Home Sweet Home at Commerce & Harwood
by Paula Bosse
“Main Street Garden?” (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Quaint homes, mere steps from City Hall. Not sure of the exact date of this photo, but these homes and this service station were at the above location in 1920. Wonder when those homeowners finally decided to sell? Talk about your primo real estate!
Below is a similar photo, but this one shows more of Commerce looking east — I don’t come across a lot of photos of this era showing downtown past what was unofficially thought of as its eastern boundary.
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Photo from Noah Jeppson’s Flickr page, here.
Second photo, titled “Dallas City Hall,” is from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; more info on this photo can be found here.
More on the building of the City Hall/Municipal Building in the post “The Elegant Municipal Building — 1914,” here.
Click picture for larger image.
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Very interesting photo!
The addresses of the houses were 1919 and 1923 Commerce: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/d-f/txu-sanborn-dallas-1921-11.jpg
It looks like the house at 1919 Commerce was demolished in 1928: http://goo.gl/qEuFAk
I couldn’t find when the house at 1923 was demolished but by 1933 the building occupying that address was a lunchroom: http://goo.gl/zHkk45
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