c. 1898 photo of Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

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Looking north from at the corner with Union Ave.

 

From l to r:

- Fire Department Headquarters (with doors open; nw corner of Front & Union; after renumbering: 57-63 S. Front Street)

- Chickasaw Park (w/ little storage building and shelter for people to wait for horse drawn street cars/carriages? Or may be City Inspector of Weights and Measures; 315 S. Front)

- Cossitt Library (nw corner of Front & Monroe)

- Customs House / Post Office

- Orgill Bros. & Co. (hardware & agricultural implements; 310-312 S. Front)

- Fly & Hobson, 322 (Doc W. Fly & Samuel Hobson; wholesale grocers; 320-322 S. Front)

- M.E. Carter & Co. (Matthew E. Carter; wholesale produce and commission; 324 S. Front)

- Howell, Turner & Co, Grain Dealers (326 S. Front)

- E.C. Buchanan & Co. (Edward C. & James A. Buchanan, grain wholesalers; 328 S. Front; after later renumbering: 80 S. Front)

- A.W. Newsom & Son (Allison W. Newsom & D. Blair Newsom; commission; 330 S. Front)

Done