by Kandiss Edwards
January 16, 2026
Charles Trimble and his spouse, Rosa, listed the house as a Inexperienced Guide website in 1939.
A North Omaha fortress that when offered secure lodging for Black folks in the course of the Jim Crow period is now listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
The three-story concrete-block home, now regionally known as Trimble Fort, was formally added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in December 2025. The designation acknowledges each Trimble Fort’s architectural options and its historic function as a secure haven for Black of us.
Flatwater Free Press reported that the house was inbuilt 1909 on the nook of Burdette Avenue and Florence Boulevard and has additionally been often known as the Burkenroad house and the Broadview Lodge. From 1939 to 1966, the property was listed in The Negro Motorist Inexperienced Guide, a journey information that helped Black motorists determine companies and houses the place they might safely eat and keep.
Charles Trimble and his spouse, Rosa, listed the house as a Inexperienced Guide website. The Trimbles rented rooms to Black vacationers passing by Omaha. Their grandson, Von R. Trimble Jr., instructed the Flatwater Free Press that a number of rooms within the house have been used to host visitors.
“There was a variety of exercise in the home, particularly on weekends as a result of the bands that have been coming by would depart after which head out, after which there’d perhaps be some others coming in Thursday or Friday, so it was a fairly regular, fixed move,” Trimble stated.
The property is at the moment owned by Wesley Dacus. Now a fourplex, Dacus lives on the primary flooring and rents out different models. The house owner instructed Flatwater Free Press the helps efforts to protect and doc the positioning’s previous.
“I need a plaque on that nook of the road that truly tells them what this home is all about,” he stated.
The home was designed by architect Joseph P. Guth and constructed utilizing ornamental concrete blocks produced by the Omaha Concrete Stone Firm. The constructing’s tower and distinctive diverse block patterns contributed to its eligibility for the Nationwide Register. The Trimble house is among the few remaining websites within the space with confirmed Inexperienced Guide documentation.
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