Historic before / after pics

Here’s one…
Ana-n-I were checking out some of the pics in the Beloit College archives. Fred Burwell was kind enough to help us out. One of the pics I thought was particularly interesting because it would -seem- to include a pic of Chuck Rydberg’s Murmac Paint store on Park Ave Beloit.  Chuck was kind enough to meet with our group last month to talk about painting old and historic houses. It was a great presentation. He certainly knows his subject.

What had once been a private residence evidently was later converted by 1914 into one of Beloit’s early hospitals. Obviously that property was subsequently taken down to make way for a gas station which in turn is now no longer in operation.

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I’d noticed the fancy roof on the Murmac Paint Store in the past and though it curious. The roof texture on the carriage house in the historic pic is too washed out to make it out. The carriage house does look tall enough for the two stories of the Murmac Paint Store.
What’cha think?
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