06/10/2026
What an incredible look at the history of Georgia Row! We are honored to play a small part in its history, and plan to be good stewards of its future 💙
We have all, at one point or another, wondered about the Castle.
Not the fairy-tale sort. The old Georgia Row apartment building at 1040 South 29th Street that loomed in the Park Avenue neighborhood, looking as though it had been misplaced from another century.
For years I have scattered references to the Castle throughout my writing like breadcrumbs dropped in a dark wood. The story was always there, waiting. Yet I continually pushed it aside. Certain places carry a peculiar weight, and this one carried more than most. Not surprisingly, many others felt the same way. Beneath the questions I often sensed a deeper longing—not merely for a building, but for the people we once were inside it. The Castle convinced generations of tenants that they belonged to a story already in progress.
A true obsession, for the last ten years I have been researching the strange, colorful, occasionally absurd history of the Georgia Row House—the Castle as we knew it. Along the way I encountered gamblers, schemers, and persons whose biographies rarely improved under scrutiny; disappearing landlords; vanished turret roofs; boarding-house dramas; bodies in the river; a Swedish servant's unexpected inheritance; basement dwellers; the woman in the window; brushes with collapse; the Omaha punk scene; and, somehow, against the odds, a happy ending.
The investigation is finally complete.
Or is it?
If you've been around us long enough, you know they are never truly complete. I would sure like to hear from you about your experiences with the building or if you have hidden clues I didn't already cover.
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