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CITY NATIONAL BANK

This is the City National Bank building at 16th and Harney.

Built in 1910 by the architectural firm of Holabird & Roche, the sixteen-floor building was the first skyscraper in Omaha. This building ranked as the tallest building in Omaha for a mere two years: the new Woodmen of the World building at 14th and Farnam usurped that title in 1912.

In 1973 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and today serves as an apartment building.

Federal Writers' Project. Omaha: A Guide to the City and Environs. Originally published sometime in the late 1930s. Edited and Indexed by Omaha Public Library History Librarian Linda Miller in 1981. Page 120.

Historic Places: The National Register for Nebraska. Lincoln: NEBRASKAland Magazine, vol. 67, no. 1, Jan-Feb 1989