Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
P0057_0183 |
Collection |
Portsmouth Housing Authority |
Title |
Vaughan Street |
Date |
circa 1967 |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
2000 |
Description |
View of a commercial and residential property with two storefronts and an apartment at 117-121 Vaughan Street on the corner of School Street in the North End, Portsmouth, NH. Image and report (see link) by Ralph S. Foster Co., Inc., as part of the original Sales Study (Original) for the Acquisition Appraisal for the Vaughan Street Project, Portsmouth Urban Renewal, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Each sale was selected for "the purpose of assisting in the determination of land value within the area of the taking." According to the report (Land & Building Sale #44), Barbara Byrns Schmidt-Courvoisier & Jean Byrnes Zacharias sold the property to Bishop L. & Jewel L. Buckley on February 1, 1962. Barbara and Jean were the daughters of the previous owner, Ernest Howard Byrns, who ran the Portsmouth Fix-It shop there from about the 1940s until his death. On the typescript report under the comments section is the following: "Busy street, congested." The building was demolished during urban renewal. |
Studio |
Ralph S. Foster & Sons, Fitchburg, MA |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Print size |
4.5" x 3.25" |
Multimedia Files |
Click here for the Acquisition Appraisal Sales Study on this property. |
Search Terms |
Portsmouth Housing Authority Photograph Collection (P0057) Portsmouth Housing Authority Vaughan Street Urban Renewal Project North End (Portsmouth, NH) Vaughan Street School Street Meserve-Webster House (Vaughan Street) Al's B-Z-B (Vaughan Street) Progressive Beauty Shop, The (Vaughan Street) Buckley's Barber Shop (Vaughan Street) |
Subjects |
Urban renewal Surveys Neighborhoods Demolished Vernacular architecture Stores & shops Storefronts Apartments Beauty shops Barbershops Signs and signboards African Americans Black history Greek |
People |
Buckley family Buckley, Bishop L., 1918-2009 Buckley, Jewel Courvoisier family Courvoisier, Barbara Schmidt, dfl. 1976 Mosley family Mosley, Elease (Brinson), dfl. 1967 Schmidt family Schmidt-Courvoisier, Barbara Ann, 1914-1996 Zacharias family Zacharias, Jean Byrns, 1920-2014 Byrns, Ernest Howard, 1883-1961 |
Caption |
119 Vaughan Street |