Old Market, Omaha

Historic Warehouse District (Old Market, National Register Listed Hedge) · Omaha, Nebraska

The Old Market is a district of brick-paved streets and 19th and early 20th century warehouses on the south-east edge of downtown Omaha, a few blocks from the Missouri River. The buildings were Omaha's produce and wholesale market, where farm goods were bought and sold and shipped by rail, and when that trade moved away in the mid 20th century the district was saved from demolition and turned, starting in the late 1960s, into shops, restaurants, galleries, bars and loft apartments. Today it is the part of Omaha that visitors walk: iron canopies over raised loading-dock sidewalks, a covered passageway of small shops, a Saturday farmers market in summer, horse-drawn carriages on warm evenings and some of the city's best-known restaurants. It sits beside the redeveloped RiverFront parks, the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge to Iowa and the Durham Museum in the old Union Station. It is compact, about a dozen blocks, and most alive in the evening and at weekends; on a weekday morning, and especially on a Monday, many shops are closed and the streets are quiet.

Howard Street and South 11th Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102, United States

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: the streets are public and open at all hours. Shops generally open around 10 or 11 am and close around 6 to 9 pm, with shorter Sunday hours and some closed on Mondays. Restaurants serve lunch and dinner, with many open into the late evening, and bars later still. The farmers market runs on summer Saturday mornings, and carriages run mainly on evenings and weekends in good weather. The Durham Museum and the Joslyn keep daytime hours and close some days. The traps that ruin a visit are coming on a Monday or weekday morning, arriving at a steakhouse without a weekend reservation, and planning the museums for the evening. Confirm current times before relying on them.

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