Downtown

View on Webster Street, postcard (c1890).jpg

Looking northeast form the roof of the Real Estate Exchange, illustration (1893-08-05 Tonawanda News).jpg

Main street in foreground. Hotel Sheldon seen at Main and Goundry. Herschell carousel tent down Goundry. The Real Estate Exchange was a six-story…

Looking northwest form the roof of the Real Estate Exchange, illustration (1893-08-05 Tonawanda News).jpg

Webster Street buildings in the immediate foreground. Beyond is Manhattan Street, the lumber yards, and Tonawanda Island in the Niagara River. Far in…

Smith Building, northeast corner of Webster and Tremont, illustration (1893-08-05 Tonawanda News).jpg

View of Webster Street, illustration (1893-08-05 Tonawanda News).jpg

View on Webster Street, postcard (c1895).jpg

Webster Street, postcard (1900).jpg

Webster Street, with dog, postcard (c1900).jpg

This postcard from around 1900 is one of my favorite views of Webster Street (facing north). You can see trains used to run right down the street near…

South Niagara Street, looking west, Tonawanda, postcard, c1900.jpg

State National Bank, postcard (small) (c1900).jpg

State National Bank, postcard (1906).jpg

YMCA building, postcard (1908).jpg

Webster, Manhattan and Sweeney streets, map detail (1908).jpg

Y.M.C.A. Building, North Tonawanda, postcard (1908).jpg

The YMCA Building, postcard (1909).jpg

Real Estate Exchange Building, postcard (c1910).JPG

Webster Street, facing south, postcard (c 1910).jpg

Webster and Sweeney, Scanlons Hall c.1910 (Tonawanda News, 1978-03-23).jpg

Webster Street, postcard (c1910).jpg

View on Webster Street, postcard (1911).jpg

First M. E, Church, hi-res postcard (1912).jpg

Dodge and Bliss, Hotel Washington, Webster and Main north of Goundry, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg

Also on the map: Thompson Ice Cream Company, Transfer Lumber and Shingle.

Sweeney Street, Niagara Silk Mills, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg

Webster Street north of Tremont, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg

Webster Street south of Tremont, map detail (Sanborn Map Company, 1910, 1913).jpg

Fowler Block ("Moving Picture Theater" was earlier known as Scenic Theater), State National Bank Building.

Webster Street looking south, postcard (1917).jpg

Webster Street, two views, photos (Erie Canal Museum, 1920-08-03).jpg

Tonawandas Newest Civic Center, photos and article (Ton News 1924).png

Abandonment of Erie Canal from Ellicott Creek, removal of train tracks from Webster in NT and Main in Tonawanda, automobiles. Also view of Van Raalte…

Webster Street, postcard (c1928).jpg

Webster Street, postcard (c1930).jpg

Webster Street, Burtch Drugs and Rivera Theatre, postcard (c1930).jpg

Smiths Dining Car, Exchange, Tremont and Webster, postcard (1936).jpg

Webster Street, Bridge over Canal, postcard (c1940).jpg

Webster and Bridge, split, postcard (1948).jpg

Last of Manhattan Eyesores Comes Down, photo (1950-08-15 Tonawanda News.jpg

Sweeney Building, Ton Power Company in 1920s, photo article (Ton News, 1965-05-08).jpg

Fowler Block renovations, photo (2007-10, Google).jpg

Webster Street, numbered Fowler Block and south (2007-10, Google).jpg

View from Real Estate Exchange building c1910, photo (Historical Society of the Tonawandas).png