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scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2.14 sq mi (5.55 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">2.14 sq mi (5.55 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0 sq mi (0 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2010)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">9,137</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">4,300/sq mi (1,600/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.downtownbenson.com">www<wbr />.downtownbenson<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Benson</b> is a historic neighborhood in <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a>. Now a pocket within <a href="/wiki/North_Omaha" class="mw-redirect" title="North Omaha">North Omaha</a>, Benson Place was originally platted in 1887 and was annexed into the City of Omaha in 1917. Actor <a href="/wiki/Nick_Nolte" title="Nick Nolte">Nick Nolte</a> lived in the Benson area before moving to the Westside district. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benson,_Nebraska&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Erastus_Benson" title="Erastus Benson">Erastus Benson</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Land_speculator" class="mw-redirect" title="Land speculator">land speculator</a>, <a href="/wiki/Investor" title="Investor">investor</a> and philanthropist who unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Omaha in 1906. He was an early investor in marketing <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a>'s inventions, including the <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">phonograph</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kinetoscope" title="Kinetoscope">Kinetoscope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1887, he purchased approximately 900 acres (3.6 km<sup>2</sup>) of farm land from <a href="/wiki/Edward_Creighton" title="Edward Creighton">Edward Creighton</a>, an Omaha businessman. On March 4, 1887, Benson <a href="/wiki/Plat" title="Plat">platted</a> the land on the Creighton farm and called it Benson Place, later changing it to Benson. The newly platted community was located along Military Avenue, approximately 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Omaha. </p><p>In the mid-to-late 1910s, Omaha embarked on a course of annexations of suburban communities to its north and west. Residents of Benson, anticipating annexation of their own city, decided to build as many civic improvements as they could: they feared that Omaha would be inattentive to their desire for such improvements after annexation, and they knew that following annexation, the larger city would have to assume the debts incurred to build the improvements. To this end, they built a new <a href="/wiki/Benson_City_Hall_(Omaha,_Nebraska)" title="Benson City Hall (Omaha, Nebraska)">combined city hall and fire station</a> in late 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-survey_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-survey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 25, 1917, the city of <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a> annexed the town of Benson. At that time, it was 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km<sup>2</sup>) and had 5000 residents.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Krug_Park_(Omaha)" class="mw-redirect" title="Krug Park (Omaha)">Krug Park</a> was an amusement park located at 2936 North 52nd Street in Benson. In 1930 the park was the site of the worst roller coaster accident in the country to that year,<sup id="cite_ref-ketv_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ketv-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1940 it was closed. Today Gallagher Park is located on the original Krug Park site. </p><p>Actor <a href="/wiki/Nick_Nolte" title="Nick Nolte">Nick Nolte</a> lived in the Benson neighborhood on North 56th Street before his family moved to the Westside district. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Benson_Commercial_Historic_District"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historic_district">Historic district</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benson,_Nebraska&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Historic district"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United States historic place</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-spacing:1px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="padding:0; border:none;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold;color: #202122; background: #A8EDEF; line-height:1.5">Benson Commercial Historic District</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="width:100%; text-align:center; line-height:1.5;color: #202122; background: #A8EDEF;"><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">U.S. National Register of Historic Places</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="width:100%; text-align:center; line-height:1.4; color: #202122; background: #E6E6FA"><a href="/wiki/Historic_districts_in_the_United_States" title="Historic districts in the United States">U.S. Historic district</a></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg/250px-OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg/375px-OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg/500px-OmahaBensonBuildings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3249" data-file-height="2137" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Bank of Benson and John Sorenson Building</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Benson, Nebraska is located in Nebraska"><img alt="Benson, Nebraska is located in Nebraska" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg/250px-USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg/375px-USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg/500px-USA_Nebraska_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1201" data-file-height="779" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:54.674%;left:90.139%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Benson, Nebraska"><img alt="Benson, Nebraska" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">Centered along Maple St. between North 59th and North 63rd Sts., Benson, in <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Benson,_Nebraska&params=41.285_N_96.0072_W_type:landmark_region:US-NE"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°17′06″N</span> <span class="longitude">96°00′26″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.2850°N 96.0072°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.2850; -96.0072</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">13.2 acres (5.3 ha)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">NRHP reference <abbr title="number">No.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/100005766">100005766</a><sup id="cite_ref-weekly_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weekly-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Added to NRHP</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">November 13, 2020</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Benson Commercial Historic District</b>, centered along Maple St. between North 59th and North 63rd Sts., was listed on the U.S. <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-weekly_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weekly-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It includes numerous <a href="/wiki/Contributing_buildings" class="mw-redirect" title="Contributing buildings">contributing buildings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nrhpdoc_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nrhpdoc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Benson has many historic buildings, including commercial, governmental, educational and residential structures. The following, many within the historic district, are some of them:<sup id="cite_ref-survey_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-survey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omaha_Benson_High_School_Magnet" title="Omaha Benson High School Magnet">Benson High School</a>, 5120 Maple Street<span class="anchor" id="Masonic_Temple"></span></li> <li><b>Masonic Temple</b>, 5901 Maple Street, 1926-built, three-story Classical Revival building<sup id="cite_ref-nrhpdoc_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nrhpdoc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Commercial Building, 5913 Maple Street</li> <li>E.H. Olson Building, 5918 Maple Street</li> <li>Commercial Building, 6016 Maple Street</li> <li>Commercial Building, 6020 Maple Street</li> <li>Commercial Building, 6067 Maple Street</li> <li>John Sorenson Building, 6104 Maple Street</li> <li>Jas. A. Howard Building, 6105 Maple Street</li> <li>Bank of Benson, 6108 Maple Street</li> <li>Commercial Building, 6115 Maple Street</li> <li>Commercial Building, 6117 Maple Street</li> <li>B.H. Post Building, 6214 Maple Street</li> <li>Benson U.S. Post Office, 6223 Maple Street<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benson,_Nebraska&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robinson, D. 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Retrieved 8/10/07.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-survey-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-survey_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-survey_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Moffett, Chad, Emily Schill, Erin Pogany, and Christina Slattery. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061116012642/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/reports/omaha_1.pdf">"Reconnaissance Survey of Selected Neighborhoods in Omaha, Nebraska".</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110307215553/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml">Nebraska State Historical Society.</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> Retrieved 2013-10-28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/honjsm30.html">History of Nebraska - Chapter 35</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020928060241/http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/honjsm30.html">Archived</a> 2002-09-28 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, retrieved 14dec2006</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ketv-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ketv_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ketv.com/150thbirthday/3243422/detail.html">"Survivor recalls Krug Park tragedy,"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120207175310/http://www.ketv.com/150thbirthday/3243422/detail.html">Archived</a> 2012-02-07 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> KETV.com. 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