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707 South 11th Street
1906
Architect: John Latenser
Renaissance Revival Style
Designated Omaha Landmark: September 20, 1994
The Parlin Orendorff and Martin Plow Company Warehouse is significant for its association with wholesale jobbing in Omaha.
The jobbing trade was a new type of commerce during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The wholesale jobber would purchase goods directly from the manufacturer and sell the goods to small businesses through traveling salesmen. These businesses used the railroad lines that traversed the warehouse area.
Parlin, Orendorff and Martin was a distributor of agricultural implements. Omaha architect John Latenser designed this warehouse for the company in 1906.
The shape of the building in plan is derived from the alignment of the railroad line that formerly angled along the south side of the structure. All four sides of the red-brown brick building are embellished with Renaissance revival detail.
(This building is also located in a district listed in the National Register of Historic Places.) |
