The Broatch Building is located at 1209 Harney Street in Downtown

Downtown Omaha

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 Omaha

Omaha

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, Nebraska

Nebraska

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. Built in 1880 with an 1887 expansion, it was designated an Omaha Landmark on December 20, 1983 and is a contributing building to the Old Market Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1981.

About

Built by an early Omaha entrepreneur, politician and civic leader named William James Broatch, the building became home to Omaha’s first wholesale heavy hardware business in 1874. He also served twice as the mayor of Omaha.

Designed as a three story building by Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie

Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie

Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie was a significant architecture firm in early Omaha, Nebraska.- History :Louis Mendelssohn was born in Berlin, Germany in 1842, and studied in New York City, New York before forming the partnership of Dufrene and Mendelssohn in Omaha in 1881. The pair were responsible...

 and built in 1880, the building added a fourth story in 1887. In 1979 the building was completely renovated for the office of Bahr, Vermeer and Haecker, architects.

In early 2007 a local developer announced plans to renovate the Broatch and a neighboring building into condominium

Condominium

A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...

s. The development, called Erin Place, will feature a dozen condos.

External links

• Broatch Building, including modern photos