Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-13

teenth street stands the Karbach
block, erected by Charles Karbach
in 1887. 1t is an office and store
building of six stories This corner
was, from 1888 to 1893, occupied by
/ G. S. Raymond, the jeweler, from
which time the Ryan Jewelry COM
pany has rented it. The German Saw
ings bank occupied another Of its
stores from 1890 to 1896, when it went
into the hands of receiver. From
1880 to 1885 OH this corner was located
two-story frame store and office
building known as the "Bushman
block" William Bushman during that
time ran a dry goods store in the
corner room. Many of Omaha's
pioneer lawyers had their offices in
that building, among them being N.
]. Burnham, Albert Swartzlander,
Judge A. N. Ferguson and Sam Bal
let, all of whom have passed beyond
the great divide.
On the northwest corner of Thir-
teenth street in 1880 was the old
Republican building, two-story
brick. The Omaha Republican,
morning paper, was issued from there.
The building was torn down in 1884,
when the company moved to its new
place on the southwest corner of
Tenth and this street. On this lot,
in 1885,. was erected a three.story
building, since which time the entire
block has been built solidly with sub
stantial business houses. At No. l402'
is coated the old Fuller block, which
from 1883 to 1906 was occupied by
J. A. Fuller as drug store. During
the last eight years it has been used
as a saloon-run by Jabez Cross. At
No. l404 is located one of the first
picture shows in Omaha. At No.
l4OS was the Duke Hardware store,
1t went out of business in 1888, hay-
ing been sold to c. o. Lobeck, our
present congressman. AT No. l4l0,
I. j. Beard & Bro, have had
their paper and paint store since 1885,
prior to which time it was occupied
by Welte & Mcdonald as ready
made ladies' garment store, At No.
l4l2 is saloon, which was opened
up in 1886 by Foley & Darst, but
since 1889 it has been run by Tom
Foley.
The Browning King building. ON
the southwest corner of Fifteenth
street, has been used by the company
as a clothing store since 1886 From
1917 to 1886 it was the dry goods
store of Cruickshank & Falconer. The
property is owned by the heirs of the
late Lew Hill, The building west of
this, No. 1907, has been. owned by
Thomas Fitzpatrick & Co. since 1890,
at which time they started the pres
ent mammoth retail dry goods house.
The two-story brick store at No. 1919
was built by A. Martin, the tailor,
IN 1880. The lot was purchased by
him in 1882 for $4,000; / was pres
ent at the time and witnessed the pay
ment of the option money. This
proved TO be one of the best invest
ments in real estate in those early
days. .t-., -..
On the southeast corner OF Six
teenth street is the Brown block, a
hve-story, narrow office building, with
a one-story space. J. ]. Brown built
this structure in 1886. 1t was the
first home of the City National bank
when organized in 1906.
On the northwest corner of Six
teenth street is the gentlemcn's cloth
ing department of the Brandeis
stores, which was built and occupied
by that company in 1892. In Febru-
airy, 1894, the building was totally de-
stroyed by fire, and that year it was
rebuilt and occupied by the same
firm. The six-story brick next TO it,
on the west, is owned and used by
Hayden Bros. as the piano depart
ment of their store. II was built in
| 1906, On this ground for more than