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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

1881: THE POLK BUILDING


In my opinion, my friend Sally Lane Graff is the expert on local Trenton architecture. The photo at the top shows the intersection of South Broad and Front Streets; a familiar area to me and many of my contemporaries. Directly below is an enlarged segment of the building shown on the corner of Front and Broad. "POLK - 1881 - BUILDING" can be clearly seen in this historic photo segment. Trenton has lost many of its lovely old architectural gems to the wrecker's ball. The article immediately above from 1919 tells of R.L. Polk, whose company was well known when I was in the business many years ago. One of their products was the sale of categorized mailing lists.It's so nice when two relevant photos and articles combine as in the above article and photo.