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Blair House Hotel
The 1869 building would have sat on the North side of the
tracks, just west of Old Walker Avenue (now 16th Street). I was a wood
frame building, possibly three stories tall. The 1876, "Bird's
Eye View of Blair," shows this building and lists it as "The Blair
House Hotel."
The Sanborn
Insurance maps for 1886, 1889, 1897, 1902 & 1909 show a 2 1/2
story building on this location, but on the 1923 map, the structure is absent.
Hotel Register
A hotel register for the Blair House is
available at the Washington County Museum Library.
First entry Wednesday 17th June 1874
Last page Monday, April 5, 1880
F. M. Kiely is listed as Proprietor.
(Around 1880, the name of the proprietor was crossed out and changed to E. E.
Kiely.)
Franz Geo, prop Blair House.
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On the 10th of March, 1869, a sale of lots at public auction was held, and
the aggregate of the sales for the day amounted to $61,000 . . . . .
Hundreds of buildings were in process of construction at one. In March the
first railroad depot was built--now used as a freight house--and part of it was
used as a hotel and eating house.
From: Men & Women of Nebraska: A Book of
Portraits, Washington Co., Edited by Daniel M. Carr., Progress Publishing
Company, 1903. page 50
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