KIMBA Network Blogspot : 2018-12-30

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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Happy New Year! As 2018 has past us and we started 2019, we are showing you the downtown area and what businesses it has for this new year 2019 and also a list of events in town this year!

The Wheat Growers Hotel, at 102 S. Oak St. in Kimball, Nebraska, is a historic hotel that was built in Early Commercial style in 1918. It was the largest hotel built in Kimball. It benefited from Union Pacific railway line expansion and the Lincoln Highway running through Kimball.The hotel closed in 1988. Now, a sign calls out from one of the front windows, “Re-Build It, and They Will Come”. But maybe one as never left The apparition of a woman has been spotted on several occasions standing behind an upper floor window, gazing down into the street. Her association with the building is not known, but local folk claim she was associated with a speakeasy(an illicit liquor shop or drinking club) housed in the basement... The hotel, like many other Prohibition-era establishments, had a tunnel beneath it for the transport of illegal alcohol. It's said that the tunnel ran between the hotel's kitchen and a Kimball speakeasy. The story isn't clear on when or exactly how it happened, but at some point a young woman who worked for the speakeasy became trapped in the tunnel. She was stuck there for several days without food and water, and she died there beneath the grand hotel. Ever since then, passersby have reported seeing a woman in a top-story window. The hotel is closed now (and for sale, if you're interested in owning a haunted hotel), but the young lady's spirit has never departed. www.onlyinyourstate.com The hotel has a wheat theme reflected in decorative elements of its building which "celebrates an important facet of the commercial and economic development of the city and county." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, at which time it was vacant. In its NRHP nomination it was asserted to be significant "as an important resource in the commercial and economic development in the city of Kimball" and "as a good example of early twentieth-century commercial hotel design with good integrit Now For sale Future Plans for the Hotel here http://www.wheatgrowershotel.com/plans/ Kevin MacLeod - HUSH - Horror Music

The Wheat Growers Hotel, at 102 S. Oak St. in Kimball, Nebraska, is a historic hotel that was built in Early Commercial style in 1918. It was the largest hotel built in Kimball. It benefited from Union Pacific railway line expansion and the Lincoln Highway running through Kimball.The hotel closed in 1988. Now, a sign calls out from one of the front windows, “Re-Build It, and They Will Come”. But maybe one as never left The apparition of a woman has been spotted on several occasions standing behind an upper floor window, gazing down into the street. Her association with the building is not known, but local folk claim she was associated with a speakeasy(an illicit liquor shop or drinking club) housed in the basement... The hotel, like many other Prohibition-era establishments, had a tunnel beneath it for the transport of illegal alcohol. It's said that the tunnel ran between the hotel's kitchen and a Kimball speakeasy. The story isn't clear on when or exactly how it happened, but at some point a young woman who worked for the speakeasy became trapped in the tunnel. She was stuck there for several days without food and water, and she died there beneath the grand hotel. Ever since then, passersby have reported seeing a woman in a top-story window. The hotel is closed now (and for sale, if you're interested in owning a haunted hotel), but the young lady's spirit has never departed. www.onlyinyourstate.com The hotel has a wheat theme reflected in decorative elements of its building which "celebrates an important facet of the commercial and economic development of the city and county." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, at which time it was vacant. In its NRHP nomination it was asserted to be significant "as an important resource in the commercial and economic development in the city of Kimball" and "as a good example of early twentieth-century commercial hotel design with good integrit Now For sale Future Plans for the Hotel here http://www.wheatgrowershotel.com/plans/ Kevin MacLeod - HUSH - Horror Music