Salvation Army Building

A building constructed in 1885 on this site as the Tremont House hotel provided sixty-two rooms and became a favorite of visiting theatrical companies because of its location near the Depot and rates starting at $1.50 a day. By 1904, Grainger Brothers, wholesale grocers, had converted the hotel into their headquarters and used it until the 1960s. The present structure was built for the Salvation Army in 1966 at an estimated cost of $634,000. It is very similar in size and scale to the 1885 hotel and warehouse and uses the color palette and certain details, including the flared bottoms on the projecting piers, from the 1906 Grainger warehouse to the west. Its south wing predates the 1966 structure by three decades, replacing a portion of the old hotel and grocery warehouse that was leveled by a gas explosion in 1936.

Lincoln, Nebraska · United States