04.01.12 The state's website and the various newspaper articles written about the closure of the Guess Road prison camp conflate the facility with the County Jail that stood (and the building still stands) on Broad Street. It was the three story structure built in 1925. After the state took over facilities in 1931, it constructed this facility; the...

08.01.58

08.01.58 1981

Two-story frame Neo-Colonial house built circa 1910. Pedimented projecting bay accented by lunette; pedimented attached entry porch carried by paved square tapering columns; recessed one-story hip-roofed wing at the east. A decoratively corbelled chimney pierces the pyramidal roof. Retains original entrance with single sidelight and transom. Interior features five mantels with original tilework surrounding fireplace and oak bannister on the three-run staircase.

06.06.60

08.05.60 Simple Type B bungalow featuring full-facade recessed porch beneath broad gable, all sheathed in German siding.

This one-story, side-gabled Craftsman bungalow is three-bays wide and triple pile. It is typical of the style with a full-width, engaged front porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. The original wood porch floor has been replaced with a concrete slab, but the house retains original molded wood weatherboards and four-over-one Craftsman windows. A gabled front dormer has a pair of four-light casement windows. The building rests on a painted brick foundation and has two interior brick chimneys. The earliest known occupant of the house is Oscar D. Dawson (machine operator) in 1930.

1010 Cleveland St., 09.09.58

09.20.60 (Herald-Sun) This 1950s era Amoco station received a ~1970s treatment of brick veneer and a shingled projecting roof; it was a pretty junky convenience store / Pure Oil gas station from the time I moved nearby in 1997 until 2012. (Although the practice of the winos imbibing beer in the parking area on the side of the building abated after...

September 1960 Modernist brick side-gabled split level house with an overhanging upper level with vertical wood sheathing. The recessed entrance is glazed to the roof line, and a band of sliding wood windows occupies the left 2/3 of the façade. In the lower level is a garage. 1410 Shepherd Street, the adjacent house, is of similar design and age...