For Lease: J.C. Ridnour Company

he Ridnour Building of 1925 was one of the last factory-warehouses built during Haymarket’s principle period of development, replacing another of the district’s several hotels.​ The original cost of the reinforced concrete structure was about $80,000.​ Its architects, Meginnis and Schaumberg, previously had been partners of F.​C.​ Fiske.​ The followed the common pattern of an ornamented front and factory-plain sides.​ Their choice of decoration is far less common, especially in the relief-carved panels between the stories at either end of the north facade and the similarly carved capitals topping the piers, which seem almost Mayan in inspiration.​ This building can be considered a precursor to the architects’ later Art Deco designs.​

J.​C.​ Ridnour Company was a wholesaler of furnishing goods and notions and a manufacturer of work clothes and overalls.​ The company formerly had been headquartered a block west and even after building this structure , operated a factory in the Burr and Muir Block.​

Today, the Ridnour Building houses numerous State of Nebraska businesses.​ Located on the 1st floor is also a 7,000 square foot reception venue, called the Ridnour Room, which has been utilized for numerous wedding receptions, social events, meetings and fund-raisers

• Number of Units 10