McClung’s Hdwe. Buildings, east of Broadway Viaduct 2

This photograph from the Post Sign Company collection looks in a southeasterly direction from the Broadway viaduct toward the spire of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Summit Hill, formerly Gallows Hill in the 1930s. The houses seen to the right of the church on the bluff are now all gone, replaced by Ryan’s Row townhouses in the 1980s and the new condominiums known as City House Town Homes. The Crane company building in the foreground and the larger C.M. McClung Warehouses, adjacent to the left, were poised for redevelopment before they caught fire and burned down in two enormous blazes early in this century.