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Middletown Buildings Building List What is this building? Bld 007      

 

What is this building?
Could these 3 photos all be the same building?  Could it be Bld 007? - The Davis Building??


Swain Plumbing Ph6294.jpg
Memories, p 65, UL
Sign: "Swain's Shop"/ Plumbing Bicycle Auto Gas Electric Wiring"
 

McMullen Bros Plumbing - Ph6520.jpg
The Middletown Community Review, p 16, UL - Abt 1916

The Middletown News - Otis Strickler, Editor - Article says this is the Davis Building - Ph6229.jpg
Memories, p 34, UR
"South Side of Locust in the Davis Building"
Sept 1913 - sold to Otis Strickler -- Changed name back to "Middletown News" 12 Dec 1913 -- Otis died 1 June 1934. -- his son Wyatt Strickler became owner and editor [Memories, p 34]

 

Bld 0007
Could this be the Davis Building? 

I definitely think so -31 Dec 2008 - [Memories, p 76] states that the building on the left side in the photo below was added in 1947 for a showroom for the Chevy and GM Appliance dealership of Dietrich Sales - Also in 1928, there was a huge fire in the main building and was extensively damaged.  The Dietrich family did a major remodeling of the building, possibly making the drastic changes to the front of the building from the picture

In Image Ph6370 and Ph6315 there is an old fashioned gas pump in front of the center front door


Ph6370.jpg - Memories, p 159, UR - abt 1975

Ph6169.jpg - Robbhaas Photo - Dec 2008
Can this be Bld 007 ??

Ph6315.jpg - Memories, P 76, LR - abt 1925 - Could this be Bld 007 ??
Thelma Dietrich driving a new Pontiac - Bud Dietrich is behind her in rumble seat
Text states Dietrich sales was in the Davis Building
Frank Dietrich bought the Davis Building in the 1920s
 

 

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S2 No Source - This data was obtained early in my research before I knew the value of recording sources.  I will venture a guess at a source if I can.  
S3 Baker, J David. The Postal History of Indiana. Leonard H Hartman, 1976  
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