Color postcard (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 cm) with a view of the Bee Building, northwest corner 17th & Farnam Streets, and City Hall, northeast corner of 18th & Farnam Streets, Omaha, Nebraska, with horse and buggies and early model car on streets.
The Bee Building on 17th & Farnam opened in 1889 as home to the Omaha Bee newspaper. Edward Rosewater built the Bee Building on the site on his family's former homestead. The seven-story red granite structure had carved beehives as exterior ornaments and carved miniature beehives on the doorknobs. Construction cost $440,000. The paper billed itself as the world's largest newspaper plant. Newspaper circulation in 1889 was 18,736. The Omaha City Hall was constructed at 18th & Farnam Streets in 1890. Both buildings were torn down in 1966 to build the Woodmen Tower. Source: Omaha Public Library Omaha History Clipping File- Newspapers.
