Hamilton OH's North Front Street in 1875

• The "BENDING HUB & SPOKE FY." between the Miami River and Water Street is almost certainly Benninghofen & Wuechner, managed by Michael Wuechner
• The "SASH DOOR & BLINDS" immediately north of it is almost certainly the factory run by Michael Eisel, whose son Charles married August Ludeke's sister
  Louise.  A 1910 ad for Charles F. Eisel's Miami Planing Mills gave an address at Dayton and Monument Avenue—the latter being Water Street's new name
  after the Hamilton Soldiers Monument was built in 1906.
• Lot numbers don't match street addresses.  The Wuechner home at 124 North Front Street wasn't on Lot 124 (right edge of the map, east of Second
  and north of Stable) but on the "corner of Front St. and Magnolia St.—an alley" between Dayton and Stable (later renamed Market).  The house was on the
  east side of Front, indicating the Wuechner house was on Lot 120, south of the Magnolia Street alley: a short distance from the hub-and-spoke factory.
  The Ludeke "cottage" at 120 North Front was wedged in between the Wuechner house and the carriage factory to the south.
• The Eisel family lived at 108 Dayton, little more than one block (or "square") away from the Wuechner and Ludeke homes, and similarly just across Water
  Street from the sash-door-and-blind factory.
• Becketts Hall (corner of Second and High) was the site of the Knights of Pythias Hall; also meeting here were the Knights of Honor and the Wetzel-Compton
  Post of the GAR.
• By 1913, the Phillips House at the corner of Front and High would be the Hotel St. Charles, run by ex-Mayor Bosch and Louise Ludeke's 2nd cousin Mary
  Schwab Bosch; a photo of it can be found at ~stcharles.  This is where the Ludekes were headed during the Great Flood (about which see Chapter L-4).
• North Front Street has been renamed Riverfront Plaza.  The Courtyard by Marriott Hamilton hotel (previously the Hamiltonian) is south of Dayton, facing
  Magnolia—and the site of the Wuechner and Ludeke houses.
  
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