We continue to study Tecumsah.

Let's start with this battered old citizen, which appears to have its original facade. That can't be wood.

Now we look at that corner building you see in the banner above.

Looks as though it got some love recently, wth new doors and windows.

Computer, enhance:

Interesting. The building down the street got a haircut, and the Chieftain was painted white.

Scoured and mangled, but you could bring it back to life without a lot of work. Fresh paint, some sandblasting, new windows: she’d be fine.

I don’t know why the building on the left is wearing a concrete hat.

These are even closer to being good-as-new, except for the windows on the left.

The whole block. Rather nice.

Moving down the block . . .

Hallmark and Rexall. Main Street staples, once upon a time. Unfriendly rehab, but it nails a particular era, and perhaps it's good to keep it. At some point, things like that become historic.

We just accepted that the Farm Bureau logo and typeface looked like something from a rejected Star Trek spinoff.

Whatever was on that spot, it’s been gone long enough for the mural to fade and flake.

Rather callous retrofitting of a brotherhood hall for a drive-in bank.

It’s bad business all around. Poor IOOF.

One of the most important commercial buildings of its day, no doubt. Remarkable that the ground floor upper windows were preserved, and the rest of the ground floor so grievously insulted.

If you look closely, you’ll see a great old GE appliance sign. I just noticed it myself.

Rexall, Hallmark, GE. Sigh.

As well-preserved as you could expect, and really, it’s a miracle it’s not gone or slathered over.

Note the cobblestone streets.

ELLSWORTH.

Well, thank you, sir.

It looks so sad, so alone.

Can you guess the purpose? I’d say “City Hall and Fire Station,” since it seems a bit too elaborate for just a firehouse. Let’s get closer.

Ah! I was right.

Really, I don’t look ahead at the stuff in the folder. But that wasn't a particularly brilliant deduction.

Coca-Cola signs painted upon Coca-Cola signs?

Another Google Street car pass:

So much depends on the light and whether it just rained. When it rains, the ghosts come out.