NRHP: Ford Hospital

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Ford Hospital (Fifth Avenue Hotel)

NRHP Reference #: 86000444

NRHP Listing Date: 19860320

Location

121-129 S 25th, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

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Summary

The former Ford Hospital was erected in 1916 by Dr. Michael J. Ford. The building was the last small, privately owned hospital established in Omaha. Probably the most famous case in the hospital's history was the treatment there of Mayor Ed Smith after he was nearly lynched by a mob during Omaha's courthouse riot September 28,1919. Dr. Ford owned the hospital until 1922, and by 1929 the structure had been purchased and remodeled as the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

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