Vintage Irvington

      In the spring of 1928, contractors for the Southern Building Corporation began construction on two brick apartment buildings in the 51...

     While we still have much to learn, the Irvington Historical Society recently acquired two fascinating historic photographs that show th...

On July 12, 1967, "Marie" walked into a post office in Gillette Wyoming and sent her friend, Mary Dale of 37 Johnson Avenue, #12, ...

Theodore and Mary Brydon moved into their newly-built bungalow at 124 South Bolton Avenue in 1915.  Mr. Brydon constructed many homes and a...

Sometime in the spring of 1941, Barbara Jones who dwelled at 273 South Ritter Avenue, snapped this photo of her friends Louise and Carol.  W...

Entrepreneur, Samuel H. Creighton hired architect Charles Edgar Bates in 1916 to design a beautiful Tudor-Revival structure for the northwes...

Dick Palmer and Mildred Orr Palmer, moved into a walkup apartment at 55 South Downey Avenue in 1947. Mr. Palmer had just completed his stint...

What does a photograph reveal about an era or a moment in time?  In 1938, the younger couple in this photograph, Lora and Norman Koepper, in...

Mary Katherine and Floyd Mitman posed with their son Floyd, Jr. in the early 1920s next to their home. The Mitmans rented an apartment at 51...

Fred and Vivian White Azbell married in 1934 and moved into the Mary Elizabeth, an apartment building located at 4801 East Washington Street...

The Audubon Court (5703 East Washington Street) opened as the first apartment building in Irvington in 1914. The elegant rentals offered two...

During the first fifty years of Irvington's existence, it became very fashionable to build tasteful homes along the National Road.  Wash...

The historic Butler Apartments (also known as Butler Place) will be renovated by Reverie Estates.  The company has saved and restored severa...