This Old House

Renewed and improved

A real estate advertisement in the April 15, 1923, issue of the Omaha Daily Bee featured “one of the best brick homes in Dundee” on a large lot with “ample room for shrubbing.” Details about the newly built three-story house called out the large living room, sunroom, breakfast room, and billiards room, as well as its five bedrooms and three baths.

Today that same gracious Colonial Revival is located in central Omaha’s Dundee–Happy Hollow neighborhood, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From the street, the house looks much as it did nearly 100 years ago, which was part of its appeal for current owners Brent and Emily Beller.

“I grew up in a newer part of town,” Brent says. “What attracted me to

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