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Downtown Columbia, KY, from 90 ft up, from Ladder 1 2012-02-18 - From 90 ft over Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by David Taylor. While onboard during initial flag flying exercises on Ladder One, Friday, February 18, 2012, David Taylor shot this new new look at Downtown Columbia,, Jamestown and Guthrie Streets, top left of Clocktower; and Fortune Street, Guardian Street and Graded Hill, top, right of the clocktower. In the lower right corner can be seen the sunroom of or county lodgings at 201 Greensburg Street. Just above that, the large red brick building is the Adair Annex (1992), and clockwise around the Public Square, the Downey-Wilson Building and the balance of the 400 Quadrant of the Public Square. the red building with the Early American windows is the Collins Building, famed for the local legend that a stanza of "Bivouac of the Dead" was written there, then in the 300 Quadrant around to the three story gray - fronting on the Public Square, four story on Reed Street - Columbiana/Russell Building; then the 200 Quadrant, from the Jeffries Building and showing on the Burkesville Street side the Arnold or Firestone Building; in the 100 Quadrant can be seen the Bank of Columbia, then the Dan Antle/Reed Bros/Hunter Durham and James Zornes law office; and, on the corner, the Bowman/Young's Rexall/Motor & Electric/ and Photo Video building. The white gable/red brick front in the lower left is Joyce and Greg Coomer's Printing Creations building, and the large white building midway up the left of the photo is the Adair Sales Company (Morris Epperson and Louis Merkley Ford dealership) building. The black sloping roof of the top-and-one end building is the Jiffy Castle/Angels Cafe building, constructed originally by a Mr. Wooten, the brother of the late Columbia business and civic leader Ruel Wooten. -Ed Waggener Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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