Tracking clues When this 1928 photo was taken, Dodge Lumber and Fuel Co. had several locations. Where was this one? The notation doesn't say. The sign states, the office was at Main and 4th Street, but where was this building? A history mystery. Key clues are the tracks and the distant brick building. Drive-bys of Avalon Music and the Drips Building rule them out. Time to call Alan Calavano, Historian Extraordinaire. Visiting track locations, looking for a brick building with a chimney on the left eventually pays off. The brick building is the back of Center Street Hotel. This Dodge building sat approximately where the red Salvation Army Adult Day Program building now sits. Mystery solved. Next week: A silent film star's namesake Lens on History is a weekly photo feature by Cindy Scott, a volunteer at the History Center of Olmsted County. Thanks to the HCOC Research Center and Archive for this photo
When this 1928 photo was taken, Dodge Lumber and Fuel Co. had several locations. Where was this one? The notation doesn't say.
The sign states, the office was at Main and Fourth Street, but where was this building? A history mystery. Key clues are the tracks and the distant brick building. Drive-bys of Avalon Music and the Drips Building rule them out.
Time to call Alan Calavano, Historian Extraordinaire. Visiting track locations, looking for a brick building with a chimney on the left eventually pays off. The brick building is the back of Center Street Hotel. This Dodge building sat approximately where the red Salvation Army Adult Day Program building now sits. Mystery solved.
Next week: A silent film star's namesake
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Tracking clues When this 1928 photo was taken, Dodge Lumber and Fuel Co. had several locations. Where was this one? The notation doesn't say. The sign states, the office was at Main and 4th Street, but where was this building? A history mystery. Key clues are the tracks and the distant brick building. Drive-bys of Avalon Music and the Drips Building rule them out. Time to call Alan Calavano, Historian Extraordinaire. Visiting track locations, looking for a brick building with a chimney on the left eventually pays off. The brick building is the back of Center Street Hotel. This Dodge building sat approximately where the red Salvation Army Adult Day Program building now sits. Mystery solved. Next week: A silent film star's namesake Lens on History is a weekly photo feature by Cindy Scott, a volunteer at the History Center of Olmsted County. Thanks to the HCOC Research Center and Archive for this photo
