Former Romanian rooming house
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855 Rice Street was built in 1889 and was a Romanian rooming house during its early years, and later a mattress factory. In 1910 it was one of three such rooming houses near this corner, each operated by a small Romanian family and housing ten or eleven Romanian laborers working for railroads, city street crews, local foundries, or the nearby Crex Carpet factory.
Date: June, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
This file appears in: Remnants of the Streetcar Era
Remnants of the Streetcar Era
All along Rice Street commercial buildings predominate, designed for profit, not for show. Between 1880 and 1925, both sides of the street from Sycamore to Maryland filled with storefronts and…