Fontenelle Boulevard is a roadway in the Omaha boulevard system

Boulevards in Omaha

Boulevards in Omaha are part of a park and boulevard system originally designed in 1889 by Horace Cleveland. There are more than one hundred and fifty kilometers of boulevards throughout the city of Omaha, Nebraska today...

 located on the north end of Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

. The boulevard

Boulevard

A Boulevard is type of road, usually a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery...

 shares its namesake Logan Fontenelle

Logan Fontenelle

Logan Fontenelle , also known as Shon-ga-ska , was a trader of French and Omaha ancestry, who served for years as an interpreter to the US Indian agent at the Bellevue Agency in Nebraska...

 with several local institutions and fixtures, including Fontenelle Elementary School and Fontenelle Park

Fontenelle Park

Fontenelle Park is a public park located at 4575 Ames Avenue, at the intersection with Fontenelle Boulevard in North Omaha, Nebraska. In the late 1940s the park made headlines across the Midwestern United States as the possible home of a minor league baseball team.-History:Land for the park was...

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About

Originally called Boulevard Avenue before 1900, Fontenelle Boulevard runs north from Military Road

Military Road (Omaha)

Military Road is a central thoroughfare located in Omaha, Nebraska. A segment of the road located at the junction of West 82nd and Fort Streets was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993...

, intersecting with Sorenson Parkway

Sorenson Parkway

The Sorensen Parkway is a modern link in the boulevard system in Omaha, Nebraska. The Parkway flows west from North 30th Street to North 90th Street, and has been viewed as the northern boundary that defines the area called North Omaha.-About:...

 at North 39th Street. It then flows northeast to become North 36th Street, which in turn becomes Martin Avenue. It effectively forms a ribbon from the neighborhood of Benson

Benson, Nebraska

Benson is a historic neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska. Now a pocket within North Omaha, Benson Place was originally platted in 1887 and was annexed into the City of Omaha in 1917.-History:...

 to Florence

Florence, Nebraska

Florence is a neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska on the city's north end and originally one of the oldest cities in Nebraska. It was incorporated by the Nebraska Territorial Legislature on March 10, 1857. The site of Winter Quarters for Mormon migrants traveling west, it has the oldest cemetery for...

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The Omaha Old People's Home

Old People's Home

The Old People's Home, presently known as Leo Vaughan Senior Manor, is located at 3325 Fontenelle Boulevard in the Florence neighborhood on the north side of Omaha, Nebraska...

 was built at 3325 Fontenelle Boulevard in 1917, and today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

. The Nebraska School for the Deaf

Nebraska School for the Deaf

The Nebraska School for the Deaf, or NSD, was a residential school for Deaf students in kindergarten through twelve located at 3223 North 45th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1869, the school closed in 1998...

 was located just off Fontenelle at 3223 North 45th Street. The Nebraska Children's Home Society built one of the first orphanage

Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

s in Nebraska at 3549 Fontenelle Boulevard in 1885.

The American Lung Association

American Lung Association

The American Lung Association is a voluntary health organization whose mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease.-History:...

 Omaha Corporate Cup has been sporadically held along Fontenelle Boulevard since 1981.