It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society. This image is another in our winter series featuring the downtown. It is taken from the corner of Main and First Streets, probably around 1900. Besides the massive snowbank it shows is the three-story Bower’s New Metropolitan Block, a five-storefront block built in 1870 when Joseph Bower’s old Metropolitan Block burned. The building lost its third story in the early 20th century, but the rest of the building is still standing today.

Join us next week for another winter view of downtown Whitewater.

(3162PC, Whitewater Historical Society)