The residents of the Field Club Historic District, located near downtown Omaha, Nebraska, and the Field Club Homeowners League, welcomes you to our historic neighborhood via the Internet.
The Field Club neighborhood is a vibrant and thriving historical neighborhood where many people desire to live. It has had a positive reputation ever since the first house was constructed nearly 125 years ago.
In its earlier years, the neighborhood was a late 19th century suburb located at the southwest limit of Omaha. It was connected to the city center by the new trolley system which made it a convenient place to live for the well to do of the time. It was also a highly desirable area as it was plotted between two developed green sites. The first of these green areas, east of the neighborhood, was Hanscom Park, Omaha's first city park founded in 1872. Hanscom Park was named for early Omaha attorney Andrew Jackson Hanscom, influential in the battle to secure Omaha as the territorial capital. He was a major donor of land that became that park. The second site, located on the west, was the Omaha Field Club. This was Omaha's first country club and golf course founded in 1898. It was because of its close proximity to the Field Club that the neighborhood got its name.
By the turn of the 20th century, many of Omaha's most noteworthy citizens had homes designed and built in the district by many prominent architects of the time. These beautiful, historic homes have been well preserved over the last 100 plus years. In November of 2000, the Field Club Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Please browse these web pages to learn more about this historic Omaha neighborhood.
Field Club Historic District
Omaha Field Club now and in 1905
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Hanscom Park C. 1915 and now
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This page was last updated on: June 14, 2009
Woolworth* Avenue now and C. 1910
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*Historic Footnote: Woolworth Avenue was named to honor James M. Woolworth, an early Omaha lawyer who became Omaha's first city attorney and wrote Nebraska's first history, Nebraska in 1857. A copy of Nebraska's first history is available for research at the Douglas County Historical Society's Library/Archives Center
Edward Quinn
Copyright 2000-2009
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