Grand Island is home to the impressive Hall County Courthouse, a stately structure designed by noted architect Thomas Kimball of Omaha. Now, Grand Island residents can be proud that their city’s downtown has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

“The district contains an intact collection of late-19th and early- to mid-20th-century commercial and public buildings that reflect nine decades of commercial development in Grand Island,” the announcement from the Nebraska State Historical Society states.