From the Border Cities Era June 7, 1919:
View of Randolph avenue in Sandwich, showing construction work on 20 homes that are being erected by the Border Cities Builders, Limited, recently incorporated with a capital of $40,000. Randolph avenue is located in the choice residential section that embraces the rapidly growing district between Windsor and Sandwich, getting closer together all the time. Randolph avenue is paved and boasts some lovely homes. Near the new homes shown above the town of Sandwich is building as $60,000 school on the same style as the General Brock school.
John G. Coleridge is president of Border Cities Builders, Limited, Adair Smith of the D.M. Ferry Co., is vice-president and E.E. Longnecker secretary-treasurer.
I believe that this is the location of the photo above, with the white house with the awnings being the one in the foreground in top photo.
I think you might be a little off the mark, Andrew. I believe the houses are south of the location you picked, being closer to the intersection of Fanchette and Randolph.
I’m using the small white house on the west side of the street in the newspaper as my guide.
There is a house across the street from it that matched the one in the foreground.
http://goo.gl/maps/fICMQ
Not even close.
Care to be more specific? Who are you addressing? If there is a correction to be made, then spit it out already. 😀
I’m not sure I see the similiarity in your chosen streetview either, Aaron.
Definitely the house on the left is the same in both the archive and the streetview. Question is, is there a duplicate house.
Really? I’ve gone from Union to Riverside, and unless I missed it, it is the only house of its kind on the west side of the street. I don’t know how I can be “not even close”, when I only backed the camera up 300 feet lol
I’m pretty confident I’m right.
I think you’re right Aaron.
The houses aren’t even of the same style. The ones in the older pictures are taller and narrower. The second house doesn’t even have a chimney in the old photo.
The small dormers on the upper floors of the two houses on the left are missing in the older photo. I’m guessing because no windows on these dormers is they were the top of the upper floor stairwells,but I’m just guessing ?
Boy I couldn’t have been more screwed up the dormers are there and I meant the right and on a closer look there are dormers there ??? Brain fart….
The houses on the right look like Fanchette which does not go thru to Rankin which indicates this is a southward facing view. The old city directories might be helpful. I don’t think Randolph went very far south in 1919.