The Kordes K orner

John Ellis Kordes

PhotograPhy history

This is the first commercial building built in Garden City dating back to 1874. When first built it only had two stories and no columns. Later a third floor and columns were added. I took this photo in February of 1993 when the Hubbell Klapper Real Estate office was still there on the corner. It had opened in 1919 at that location when the Village incorporated and was the first private real estate office in the Village.

To the right of this building is another commercial building built a year later in 1875. Today, these two buildings are two of the oldest structures left in the village - dating to just 10 years after the Civil War!