Terre Haute Postcards - Wabash Avenue (3)

More postcards from my collection...

Wabash Avenue looking East from Herz's Store

This unused postcard has just the printed text - Published by A. Herz, Terre Haute, Ind.

Wabash Avenue looking East from Herz's Building

This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on December 3rd, 1909, has the printed text...

No. D3965
Pub. by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
ANC NY Litho-Chrome trademark logo
Leipzig - Berlin - Dresden

Wabash Avenue looking East from Herz's Building

This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on April 17th, 1911, has the printed text...

No. M-3144
Pub. by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
ANC NY Americhrome
Leipzig - New York - Berlin
Printed in the United States

Wabash Avenue looking East

This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on August 18th, 1913, has just the printed text 6868

Designed by W. Homer Floyd and built by William Riley McKeen in 1906-07, this building was constructed for Adolph Herz (1843 - 1917) at 646-652 Wabash Avenue. It was a five-storey building faced with enameled brick and had three elevators and a mezzanine. Next to the store was the brick three-storey Pennsylvania Railroad ticket and freight office which became the Herz annex in 1915.

Herz store was demolished in the spring of 1971, but the postcard was taken from under the store's awning looking east. The turrets of Terre Haute House can be seen on the left (north side of Wabash Avenue). The building stood in this form from 1855 to 1927. The large building on the right (south side of Wabash Avenue) is the Terre Haute Trust building which was built in 1908.

Heart of the Business Section, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused postcard has just the printed text 4498

This photograph was taken just east of the Herz building looking east. On the left can be seen the turrests of the Terre Haute House and on the right the Terre Haute Trust Building behind which is the Tribune Building.

Wabash Avenue looking west from 6th Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

This used postcard with an unreadable post stamp has the printed text...

No. C8359
Published by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
Dresden - Leipzig - Berlin
Made in Germany
ANC NY Litho-Chrome Trade Mark

On the left are visible the turrets of Terre Haute House and on the right the domes of St. Benedict's Church.

I have another copy of this postcard posted in St. Louis in 1908.

Wabash Avenue west of 6th St., Terre Haute, Ind.

This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on July 17th, 1914, has the printed text...

10774
Pub. by The Amerigraph Co., Chicago
Amerigraph Co, Chicago trademark logo

Some copies of this postcard were published by the Valentine - Souvenir comapny and have the printed text...

10774
The Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York.
Printed in U.S.A.
Valentine - Souvenir trademark logo

I have other copies of this postcard, one stamped in Terre Haute on October 15th, 1914 and the other posted in Terre Haute on February 24th, 1917.

Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Wabash Valley News Agency Inc., Terre Haute, Ind.
Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

Terre Haute is as old as the State of Indiana itself. In 1816 Indiana was admitted to the Union and Terre Haute was incorporated as a town.
Situated at the center of the Nation's population, it is recognized as one of the key cities of the United States. It is easily reached by railroad and highway from all directions that it is an ideal "Convention City."
It is the center of industrial, educational and recreational activities of the fertile Wabash Valley region. Terre Haute, West Terre Haute and North Terre Haute contain about 75,000 inhabitants. The Terre Haute trading area embraces a population of over 250,000.

By the 1940's, when this photograph was taken, the streetcar tracks had been removed. Signs for Berry's Choice foods, Gillis drugs and Singer Sewing Machines can be seen on the left (south side of Wabash Avenue). On the northwest corner of Seventh and Wabash stood Hook's Drug, on the southwest, Hanover Shoes, on the southeast, Merchants National Bank and on the northeast corner stood Terre Haute House. This photograph was taken about the middle of the sixth block looking west.

This page created 28th April 2008, last modified 2nd January 2010