Address OR ????

Which do you think it is ? ....

I'm sure that's when it was built and not an address,but you could always check with the postal service.

Carved into the brick? I'd say it's a date.

Bran <><

Is that concrete? Or Limestone? It's neat, just like the tops of the old stores, if it's carved. But the building dosen't have any of the local characteristics of buildings that old. What do you think?

ng

I really don't know have to ask Jeff when he gets home. Its out in the middle of nothing, on our list to ck. out. 

Definitely looks like carved stone, rather than bricks. I can see in the photo that they are fitted together like stone would be...

Bran <><

I'll go with it being a date!

Didnt the railroad come through your area about 1898?

Don't know the date for sure but, sounds right!

definately the date the building was built....i see that commmonly around here in the older parts of town...they tended to put the year the building was built on it.

Hmmm....I think I have seen that building. Is it west of town?

TW

I think it is an  Address.

Thanks everyone pretty sure it is a year.  And TW yep! 

Being out in  the middle of nowhere and not having any windows that I can see, and the double doors, it was probably an old building for storing farm equipment?  Aand , being out in the boonies I'd say it is most likely a date rather than an address.  May have been built from scrap from another building from where the date block came.  Just guesses. Monty

Looks like a Victorian era-wannabe barn, especially with the fishscale shingles on the facade...

In California, for instance, especially in Redlands, Eureka and Ferndale, a number of the Victorian homes displayed the date completed in the upper eaves...not to be construed as an address...

Ocassionally this also is true of post 1900's commercial and public buildings...

I've noticed this as a practice ranging from 1870's thru the 1920's...

Thanks guys we domthink it is a year tooo!  Want to find owner next!  RESEARCH!   

It's a date, MG.  Since the 911 system came in, you know if it was an address it would say CR1899.  (just a joke, county road 1899)  Nobody would go to that much trouble in those days in the rural areas to put the address on the house, but it would sure be on the mailbox down by the road.

I think it's a date, but what's the address number of the nearest building on that road ?
(Keeping in mind, some places have both old, and new addresses.)

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