Saturday, November 3, 2007

St. Francis de Sales? I Don't Think So

After the kerfuffle, below, about a picture identified by the library as St. Anthony but which appears to be St. Joseph's, in Maumee, I decided to run this one. It's identified as St. Francis de Sales.
UPDATE: Kevin Hammer pointed out, by noticing a sign at the upper left, that the picture's reversed. Mystery solved. It's the old St. Paul's Methodist, which was torn down in 1914.
Take a look at the facade of St. Francis de Sales and tell me how that's possible. Notice the positions of the tower and the side doors. I'll be doing a bit of research tomorrow to see if I can figure out what it really is.

2 comments:

Kevin Hammer said...

To me, it looks like the old photo print is reversed - the 2nd word on the advertisement at the upper left looks like "pianos" backwards.

Jeffrey Smith said...

You're right, which means it's St. Paul's Methodist. It was torn down in 1914.