Hotel Wilber

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Hotel Wilber
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The hotel in 2010
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Location2nd and Wilson Streets, Wilber, Nebraska
Coordinates 40°28′56″N96°57′42″W / 40.48222°N 96.96167°W / 40.48222; -96.96167 (Hotel Wilber)
Arealess than one acre
Built1895 (1895)
Built byIsaac Hickman
Charles Whipple
G. D. Coe
George Smith
NRHP reference No. 78001709 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 20, 1978

Hotel Wilber is a historic hotel in Wilber, Nebraska. It was built in 1895 as a hotel and gathering place for social events. [2] The builders were Isaac Hickman, Charles Whipple, G. D. Coe, and George Smith. [2] Cultural historian Janet Jeffries Spencer of the Nebraska State Historical Society and architect D. Murphy add,

Built of standard masonry construction, most of the building displays the stilted segmental arch so common for the period. Window and door openings on the front, however, display rough cut stone lintels and sills. Overall emphasis is placed on the front facade which features a two-story columned portico and the unusually well preserved false, pressed-metal gable. A simple pressed metal, bracketed cornice (which is executed in corbelled brick on the rest of the building) completes the decorative motif.

Janet Jeffries Spencer and D. Murphy, National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form [2]

The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 20, 1978. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Janet Jeffries Spencer; D. Murphy (July 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hotel Wilber". National Park Service . Retrieved April 4, 2019. With accompanying pictures