Block 47  Lot 15    Historic Downtown District -- Blair, Nebraska
Pilot Building
  Event Sources Notes
1880 Built Year over doorway  
1886   Sanborn Maps  
1889   Sanborn Maps  
       
       
1897   Sanborn Maps  
1902   Sanborn Maps  
    Photograph  
1909   Sanborn Maps  
1923   Sanborn Maps  
1950   O'Hanlon & O'Hanlon Law Offices  
       
    law office for the O'Hanlon family. John was the latest, but was previous home to his father Clark.  
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

City Council Meeting
Dec 23 1897
Be it resolved by the Mayor and council of the City of Blair Nebraska, that the steps leading to the front entrance of the Post Office Building in Said City Situated on Lot 15 in Block 47 of Said city of Blair, be and the same hereby condemned as unsafe and dangeous and the the owner of said lot and () of said building as well as the holders of liens on said property be each served with a copy of this resolution.


City Council Meeting
July 5, 1886
Bill of Kate Wisenand (by J.I. Davis) for $3,000.00 for injuries alleged to the have been sustained by reason of falling on the snow and ice in front of the U.S. Post Office on Lot 15, Block 47, in February Last, was read and on motion rejected.

 

Minutes of the Blair City Council
August 5, 1890
The following communication was read:
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Blair, Nebraska.
The undersigned respectfully petitions your honorable body for privileges in the public streets as follows:
1st:  To use of a portion of Walker Avenue temporarily, a reasonable time for building purposes, along lot no. 15 to Block 47.
2nd: for excavating under the sidewalk 12 feet wide for permanent use as a coal bin, in front of lot 15, block 47 on Washington Street.
3rd. for Permanent privileges for area and stairs into basement on walker avenue along said lot, and for necessary windows, etc., according to plans prepared for a Pilot Building on said lot 15 in Block 47 city of Blair, and for this your petitioner will ever pray/  Perry Selden
August 5, 1890; Blair, Nebraska

It was moved and seconded that the request be granted; the ayes and nays being called, when councilmen Dunn, Wadsworth, Harrison, Rosenbalm, Quinlin and McQuarrie voted aye and there being no nays it was by the Mayor declared granted.