Recently I wrote about the lost East Second Street historic district (today the Premier Health Tower).
For today’s post we’ll shift south one block to see how the entire east side of Main and the north side of Third have also been lost to demolition over the years, not at the scale of the biggest urban renewal projects like Center City West, Midtown Mart, or even Courthouse Square, but causing a similar effect when repeated on multiple connecting blocks over time.
On the corner in the foreground in the image below is the Callahan Bank Building, after its remodeling in 1920 which added several floors onto the original portion. (This is the building where Paul Laurence Dunbar worked as an elevator operator.)…