July 2025: South Irvine Avenue (32 pages, 5.5 x 8.5")

Highlights:

• The neighborhood’s easy access and transportation to schools, work, shopping

• Ghosts of A Street: 3 structures no longer there

  • 296 A St., a bungalow designed by architect E. E. Clepper

  • The Hall Institute

  • 323-25 A. St., which had its finale as a haunted house before being demolished

• Christian Science Church/Walnut Lodge

• Dr. John M. Irvine, namesake and community leader

• The stylish homes of the 100 block fade away

• St. Scholastica Academy/former Samuel Kimberly mansion

• Former Nazarene Church

• Intercity bus garage

• McIntyre and Sons contractor office

• Former gas stations at South Irvine and West Budd Street

• Union Brewing Co.

• Former West Side Fire Station

• Washington’s farewell address: The remaining stub that used to be part of Washington Street through the downtown

• Where Sharon began with its first log cabin

• Kissinger/Herrmann’s bottling company

• Former Sacred Heart Church now the ACTS Performing Arts Center theater

• Sacred Heart school

• St. John’s Episcopal Church

• 1871 Sharon map

• Excerpt of a 1901 panoramic map of Sharon

• Color 1920 Sanborn Map Co map showing every structure in the tour area