Name/Title
Van Syckel Grocery StoreEntry/Object ID
2021.72.53Description
Ed Burns, wearing a white apron, stands in front of 32 East Center Street, the Van Syckel grocery store. A car is parked to the left of the commercial building; a Fire Chief gas pump is visible on the right. Text on the building's striped awnings indicate the shop offered hardware, paints, grocery and meats.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
DigitalSubject Person or Organization
Burns, Edward Thomas 1896-1959, Van Syckel Grocery/J.E. Durham storeContext
Photo caption from "Raising the Roof" 2nd edition, page 127:
VAN SYCKEL'S STORE
1941
Center Street | Douglas
This classy Colonial Revival with six bay windows and a tall pedimented hood over the door was the village grocery store. Note the gas pump. The VanSyckel family operated this store for many years, at first as a combination grocery and hardware business, then exclusively as a grocery. It later became the IGA store operated by Ed and Marge Burns. Now retail space and apartments, slightly altered condition. Destroyed by fire, 2006.Collection
Buildings: Lost, Buildings: Commercial, Commercial businessesCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2021.72Source or Donor
Sheridan, John "Jack" O. 1938-Acquisition Method
DonationNotes
Only exists as a digital file attached to this entry or on the Jack Sheridan hard driveLocation
* Untyped Location
Digital data in CatalogItCreate Date
February 19, 2025Update Date
April 19, 2025
