Long ago on independence square (Center, Rosebud: collector, friends, starting)

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

It definitely isn't that corner, as the old jail has been there since 1859. The fenced yard in the foreground could be the lawn of the courthouse. There is a similar falloff at Lexington & Main that would align with this view. Perhaps the buildings pictured are gone?

If we ask nicely perhaps Dallas would check his earliest Polks' for the address of Alexander's Hardware, hopefully found next door to a grocer. My Pearl Wilcox books don't list an Alexander Hardware. The only Alexander store was in Lake City.

I'm also a bit confused by the photo's caption "Masonic Temple". Perhaps it was upstairs.

NEWS FLASH! It is indeed the Masonic Building, on the SE corner of Main & Lexington. This photo was taken after January 19, 1907, when the building was dedicated; and prior to fall of 1908, because at that time Jesse Martin bought out the stock of W G Alexander Hardware and moved it to 113 W Lexington, where he opened his own store.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

NEWS FLASH! It is indeed the Masonic Building, on the SE corner of Main & Lexington. This photo was taken after January 19, 1907, when the building was dedicated; and prior to fall of 1908, because at that time Jesse Martin bought out the stock of W G Alexander Hardware and moved it to 113 W Lexington, where he opened his own store.

That would make it where Milgram's grocery later located. The current building at that location houses an office products place according to Google. The building in the photo must have been replaced at some point?

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

It definitely isn't that corner, as the old jail has been there since 1859. The fenced yard in the foreground could be the lawn of the courthouse. There is a similar falloff at Lexington & Main that would align with this view. Perhaps the buildings pictured are gone?

If we ask nicely perhaps Dallas would check his earliest Polks' for the address of Alexander's Hardware, hopefully found next door to a grocer. My Pearl Wilcox books don't list an Alexander Hardware. The only Alexander store was in Lake City.

I'm also a bit confused by the photo's caption "Masonic Temple". Perhaps it was upstairs.

Ask Nicely and Ye Shall Receive:

HOWEVER . . . this is the now-Portrait Gallery at Main and Kansas, 126 S. Main, also the home of the Masonic Temple in 1932

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

NEWS FLASH! It is indeed the Masonic Building, on the SE corner of Main & Lexington. This photo was taken after January 19, 1907, when the building was dedicated; and prior to fall of 1908, because at that time Jesse Martin bought out the stock of W G Alexander Hardware and moved it to 113 W Lexington, where he opened his own store.

BTW, by 1932 Jesse and Daisy Martin were officers of Martin-Welch Hardware & Plumbing Co, with location at 214 N. Liberty. Their residence is very near where this previously mystery photo was taken, 131 E. Kansas. It does look like the photo was shot on what would be the grounds of Chicago Title. The building is virtually intact, save for the Main-facing top, which looks to have been lopped off.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

That would make it where Milgram's grocery later located. The current building at that location houses an office products place according to Google. The building in the photo must have been replaced at some point?

OOPS! Mea Culpa!

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

BTW, by 1932 Jesse and Daisy Martin were officers of Martin-Welch Hardware & Plumbing Co, with location at 214 N. Liberty. Their residence is very near where this previously mystery photo was taken, 131 E. Kansas. It does look like the photo was shot on what would be the grounds of Chicago Title. The building is virtually intact, save for the Main-facing top, which looks to have been lopped off.

You win! I was at the wrong end of the block on the wrong side. In my day that building housed the Eagles Lodge. I didn't realize the Masons had it first.

http://goo.gl/maps/8L0VK

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

OOPS! Mea Culpa!



You win! I was at the wrong end of the block on the wrong side. In my day that building housed the Eagles Lodge. I didn't realize the Masons had it first.

http://goo.gl/maps/8L0VK

The Eagles (or someone) had a bowling alley in that building that used boy pinsetters the only time I ever went in there.

[WCHS'59]

First National Bank Building. The doorway on the corner, Liberty Street side, was the street entrance to Bogart and Brown or Petey Childers prescriptions. The inside entrance was through the double doors and turn right. The waiting chairs were positioned just below the window. Even to my young perception the area was but a small niche.

And the little black oblong below the window was the night deposit box. It took me a number of years in my childhood to understand what the night deposit was all about. The drop must have went straight to the basement.

That drop box is gone at the current Bank of America.

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Help me out here. Where is this? My thinking is that this is the corner of N Main and E Van Horn (Truman Road) looking east and the building is what became Fire Station No. 1. That would make the building next door as the 1859 jail.

But Google shows the fire station as a two story building and the next building does not look a lot like the jail.

Taken in 1912




Taken in 2012

[SilverDoc]

Ad from 1930 Gleam

[SilverDoc]

1951