Photograph of Old Main, the primary building on the Nebraska Wesleyan campus in what was then University Place, Nebraska. Three houses are on the right edge of the photograph and the three speaks at the left corner of the building are three young men reclining on the lawn.
Nebraska Wesleyan University was chartered on January 20, 1887, and is affiliated with the Methodist Church. Construction began on Old Main, a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building, in 1887. University Place was annexed by Lincoln in 1926.