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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Wholesale Row

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127 Norfolk Ave . Roanoke

Built in 1902 by Moir and Brindel, grocers...

This area is known as the Roanoke Warehouse Historic District or Wholesale Row...it consists of 5 buildings built between 1889 and 1902 wholesale food storage.

I have shown you a couple of buildings HERE and HERE

I'm going to have to gather what info I have found on the area and go back and snap a pic of each building as I learn about their history...remind me haha

A lot of interesting reading on the buildings/area HERE and have you ever used Emporis ? Handy when you have the address of a building and need a little more info!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

19 comments:

  1. Tanya, these old and gritty areas finally being appreciated and preserved, I see this being done locally. Thanks for sharing this week, I hope that you can stop back again.

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  2. Great to see historic places being saved. Good luck with that upcoming snow. However you define "luck" for yourself. For me, luck is having it in large amounts!

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  3. Red brickwork is so pretty and I like the ghost signs.
    By the way: we have visited your genealogy-blog and my swearhaert says, that with his ancestors were Seguins too, from France.

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  4. Great looking old warehouse building. Many cities have redeveloped these buildings into commercial and residential property to the benefit of the cities. This building may be a jewel in the rough.

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  5. I love seeing old buildings like this. Always a treasure to me!

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  6. What neat older buildings. Real life there
    MB

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  7. So what is it used for now? It looks like one of those buildings from way back that was built to last!

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  8. Great old buildings. I liked the ghost signage which added to its appeal!
    Happy New Year Tanya!

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  9. The ghost sign really appeals to me!

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  10. I do like the first shot because of the light. Ghost signs are nice, but light makes a photograph!

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  11. I like those brick buildings, reminds me of where I grew up outside of Boston. Hopefully those buildings will survive. The ones in my hometown all burnt down in the 1980s. Nice photos Tanya!

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  12. Never heard of Emporis but sounds like something useful...going to check it out now.

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  13. I like the new sign posted over the old signs

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  14. Good to see the old buildings standing strong and preserved!

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  15. Emporis is a pretty useful site Tanya.. love that this old beauty and the others are safely on the historic list making them safe from demolition!

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  16. I love these old buildings. I like it even better when they are still standing like this one.

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Hi! I'm so happy you've stopped by and always enjoy your comments :)