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River House Soda Fountain, Cafe & Antiques
Plattsmouth, NE
A Plattsmouth antique shop and café inside a circa-1900 former brewery distributorship, with old-fashioned sodas and ice cream served beside a 25-foot mahogany bar, original tile, a tin ceiling and a restored player piano.
River House combines antiques for sale with lunch, ice cream and an old-fashioned soda fountain inside a remarkably preserved historic barroom.
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Why it belongs
Antique store, lunch café, ice-cream counter, old-fashioned soda fountain, preserved historic barroom and working mechanical-music display.
Active food service and antique retail operate around unusually complete historic fixtures that make the building itself central to the visit.
River House Soda Fountain, Cafe & Antiques occupies a circa-1900 building that began as a Gund brewery distributorship and continued as a bar until 2004. Its current owners added antique sales, a café and an old-fashioned soda fountain. Visitors encounter a 25-foot mahogany bar and back bar, original tile, a 1920s tin ceiling and a restored working player piano while ordering sandwiches, soups, salads, sodas and ice cream treats or browsing antiques for sale.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Antiques for sale
- Old-fashioned sodas
- Ice cream treats
- Sandwiches
- Soups and salads
- 25-foot mahogany bar
- Historic bar back
- Original tile floor
- 1920s tin ceiling
- Restored player piano
- Circa-1900 building