A Window Was Here

A bricked-up portal on a Willett Street building.

Rows of Ghosts

A building full of bricked-over "ghost" windows at the corner of Maiden Lane. The first floor of this building used to house a shoe repair shop, but has been vacant for some time.

The Ghost Window

Look closely and you just might see it...the faint outline of a round window on the north wall of Coulson's News on Broadway.

As I wrote in a previous blog, this building just a few steps south of State Street was built around 1814 as a four-story brick commercial building. In the 1850s, another story was added, but if you look closely at the north side, you can still see the outlines of the original gabled roof and, up near the point of the old gable, the circular outline of an old window, too.