- Prague Hotel
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location= 1402 South 13th Street,Omaha, Nebraska
lat_degrees = 41 | lat_minutes = 14 | lat_seconds = 44.45 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 95 | long_minutes = 56 | long_seconds = 7.55 | long_direction = W
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built =1898
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added =July 9 ,1987
governing_body = Private
refnum=87001148 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]The Prague Hotel is located at 1402 South 13th Street on the southwest corner of South 13th and William Streets in the heart of the Little Bohemia neighborhood of
Omaha, Nebraska . Designed by Joseph Guth and built in 1898, this building was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1987. [ [http://www.ci.omaha.ne.us/landmarks/certified%20rehabs/non%20local%20landmarks/prague/Default.htm "Prague Hotel,"] City of Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission. Retrieved 7/30/07.]History
Vaclav Stepanek built the first Czech dance hall where Prague Hotel now stands in 1869. [ [http://www.rootsweb.com/~neethnic/czechs/cz-pg175.html "Czechs in Nebraska."] Retrieved 7/30/07.]
Gottlieb Storz built the Prague Hotel in 1898, as a three-story brick building that provided Nebraska's Czech immigrants with familiarities in their new country. It was established in the city in the 1870s. For more than forty years it remained the only hotel catering to Bohemians between Chicago and the Pacific Coast. [Mead & Hunt, Inc. (2006) " [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/reports/omaha_so_central.pdf Reconnaissance Survey of Portions of South Central Omaha, Nebraska: Historic Buildings Survey.] " Nebraska State Historical Society. p. 15. Retrieved 7/30/07.]In 1987 the building was rehabilitated and converted into apartments. [(2001) [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/tax/douglas.htm "Tax incentive program projects,"] Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 7/30/07.] Local architectural firm Prochaska & Associates won awards for their renovation work on the building. [ [http://www.architectsusa.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=infopage&accountID=1000285 "Prochaska & Associates"] Architects USA. Retrieved 7/30/07.]
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