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This Place Mattered

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Jerry A. McCoy

on May 30, 2009 3:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I thought I'd do a follow-up to my "This Place Matters" May blog entry with photos of "This Place MATTERED"...due to the fact that these buildings have been demolished or so egregiously altered that in essence they have been demolished.

958 Thayer Avenue, site of a commercial structure designed in 1946 by the Pittsburgh Place Glass Co.  Building demolished in 2009.  Photo by George French.

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Jerry McCoy is founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create and promote awareness and appreciation of downtown Silver Spring's heritage through sponsorship of educational activities and the preservation and protection of historical sites, structures, artifacts and archives.

Jerry may be reached at sshistory@yahoo.com or 301-537-1253. The society's web site is sshistory.org