I was at the clerks office yesterday searching land records for close to 3 hours.

Here is a few photos from a big Meridan map from 1891.

Attachment 44325

Charles Parker Mayor

Did you determine who owns the building now?

I was not at the clerk researching the building. I was researching a particular Parker employee.

I am not even sure what the technical address of the former office building is today.

Google Maps shows the address as being 16 Cherry Street. I wouldn't put a lot of faith in that number's accuracy, but it's likely pretty close. As that section of Cherry street is blocked off along the railroad tracks immediately to the left of the office, effectively dead-ending it, so it shouldn't be difficult to identify the property's location within the context of a phone conversation.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5346...!3m1!1e3?hl=en


Bing Maps shows it as being 30 Cherry Street, and also offers bird's-eye views of the proprty:

http://www.bing.com/maps/#Y3A9NDEuNT...UyMFN0YXRlcw==

http://gis.meridenct.gov/meriden/PropertySearch.aspx

Click on 26 Cherry St. for assessment account info

Erick

Last sold in '02 for $66k. What a bargain.

The build date of 1900 doesnt sound right though. Maybe it was last added to at that time. ???

in many cases (at least around here), when the more modern record keeping started they just picked a generic date as a build date for older buildings. We looked at many old homes before picking this one that showed that practice- ours has a historic plaque on it that says built in 1830 (and we know that to be approximate for the start of construction)- but the listing had a generic date


good luck on your research- looking forward to another of your articles

What did the office building originally look like? I assume the overhead door sections did not exist?

Leave the overhead doors in place. I plan to park a couple of rods in there.