- Site of Trans-Mississippi
Exposition
- Pinkney-Pratt Streets; 16th to 24th
Street
- 1898
- Architect: Walker and Kimball
- Classical
and Renaissance Revival Style
- Designated Omaha Landmark: November 24,
1981
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- The 1898 Trans-Mississippi and
International Exposition was a type of world’s fair initiated by Omaha business
leaders to return the city to prosperity after the depression of the 1890’s.
Supervising architects C. Howard Walker and Thomas
R. Kimball guided the construction of the Classical and Renaissance-style buildings
built around a half-mile long lagoon (Kountze Park today).
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- The various structures housed exhibits in
liberal and fine arts, mines and mining, agriculture, machinery, transportation and
government. The exposition was visited by over 2.5 million people including President
William McKinley.
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- Never meant to be permanent, the
exposition buildings were demolished in 1899. Today, early twentieth century bungalows and
Classical revival style homes stand on the Trans-Mississippi site.
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