front street sw – Noel B. Poirier

One House’s Story: Flaccus Brothers

The Flaccus Brothers house on Front Street SW in New Philadelphia, Ohio, 2018. (Source: google.com)

I’ve driven past this New Philadelphia building many times and, given its proximity to the railroad tracks, had always assumed it was somehow connected to a railroad. I now know that it was associated with an entirely different type of business that sat on that property for many years at the beginning of the 20thContinue reading “One House’s Story: Flaccus Brothers”

One House’s Story: The Wallace Family

The Wallace House on West Front Street in New Philadelphia, Ohio, 2019. (Source: google.com)

This house rests in an area that was considered, at the time it was built, as the outskirts of the city of New Philadelphia. Today, however, it sits at one of the busiest intersections on the west end of the city and is seen by countless passersby. This is one of its stories. A noteContinue reading “One House’s Story: The Wallace Family”