Two Glenvil buildings get nod from History Nebraska

GLENVIL, Neb. (Press Launch) – Historical past Nebraska is happy to announce the Glenvil City Jail and Fireplace Corridor have been listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.

Positioned in Glenvil, Nebraska, the City Jail and Fireplace Corridor are situated on the finish of Winters Avenue, which features because the city’s most important road. The Fireplace Corridor is a 1.5-story western false-front wooden constructing inbuilt 1905 with an attic, whereas the city jail is a 1-story brick constructing constructed in 1899.

Each buildings retain their home windows however lay glassless because the home windows are boarded with wooden and, within the jail’s case, coated with metallic bars.

Mendacity aspect by aspect, the buildings collectively symbolize a previous time during which Glenvil had aspirations of changing into a a lot larger city. Flanked on all sides by roads, they seem remoted from the remainder of Winters Ave as relics of a bygone time.

The Glenvil Fireplace Corridor and City Jail are nominated on the native degree of significance underneath Criterion A for his or her contribution to the politics/authorities of Glenvil.

The Fireplace Corridor and City Jail are doubtlessly tied collectively due to a set of arson assaults simply after the flip of the century illuminating how small city municipal buildings function.

Moreover, the constructing pair highlights the distinctive traits that precipitated Glenvil, a city that has by no means surpassed 400 individuals, to have each a fireplace corridor and city jail. That is distinctive and one thing no different city of comparable dimension in Clay County might have claimed to have.

The interval of significance for these two buildings stretches from 1899 when the jail was constructed to 1938 when the brand new Fireplace Corridor was constructed.

The Nationwide Register of Historic Locations is the nation’s stock of properties deemed worthy of preservation. It’s a part of a nationwide program to coordinate and assist native and personal efforts to establish, consider, and shield the nation’s historic and archeological assets.

For extra info on the Nationwide Register program in Nebraska, contact Historical past Nebraska’s Historic Preservation Workplace at (402) 613-1591 or go to historical past.nebraska.gov/historic-preservation.

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