Then and Now: Where in the Patch?
Can you identify where in the Sewickley Patch this photo was taken? Take a guess in the comments section!
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For this edition of 'Where in the Patch?" we present a little history trivia.
This photograph, provided courtesy of the Sewickley Historical Society, highlights a moment from the past and was taken somewhere in the Sewickley Patch area.
Can you guess where this photo was taken?
Submit your answers in the comments and we'll post the correct answer on Monday.
Renaldo Vish
8:20 am on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Walnut street
Glenn
9:50 am on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Beaver Street. The sign hangs at the intersection of Blackburn Rd.
Michele Lynn
3:41 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Walnut and thorn
John Linko
4:29 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
I don't think it's Beaver - there wouldn't be trees in the middle of the roadway in the distance. There also appear to be hills in the distance behind the trees, possibly across the river. (?)
Not sure that it's Walnut and Thorn, either - depending on the year of the photo, wouldn't one of the buildings at that intersection be St. Matthew's AME Church? That building dates to 1911.
I agree with Renaldo that it's Walnut Street, or another street facing west.
Louis J. Borgia, Jr.
5:13 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Beaver and Blackburn Rd.
Lesley Grazioli Minton
7:18 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Broad and Beaver (the Sewickley Hotel bldg is located on the right)
Glenn
2:16 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
I believe you are correct Lesley. Did some research. Sylvester C. Ritchey had a grocery on the corner of Broad and Beaver. Looks like the picture was taken in the A.M with the shadow from the one pole. I was trying to determine the address on the one building that appears to end in 05 next to the boy.
Larissa Dudkiewicz
2:44 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
There are a lot of good guesses. The answer according to the photo is Beaver Street looking west from North Street.
Louis J. Borgia, Jr.
7:50 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
I give, where is north st.?
Larissa Dudkiewicz
12:28 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Anyone who guessed Beaver and Broad (Lesley) was exactly right.
The caption to the photo reads: “There was no North Street. The (North Street) reference in this card is probably to Division Street, which enters on the left and follows a north-south line from the 1785 survey. The busy juncture of Broad and Beaver Streets has always been Sewickley’s Hollywood and Vine.
S. C. Ritchey advertises boldly on a building that will be redesigned in 1916 with a façade inspired by a London street.”