Court House, Kenosha, Wisconsin (Postcard Series)

About the Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail

Fairchild Hall, Grand Army Home for Veterans, King, Wis. (Postcard Series)

Year built:  1891.  (1906 addition)
Cost:  $12,000.
First floor:  dining room for 80, kitchen, pantry, storeroom, quarters for members
Second floor:  quarters for 15 members.
Third floor:  dormitory style room.

Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.

The Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Mich. (Postcard Series)

Grand Hotel

General Hospital, Marinette, Wis. (Postcard Series)

From Bay Area Medical Center history. Marinette General Hospital opened its doors on Sept. 3, 1940. Located at the current BAMC site, Marinette General had an 80-bed capacity and cost $315,000.

Great Northern Hotel, Millinocket, Maine (Postcard Series)

Built by the Great Northern Paper Company for use by upper management, their families and other important guests and business contacts of the company.

Bird's-eye View, Northeast from Union Depot, Milwaukee, Wis. (Postcard Series)

Better known as the Everett Street Depot.  (Photo credit:  Wikipedia)

Opening in 1888.  Closed in 1965.  Razed the following year.

When heaven was down at the corner of Clyborn and North 2nd:  A visit to Milwaukee's downtown depot.  (Railroad Model Craftsman)

(Lost New York) Hotel Astor, Times Square, New York "The Crossroads of the World" (Postcard Series)

The Hotel Astsor opened in 1904 and closed in 1967. Construction of its replacement on the site, originally known as the W. T. Grant Building (headquarters of the now-defunct retailer), started in 1968. The gleaming building is now known as One Astor Place.

Photo credit:  Wikipedia (OptimumPx)

The Hartford Times Building, Hartford, Conn. (Postcard Series)

Constructed in 1925

The Hartford Times was an afternoon newspaper published from 1826 until 1976.

UConn Hartford Campus Will Move to Hartford Times Building. (NBC Connecticut,8/14/2013)

The Hartford Times Again.  (Naples and Hartford in Season, 5/18/2013)

The Square, Looking East, Cleveland, Ohio (Postcard Series)

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's big ideas, Part 1: Public Square makeover.  (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 9/6/2013)

Photo credit:  Adam and David

In the Heart of Memphis Tennessee (Postcard Series)

Memphis Court Square

The building with the mansard roof, built in 1910, is the Exchange Building, formerly known as the Cotton Exchange Building and the Mercantile Exchange Building.  It was converted from office space to apartments in 1996.

Photo source:  City-data.com

New York Central Station, Syracuse, N. Y. (Postcard Series)

The Great American Stations

Photo credit:  Wikipedia

Weinstock Lubin Department Store, Sacramento, California (Postcard Series)

"Weinstock's was distinctly Sacramento; it was ours."  History West Press, 7/22/2012)

From an interview with Annette Kassis, author of Weinstock's: Sacramento's Finest Department Store.    My personal memories of Weinstock’s come from two very different vantage points in my life. I was one of the younger children in my family, and I remember as a little girl going to Weinstock’s with my mother to pick out Christmas gifts for my older sisters. These were simple things like stockings and handkerchiefs, but to me these were the glamorous things that meant one was “grown up".

Where not to conduct an interview.


Northern California Department Stores -- Weinstock Lubin.  (Plummer & Associates blog, 2/18/2011)

Excerpt:   I visited Weinstock Lubin & Company when I was young as I only lived 80 miles south in Modesto. Although Weinstock Lubin had an enjoyable lunch bar for kids, it was not as magnificent as the stores in San Francisco. Weinstock Lubin was a major participant in the holiday festivities and always had wonderful window displays. 

The Department Store Museum:  Weinstock's.

Rutherford County Courthouse, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Postcard Series)

Rutherford County, Tennessee

Chapman Nat'l Bank & Fidelity Trust Co., Monument Square, Portland, Maine (Postcard Series)

Photo credit:  Maine League of Young Voters

City Hall, First Presbyterian Church and Civic Auditorium, Kalamazoo, Mich. (Postcard Series)

Auditorium built in 1929; seats 500.

Kalamazoo Civic Auditorium

Chestnut Street, Kimball Hotel and Y. M. C. A. Springfield, Mass. (Postcard Series)

The Kimbell Hotel opened in 1911.   Now the Kimball Towers Condominiums. 

Miniature Golf Course, showing Berkeley Carteret Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J. (Postcard Series)

Welcome to the City of Asbury Park



Asbury Park Public Library

Allen Hall, Stetson University, Deland, Florida (Postcard Series)

Stetson University campus map.

Stetson University history.

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works by Qwilleran

Volusia County Court House, De Land, Fla.

Now home to the Museum of Art.  The Volusia County Historic Courthouse in downtown DeLand is a significant local landmark with its Neo-Classical architecture, fluted Corinthian columns, copper-clad dome and grand rotunda topped by a stained glass dome. 

Home Office of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield (Postcard Series)

Mass Mutual, where my Uncle Ed Pearson used to work once upon a time.