Jut 24, Summer Ntbroskan
Camnipans Eemitls
Last day to submit
masters theses (at
least one week before
oral exams) for 8-week
and First 5-week Ses
sions. Brown Bag Lecture
ship, 12 noon, Ne
braska Union
Sheldon Film Theater,
7 & 9 p.m., Sheldon:
Secret Agent; Hi De
Ho
Musical, A Little
Night Music. 8 p.m.,
Kimball.
27 Fri
1
Juno I 26 Thurs
Sheldon Film Theater,
7 & 9 p.m., Sheldon:
Secret Agent; Hi De
Ho.
Glass Onion Revue,
10 p.m.-midnight,
Glass Onion Restaurant.
1
28
Sat
29
Sun
Sheldon Film Theater,
3.7 & 9 p.m., Shel
don: Secret Agent;
Hi De Ho.
Musical, A Little
Night Music. 8 p.m.,
Kimball.
Glass Onion Revue,
10 p.m.-midnight.
Glass Onion Restaurant.
Musical, A Little
Night Music, 3 p.m.
Kimball.
Sheldon Film Theater,
3, 7 & 9 p.m., Shel
don: Secret Agent'
Hi De Ho.
July 1 2 Wed
Summer Film Festival,
1 2 noon, Nebraska
Union: Mideast:
IslanvThe Unifying
Force; Peary's Race
for the North Pole.
Outdoor movie, dusk
Harper, Schramm,
Smith Residence Hall
Complex.
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Last day for oral
exams for advanced
degrees for 8-week
and First 5-week Ses
sions. Brown Bag Lecture
ship, 12 noon, Ne
braska Union.
Sheldon Film Theater,
7 &. 9 p.m., Sheldon:
Saboteur.
Musical, A Little
Night Music, 8 p.m.,
Kimball.
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ArcMtect breathes
By Lynn Mongar
Benjamin Harrison was president in
the early 1890s. Six new states joined the
Union. Congress passed the Sherman An
titrust Act, and James A. Naismith
started the game of basketball.
In Nebraska, farmers were experienc
ing a severe drought. And in Lincoln, on
the northwest corner of 11th and H
Streets a row, or terrace, house was being
built.
Today, architect Jim Brygger is
breathing life back into the 90-year-old
building, which is one of four row houses
in Lincoln listed with the National Regis
ter of Historic Places.
The row house is the 19th century
equivalent to an apartment house, said
Penny Chatfield, a preservation historian
for the State Historical Society.
Brick with stone bands
Brick with rough stone bands, the
building has five round arches which
serve as entry ways. It has six separate
sections divided by stone walls. Original
ly, families would live on the main floors
and rent spare rooms to boarders, Chat
field said.
"This was an accepted way of life for a
single person then," she said. "Today
everyone has his or her own place."
Brygger has been renovating the
building for 2lA years and expects to fi
nish by .December.
"When I got out of (architectural)
school it was my vision to save one build
ing and do it right, and to give whatever
amount of time it would take to make
something I could be very, very proud
of.M
A friend of Brygger's, who was a real
estate agent, interested him in the build
ing. The building's unusual structure and
Brygger's belief that there is a "slow, but
steady movement toward the city center'
further enticed the architect to buy the
building, which is less than a mile away
from downtown Lincoln.
A 'quaai-slum'
The building was a "quasi-slum," he
said, with apartments renting from $60
to $80 a month when he bought the
building.
"There were lots of broken bodies,
roaches and transients living here."
Brygger, who has a bachelor's degree
in business as well as a master's degree in
architecture, said his background and
good relationships with loan officials ena
bled him to buy the building when others
had failed. Officials told him that a com
mittee that approved his loan had
refused more than 15 requests for other
loans to buy the same property.
The renovation process was slow for
Brygger, and he said that at first he did
much of the work himself. Later, how
ever, he contracted the work to other
small firms.
The roof needed repairing, the build
ing's structure sagged and plumbing,
heating, and wiring all needed replacing,
or repairing.
'Hidden surprises'
"There are always hidden surprises in
extensive remodeling," he said. "Some
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The tower is one of the distinguishing features of this 19th Century building.
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