Well, this actually was posted 8 years ago, so you perhaps do not remember it, but in an old post of mine, I considered the Calvary Lutheran Church getting replaced with an apartment building named The Element. THIS one will consider a place that ended up having a very similar situation that actually occurred on the same street, but at a corner.
Now, what actually got replaced with an apartment building HERE was a former funeral home. It was first built as an Italianate house in 1873 (this year would have been its 150th anniversary).
Well, that building actually had kind of an interesting history. It was obviously first built as a certain family residence, before it became a funeral home years and years later. It was also a different funeral home by the name of Hickory-Kent before it got converted into the Olsen Funeral Home in 1987.
The place was the second of two Olsen Funeral Home locations, with the first one being over in Jefferson (THAT one was renamed the Olsen-Gibson Funeral Home in 2017).
Sadly, the building’s Olsen Funeral Home days came to an end as well in June 2013 when it was sold. I remember driving past it all those times with my family or so, Olsen Funeral Home or not. Once I also saw people going in there with balloons (when it was still operating as Olsen).
Then, one day in September 2015 as my sitter was driving me home from middle school, I made a sad discovery: the Olsen Funeral Home building was still there, but it would not be for long. Around it was one of those metal fences along with signs, including one saying a new apartment area was coming in June of 2016 at the corner.
And, oh yes, both the building and the tree surrounding it got taken down after that and replaced with what is now Campus Edge Apartments.
Although hey, at least people who prefer apartments have been having a slightly even better chance in Whitewater now, of course…
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