Plans for U.N. Col. Med. Omaha Campus

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Plans for U.N. Col. Med. Omaha Campus

"Plans for University of Nebraska College of Medicine Omaha Campus. Formulated circa 1915. Date on drawing - 1921." "Latenser campus plan information: From Charles W.M. Poynter manuscript ("History of the Omaha Medical College"): "In 1909 the legislature appropriated $20,000 to purchase campus site which was selected at 42nd Dewey Avenue. The 1911 Legislature provided $100,000 for a college building. Dean (Henry) Ward felt that a uniform building program should be adopted, so the architects Shipley, Ratan, and Coulige (Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge) of Boston were engaged to draw up a campus plan and furnish blue prints for the north building to be four stories high and of steel construction and was for the first ten years to house all of the college. It was finished in 1913 and in the fall the school was moved from Lincoln and set up in the new building. In the original campus plan provision was made for a 500 bed teaching hospital consisting of five units. In 1915 $150,000 was appropriated for the first unit. John Latenser & Sons were engaged to draw the plans and have since been in charge of all campus building." "From conversation with William Latenser: -- September 1980, of William Latenser & Associates, Omaha - campus plan drawn by John Latenser, Sr. (William Latenser's grandfather), probably about 1915. (Not drawn by a Latenser for his Ph.D. project, as far as William knows.) -- A large colored rendering of this plan once hung on the College of medicine Campus. Mr. William Latenser says it is now at W. Latenser & Associates [one also in the collection of the McGoogan Library of Medicine as of 2013-2-26]. 1915, according to Poynter manuscript was when this plan was formulated. Drawn up by John Latenser, Sr., 1921. Date in the lower left hand corner of original drawing is 1921."

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