4 comments on “‘Rugged construction man’ Bill Osborn explains McCook’s ‘new skyscraper’”

1. The 1945 vintage elevator at Lodgepole, Nebraska, and the death of Bill Morris « Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators says:

   March 19, 2014 at 6:12 am

   […] interviewed in 1949 about his first, independent, Mayer-Osborn Construction venture in McCook, Neb., William Osborn named a number of elevators he had built before. We still believe all of the […]

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2. A tour of Odebolt, Iowa, reveals much about its historic Mayer-Osborn elevator « Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators says:

   May 11, 2016 at 1:00 pm

   […] stepped-headhouse, slip-formed, concrete elevator in the style of earlier Mayer-Osborn efforts in McCook, Neb., and Roggen, Colo., and it stood at the center of a sprawling grain […]

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3. Some initials on a bronze plaque in Limon, Colo., help to solve a mystery « Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators says:

   October 29, 2018 at 6:06 am

   […] the elevator in Limon bears an uncanny resemblance to the first elevator Mayer-Osborn built in McCook, Neb. In fact, it is the same design, updated somewhat, and dated 1958. So it certainly went up after […]

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4. A bucket-list tour of Nebraska courthouses yields some elevator insights « Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators says:

   March 27, 2023 at 6:02 am

   […] few of those elevators we have documented in this blog, including McCook, Lodgepole, and Big […]

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