Melissa Jones, teacher at the the North Guilford School, 1931 to 1949. According to a Shoreline Times article, Miss Jones never missed a single day of school. A new elementary school built in 1953 to replace the rural two-room schoolhouse, was named in her honor.
John Petzel Sr. and Joe Slovinski demonstrating the Sweitzer-Line Fully Automatic Indexing Pallet Line from Sweitzer Foundry Equipment (division of I.S. Spencer's Sons Inc.) located at 20 Fair Street c. 1930s
"Artisans in Metal" is painted on tower's South facing wall.
The original foundry building was erected in 1857 as I.S. Spencer & Sons Foundry. For the latter part of it's foundry life, the building took the name Ferrocast, before closing its doors in 1981.
This pre-construction photograph shows the overgrowth of the backyard and West facing facade of building and tower. The buildings on the foundry lot were built between 1872 and 1910.
Looking down from foundry building west onto basement foundations, the town houses were built in the same footprint that the foundry's outbuildings had once been.
Tower has new windows installed on lower two floors, while broken windows remain elsewhere. Sign reads: "Eighteen Fair Street, Construction by J.A. Nash Co. Inc. Builders"
The column seen in the window of this picture is the tell-tale sign that this dinning room is in one of the new construction townhouses, not the original foundry building.
This living room with fireplace is located at Western end of original foundry building. Note the old exposed wooden lintel of the door in right of photograph.
