# Historic Omaha Livestock Exchange Building marks 100 years  
**Published:** 2026-05-27T14:36:36.000Z  
**Source:** [Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/27/historic-omaha-stockyards-tower-turns-100-as-tenants-look-to-future/)  
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OTHERTOWN, NE. — [An 11-story Romanesque Revival landmark in South Omaha reaches its centennial this month](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/27/historic-omaha-stockyards-tower-turns-100-as-tenants-look-to-future/), a century removed from its days as the beating heart of the world's largest livestock market. The Livestock Exchange Building, which opened in May 1926, now serves as home to OneWorld Community Health Centers, affordable housing and event spaces — a testament to South Omaha's ability to reinvent itself.

Designed by Omaha architect George Prinz and completed in May 1926, the eleven-story H-shaped building towered over the South Omaha stockyards, serving as the center of the industry in Omaha. The impressive new building housed not only offices but the Stockyards National Bank, a bakery, cafeteria, kitchen, cigar stand, telephone and telegraph offices, apartments and sleeping rooms, a clothing store, ballrooms, and a convention hall.

OneWorld Community Health Centers, which has occupied the building as its anchor tenant since 2005, celebrates the milestone Thursday with an open house and historical displays. OneWorld Community Health Centers was established in 1970 as a volunteer-staffed free clinic and is now the largest provider of primary health care services in South Omaha.

The building's trajectory mirrors Omaha's own rise and fall as a meatpacking epicenter. In 1955 the South Omaha stockyards surpassed Chicago's as the largest stockyard and meat processing center in the country. In 1957, it was estimated that the industries related to the stockyards employed fully one-half of Omaha workers.

The glory years proved brief. In 1967, the number of livestock brought to Omaha dropped precipitously as Iowa Beef Processors had opened up packing plants closer to the livestock producers and was buying directly from them. The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999.

In 1999 it was designated an Omaha Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Livestock Exchange Building underwent an extensive renovation over the next several years. A complex public-private renovation was completed in 2005, converting the building to mixed-use, yielding more than 100 apartments plus community and commercial space while preserving its historical character.

The building now anchors OneWorld's South Omaha campus, which includes newer neighboring structures. A fourth OneWorld facility currently under construction is scheduled to open next year with training facilities for health care workers and expanded behavioral health and child care services. Thursday's celebration runs from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 4920 S. 30th St.

## Sources

- [Nebraska Examiner](https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/27/historic-omaha-stockyards-tower-turns-100-as-tenants-look-to-future/)
- [National Park Service - Livestock Exchange Building](https://www.nps.gov/places/livestock-exchange-building.htm)
- [Wikipedia - Livestock Exchange Building (Omaha, Nebraska)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_Exchange_Building_(Omaha,_Nebraska))
- [Wikipedia - Union Stockyards (Omaha)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Stockyards_(Omaha))
- [OneWorld Community Health Centers official website](https://www.oneworldomaha.org/)

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