You Got It: Everyone Guessed Correctly in the Historic Photo Challenge

Many of you correctly guessed that the Then and Now photo from last week depicts the current location of .

Matt Fink got the correct answer bright and early, followed by Brian Sakal, Steve, Mark Chester and Brittany, who recalled that her grandfather used to call the building home. To see the "Then" photo, .

According to The Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area:

The building pictured above is located at 143 Church St.

 

The Clinic is now located in the former rectory of St Peter’s Episcopal Church in Phoenixville. The Rectory was constructed in the 1880s and served as the rectory until the early 1990s when maintenance costs for the old building became too expensive for the church to support.

For a time in the 1990s it was used as a shelter for homeless people, but without appropriate supervision, it became a 'trouble spot.' Windows were cracked, and the back lawn was ripped up by youngsters on bicycles. There was a possibility the building would have to be demolished. 

Instead of demolition, Dr. Lorna Stuart and Reverend Marie Swayze raised funds to restore the abandoned rectory, and in exchange, St. Peter's leases the building to The Clinic for $1 per year.