Walk #18: Harry Buford House, Surrounded by a Big Fence

Address: 1804 North 30th Street

Information: Harry Buford House

Lunch: Bento Box #23

Destination Review: This one has an interesting story behind it. Harry Buford was a prominent African-American businessman who happened to be living in the time of segregation in Omaha. The unwritten rule was if you were black, you couldn’t live west of 30th street. Buford slightly broke this rule by building his house on the west side of 30th street.

Nowadays, the house has a big fence around it, so it was hard to get good pictures.

The Walk: I walked around the block. On the north side of the house, the fence finally ended, and I was able to get a good picture of that side of the house.

I parked in a church parking lot behind the house. The church looked like it used to be a supermarket, and it had a bunch of neat-looking paintings on it.

I had lunch in my car, parked in the church parking lot.

The Lunch: This one wasn’t quite as good as I had hoped. The salad was pretty good, but after all the ham and pickled vegetables, I got tired of all the salt. The orange was a nice dessert, though.

Lunch Ingredient Deals:

Ham: A package of Carl Buddig Honey Ham was 68¢ at Walmart.

Lettuce: A head of green leaf lettuce was on sale for 99¢ at Fareway.

Tomato: 34¢ at Fresh Thyme.

Art Project: Embellished Frame

Walk #17: Broomfield Row House, Signed by the Architect

Address: 2502 Lake Street

Information: Broomfield Row House

Lunch: Bento Box #11

Destination Review: J. H. Broomfield was a prominent African-American architect in Omaha. He is also the only architect I’ve ever heard of who signed his work.

The row house is now an apartment house in a very run-down neighborhood, though it does have an inviting porch.

It has some nice brickwork and a great old coal chute.

The Walk: The neighborhood wasn’t too inviting.

Across the street from the row house, though, there was an old, closed-down factory.

It provided many opportunities to photograph some beautiful examples of urban decay, so I walked all around it.

The Lunch: I must say that I’ve gotten so behind on posting these that I don’t really remember this lunch very well. I guess the black bean burgers were OK, the vegetable medley was a lot like the corn salsa I like to make, and the berries were berries. As you can see, I ate lunch in my car.

Lunch Ingredient Deals:

Avocado: I got one for 99¢ at Target. Subtract a 5% off Cartwheel coupon and the 5% off Red Card discount and it was 89¢. Subtract a $1 MobiSave rebate on avocados and it was free.

Black Beans: Bush’s Best Black Beans were 92¢ at Walmart. Subtract 50¢ from a $1 off 2 coupon from the 5-14-17 SmartSource insert and it was 42¢.

Red Bell Pepper: Got one for 88¢ at Fresh Thyme.

Strawberries: Got a container of California Giant Strawberries at Aldi for 99¢.

Tomato: Got one for 34¢ at Fresh Thyme.

Vegetable Broth: A can of Kroger Vegetable Broth was 69¢ at Baker’s.

Art Project: Embellished Frame