Vintage Irvington

William Irwin Coons and his wife Clara Carvin Coons opened a drug store at 202 South Audubon Road in the late nineteenth century. The buildi...

I first met Dr. Victor Vollrath and Isabelle Burnside Vollrath in April of 2012.  I could not believe my good fortune.  Dr. Vollrath, born i...

Thermina "Marie" and Charles Vollrath (218 South Audubon Road) sent five sons into World War II.  In this photo, the proud mothe...

Irma Vollrath and a friend stopped briefly from playing to pose for this photo taken in the Irving Circle Park around 1915.  Behind th...

This wonderful photo of baby, Victor Vollrath (218 South Audubon Road), was taken in 1917.  Notice that South Audubon used to be bric...

By the mid-1920s, all of the streets and most of the alleys in Irvington were bricked or paved.  Cycling had been a craze in the US since th...

Two Vollrath children enjoy a day in Ellenberger Park sometime in 1918.  They seem to be enjoying the park benches and a watering jug o...

Victor and Marie Vollrath mow the front yard of their home at 218 South Audubon Road in 1927.  The Vollraths prided themselves on their beau...

The Vollrath family (218 South Audubon Road) frequently sponsored Germans who wanted to become American citizens.  They provid...

He dwelled at 218 South Audubon Road throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s.   Fite , the beloved German Shepherd, belonged to the Vollrath...

Victor and Richard Vollrath enjoy a game of football in the sidelot next to their home at 218 South Audubon Road in 1925.  The two houses ...

The Vollrath brothers loved baseball and spent many hours playing the game.  They practiced in a large empty lot just south of their home at...

Dandy  lived in a small barn on the Vollrath lot at 218 South Audubon Road.  The pony became a fixture for those who lived in sou...

Lawrence, Irma, and Carl Vollrath pose on the front porch at 218 South Audubon Road in 1912.  The family had only lived in the house for a...

This beautiful Dutch Colonial home has been a fixture at 218 South Audubon Road since 1909.  Charles Vollrath, a local grocer, designed...

The sun had just come out so a member of the Vollrath family (218 South Audubon Road) grabbed a camera to document this snowy day in Irving...