Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with a view of three-story residence with a covered front porch lined with columns and an upper balcony along 31st Street in Omaha, Nebraska. There is a sidewalk running in front of the house lined with trees. There are steps leading from the sidewalk up to the entrance and porch of the home. On the other side of 31st Street, but not visible in this image, is Turner Park. The title "31st Street opposite Turner Park, Omaha, Neb." is at the top center of the card. On the reverse side of the postcard are the typeset words "Omaha - The Convention City of the West".
Mrs. Charlotte M. Turner donated thirty-two lots in blocks No. 1 and 2 Summit Place to be used for parks and a boulevard to the Omaha Board of Park Commissioners in 1897. This donation increased the prospects for the Central Boulevard, later called the West Central Boulevard - the connecting link between Hanscom and Bemis Parks. After the turn of the century, the land donated was developed as Curtiss Turner Park with the boulevard running along its eastern edge. The son of Charlotte and her husband Charles, a real estate developer, Curtiss Turner was a civil engineer who died in an 1898 avalanche in Alaska. After his death, the Turners requested that their land donation be used as a park to memorialize their son. Source: Planning Department of the City of Omaha. Omaha's Historic Park and Boulevard System. Omaha: City of Omaha, March 1992. p. 28
