This image, from August 1930 depicts the street work in full swing.  The building near the center of the image at 144 North Champlain Street is a two-story brick building with two bays along the gable end and four along the eave side facing North Street.  The east end of the structure has a separate entrance on the eave side facing North Street and over the years businesses ranging from a cobbler in the early 1900’s [1] to a barber shop in the 1960’s and 70’s. [2]   The main commercial space is accessed through the storefront on North Champlain Street. The structure itself is shown on an 1889 Sanborn Insurance Map as being two and one half stories tall [3] and a 1903 city directory lists C.D. Vincent as selling boots and shoes in the commercial first floor and the St. Germaine family as residing in the upstairs apartment. [4]

            To the left of this building there can be seen three houses of different design.  All three appear to have been constructed around the end of the 19^th century and all three were demolished around the time that the new Lawrence Barnes School was constructed, in 1957-58 based on the 1960’s updates to the 1942 Sanborn Map. [5]

            Visible between the construction equipment to the right of the building in the image’s center is a small, one and one half story, transverse gable dwelling at 138 North Champlain Street built near the end of the 19^th century.  The building stands intact today with little change visible on the exterior with the exception of a different paint color.