I posted this photo from a glass slide back in October, 2008, asking if anyone could identify it. Before posting it, I asked Broad St. Park historian Jim Collelo if he could identify it and he came up with the same conclusion as I: We didn't know. Subsequently thereafter, a comment was posted from "Lakeside Girl" who wrote as follows: ..
Hi Tom, This house was the home of the owner of Mack Toy Works in Yardville. It was situated on the curve of Broad St where the 7-11 and Rite Aid Drugs now stands. In the background you can just see the long low factory building. After the house was gone, the factory building became a hardware and paint store. It later was later leveled in a fire. "Lakeside Girl"
Hi Tom, This house was the home of the owner of Mack Toy Works in Yardville. It was situated on the curve of Broad St where the 7-11 and Rite Aid Drugs now stands. In the background you can just see the long low factory building. After the house was gone, the factory building became a hardware and paint store. It later was later leveled in a fire. "Lakeside Girl"
Today, April 7, 2009, Pam Townsend, who is related to E.S. Willey, a native of Broad Street Park from its earliest years of the latter part of the 19th century, positively identified it.
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Pam wrote:
I hate to disagree, but this was the home built by E. S. Willey c1897, though changed dramatically, is still standing. The side of the property sits on Lafayette St. I have the original picture, probably taken from your negative. It was passed down from E. S. Willey to his daughter Marion, my grandmother.
THANK YOU PAM! YOUR INPUT IS APPRECIATED. THANKS ALSO TO "LAKESIDE GIRL" FOR HER INPUT.
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Is this on the corner of Park Ave and Lafayette Ave
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