Ofts Bed and Breakfast
Guest Information: Ofts Bed and Breakfast offers two upstairs bedrooms, both have private bathrooms and share a balcony that overlooks a lily pool and is shaded by the Nebraska Champion Pin-Oak tree. A common room provides cable TV, a desk, wireless Internet, a library, magazines and games. We offer a home-cooked breakfast to meet your sechedule (7 to 10 am) or a continental breakfast for lighter appetites. Enjoy a beverage and a snack on our wrap-a-round porch; look at our historical displays; have tea in the parlor; take a walk along Papio Creek; or take in a movie, shop, or enjoy the Metro area, we're just minutes from Omaha. Later admire the sunset, stars, or fire flies from the porch or your balcony.
Room Information: Ofts Bed and Breakfast features two rooms: the Gordon Room is a spacious bedroom featuring a king-size sleigh bed, period furniture, and decor. The room has a modern, tiled bathroom with shower. The Oft Room features a queen-size bed, antique furniture, and bay windows overlooking the front yard. The spacious bath is located down the hall (robes provided) and contains reproductions of a claw-foot tub, wall toilet, and is accented with a stained glass window.
Location: We are located in Bennington, a small farm community near Omaha. The house is situated on the southeast corner of 156th Street and Bennington Road. We're 10 minutes off I-680, 15 minutes from either I-80 or I-29, and less than 30 minutes from Eppley Airfield and downtown Omaha. Popular tourist sites include: Boy's Town, General Crook's Home, Historic Florence District, Steamboat Bertrand Museum, General Dodge's Home, Joslyn Art Museum, Union Pacific Railroad Museum, and the Henry Doorly Zoo. More than 20 golf corses are within 10 miles. Local colleges include: University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Creighton University, Dana, and Metro Commuity Colleges.
History: Eggert Oft immigrated from Hopen, Germany with his parents in 1869 and moved to Bennington in 1877. Eggert bought a farm 1/2 mile west of town in 1880. He met and married Rosa Lage in 1882. They had five children: Katy, Minnie, Meta, Hans, and Nancy. The family farm prospered and their business ventures expanded to town and included Oft's Hotel (1888), a store, livery, and other buinesses. In 1910, they built this dream home. Years later their youngest daughter Nancy and her husband Roy moved in and took care of her elderly parents. Nancy's daughter Jeanette and husband Enno moved in after her parents passed away. They had two sons, Gordon and Alex. Jeanette survived Enno but passed away in 2007. Gordon and his wife Linda inherited the home making the 4th generation living there. They thought the home, family, and local history should be shared with others and started the 2-year renovation project. The Oft-Gordon House was listed on the National Resister of Historical Places in 2010, the same year Ofts Bed and Breakfast opened.
Historical Displays: The house is filled with period funiture and antiques and contains more than a dozen historical displays featuring century old newpapers, postcards, and photographs of the family, village, and area. The 'Girls Room' is staged as Nancy's bedroom in 1910. It contains her brass bed, feather mattress, family quilts, toys, dolls, children's china set, and Rosa's wedding dress. Guests can enjoy these displays at their leisure.
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