buildings and funeral homes
the building across the street from st francis use to be the church hall they held bingo and festivals in it and at the corner of buchanan and 35th was a store called the milk depot and then they made it in to a storage and moved the store next to the alley. and at the other end of 35th and horatio use to be the best candy store ever i lived and went to school and st francis school for 8 years then went to st. hedwig where i graduated i was born and raised two blocks from the church so i am quit familiar with the surrounding i never remember another funeral home on the corner only jarzembowski and yes the owner got killed and that is when they shut it down i think st francis church is one of the most beautiful churches there is
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mortalman
jackie5275, you cleared up the mystery to me about the location of Jarzembowski Funeral Home being across the street that is now the parish center. I thought they were located catercorner from when you said it was because there is still a large building on that corner that looks like it was some kind of business at one time. I thought that was the funeral home. That would be on the SE corner of Wesson and Buchanan. Any idea what that used to be? There's also a orange brick building on the NE corner of Buchanan and 35th. any idea what that used to be? I hope I've got my orientation correct on the location of those two buildings. While I'm at it does anyone know what that abandoned factory traveling north on Wesson on the west side of the street? The one with the old fashion water tower on the roof.
Thanks allot for those Sanborn Insurance Maps of Sts. Hedwig and Casimir Churches, Hornwrecker. Like I said I figure you must be a Warlock the way you can figure out those Sanborn maps. How do you get those colors in the maps you post? Even after going back to the Sanborn Maps for St. Francis where you gave me the year, dates and page I could find any 12c but it did help me and I found it on my copy of the maps. I guess they must all be the same but who knows. Are they still in that business? Do you know if there are Sanborn Maps for New York City and Passaic, New Jersey? My family came from Poland to NYC and NJ and then moved to Detroit. So, it would be interesting to see what the maps say about where they lived, worked and prayed. The Catholic Church they belonged to doesn't even exist anymore but the tenement they lived in in Manhattan is still there.
All this genealogy would have been so much easier to ask these questions when they were all still alive. Having to root it out of the records is tedious, frustrating and time consuming.
Thanks all.