Water Lot 28, today home to the Pastimes and Teak & Soxy shops, is home to historic downtown Princeton’s oldest building, its first brick building
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LOTS O’ HISTORY – WATER LOT 29 (505-509 WEST WATER | HORSERADISH)
The brick-and-block building at 505-509 West Water Street, today home to Horseradish, was built in 1906 and replaced a frame structure erected about 1851. Here’s
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, 1954 An anonymous writer last month dipped his or
LOTS O’ HISTORY – BLOCK E, LOT 5 (424-428 WEST WATER)
(Editor’s note: With this post, we’ve completed surveying the first 100 years of each of the lots, buildings, key owners and best-known occupants for the
LOTS O’ HISTORY – BLOCK E, LOT 4 | 432-438 WEST WATER
Only one original building remains on Lot 4 of Block E – the building at 432 West Water Street, today Candi’s Corner and known to
LOTS O’ HISTORY – BLOCK E, LOT 1 (AMERICAN HOUSE | 440-444 WEST WATER STREET)
The best source we have for tracing the development of the Water Street business district is the history of early Princeton published in 1869 by