Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Who Lived Here? The Holmes Family of Ritter Avenue

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Dr. Frank A. and Zedia Holmes purchased the seven-year-old Dutch Colonial Revival home at 25 North Ritter Avenue in 1917. World War One inte...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Breaking History News--Moore's Hall Foundation Uncovered!

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While digging a trench for redeveloping the northwest corner of South Audubon Road and Bonna Avenue, excavators have unearthed the former fo...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

East Washington Street Then and Now

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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...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Lost Irvington: Downey Avenue Homes

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Like many folks after a beautiful snowfall, Dick and Mildred Palmer grabbed their camera in the winter of 1947 to document the lovely moment...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Creighton Apartments--1947

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Entrepreneur, Samuel H. Creighton hired architect Charles Edgar Bates in 1916 to design a beautiful Tudor-Revival structure for the northwes...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Downey Avenue on a Snowy Day

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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...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Who Lived Here? The Palmer Family

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Walter and Mary Fee Palmer dwelled at 333 North Audubon Road for five decades beginning in the 1920s. Dr. Palmer worked six days a week for ...