Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an exterior view of the Brownell Hall School at 10th and Worthington Streets in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a tan building, about four stories high built on a sloping hill. There is a set of steps leading up to the front entrance, at the top of which is a cross. There are trees on the front lawn. The number 13621 appears on the front of the postcard.
In 1863 Bishop Talbot of the Episcopal Church opened a school for young ladies in Saratoga, Nebraska, a small community three miles north of downtown Omaha. The town of Saratoga was established in 1858 and so named because if its mineral springs. It was hoped these springs would draw many visitors to the area and so a large hotel was built. The hotel did not take off, and five years later Brownell Hall began classes in the abandoned hotel building. By 1869 a new school building had been constructed at 16th & Jones in Omaha and the old hotel in Saratoga was vacated. Later, Herman Kountze donated land for another new school building, at 10th & Worthington. The cornerstone for this building was laid June 12, 1886 and took five years to complete. It was occupied until 1924 when the school moved to the Happy Hollow area. Brownell Hall was a girls-only school until the 1950s, when it became a co-ed institution and was renamed Brownell-Talbot School. The building at 10th and Worthington became part of Grace Bible Institute, and was razed in 1997. Source: Barnds, William Joseph. "The Episcopal Church in Nebraska." Omaha: Omaha Printing Company, 1969.
