NRHP: Swoboda Bakery

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Swoboda Bakery

NRHP Reference #: 96000768

NRHP Listing Date: 19960719

Location

1422 William, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

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Summary

The Swoboda Bakery building is significant to the ethnic history of Omaha for its association with Czech immigration and settlement. Constructed in 1889 by a Czech mason for a Czech client, the building combined commercial space on the first floor with flats above. A popular ethnic bakery was operated from the building by its owner for more than forty years. The Swoboda Bakery is located within an approximately eighteen-block area that was historically the city's largest district of concentrated Czech settlement known as "Praha," or Little Bohemia. The building contributes to the historical development of this ethnic enclave, representing a building type that provided neighborhood-based services and housing.

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