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Originally Posted by tovangar2
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:
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Well, actually, no, but that's a great early photo of Temple and Hill.
This says J. W. Gillette lived in his house from June 1875.
However, I noticed that the house just east of Gillette's on Temple (partially cut off on the middle right edge) . . .
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Originally Posted by tovangar2
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. . . appears to be the same house -- albeit minus its eastern porch -- seen behind St. Athanasius Church (@ the SW corner
of Temple and New High Sts.) in this c. 1874 photo looking west on Temple. The house is not there on the 1888 Sanborn Map:
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