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Old Posted Nov 8, 2015, 10:25 PM
Tetsu Tetsu is offline
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Originally Posted by tovangar2 View Post
Did you notice tetsu and FW, a little house west of the Gillette place , in a matching style? It's almost totally hidden by the larger Gillette home. It will fall for the Montana Grocery, which, in turn, was demolished in 1925:



Here it is ca 1882, looking so fresh and new, with a stunningly different view to the north than the one in the photos we've been looking at recently:

seaver center

When did they straighten out Hill St (it still has a kink in it at Temple)? I forget.
I noticed for the first time, just before reading this post, in the closeup you posted earlier.


uscdl (detail) full image previously posted by HossC

I'd put my money on that building being the one in shot I posted previously. One more time just for easy reference:



Also, how amazing that e_r just so happened upon photos of some of Gillette's neighbors across the street! Serendipitous, to say the least.

One last thing - t2, that's kind of a mind-blowing fact to know that Morgan of Morgan & Walls fame owned the Criss Cross house.
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