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Jim Loucks has forwarded scans of some of the photos he took (and some others) in the mid-80's of the 1200 block of Tenth Street. Here's one of them (many more later...)

That's 1219, 1221, 1223 Tenth Street, with 1225 (I guess) on the left.

Here's the early May version

You'll notice several things: Trees are flourishing. 1225 on the left is where it was, and the other three are glorious. Here's more detail:



and, on a sad note, the notice on 1225

The editor understands that it's been condemned as structurally unsound. There have been buildings like that, left for many years with nothing done and then unrecoverable.

More on the 1200 block of Tenth in a bit.