This Louis McAllister image, taken before construction began on North Street, shows the building at 144 and 146 North Street on the corner of Rose Street and North Street.  This two-story wooden framed, gable-front building extends two bays across the main block with two bays from an addition increasing the North Street façade’s overall length.  At the time of the McAllister image the building was operating as an I.G.A. food store and shows large storefront windows on the Rose Street and North Street sides.  A Sanborn Map from 1912 lists the business there as a gentleman’s shop and tailor. [1]   It is unclear when the two bay addition in the east side of the building was completed or when the buildings in the rear were incorporated into the structure.  Visible on the left side of the frame just past 146 North Street, are the stairs that lead to the wrap around porch of 152 North Street and beyond that the two story brick building destroyed in the fire of 1972. [2]

            This McAllister image also shows the streetcar tracks that the city would be working to remove as well as the leaning utility poles that would be corrected when the work was finished.