LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) – Wesley Dacus doesn’t mind the attention his North Omaha home garners — the people stopping to take photos, the notes left on his door, the passersby wondering if he has a room to rent. Dacus welcomes the opportunity to talk about the historic house.
“Every time people come by, they just kind of marvel at it,” the 76-year-old Omaha native said.
“I even got guys that come up in Ubers and say, ‘Hey, man, do you got an apartment for rent?”’
The 116-year-old home on the corner of Burdette Street and Florence Boulevard has decades’ worth of stories to share. It historically has been referred to as the Burkenroad home, Broadview Hotel and Trimble Castle — names reflecting the evolution of the neighborhood where it sits…