Kountze Place

The Kountze Place neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska is a historically significant community on the city's north end. Today the neighborhood is home to several buildings and homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located between North 16th Avenue on the east to North 30th Street on the west; Locust Street on the south to Pratt Street on the north. Kountze Place was annexed into Omaha in 1887. The neighborhood was built as a suburban middle and upper middle class enclave for doctors, lawyers, successful businessmen and other professional workers.

Bordered by the historic neighborhoods of the Near North Side, Saratoga and East Omaha, Kountze Place was an early upper middle class residential suburb developed by Omaha banker Herman Kountze in 1883. It was originally accessible only via streetcar.

In 1898 Kountze Place was home to the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, a showcase for Nebraska's agricultural and Omaha's urban lifestyles. In 1899 some of the land that the Expo occupied was developed into Kountze Park. The area around the Park was filled in with housing afterwards, with some Exposition buildings being converted into grand houses.

A March 1907 Omaha Sunday Bee advertisement promotes Kountze Place:

Make your home in Koutnze Place. Where you will find more homes of Omaha’s best business men than in any other addition in the city. This alone is one of the best reasons why you should live in this beautiful addition. Paved streets, permanent walks, water, sewer and gas. No hills, no hollows, good schools, churches, shaded streets, good neighborhood. Within 10 or 15 minutes' drive or street car ride of the retail and wholesale district, reached by 3 car lines, the Dodge, North 24th and Sherman Ave. The Florence Boulevard runs through the center of the Addition and the prices only about one‐half what they are asking for no better lots in the Western or Southwestern part of the City."

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