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Kimball, Nebraska

Constructed in 1918 the Wheat Growers Hotel is located in Kimball. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is significant for its association with the commercial development of Kimball and with the building boom of second-generation hotels that was occurring statewide during the first quarter of the twentieth century. The hotels built during this period, as exemplified by the Wheat Growers, were multistory, brick buildings that offered the most modern conveniences and catered especially to businessmen who traveled on the railroad. Aside from providing pleasant quarters for travelers, the new hotels became the symbols of prospering communities with a bright future. For this reason, towns and cities of all sizes thought it was important to showcase a "modern" hotel as an indication of their prominent standing in the state. It is within this context that the importance of the Wheat Growers Hotel is realized.

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Gotte Park & City Park

Kimball's two parks offer just about everything that you could want in a city park. Gotte Park

Kimball, NE Recreation

Kimball County Courthouse

Kimball County was created out of Cheyenne County in 1888. The centrally located city of Kimball has been the only county seat. County officials initially rented space for courthouse use. In 1893

Kimball, NE Historic Courthouses

Panorama Point and Three-State Marker

In the extreme southwest corner of the county, thirty three miles from Kimball, rises the highest point in Nebraska. This site, 5,424 feet above sea level, looks more like a rise in a pasture than the highest point in the state.

Kimball, NE Natural Attractions


Mick Evertson Arboretum

Nebraska is known as the Arbor State and Kimball has it's own arboretum which is unique to the area. The Mick Evertson arboretum has over 125

Kimball, NE Aboretums

Things to do near Kimball, NE

Western Nebraska Mexican American Historical Museu

Aztec cooking utensils, stone building, Aztec and Mayan artifacts, local and Mexican cultural history, Mexican clothing, phot...

Oregon Trail Wagon Train

Experience the real West in the shadow of Chimney Rock aboard a prairie schooner on the Oregon Trail. Exciting journeys, comp...