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Winston Street Scene

Winston Street Scene

Photograph shows a business block at the corner of Fourth and Liberty streets in Winston. Businesses seen are: Griffith. [Moore]; T.S. Black, Groceries and Confectionaries; and Smith’s Drug Store.

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  1. The photographer was probably standing just behind the northwest corner wall of the first Forsyth County Courthouse. These businesses lined the west side of Liberty Street, with the business marked “Griffith Moore” sitting at the northwest corner of Liberty and Fourth. This may have been a “block” of businesses, but nothing approaching the size of a city block. Probably no more than 50 adults could have stood shoulder to shoulder across the entire expanse of buildings shown in this photograph. The side of the Griffith Moore business faced Fourth Street and would have coincided with the front of today’s O’Hanlon Building that was built in 1915. That building was erected primarily because of extensive fire damage done in 1913 to the three story O’Hanlon Building built in approximately 1895, which itself was built after these buildings burned down sometime between 1890-1895. Smith’s Drug store had a pretty hot location (right across the street from Thompson’s Drugs at the northeast corner of Main and Liberty). Thompson’s was a brick building and more established than Smith’s. Thompson’s was basically behind the Fourth Street side of the courthouse and usually even had a law office operating upstairs. But O’Hanlon’s apparently was able to compete very well and probably could not resist the present day location. I would bet the public got great drugstore service after 1895.

    1 | Gary Isenhour Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:41 am

  2. Thank you for this excellent information!

    2 | Gary Albert Monday, April 25, 2011 8:47 am

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Image Details

created
Post 1950
creator
Unknown
description
Photograph shows a business block at the corner of Fourth and Liberty streets in Winston. Businesses seen are: Griffith. [Moore]; T.S. Black, Groceries and Confectionaries; and Smith's Drug Store.
hasFormat
Real Photo Postcard
hasVersion
4214.100
identifier
https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/hp1/ols_hp1_00283.jpg, https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ols/hp1/ols_hp1_00283-th.jpg, https://hdl.handle.net/10339/16517
isPartOf
Pilot Project
isReferencedBy
ols_hp1_00283
issued
Post 1950 copy of a c. 1880 photograph
publisher
Old Salem Museums and Gardens
rights
The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. Images and text may not be used for any commercial purposes without prior permission from the Forsyth County Public Library. When use is made of these images and texts, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain additional permission as necessary and to observe the stated access policy, the laws of copyright and the educational fair use guidelines. All FCPL photographs must be credited as follows: Courtesy of the Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
rightsHolder
Old Salem Museums and Gardens
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
title
Winston Street Scene
abstract
Copy of a c. 1880 photograph
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