Durham History Museum: Union Pacific Building and Lobby

 Union Pacific Station which now houses the Durham Museum was built in the art deco style.  It reminded me a lot of Hoover Dam outside Las Vegas.  

The lobby has a myriad of figures to give the sense of an actual lobby

the ceiling

Non LDS Churches in Omaha, Bellevue

 St. Mary's tower across from University Nebraska Omaha and by Memorial Park on Dodge

Baptist Mission Church on 24th just off of Lake

Dundee Presbyterian Church on Underwood and Happy Valley

Presbyterian Mission in Bellevue

Welcome to Omaha/Bellevue: Everett Park in Bellevue

 Everett Park is nice.  It has restrooms supporting a splash pad.  It also has pickleball and tennis, softball and soccer fields.  There is a creek flowing through it with a walking bridge.  It is located very close to Bellevue University on Betz Road.

four pickleball courts and two tennis

Bellevue Parks

 Bellevue has over 35 parks.  I do not think that includes community parks.  There are three pools and a community center.

Sunrise Community Park: A small park close to our residence

Swanson Park has a very long trail system going through the woods.  Park also has recreation areas, ball diamonds and play ground.

Washington Park in Bellevue is like the town square.  It has many memorials, large playground area and a food pantry.

Gemini Park is a smaller park b the history museum.  It includes the old train depot.

Haworth Park along the Missouri Fiver with boat ramp, camping, ball fields and riverside hikes.

American Heroes Park has more playground equipment than I have ever seen in a park.  The playground is new.

Everett Park, Splash pad and pickleball, soccer, tennis

West Papillion Creek Trail. There are several trailheads, including behind Culvers

Omaha Parks

 Omaha, according to their Parks and rec on line page, has over 250 parks.  This includes over 150 miles of trails, 12 community gardens, 17 aquatic facilities, 14 spraygrounds and 8 golf courses.  I have visited a fraction of this:

Memorial Park in addition to memorials has a playground area, a rose garden, and large grassy area where we saw Ringo Star and fireworks.

Westgate Park has pool and trailhead and ball diamonds.

Miller Park has a pool, playground, spray ground, dog park, baseball field and golf course.

Kountze Park is located on land that was part of the 1898 world's fair, international exposition.  The park covers four square blocks while the fairgrounds covered more than 24 bocks.

Elmwood Park has a very nice grotto, golf course, pool.

Walnut Grove Park was a fishing pond, large playground.

Mandan Park features hiking trails above the Missouri River.  

Mount Vernon Garden was designed to look like George Washington's Mount Vernon

Brown Park is a community park west of 13th street in south Omaha.  Playground and pavillion and baseball diamond.

Churches of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 I have been inside three LDS churches in the Omaha area.  This include the Bellevue church where I atten on Sundays, The Papillion church where I attended stake conference, and the branch where Charity attends, which is not a church but the basement of a V.A. clinic that the church rents for their branch.  Miranda attends the singles ward at the institute building by University of Nebraska Omaha.

Winter Quarters Temple in Florence, Omaha

The institute building.  I have been told they have a nice recreational facility in the basement

.  This is on Dodge in Omaha.

Our stake center in Papillion.  This is on 84th street south of 370

Where Charity's branch, Field Club, meets off of 10th street in Omaha

grotto by their building, there because of the hospital that use to be there.  It is closed off because of drug usage

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Bellevue church Where I attend is on Harlan east of Fort Crook

Welcome to Omaha/Bellevue: Elmwood Park and Grotto in Omaha

 Elmwood Park is on of the parks included early on in the Beautiful Omaha Plan.  It has many amenities including a pool and a golf course.  Unique to this park is a grotto, which at one time provided drinking water but that is closed off due to health concerns.  It is a beautiful sitting area.  It does have a natural spring.  There is a large pavilion.  It is next to University of Nebraska Omaha so an area of concern is parking as the university students overflow the parking and walk to campus.  

grotto

path beside creek flowing from grotto was blocked off

pavilion

pool

Memorial to Charlie Kirk at Memorial Park, Omaha

 I was at Memorial Park and someone had drawn a Charlie Kirk memory with chalk.  I wonder if it lasted through last night's rain storm.

Welcome to Omaha: Murals

 Murals at Moriah and 24th.  These murals are on a church and a store across the street.

Joelle Storet and Dravon Brutus '21

Be You To Full

Welcome to Omaha/Bellevue: Memorial Park Memorials

 Memorial Park was originally built to give honor to those who served in WWII.  The columns name all those who passed away from Douglas County serving in WWII.  There are memorials to differnt unts of service.

There is also a statue that honors those who served in Viet Nam and Korea.

POW Memorial

Marines

WWII statue, Rosie the Riveter and a youth gathering scrap metal

Korean and Viet Nam on opposite sides.

Memorial to WWII