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Piqua: High Street and Wayne Street
Left: Horses were a more popular form of transporta- tion in 1913 than cars because of cost, but for those who could afford them, cars were making their way onto streets more and more. High water stranded an early model car at the corner of West High Street and Wayne Street.
Right: Today, you won’t see high water or a classic
car stuck at the intersection of High Street and Wayne Street, but you can still nd out what time it is because a clock – not the same clock as in 1913 – at right, still stands. In late 1913, the United States government purchased the stately, brick Kiefer house on the corner to build a Neo-Classical Revival style post of ce. The white building to the west of the post
of ce was built in 1848 by the First Baptist Church of Piqua and remains a unique High Street building. At some point after the ood, the tower at the front of the building was removed. In 1929, the building was dedicated as the Warren Lodge Masonic Temple.
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