Horbach Building – Dubliner Pub, Plant’d Farma Boutique, and The Garden

February 26, 2026

Up next in our streetcar series, we’ll explore a building that was constructed prior to the turn of the twentieth century that is now home to the following business that are impacted by the ongoing construction:

Dubliner Pub is an Irish pub that offers a wide variety of craft beer while also hosting live music.

Plant’d Farma Boutique is located on the ground level. It is a dispensary offering natural wellness products focused on holistic health and well-being, along with hosting events such as yoga, open mics, and live music.

The Garden is next door and is the city’s first cocktail cannabis bar, which offers drinks, late-night food, and an outdoor patio.

Located at southwest corner of 12th and Harney Streets on the western edge of The Old Market, it primarily consists of apartment units.

1946 Durham Museum photo when the Horbach Building served as the longtime home to Driscoll Leather.

Built in 1894 by John Horbach, the building reflects the success he found outfitting wagon trains heading west on their long journeys. The future city councilman and real estate developer used his wealth to construct the four-story structure with a cast-iron storefront and hired architect Louis Mendelssohn to design it.

1964 Durham Museum photo looking southeast from 13th and Harney. The Horbach Building is in the middle to the left of the white building.

Originally home to a tack supply business, the building has housed a wide variety of enterprises over the years. In addition to serving as the longtime home of the Driscoll Leather Company and Peerless Equipment Company, other occupants included a manufacturer of syrups, molasses, jellies, preserves, starch, and grocery sundries, as well as a millinery, wallpaper company, mannequin company, and several restaurants and bars. The building was designated an Omaha Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

1979 Durham Museum photo of the Horbach Building prior to the opening of Horbach’s Pub which later become Dubliner. The stairs to its basement location had not yet been built.

While the upper floors were converted into condominiums in 2007, the Horbach Building is best known as the longtime home of Dubliner Pub. Located at 1205 Harney Street, Paul McGill converted the basement, which had been used for coal intake and storage, in 1978. After adding stairs that led from its below-grade location to the sidewalk, he opened Horbach’s Pub with an old-time speakeasy atmosphere. In 1982, he renamed it the Dubliner, which has since been recognized as one of the city’s most authentic Irish pubs which offers a distinctive basement setting that includes exposed brick walls and historic artifacts.

2026 Omaha Exploration photo of the Horbach Building, the home to Dubliner Pub, Plant’d and The Garden.

This shows the location of the Horbach Building along the streetcar route.

2026 Omaha Exploration photo of the Horbach Building, home of Dubliner Pub, Plant’d and The Garden.

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2026 Omaha Exploration photo of the stairs leading down to Dubliner Pub.

Google Earth view of the Horbach Building where Dubliner Pub, Plant’d and The Garden are located.

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Sources

Omaha World-Herald archives
https://dublinerpubomaha.com/
Plantd Farma Wellness Boutique | Omaha Dispensary
https://landmark.cityofomaha.org/images/Article/Old_Market_Historic_District/DO09-Old_Market_HD.pdf
Omaha Magazine, Dubliner Pub, 2012

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