Washington Street – Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas 1890
2010
When ancestor Glendora Watrous left Salt Lake City, Utah for Wellington, Kansas it was 1895. Just five years after this photograph was taken. Washington Street, which is the main street into downtown Wellington is today lined with homes and trees. The street is paved and has curbs and gutters. Glendora lived with her sister Camilla Pancake Elliott and Camilla’s family on this street. The house they lived in was built in 1904. Prior to that time they lived in another home, also on Washington Street but closer to the main part of town. Their quaint, new Victorian-style two-story home looked out on the street and down the street before the trees grew in the way. It is easy to see that it was quite some time before Wellington took on the look it has today.