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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido
Thanks Beaudry for this gem. It is the first time on the thread that we're able to see how looked the complete east section between 2nd and 1st of Grand Avenue. I recognized the modern building (right) which we see in the beginning of the famous video "A Drive Through Bunker Hill (1940s)". I always wondered how looked this section that the car leaves behind coming from east 2nd.
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That modern structure was an extensively remodeled 1880s apartment house-I've only seen a WPA 1936/37 drawing of the original appearance- No other image or even a name for it has turned up- So post-war money was spent to redo it radically --