Family connections

This building has a family connection

 and a special place in my heart.

My great-great-great grandfather and his family 

had a jewelry and watch repair 

(and also some expensive knick-knacks)

store in this building from 1884 to about the mid 1960's. 

I vaguely remember going into the store with my mom 

when I was a little girl to visit my great-great aunt. 

It was a treasure house, but mostly forbidden place for me. 

A small child in a store of breakable knick-knacks was not the best combination!

 LOL!!!!

These aren't the best photos, I only had my phone with me.

They show how the newest owner has renovated the 

building to its former glory. She spent a lot of time

using old photos to get the place to be historically correct.

Using some of the same fixtures found in the building or 

having reproductions made. She saw us taking photos of 

her building and came out to find out why and was quite

pleased to find out that we were relatives of the original owners.

I think she told us that the large glass windows were original. 

They let in lots of hot and cold air so to keep the look of the windows

 they added new weather proof windows on the inside so she wasn't heating and cooling

the town!

 She explained some of the detail on the top floor, and how the buildings on Main Street each had

trim work to balance out the others. 

On this building there are carved hearts with scrolls. 

You can barely see the heart

on the right hand side at the very top in this photo. 

My brother was taking photos with a "real" camera, 

I'll have to check to see if he was able to get this detail.