Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant

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Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Nebraska)
Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Coordinates: 41°16′5″N 95°56′11″W / 41.26806, -95.93639Coordinates: 41°16′5″N 95°56′11″W / 41.26806, -95.93639
Built/Founded: 1916
Architect: Albert Kahn
Architectural style(s): Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
Added to NRHP: December 29, 2004
NRHP Reference#: 04001412

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Governing body: Private

The Omaha Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is located at 1514-1524 Cuming Street in North Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1916, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Between the year it was built and 1932 the plant employed 1,200 people and built approximately 450,000 cars and trucks. In the 1920s the plant was Omaha's second biggest shipper.[2] The plant ceased production in 1936.

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  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2008-04-15).
  2. ^ Larsen, Cotrell, Daub and Daub. (2007) Upstream metropolis: An urban biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs. University of Nebraska Press. p 185.
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