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"Est. 1819," it reads on the other side, in an engraving style that makes clear it was added in recent decades. My guess is that somebody in the church got peeved that the building was announcing its own history without referencing the history of the congregation that built it.

The congregation has sold the building and moved to a rented space in a nearby stripmall. According to Google Street View, it happened sometime between July 2019 and September 2021. According to an article in the Sandusky Register, the new owners renamed this building the "Commodore Chapel" and converted it to an Airbnb property named the Lost Sailor Inn ("Find yourself at the Lost Sailor Inn," June 25, 2022).

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In Sandusky, Ohio, on June 16th, 2024, was a datestone at the former First Congregational United Church of Christ (originally the First Congregational Church; built of limestone; 82001399 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of Columbus Avenue and West Jefferson Street.

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In downtown Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was a datestone at the former First Baptist Church at the southeast corner of East Jefferson Street and North Gridley Street.

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In Sandusky, Ohio, on June 16th, 2024, was a datestone at St. Marys Catholic Church (completed in 1880; 75001391 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of Central Avenue and West Jefferson Street.

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The corrugated bricks do not look like 1850s bricks. The building is not shown on local fire insurance maps from 1893 or 1905. And there is a 1923 datestone elsewhere on the building.

So do not be tricked: Whatever the heck this frigging datestone is commemorating, it is not the building of which it is part. It was probably transferred here from who the heck knows where.

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In Sandusky, Ohio, on June 16th, 2024, was a datestone at the First Faith Community Church at the northwest corner of Hancock Street and East Jefferson Street.

According to the cover title of this book, the building was dedicated as the First Reformed Church in March 1925. It is identified on this 1955 fire insurance map as the First Evangelical and Reformed Church.

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When I entered the oasis I no longer noticed all the cars everywhere.

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a view of the southeast corner of Jefferson Street and Franklin Street.

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So weird!

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In downtown Valparaiso, Indiana, on June 9th, 2024, was a commercial building (built in 1921; a "contributing property" in the Valparaiso Downtown Commercial District, 90000327 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of Jefferson Street, east of Washington Street.

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I did a little dance and made fluttering hand gestures at the Impala, but I don't know if the driver saw me.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was a view to the west on East Main Street, from the northeast corner of its intersection with South Jefferson Street.

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Here was a view to balloon my sentimentality number. Yours too I hope!

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In Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, were the Des Moines River and the Jefferson Street Viaduct (built in 1935-1936 by the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company; 98000475 on the National Register of Historic Places; formerly U.S. routes 34 and 63) as viewed from the Wabash Pedestrian Bridge.

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I love quiet evenings at the parking garages downtown.

Aye here's a picture of the parking garage when it opened in 1938, at which time it was named the Auto Hotel. The recessed interstitial areas were originally filled with glass block instead of windows and brown panels. Here's a construction pic too.

Its name ought to be changed back to Auto Hotel imo.

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In downtown Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was Park Plaza Auto Storage at the northwest corner of North East Street (U.S. 51 Business Route) and East Jefferson Street.

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Boudin Bakery, Jefferson St., Fisherman's Wharf

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2024's candidates were all built in 1983. This one won one of the awards.

I have achieved here a one won one.

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In downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, on May 23rd, 2024, was the State of Wisconsin District Office Building (built 1982-1983; designed by Gunnar Birkerts Architects Inc.) at the northeast corner of North Jefferson Street and Cherry Street.

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Jefferson Street is entered in the Grade II Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga on Friday. During the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, he won an allowance race under ominous skies that eventually gave way to a downpour.

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Quiet morning in downtown Newnan, Georgia. No cars parked along the street is a rare phenomenon.

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Jefferson St., Fisherman's Wharf

Myrtle Ave - Broadway - Jefferson St - Bedford-Stuyvesant - Brooklyn - NYC

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In downtown Mason, Michigan, on October 28th, 2023, at the southwest corner of South Jefferson Street and West Oak Street, at Jefferson Street Square, originally the Jefferson Street School, completed in 1923, later converted to senior apartments; a "contributing property" in the Courthouse Square Historic District, 85001243 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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At the datestone of a county courthouse in Mason, Michigan, a range of years has been supplied, yet the range does not include the year the building was completed: 1904. That's stupid and they should have fixed it!

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In downtown Mason, Michigan, on October 28th, 2023, was a datestone at the Ingham County Courthouse (completed in 1904; 71000397 on the National Register of Historic Places; also a "contributing property" in the Courthouse Square Historic District, 85001243 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of South Jefferson Street and East Ash Street (Highway M-36).

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