In the heart of Little Italy, an old brick retail shop opened by one of Nebraska’s early Italian immigrant couples nearly a century ago is being resurrected. It won’t be the Caniglia Dry Goods of yesteryear. But the small structure will have definite ties to the cobbler and his wife whose family sold shoes and clothing there for more than 50 years.

Indeed, driving the restoration is Pat Venditte, grandson of the late merchants Joseph and Lucia Caniglia. He’s turning the property into the Caniglia/Venditte family museum, which will track the journey of his entrepreneurial grandparents and preserve the history of later generations.