The postcard view above is of West Fifth Street (east of Oberlin Avenue), looking towards Hamilton Avenue (barely visible at the far right of the photo).
And here’s the recent “now" view.
As a bonus, here’s a Google Maps street view circa July 2019 (below). Gee, those lawns look parched.
With so many of the homes in the 1924 view having been torn down, it’s not much of a Then & Now. It’s more of a lesson in how the tornado changed the look of Lorain’s streets forever by eliminating so many of what now be century homes.
However, the one house in both views is the beautiful, historic one at 440 Hamilton (below). Here are two recent shots.
Local historian Loraine Ritchey has featured this home on her blog, noting that it was built for the well-known Wickens family of Lorain.
