Sunday, September 30, 2012

An Emerson Heights Duplex in the Mid-20th Century

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Emerson Heights sits just west of Irvington.  Founded in the early twentieth century, the community is filled with Arts and Crafts era homes...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

East Side State Bank--Then and Now

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In the summer of 1913, Dr. Beecher Terrell and realtor George Russell stood outside the future East Side State Bank.   Behind them as they c...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Reinhardt Home: Scene of a Crime--1913

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Most historians who write of historic Irvington generally speak of the serene calmness and of the lack of crime in the area.  While that ima...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Koss Home Then and Now

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Louis and Emma Koss moved into their brand new Tudor-Revival home at 5395 Pleasant Run Parkway South Drive in 1930.  Mr. Koss had done well ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

South Catherwood Avenue

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The Avant, Leak, and Higgenbotham families lived along South Catherwood and Sheridan Avenues for years.  In this undated mid-twentieth centu...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Rare Opportunity--Historic Ellenberger Home on Tour!

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The Benton House Tour of Homes will feature several wonderful historic dwellings on Sunday, September 16, 2012.  (tickets may be purchased a...

Image of First Baptist Church--c. 1938

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This modest stuccoed church has been along Good Avenue since 1910.  Begun in 1887, congregants for the First Baptist Church used to meet in ...