Built in 1906, The New Union Garage at 643-5 Maryland Ave. NE served as a garage for over 100 years until it was closed in 2013 and converted into 3 large condos. Developers recreated the historic façade and sign from an old photograph and added two floors above the original first floor. Rumor has it that President Lyndon Johnson once had his car serviced here.

Friends of ours own the brick house to the left of the condos, and I remember when it was an operating garage. They weren’t happy about the conversion and in particular the addition of the two floors.

NOTE: I’ve quickly uploaded pictures of three commercial buildings that might have interesting histories but aren’t too much to look at.

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For more information on this historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

An old Piggly Wiggly, posted earlier: