Vintage Irvington

      On a chilly but sunny Sunday morning in November hundreds of members of the Irvington Methodist Church gathered along North Audubon Ro...

     Four years ago this month, I started down an unknown path.  Could I create a blog that concentrated on collecting historic photos of th...

As World War II wound down, speculators and developers began to prepare for the return of millions of veterans.  Where would they live?  Irv...

In 1942, Jeannette Corey, who dwelled at 268 South Arlington Avenue posed next to the family car. The Coreys must have been well known in th...

They all dressed in white.  The girls donned a bobbed style while most of the boys slicked down their hair.  In the early summer of 1929, th...

While Fred Azbell was away serving the country during World War II, his father-in-law, T. Newton White, took over the family business locate...

The Azbell family celebrated two joyous births in the 1940s.  In top photo, Fred and Vivian Azbell welcomed little Barbara Azbell into their...

Fred and Vivian White Azbell moved into 1115 North Butler Avenue in 1936. Built in 1928, two previous families, the Stanleys and Vornholts, ...

T. Newton White grew up on a farm on the northeast corner of East Tenth Street and Shadeland Avenue.  Most of his life, however, was spent i...

Vivian and Fred Azbell decided to drop by her family's home at 5024 East New York Street before heading out to a horse farm at East 16th...

T. Newton and Pearl Seymour White had this beautiful bungalow at 5024 East New York Street constructed in 1915. Sometime after the completio...

If only the porches and verandas of Irvington could sing a tune. The tales those pillars, railings, and stoops could tell would be longer th...

T. Newton White grew up on a farm at East Tenth Street and Shadeland Avenue, but farming was not for him. He decided to go into another fami...