Put your building's history in the window
For businesses: put an old photo of your building in the window with a short, sourced caption. Our tour's notes for each stop are a starting point.
- Who
- Businesses
- Time
- Half a day
- Cost
- Low cost
- When
- Any time of year
- Show up
- In your shop window, for passers-by.
How to do it
- Find what's known: our tour, the Archives, the museum.
- Use a photo you own or a public-domain one, credited.
- Write 2-3 sentences, with the source.
Why it matters
Support business activityHistorical contextPreserve historyHelp the town prosper
Related
- Our Photos wanted page
- Ask a shopkeeper one question
- Spend a Saturday morning on the square
- Ask a business how it started
- All 150 things to do together
Sources
Know better? If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us.
Did it? Send us your photo or story. We print kids’ first names, faces or photos only with a parent’s OK.