Color postcard (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 cm) with an artist's rendering of Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church, northwest corner 26th & Farnam Streets (2650 Farnam Street), Omaha, Nebraska, including an automobile on the street, and a tree growing at the corner of the lot. The church is gray with a bell tower on the left and the main structure on the right. It has a large arched window over two arched doorways leading down to the sidewalk with a set of steps.
The northwest corner of 26th and Farnam is home to Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church. It was erected for a total cost of $124,000 and dedicated on May 27, 1906. In 1916, it claimed to be the largest Lutheran congregation in the world, with over 2,000 members. Source: Wakeley, Arthur, Omaha: The Gate City and Douglas County Nebraska, Chicago, S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, c1917, p. 398.
