Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County

Those were the days. !!! So elegant

so elegant <3!!!

KATHERINE HALE KINGSBURY (FREDERICK EDWARD10, CHESTER LYMAN9, ALBERT8, ABIJAH7, NATHANIEL6, DANIEL5, DANIEL4, NATHANIEL3, JOSEPH2, JAMES1) was born 8 Dec 1893 in Keene, NH, and died 7 Sep 1977 in Keene, NH. She married PHILIP HANDERSON FAULKNER 22 Jun 1916 in Keene, NH, son of FRANCIS FAULKNER and MARTHA RIPLEY. He was born 30 May 1883 in Keene, NH, and died 30 May 1959 in Keene, NH. from the Kingsbury Family Genealogy

was held at 180 Court Street Keene

This gem still exists at 150 Court Street and is being well maintained. It is unaltered from the old stereograph other than having no shutters. I am immensely enjoying researching and matching these old photos to existing structures and happily discovering so many of these beautiful old homes still exist and are lovingly maintained.

I grew up in this house, which is at 151 Court St. My parents owned and operated the 180 Court St Nursing Homes, of which this home was a part. We lived on the 3rd floor of 151 Court, and the first 2 floors hosted nursing home residents. We bought this house from the Kingsbury family, who I believe may have been the second owners. The home looked just like this photo when we purchased it in 1967 (or maybe 1968). We painted all of the homes in the nursing home corporation the same lovely shade of yellow, with almost-black dark green shutters. Those buildings were this home, 180 Court St., 39 Summer St and 45 Summer St. The business was sold off to Genesis, I believe, when my parents retired in the mid 1990s. This house has a couple of ghostly spirits, and there was an active bat cave in the dome at the time we lived there. It was a delightful place to grow up - I have so many stories!

I'll bet you do have some stories Susan. So good to read your comments and receive more information about this house. Growing up in Keene I never tired of the beautiful old houses along Court and Washington Streets and many of the side streets that would entrance me.

love the colors

Nice collection of vee-dubs!

I had one like this only it was a =412= model..it was yellow and turned 0ut to be stolen in Florida and brought it to Chicago where they sold it to me for $1400.00 five year later.....I was going to get in trouble...but I had proof that it was'nt me......I got lucky and got my money back!!Th. for the photos....

Thanks for adding this photo to the Vintage Volkswagen Dealerships group!

Its interesting to see this line of “duds” in VWs transistion from the highly successful Beetle to the successful Rabbit. VW had a hard time pushing those 412s out the door while competing with the modern Audi sourced Dasher. These are unsold 1974 models as these was no 412 for 1975. Both these models soured people on VWs and sent them into Japanese showrooms never to return. Even today VW enthusiasts stay away from these models.