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[Postcard: Grundy Tower Senior Living Apartments across from the Bristol Municipal Building at 250 Pond Street]
The fountain in the front is the "Memorial Fountain." -
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[Ground breaking for the Grundy Tower apartment complex on Pond Street, opposite Mulberry Street and the Bristol Municipal Building]
This was the former site of the freight station of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
From left to right are: Leonard N. Snyder, Grundy Foundation Director, Thomas E. Morris; Grundy Foundation Trustee, Oscar M. Hansen; Grundy Foundation Trustee, Karl Gabler; Ex-Director of Bucks County Housing Authority, W. James MacIntosh; Grundy Foundation Chairman and Trustee, Edwin R. Rummler; Grundy Foundation Trustee, and Albert E. Harker of Fidelity Bank. -
[Building at the corner of Wood and Market Streets opposite from Bristol Fire Company No. 1]
The building dates back before the American Revolutionary War. It has been said that American officers from that war stayed in this building for a while. We (Harold and Carol Mitchener) know that the Friends Meeting House (Quaker) at Market and Wood Streets was built in 1711 and served as a temporary hospital for American troops during that war. -
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[Houses constructed in 2005 by Bristol Contractor Ralph DiGuseppi, President of Borough Council at the time of this photograph being taken]
The last use of this site was Walnut Hill Wax Company. These houses are called by that name. The one-way street through the complex was named for the contractor. During World War I, this had been the site of a heating plant which supplied heat to the houses in the newly constructed town of Harriman. After the shipyard’s closing, which was supported workers from Harriman, the Bancroft Hickey Company, a firm that made grinding wheels and abrasive products, occupied the site. The wax company burned in January 2001 and the lot was cleared. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
[Corner of Market and Cedar Streets]
As of 2017, the building is owned by the Bristol Riverside Theater on Radcliffe and Market Street. -
"Benj. Lantell. Merchant Tailor. BRISTOL, PA. 1887"
Benjamin Lantell was the great-grandfather of Albert DeVoe. He lived at 334 Dorrance Street. At that time, the numbering system was different and the number was 54 Dorrance Street. His tailor shop was at his home. -
[Walnut Street in the snow]
Walnut Street begins at Radcliffe Street and ends at Pond Street. On the right is the former Baptist Church, now (as of 2017) Spotlight Holy Temple and St. James Episcopal Church. On the left was the former Washington Hall, now a private residence. -
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[400 Otter Street]
Was once the site of Leibfreid Lumber Yard in the early part of the twentieth century. By 1941, Farmers Quality Food & Supply co-occupied the site. By the 1950s, David Landreth operated the Bristol Seed Company. The next occupant in the building adjacent to the street was Bristol Glass. By 2000, Bristol Glass moved to Cedar Street. The middle of these parallel rectangular buildings was removed. In 2001, the property was unoccupied. -
[412 Otter Street]
Home of Peter and Sadie Grosky, who operated Bristol Beef, a slaughterhouse at 533 Maple Street. The house is now listed under the name of Aaron Mittleman, a family member, and the business is now called Bristol Park. The business has been a wholesale meat business (as of 2001). -
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[Pear Street at Jefferson Avenue]
The houses were built for workers at adjacent mills. It has been removed and lots created by the removal are parking lots. One of the families that formerly lived there and in the featured photograph is the Walt Munibach family. -
[210 Jefferson Avenue]
The house shows five windows across. A line on the right side of the house (in 1998) indicated that an addition was added. Also evident is the original chimney, which is now protruding two windows to the left of the present right side of the house. The porch roof has been raised to just below the third story. The house was owned by Bristol Councilman James Douglas and wife Dorothy. -
[Man atop horse in front of house on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Pond Street]
