Driving through an ordinary Nebraska neighborhood of brick houses and shade trees, you round a corner and suddenly there are two pale stone towers rising over the rooftops. They belong to a building so large it seems to have wandered in from Spain and decided to stay.
The doors are unlocked on weekdays, nobody charges you a cent, and the inside is even bigger than the outside suggests. For families hunting an affordable afternoon that still feels like an occasion, that combination is hard to beat.
A Limestone Landmark on Omaha’s Gold Coast
Address first, because it helps: 701 North 40th Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Saint Cecilia Cathedral sits on a hill in the historic Gold Coast neighborhood, and the hill does a lot of work.
The ground rises, the building rises on top of it, and the twin towers climb another 222 feet into the sky…