the J. L. Brandeis and Sons Store Building, at 210 South 16th Street in Omaha, Nebraska.

• Farnam Building (Downtown Omaha)

  Picture Northup-Jones restaurant once serving Omaha's financial and legal crowd from this ground floor.

• Paxton Hotel (Downtown Omaha)

  Art Deco lines from 1928 mark the Paxton Hotel at 1403 Farnam Street.

• Orpheum Theater (Omaha)

  Omaha's Orpheum Theater began life on this site in 1895 as the Creighton Theater.

• Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center (Downtown Omaha)

  A copper dome and griffin-topped columns mark the Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center, opened as The Riviera, later the Astro Theatre, and known to downtown…

• Gene Leahy Mall (Downtown Omaha)

  Slides, a sculpture garden and a boat cove fill Gene Leahy Mall, the 9.6-acre park Omaha calls The Mall, here in the heart of downtown.

• Heartland of America Park (Downtown Omaha)

  Heartland of America Park spreads 31 acres at 800 Douglas Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska.

• Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge (Omaha)

  Bob the Bridge, formally the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, carries you on foot across the Missouri River between Omaha and Council Bluffs.

• Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge (Omaha)

  Rail trusses span the Missouri River here as the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge, linking Council Bluffs, Iowa, with Omaha, Nebraska.

• First National Bank Tower (Downtown Omaha)

  Cast-in-place concrete carries the First National Bank Tower up 45 stories and 634 feet, the tallest completed building in Omaha and all of Nebraska.

• First National Bank Building (Downtown Omaha)

  Built in 1917, the First National Bank Building was Omaha's very first high-rise, fourteen U-shaped steel stories on the corner of 16th and Farnam Street.

• Union Pacific Center (Downtown Omaha)

  Union Pacific Center rises 317 feet at 1400 Douglas Street, the downtown Omaha headquarters of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Corporation since…

• Trinity Cathedral (Downtown Omaha)

  Trinity Cathedral anchors this block of Downtown Omaha.

• Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha)

  Sarah H. Joslyn opened the Joslyn Art Museum in 1931 in memory of her husband George, and it remains the largest fine arts museum in…

• Gold Coast Historic District (Midtown Omaha)

  Between 1900 and 1920, Omaha's cultural and financial leaders made their homes in this roughly 30-block Gold Coast Historic District, bounded by 36th, 40th, Jones…

• Joslyn Castle (Gold Coast Historic District)

  Lynhurst is the official name and Joslyn Castle the local nickname for the 35-room Scottish Baronial home George and Sarah Joslyn built in 1903 at…

• Brandeis–Millard House (West Farnam)

  Albert Kahn's only known work in the state is the Brandeis–Millard House, an early Jacobethan design in the West Farnam neighborhood of the Gold Coast.

• Gottlieb Storz House (Blackstone)

  Brewer Gottlieb Storz built the Gottlieb Storz House, 27 rooms of Jacobethan Revival, in 1905 here in Blackstone, Midtown Omaha, Nebraska.

• Creighton University (just outside of downtown Omaha)

  Jesuits founded Creighton University here in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1878.

• St. John's Parish (Creighton University)

  May 6, 1888 drew 4,000 people to this spot for the cornerstone of St. John's Parish, the Roman Catholic church at 2500 California Plaza on…

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