Gillette Tavern/Kubach General Store, 1905 (Scrapbook Excerpt)
Black-and-white photograph with four men, one woman, and two girls standing in front of a two-story tavern/inn. A horse-drawn carriage with one horse is on the left side of the building, and a horse-drawn carriage for Bohemian Bottled Beer is stopped in front of the building.
Name/Title
Gillette Tavern/Kubach General Store, 1905 (Scrapbook Excerpt)Entry/Object ID
P-611Tags
19th Century, Warrensville Township, Businesses, Moreland Neighborhood, Lee RoadDescription
Page from a Warrensville Township scrapbook (SCR WAR 5) with a black-and-white photograph (P-611) depicting the Gillette Tavern/Kubach General Store, built c.1860s-1880, at the corner of Kinsman (now Chagrin) and Lee. Land and tavern were sold to Fred Kubach in 1901, and Fred and his wife Amelia operated a general store through the mid-1920s. Fred and Amelia raised two daughters, Prisca/Presca Kubach Ellicott and Louisa/Louise Kubach Fieg. Handwritten note on the back of photograph 150.79, which is identical to P-611, identifies the people as (left to right): Prisca's uncle, Fred Kubach (Prisca's father), Louisa Kubach (Prisca's sister), Amelia Kubach (Prisca's mother), Prisca Kubach, and the village baker. The man at the bottled beer carriage is unidentified.Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Gillette Tavern, Frederick Kubach, Amelia KubachSubject Place
Neighborhood
Chagrin-Lee-AvalonCity
Shaker HeightsCounty
Cuyahoga CountyState/Province
OhioCountry
United StatesCategory
Photographs, Scrapbook
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