. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . Harney and Eleventh, is the fine five-stoy Millard Block, and on the oppo-site side of Harney, is a solid block of four-story brick buildings. One block south is thenew Mercer and Woohvorth Blocks, five-stories in height and extending from Eleventh toTwelfth streets. On the corner of Ninth and Jones, is the five-story Ames building, cover-ing a quarter of a bl
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . Harney and Eleventh, is the fine five-stoy Millard Block, and on the oppo-site side of Harney, is a solid block of four-story brick buildings. One block south is thenew Mercer and Woohvorth Blocks, five-stories in height and extending from Eleventh toTwelfth streets. On the corner of Ninth and Jones, is the five-story Ames building, cover-ing a quarter of a block of ground, and on Tenth and Jones is the big five-story Paxton& Gallagher wholesale grocery house. McCord, Brady & Co., have a large four-storyblock on Thirteenth and Leavenworth streets, and on Ninth and Leavenworth is the five-story McGavock Block. The Union Pacific general offices occupy the companys five-storyblock at Ninth and Farnam. The Burlington road has a four-story building for its general OMAITA riLirS; TR A TF. D . offices, one block west. The Strang Building, the Rosewatcr Block, th(the Arlington Block are other four-story structures worthy of mention. Iith s \ ,1 ,\ H e Bl Lk U S \i ml 1 irnain. ; Bycrs Block and1 course of erectionstreets, the YoungMens Christian As-sociation Block, atDouglas and S i x -teenth streets, andthe Knights ofPythias Castle conservative esti-mate places theamount of capital in-vested in businessblocks, four-storiesor over, at $9,000,-000. Other promi-nent buildings inOmaha are the CourtHouse, the City Hall RESIDENCE OF G. W. (JO COUTSC of C O U - struction), the High School, the Federal Building and the Exposition Building. It can well besaid that in the number and character of its buildings, and the width and excellence of streets,Omaha is more metropoli-tan in aspect than any otherWestern city. While it will be shownin that portion of this workwhich deals more particu-larly with South Omahathat the mo
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