Hupmobile Building
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The Hupmobile Building is located at 2523 Farnam Street in Midtown
Midtown Omaha
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 Omaha
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, Nebraska
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. Built in 1917 on the city's historic Auto Row
Automobile Row (Omaha, Nebraska)
Automobile Row was a commercial district in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Early reports place the location of the strip as extending Eighteenth to Twenty-first Street along Farnam, while contemporary accounts place it from 20th to roughly 26th Street...

, the building is the last preserved Hupmobile
Hupmobile
The Hupmobile was an automobile built from 1909 through 1940 by the Hupp Motor Company, which was located at 345 Bellevue Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Its first car, the Model 20, was introduced to the public at the Detroit Auto Show in February 1909...

 dealership in the United States
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. It is currently on Omaha's list of endangered buildings.

After the Hupp Motor Company ceased operations in 1940, the building was used for war production of artillery shells and plane parts, some for the Enola Gay Bomber. That operation stopped in 2003.
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