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Old Posted Oct 29, 2015, 9:40 PM
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Originally Posted by odinthor View Post
I'm thinking it was built to be stables. I note the very utilitarian smaller structures around it, maybe storage for tools, harness and carriage parts, feed...
I think it might be a bit late for stables.

Here, in ca 1898, the street frontages have been graded, leaving the cemetery on a wedge-shaped piece of land:
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Originally Posted by tovangar2 View Post
Also labeled "ca 1898", a building sort of like the one in tetsu's photo has been built, but maybe further west than the one we're looking at. It was a rooming house and hotel:

previously posted by MichaelRyerson (detail)

By 1910 more apartments had been built on the block:

historic mapworks

1921. The cemetery has been transformed into a playground:

historic mapworks

A permit was pulled in 1921 to move LAHS No.1 back 100'.
A permit from 1922 allows a 2-story, eight-room building to be built on the former LAHS No.1 site designed by Chauncey Fitch Skilling.

Does anyone know if this happened? It hadn't by the time of tetsu's photo. Plans must have changed.

The building in question looks rather like an auditorium/gymnasium to me (as e_r has already said).
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