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A rare image of Georgetown (c.1910) photographed
from what is now I-70 facing east. Taken with a "fish-eye"
wide-angle lens, what it lacks in perspective, it more than makes
up for in detail. For example, in the left center, a view of the
Catholic Church, which burned down in 1917, and to its immediate
left the Catholic Hospital. To the right of the Church is the rectory
and to the right of it and a little below, the Catholic School.
All four of the buildings in the Catholic Church complex are gone.
Also of interest: In the left center of the
photo is the 11th Street bridge and just above it and a little to
the left is the Georgetown Railroad Station. The long white building
in front of the station is unidentified, and would be of interest
if anyone knows. Just to the right of the 11th Street bridge is
a two-story building, once the Depot Hotel, now gone. It is now
the parking lot of Tasso's Restaurant.
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The grouping of trees in the right center is,
of course, City Park. In the original, the trees are easily identified
as deciduous, probably cottonwoods - the evergreen trees now so
prevalent started growing a few years after this photo. Also requiring
the original to appreciate are the Kneisel House and Barn on the
small hill in the distance, between 9th and 10th Streets. This view
is particularly interesting because it shows the barn with its original
front building, now missing.
Also interesting are the backyards of the houses
facing Rose Street (most of which are with us today), the cribbing
along the creek, the 10th Street bridge (long gone) and a number
of buildings closer to the downtown area (right center). The dozen
or so buildings in the foreground ont he west side of the creek
are all gone, many when I-70 was built in the 1960's.
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