Picture East Windsor - Then And Now

EAST WINDSOR, CT — Today's edition of this periodic informal history series, highlighting businesses from East Windsor's past and what those locations look like today, brings us to our first look at a sensational picture book called Images of America: East Windsor. Released in 2017, the book was compiled by Ceil Donahue and Jessica Bottomley for the East Windsor Historical Society.

The building featured today, on School Street in Warehouse Point, dates back to 1910,and served as a hose house for firefighters, eliminating the prior need for a bucket brigade. In 1916, the building was expanded to the rear, and a bell tower was added. Very little change has taken place to the exterior in the past 100 years.

Here is a more contemporary look at the building, courtesy of Google Maps.

Do you have a photo of an old East Windsor business which no longer exists, to which you own the copyright and which we could feature in this column? Email tim.jensen@patch.com.

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