By Linda Tancs At the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, visitors get two gems in one: a landmark building and a seminal collection of the region's history. Designated a National Historic Landmark, the building housing the museum is the Art Deco-style… | By Linda Tancs on July 24, 2024 | By Linda Tancs At the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, visitors get two gems in one: a landmark building and a seminal collection of the region's history. Designated a National Historic Landmark, the building housing the museum is the Art Deco-style Union Station. At its peak, 64 passenger trains and over 10,000 passengers utilized the facility every day. The focal point is the Main Waiting Room, currently the Suzanne and Walter Scott Great Hall, which measures 160 feet by 72 feet and is spanned by a 60-foot-high ceiling adorned by six, 13-foot-high chandeliers. The hall features several architectural elements common to the style, like a ceiling of sculptured plaster, cathedral-like plate glass windows, a patterned terrazzo floor and colonnettes of blue Belgian marble. The museum's permanent galleries also capture a bygone era and include reproductions of Native American abodes as well as a worker's cottage from the late 1800s and early 1900s, a replica of a grocery store from the 1900s and an authentic streetcar from the 1940s. | | | | You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. | | | | |
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