{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Oak Ballroom | nrhp_type = | image = Schuyler Oak Ballroom from W 2.JPG | caption = Oak Ballroom | location = Colfax St., Schuyler, Nebraska | coordinates = {{coord|41|26|15|N|97|3|39|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Nebraska#USA | built = 1935 | architect = Emiel J. Christensen | architecture = Tudor Revival | added = February 1, 1983 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 83001082<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} thumb|The Oak Ballroom's bar area thumb|The Oak Ballroom's ceiling beams thumb|The Oak Ballroom's interior The '''Oak Ballroom''' is a historic building in Schuyler, Nebraska constructed with dozens of native oak trees hauled to the building site from the nearby Platte River using horse and buggies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://net.unl.edu/swi/pers/ballroom.html |title=Dancing Traditions Continue at PlayMor and Oak Ballrooms |website=Nebraska Educational Telecommunications |date=September 24, 1999 |access-date=April 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830185749/http://net.unl.edu/swi/pers/ballroom.html |archive-date=August 30, 2006}}</ref> It was completed in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. The building, designed by Nebraska architect Emiel J. Christensen, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The ballroom is at the entrance to Community Park on the Mormon Trail.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1ON6kaw0nXIC&dq=oak+ballroom+schuyler&pg=PA328 The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska] Second Edition By Alan Boye, Ron Hansen, James Exten... page 328</ref> Native rock is used for the walls. Chuck Hagel recalled attending dances at the ballroom and a fight at the locale.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bjPCecGKIsMC&dq=oak+ballroom+schuyler&pg=PA21 Chuck Hagel]: moving forward By Charlyne Berens page 21</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MoVUpnXE9rAC&dq=oak+ballroom+schuyler&pg=PA73 Nebraska] By Hannah McNally, Diana Lambdin Meyer page 73</ref>

==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Colfax County, Nebraska * National Register of Historic Places listings in Nebraska

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==External links== {{commons category-inline|Oak Ballroom (Schuyler, Nebraska)}} *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100616084740/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/colfax/CX06-003_Oak_Ballroom.pdf Oak Ballroom Registration form]}} *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000303195048/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society: National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska]}}

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Category:Tudor Revival architecture in Nebraska Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935 Category:Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Category:Buildings and structures in Colfax County, Nebraska Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1937 Category:National Register of Historic Places in Colfax County, Nebraska

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