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Post by Dave on Nov 22, 2010 19:29:11 GMT -5
I've started this thread so we have a place to put things that may be of use to each other. Here are some photos I came across while googling other topics. Fiona, they may be of use to you. Just copy them up to your PC and then on to Photobucket or wherever else you keep them.    |
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Post by Dave on Nov 22, 2010 19:34:30 GMT -5
Here's the beginning of the Stanley Theater, from an OD article.  From the OD: "In the summer of 1927, Sam Cittadino Construction Co. of Utica began excavation work for the foundation of the cellar of the $1.5 million movie house that today is the Stanley Center for the Arts. Cittadino and his men stopped work long enough to line up the trucks and steam shovel and ose for this photo, which was submitted to the OD many years ago by Cittadino's grandson, Joseph (Bud) Gigliotti. That's the Tabernacle Baptist Church parish house on King Street in the background." |
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Post by fiona on Nov 24, 2010 1:13:52 GMT -5
A source of endless fascination for me. Munn House and grounds are they are now.  |
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Post by Dave on Nov 24, 2010 7:04:00 GMT -5
I hadn't noticed when we were there, but the roof is really a shame, compared to when it was terra cotta. BTW, for a continuously changing display of beautiful homes with clay tile roofs, go here: www.ludowici.com/A friend from Germany once explained to me that they normally last forever, of course. But when one breaks, they can easily be replaced from the inside. The rounded tiles, like on the original house at Rutger Park, just sit there on strips beneath them, unfastened. |
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Post by Dave on Nov 24, 2010 7:12:52 GMT -5
Fiona, I believe I learned that OCHS designates the houses in Rutger Park in numerical order from one to five, number one being at the west end? So is the Munn-Green-Dowling-Nursing-Home house No. 1? And therefore is Roscoe Conkling's No. 3?
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Post by Dave on Nov 25, 2010 20:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by fiona on Nov 26, 2010 20:54:51 GMT -5
This is so nice. If only I could read their names!
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Post by Dave on Nov 27, 2010 0:06:54 GMT -5
Yes, I tried a number of techniques to recover them, all to no avail. The pixels just aren't there.  |
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Post by fiona on Nov 27, 2010 17:50:44 GMT -5
In reply to sprucing up the postcard thread: I am still thinking about how I would like to do it. A few more days in the hopper, OK?
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Post by Dave on Nov 27, 2010 21:37:08 GMT -5
Yup. If I can be of help, let me know.
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Post by fiona on Nov 28, 2010 22:02:52 GMT -5
anybody want to hazard a guess as to where this may have been on upper Genesee St?  |
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Post by Dave on Nov 28, 2010 22:56:42 GMT -5
Doesn't look familiar. I've been wondering how many of the homes we've seen in the Tour so far are still standing. If I lived in Utica, I'd be tempted to get in the car and drive around. With the doors locked, I guess.
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Post by fiona on Nov 30, 2010 12:44:14 GMT -5
OK I got it. It's right across the road from me! The stone house ( no longer standing) came down and the Roosevelts was built around 1928. The next two houses are now the Tower Apts and the Victorian Apts. They were originally the homes of the Baker Brothers, the owners of the Saturday Globe.
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Post by Dave on Dec 1, 2010 0:20:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Dec 11, 2010 17:47:02 GMT -5
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