First Unitarian Church of Omaha

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = First Unitarian Church of Omaha

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Omaha Landmark

| designated_other1_date = February 13, 1979{{cite web|title=Omaha Landmarks|publisher=Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission|url=http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/planning/landmarks/alphabetical-listing|access-date=2013-03-04|archive-date=October 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016142957/http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/planning/landmarks/alphabetical-listing|url-status=dead}}

| image = First Unitarian Church of Omaha from SE.jpg

| caption = View from south, across Harney Street

| location = Omaha, Nebraska

| coordinates = {{coord|41.2569057792381|-95.95850917892008|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Nebraska#USA

| area =

| built = 1917

| architect = John McDonald, Alan McDonald

| architecture = Colonial Revival

| added = March 27, 1980

| refnum = 80002448{{NRISref|2007a}}

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The First Unitarian Church of Omaha, Nebraska is a Unitarian Universalist Church located at 3114 Harney Street in the Midtown area.

History

First Unitarian Church of Omaha was incorporated on August 22, 1869, by twenty-six men and women. Its regular minister was Reverend Henry E. Bond, and its first chapel was a small brick building located at 17th and Cass that was dedicated in 1871. In the fall of 1889 Reverend Newton M. Mann came to serve the church. Mann was the first American minister to promote evolution.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The present Colonial Revival building at 31st and Harney was designed by Omaha architects John McDonald and his son Alan McDonald. Former U.S. president William Howard Taft, who was then president of the Unitarian Church Conference in the United States and Canada, presided at the 1917 cornerstone-laying ceremony. The building was dedicated in September 1918. In the 1930s, Sarah Joslyn gave the church its Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.

References

[http://www.firstuuomaha.org/ First Unitarian Church of Omaha website.] Retrieved 2011-10-27.

Kidd, Daniel. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111219203755/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/douglas/DO09-First-Unitarian-Ch.pdf "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: First Unitarian Church of Omaha".]}} {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110307215553/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nebraska State Historical Society.]}} Retrieved 2011-10-25.

External links

{{Official website|http://www.firstuuomaha.org}}

{{List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches|state=collapsed}}