We now turn onto West C Street in Belleville, and discover a building whose originally purpose remains unknown to me. Was it a Turnverein or some other German social organization? I don’t know, but perhaps a reader does.

We next come up to a short private street, Voss Place, which betrays its obvious Teutonic origins with its name.

I strongly suspect the brew masters, doctors and bankers of German Belleville lived on this street, with a short walk to their businesses north and south of the dead end place.

I can’t figure out this house below. I only think that it was once much different in appearance, perhaps Italianate in style and has been heavily altered.

What is interesting is that the houses on Voss Place are not huge, but they are much larger than the surrounding working class homes.

We head back out into those smaller houses, and work our way back to Main Street.

We’ll definitely be doing more exploring of the back streets of Belleville in the future, as we look into this architecturally rich community.