Then and Now - A Little bit of History Detective Work

Here is a picture taken, I assume, by Grandma Gardner of her family of boys. It is marked in her own hand as being taken in Geneva. Though the house bares little resemblance to the house of today. I wondered if the house in the background isn't a house across the street. Perhaps the Boehme, or Marx residence. It does appear as though there is a road between them and the house.

Below is another picture taken of Lynn and Rex and the same house.

 Here is another photo, perhaps taken by J.O. which appears to be of the same vintage, though probably taken on a Sunday, and different day than the others,  and possibly was taken by the Geneva home.

The number of windows also indicates that the home in the back is a larger home than the one which we visited in Geneva. It is pictured again below for comparison.

The first picture, with grandpa and the boys in the wagon was probably taken in the yard, camera facing North, catching the Boehme home in the background. Here is the Boehme home as it stands today, with two apparent additions, and taken from a different angle, but the roof is of the same type. as the one in the first picture.

Now if you can imagine the picture being taken from in front of the wall you see in the right of the picture, and imagine the added on portion removed and replaced with a porch, I think we may have a match!

This being perhaps settled, it looks like this picture was taken between the Creamery and the house.

The Boehme home is the one you can barely see behind the tree and the pickup truck. the foundation in the foreground also post-dates the pictures above, according to Delbert Marx. It is, he said, a furnace building that was added later to make steam, which made heat for the creamery. Interesting that it was added later and was taken down sooner!