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222 Lower 1st St (NW 1st St)
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a.k.a. Cheese Hill
a.k.a. Monkey Wrench Hill
5xx NW 1st St, originally 222 Lower 1st St
Evansville, IN
Quick Timeline
| c1874 | House is built |
| c1914 | House is razed |
Location
South corner of 1st St and Third Ave
District: Downtown
Latitude: 37.973657
Longitude: -87.578618
Architecture
History
Comments
originally a nice residence later neighborhood worsened nickname cheese hill 1st and third tenement housing condemned raided by police often ordered razed but injunction to stop razed c1914 photo 5/1/6 ejn site of many fights and murders condemned and razed c1914 as city cleanup
See also
HistoricEvansville.com: Residences / Domestic
HistoricEvansville.com: Downtown district