This mansard roof house on a knoll surrounded by a white wooden fence is now the site of the former Jefferson Avenue School, opened in 1909. The former school is now called "The Jefferson" and is an upscale condominium. The stone house, partly visible to the right, was standing as of 1999. William and Mary Grundy, and their children Joseph and Margaret, moved to Bristol in 1877 and occupied the house when William Grundy started the Worsted Mill, now on Jefferson Avenue and Canal Street. The last known family to live in the house was John and Elizabeth Smiley and their children. It was owned by Joseph Peirce, who started the Bristol Improvement Company and erected the Grundy Mill building. Florence C. Smiley Foster, one of ten children of John and Elizabeth Smiley, described the appearance of the house in a paper she wrote about her family history. She said it had 2 rooms, seven per floor. There was a large front porch and balconies on the second and third floors. It had a bathroom a tank on the top floor in what was called the tank room for bath water. Her father would pump water weekly to the tank from the cellar. The fenced yard was large, especially the front. There were beautiful blooming lilacs and azaleas. Her father grew lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes in the backyard, and shared them with neighbors. He also put baskets in a tree for boys to play basketball. Mr. Peirce, the owner wanted the Smiley family to buy the house because Joseph Grundy wanted to purchase it to tear it down and have a public school erected there. The Smiley family did not have the amount of money to purchase it and they moved to Lafayette Street. Joseph Grundy purchased it, had it torn down, and donated the land for the building of Jefferson Avenue School. -
[Parade on Pond Street approaching Jefferson Avenue]
On the right is Jefferson Avenue Public School (opened 1909). The groups may have been from St. Ann (Church and School) celebrating a special religious day. The photograph was taken in summer (note the leaves on the trees). Religious processions were known to be held by the congregation of St. Ann Church located at the corner of Dorrance and Pond Streets. -
[A parade float turning the corner from Pond Street on to Jefferson Avenue, traveling to Radcliffe Street]
Note the building at Jefferson Avenue and Pond Street with the metal awning over the sidewalk--a grocery store. This warmer weather image may have been a celebration at the conclusion of World War II (1945) with a parade. -
[A religious parade from St. Ann Church on Dorrance and Pond Streets]
The nuns and other participants are photographed on Pond Street about to turn on to Jefferson Avenue. To the right is the Jefferson Avenue Public School. -
[Jefferson Avenue at Pond Street]
The mansard roof house stood on a knoll where the Jefferson Avenue School was built in 1909. The former school is now called “The Jefferson” and is an upscale condominium. The stone house to the right remains today. The dairy wagon is of Appleton’s Dairies. The driver is not identified. -
[200 block of Market Street]
The house with the windows boarded up was the Bilger home. They are deceased and a new family renovated it. The double house is one of the older houses in Bristol. -
[House at the corner of Linden and Miffin Streets]
At the time of the photograph it was owned by William Grow and his wife Beatrice.Tags Bristol Borough -
[Linden Street looking toward Otter Street from Mifflin Street]
Green Street is on the right, just before the "Do not Enter" sign. -
[Gazette Office building]
This building was erected in 1874 as a one-room school house by the Society of Friends (Quaker). In the early 20th century it was rented by various organizations including the American Legion (1924-1929). One of the groups that rented it, eventually purchased it (Bristol Travel Club). They sold it to the Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation in 1991, which uses it as their headquarters. At the time of this photograph, it was the office of The Gazette, a local newspaper. -
[Photograph approximated to be Bath Street near the corner of Buckley Street]
At the corner of Bath and Buckley Street was a local grocery store owned by J. F. Wear--the name which appears on the delivery truck to the left. The business behind the tree was occupied by several drug stores. Presently the former grocery and drug store buildings were removed and a lot with landscaping is on that site (as of 2014). -
[Unidentified woman posing on bridge over the Delaware Canal at Beaver Street ("Forge Bridge")]
Concrete bridge built in 1929 to replace 1827 wooden bridge over the Delaware Canal at Beaver Street. Known as the Forge Bridge, it was removed in 1960 when the canal was filled with soil. Photograph says house in the background belonged to a sea-captain. -
["Forge Bridge" looking east toward the river]
The bridge is over the Delaware Canal as part of Beaver Street. The original wooden canal bridge (1827) was replaced by this bridge in 1929. On the right is Buckley Street. The canal ceased to operate in October 1931. This bridge was removed in 1960 and the canal on either side filled in. The house was removed when the Snyder-Girotti Elementary School was constructed in 1956. -
"In front of John Johnson [illegible]"
Information related to John Johnson from the Bristol Directory provided on back of photograph.Tags Bristol Borough -
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Postcard: "Washington St., Bristol, Pa."
