page_title: Linoma Beach
section_title: Preservation and restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Linoma Beach / Preservation and restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Linoma Beach, located at U.S. Highway 6 crossing of Platte River in Sarpy County, Nebraska. The beach resort is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: Linoma Beach, now doing business under the name Linoma Lighthouse, is a privately owned recreation area developed around an artificial lake in Sarpy County in the eastern part of the state of Nebraska, in the Midwestern United States. The site was opened in 1924; in 1939, a 100-foot lighthouse was added to it. The lighthouse is a conspicuous landmark on U.S. Highway 6 between Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska.
  Linoma Beach is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as a well-preserved example of a once-common but now vanishing type of roadside architecture.
context_section_description: In 2003, Linoma Beach was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.  The lighthouse was judged especially significant, as representative of a vanishing type of early twentieth century roadside architecture.
  In 2010, a group of five local investors operating as Linoma and Lighthouse LLC bought the property at a foreclosure auction for $905,000, an amount well below its tax-assessed value.  The group proposed to maintain the campground, seek an operator to lease the restaurant, and hold special events at the resort.  They also expressed the intention to transfer ownership of the lighthouse to a foundation established to restore, preserve, and protect it.
  In 2011, Linoma Beach was open seven days a week during the season.  The campground remained open; the swimming beach was re-opened, without the large iceberg-shaped inflatable floats that had been named as a liability concern in the 2005 drowning; and a beach-themed bar and grill, the Linoma Beach Bar, had been established under the management of a classically trained and Caribbean-experienced chef.  At that time, no one had been found to operate the restaurant.  Although inclement weather caused the cancellation of the resort's first special event of the season, attendance was generally good: the 2011 Missouri River floods had benefitted Linoma by closing a number of riverfront resorts and forcing their clientele to seek new venues of pleasure.
caption: Linoma Beach in 2011
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