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2617 Olive Older Than It Looks

March 9, 2012 Featured, History/Preservation, Midtown 3 Comments

The other day I noticed a nondescript little building I’d driven past hundreds of times but never payed attention to before. This day I was a pedestrian and it caught my eye.

The one story building at 2617 Olive is easy to overlook, halfway between Sam Light Loans and AT&T, it just disappears. From across Olive the storefront caught my eye.

Cast iron? At home I looked it up on city records and it says it was built in 1883! A 1907 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows the building as being 3-stories in height and having a stone front, one of a group of eight such storefronts.

The point? None other than I found it interesting.

– Steve Patterson

 

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  1. William Kruse says:

    I used to ride my bike past that printer every day on the way to work. I always wondered what quality their business card stock was. I hadn’t thought twice about it since I moved to D.C.
    Thanks for the memories.

     
  2. William Kruse says:

    I used to ride my bike past that printer every day on the way to work. I always wondered what quality their business card stock was. I hadn’t thought twice about it since I moved to D.C.
    Thanks for the memories.

     
  3. William Zbaren says:

    I know that building & like you I never gave it any attention _ its thanking you now Steve! _ such a sweet post…..

     

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