History on Foot
Downtown
Below are images that accompany the walking tour. They are sorted by address.
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- Kipps Cigar Factory
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- Parade down 2nd Street in 1920, Mystic Lodge on the corner
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- mystic lodge
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- Clarke Buchanan Building
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- Mable Dixon
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- Exterior of the Kerr Opera House
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- Seating of the Kerr Opera House
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- The Stage of the Kerr Opera House
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- A. H. Jones Automobile Company, 1916
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- Interior of the A. H. Jones Automobile Company
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- First Congregational Church
The County Jail
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- The Clark Hotel Postcard
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- Entrance to the Nickel Theatre, 1907
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- Wester Land Roller was located on the 2nd Floor above Bert’s Pharmacy
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- First National Bank, 1887
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- A. H. Brooks Pharmacy
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- Interior of A. H. Brooks Pharmacy, 1903
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- The First Photo taken of Hastings Nebraska. The Building on the far left was built by Samuel Alexander and is the first framed store in Hastings. It stood approximately where Gary Michaels is Today.
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- Stein Building Postcard
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- Window Display of Stein’s Store, Christmas 1912
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- Zinn’s is the Building on the right
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- Zinn’s Jewelers
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- Farrell Block, 1880s
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- Denver Hotel
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- American House, 1919, Formerly the Bostwick Hotel.
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- The Rivoli Theatre, 1938
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- Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
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- The only known photo of Liberal Hall
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- A. E. Stitt Building
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- The Burlington Station, 1907
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- Chilcote Building, 1881. This building was the first home of Hastings College.
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- Langevin & Plamondon Grocery, 1897. The Police Chief can be seen in the top left window.
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- The Cameron Building, 1883
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- Kenneth Jones as a boy
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- Roselma Jones Wedding Photo
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- Jones Drugstore employees, ca 1947 Far left Roselma Jones and Barbara Jones
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- Jones’ Drugstore on 2nd Street, located where Small Town Famous is Today
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- Jones Drug Store Advertisement 1956 in Hastings & Grand Island
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- Walgreens Agency Drug Store Advertisement, 1948
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- Enterprise Block, 1916 was the home of Cushing Grocery from 1900 to 1953.
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- Engine house no1 on Burlington Avenue
Thank you to the Adams County Historical Society and Elizabeth Spilinek for assistance with photos. This tour would also not have been possible without Adams County the Story: 1872-1972, written by Dorthy Weyer Creigh and Adams County Nebraska Historical Buildings Survey, (1999) prepared by Mead Hunt.