The Grabowski Home

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Image courtesy of Aneta and Zenon Grabowscy.

This photo shows the home of Teofil and Wanda Grabowski at 6430 Grand Boulevard in May of 1928. The handwritten caption translates (via Google) to something like "Spring — estate of T.H. Grabowski." The photo shows the park-like grounds in bloom, and right in the middle, there's Wanda (I'm guessing) with baby Edwin.

The photographer (was it Teofil himself?) stood southwest of the house, pointing the camera northeast. Behind mother and baby we see the driveway that goes down to Grand Boulvard/S.R. 51, flanked by three brick pillars, two of which are still standing. Further north are a couple more brick pillars, which haven't survived. In the background, above that bench in front of Wanda, I believe we are looking at John Dorman's stone pillars.

The Grabowski home was as close to Ainsworth as to Hobart, but the caption associates the property with Hobart — by then incorporated as a city — rather than with the tiny unorganized Ainsworth.