Some mornings in Nebraska, the smell hits you before the sign does. Warm dough, cinnamon, coffee that has been going since long before the sun cleared the rooftops.
The building itself gives away almost nothing from the sidewalk, just brick and an old doorway on a quiet stretch of avenue. Walk in anyway, because what happens behind that door starts at six in the morning and is usually gone by early afternoon.
A Havelock Address With a Fire Station Past
At 6028 Havelock Ave in northeast Lincoln, the Engine House Cafe occupies the original Engine House Number 4, a brick building that went up in 1900. The fire trucks are long gone.
The bones are not…