Inscription on back of postcard reads: "Lizzie we are having a good time. Bert and his family are all well. from Anna Grow." Addressed to "William L. Grow, 298 Alter St., Hazleton, Pa."
Stamp on back circa August 15, 1908. -
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Postcard: "Jefferson Avenue, showing Public School, Bristol, Pa."
School was opened in 1909.
Multiple copies available within the collection.
One copy has the inscription: "May 6, 1915, 307 Washington St., Bristol, Pa. Hello There, Did you rec'd your grass I send you last week. William Duncan (v. soon)." Addressed to "Mrs. Howard Lewis, Aquetong, Bucks Co., Pa."
Another copy reads: "Dear [Bao] and family, did you get word about poor Uncle Wm dying Sunday night at about 11 o'clock. Funeral at 130 Wed--afternoon. He surely was a patient sufferer. Hope you are all well as this leaves us all well except [Joe]. Love to all from [Mallie]." Addressed to "Mrs. G. W. Keller, Norfolk, Va. R.J. D. No. 1." Stamped February 27, [1915]." -
Postcard: "Jefferson Avenue from Pond Street, Bristol, PA."
Jefferson Avenue School was opened in 1909. It is the first building on the left. -
[House with unidentified people on the porch is on the north side of Layfayette Street in the two-hundred block]
Looking between that house and the one to the right, there is a large stone house in the background. This house stood on a property at Jefferson Avenue and Pond Street until it was removed to make room for the Jefferson Avenue School in 1908-1909. -
[No. 804 and no. 806 Mansion Street]
Identification is being based on two letters received.
Number 804 was the home of Jenny and Louis Townsend. Identification was made by Mrs. Louis Townsend (Helen), of 607 Nolan Avenue, Morrisville. She identifies the house on the left (number 806) as the home of Mae and Harry Carter. A second letter of identification was received from Gladys Wink Carlen, who also recognized the house as belonging to the Townsend family. -
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"Walnut St., Bristol, PA"
Walnut Street taken from corner of Wood Street. In the background is PA Railroad and gate keepers post on the left. The name "Carter" is a printed advertisement for "Carter’s Little Liver Pills” on the J. J. Tyrol Wood and Coal Company, which was along the canal. Snyder-Girotti Elementary school sets on this property presently and the canal was filled in. The grocery store on the right belonged to Morris Helyer. Date of photograph is unknown, however, active railroad stopped in 1911. Street is also unpaved. -
[Building with red siding was the former home/carriage rental business of Ellis Comfort, located at Dorrance & Cedar Streets]
There had been a livery stable behind the house. Their son Ellis ‘Speet’ Comfort, once operated an antique repair shop in the building boarded up in the photograph. The house now has new siding and a large fan-type window on the side third story where the two windows are located in this photograph. -
[721 Cedar Street]
The lot to the left of the house was part of the property of Comfort’s Lining and Carriage Rental business. William Salerno (as of 2000) has his law office at 220 Radcliffe Street in the former Thomas Scott house, just south of the original Farmer’s National Bank (presently called Wells Fargo).Tags Bristol Borough -
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[Porch of Walnut Grove]
The home of the Grundy family at the corner of Newport and Newportville Roads opposite the Neshaminy Creek. -
[Two homes with "Carter, Housen, Townsend" written on front of photograph]
Believed to be on Garden Street between Beaver Street and Jefferson Avenue. The names on the front (Carter, Housen, Townsend) have not been traced; however, they were Bristol families.Tags Bristol Borough