Those Places Thursday: 213 Dennison Street, Little Rock

[dee_burris]

My maternal grandparents lived for at least 9 years in this tiny little rent house, still standing on Denison Street.

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Image from Google Maps




1940 Polk's Little Rock City Directory

They were still there in 1949, which was the year they moved into the home they had saved for many years to build.

For cash.

Their "new" home never had a mortgage on it until it was sold to a new family after my grandmother's death in 1998.

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Granddaddy's parents are shown in the left-hand column of the City Directory.

I couldn't find a decent Google Maps image of that address (or the one that I hope is still standing at 217 Denison), so my handy-dandy GPS and I are going to do some driving, cameras in tow.

The house at 217 Denison was a multi-generational home and will have its own entry, whether I can get a photo or not.

**It will be interesting to see how the GPS spells the street name - with one N or two...I find it both ways all over old documents...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

IS this an old phone book listing? How/where do you find these old listings?

[dee_burris]

Yes, on Ancestry on the main search page (in the old view) you can look at the menu on the right and it's under the Schools, Directories and Church Histories listing.