Main Street buildings coming down - Easton Funeral Home/Bean Hollow (Coffee) to Valmos Bros/Phoenix

The demolition will be documented here, so pictures will be added throughout the process. These are the last three buildings protecting the 1830 RR Station (the oldest in America) by blocking the flood waters down Main Street.

Updated: Feb 7, 15, 24, March 3, 8, 15, 29, 30

Mar 30 Funeral home back removed

Apr 15 Funeral home

Apr 15 Funeral home, front steps and back

Apr 15 All 3 buildings down (a couple lower walls of Phoenix) Train Station seen.

Feb 15 Phoenix front sidewalk

Mar 8 Phoenix front, roof and top two stories removed, thin black fabric obscures view

Mar 15 Phoenix ground floor

Feb 7 Phoenix side and back scaffolding

Mar 3 Phoenix and Funeral home/coffee - top floors gone

Feb 15 Phoenix side

Mar 15 Phoenix side

Feb 15 brick piles wrapped in plastic

Feb 15 Alley

Feb 24 Alley small

Mar 30 Backs removed, large alley

Feb 2 Scaffolding erected, Easton bldg back west side

Mar 8 top floors removed

Feb 15 Easton funeral bldg scaffolding

Feb 7 scaffold

Mar 15 Funeral side

Feb 24 Great Panes building demolished

Mural on the Phoenix and two stained glass window panels on Great Panes, were recently painted by artist Mark Russo. More info with better pictures HERE

Easton Sons Funeral Home blog post HERE

Demolition of Great Panes blog post, photos Dec 2023- Feb 2024 HERE

Excellent aerial views of demolition March 19 at Historic Ellicott City By Air HERE

Dec 28 Phoenix mural was torn down with the garage early morning Wednesday, Dec 28. (The County Office of Public Info had said the demolition would start in January) So, children off from school, could not see it before going into the train station for their holiday train displays.

©2024 Patricia Bixler Reber
Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD