Images from Emerald Nebraska Straw Bale Construction Emerald Nebraska, The Landings Joe McCabe Images from Emerald,Nebraska. Recently called El Ranchito, and also The Landings. This building, built with straw bales as infill for the walls is located a few miles west of Lincoln Nebraska, on the old army road, perhaps the first road ever built in Nebraska, back in 1916, if I'm not mistaken. The Nebraska Historical Society has a file on this building indicating it was built about 1945. At any time you can click on the image and get a large picture.
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This is a large black and white gif of the building as it looked May 1994. This picture shows the proprietor of the building outside the west end of the building, The walls had been patched considerably. I saw the pinball machines that they were repairing all throughout the 30,000 sq. The east side of the building The east end of the building The west end of the building again, you can see some of the bricks used around the doorway. There seems to be lots of potential for lime migration here.