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Blair’s Downtown – Block 47

Lots 1-15 (16th to 15th Streets)

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1909 Sanborn Map

Block 47, Washington Street, Blair, NE Sanborn Map from 1909

Lots 1-3

  • 1909 – Lot 1 Marble Works
  • Washington County Motors and port of entry — trucks had to be inspected if they had too much gas — had to pay Nebraska tax on it. Trucks would come into Nebraska almost empty and gas up at pumps in front of the dealership.
  • Washington County Bank

Lots 4-9

  • Washington County Motors — Mr. H. K. Peterson & son, Don.
  • Sold to Don Feer in the 1950s
  • Washington County Bank

Lots 10-11

Block 47, lots 10-11, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
  • 1908 – Two story wooden building
  • Town Tavern or Rusty’s Town Tavern (clarification needed)
  • Home to Korshoj Construction
  • Korshoj Building — on Lot 11

Lot 12

Block 47, lot 12, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
  • 1962 or 1963 – Used record (45s) shop
  • 1960s through the 1970s – Pizza Chick restaurant was in this building
  • Late 1970s – Chauncey Wilkins had Tae Kwon Do upstairs
  • Law Offices of Roy Andersen and Greg Drew

Lot 13

Block 47, lot 13, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
Bank drive through image

Washington County Bank Drive Through
Located in Block 47, Lot 13 on the south side of Washington Street. 

  • 1909 – Bakery
  • Chrysler/Dodge…torn down in 1948
  • 1940s and 1950s – Curt Rathman Ford Tractor Sales and Service
  • 1956 – Don Feer – Washington County Motors
  • 1960s – 1970s – Washington County Bank Drive Through

Lot 14

Block 47, Lot 14, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
  • 1909 – Barber shop
  • 1960s and 1970s – Beck Brothers Barber Shop
  • Either on Lot 13 or Lot 14 was a restaurant and Beck’s barbershop. A Mrs. Petersen ran the restaurant and her husband was the barber.

Lot 15

Block 47, lot 15, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
O'hanlon Nuilding, Washington Street, Blair, Nebraska
  • 1890 – to ??- Built as post office
  • 1950 O’Hanlon & O’Hanlon Law Offices
    (Pilot-Tribune door located on west side of building)
    Law office for the O’Hanlon family. John was the latest, but was previous office to his father Clark.

 

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