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The local history may be best recorded by some of the old surviving homes on
Blackstone Avenue which are in the Register of National Historic Places, including the Ella Hoxie Home (251 N. Blackstone Avenue); Brix Home (313 N. Blackstone Avenue); Griffen Home (319 N. Blackstone Avenue); Hines Home
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Blackstone Avenue vicinity during this period. Orchards and row crops had been largely replaced by commercial and residential
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northeastern part of the city. This street is the location of a number of historic structures and is also the locus of a considerable concentration of retail commercial land usage. The campus of the
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