I have some information on the history of this site. With the help of Sanborn Insurance Maps (confirmed by photos), the building that is there is not from the 19th century, as KenRoe has already said at flickr.com. A 1914 map, which was updated (by pasting changes over the original) up to 1933, shows a vacant lot. Roebling didn’t used to go over to Lee. Lee was solid from Wilson (which wasn’t changed from “Hamburg” during WWI, by the way) to Division St. The older building was surely torn down when the street was built, and given the shape of the current building following the new street line, was followed soon by new construction in 1919. It was Payton’s Theater in 1904 (according to a map of that date), and was very likely still the remodelled Lee Ave. Baptist Church at that point. The Lee Ave. Academy followed the church, and Payton came after that.
I have some information on the history of this site. With the help of Sanborn Insurance Maps (confirmed by photos), the building that is there is not from the 19th century, as KenRoe has already said at flickr.com. A 1914 map, which was updated (by pasting changes over the original) up to 1933, shows a vacant lot. Roebling didn’t used to go over to Lee. Lee was solid from Wilson (which wasn’t changed from “Hamburg” during WWI, by the way) to Division St. The older building was surely torn down when the street was built, and given the shape of the current building following the new street line, was followed soon by new construction in 1919. It was Payton’s Theater in 1904 (according to a map of that date), and was very likely still the remodelled Lee Ave. Baptist Church at that point. The Lee Ave. Academy followed the church, and Payton came after that.