I had thought I’d catalogued every 1920s stamp on the east side of Lansing, but I was wrong. I stumbled across this 1925 Lansing DPW stamp on the south side of Fernwood Avenue between Magnolia and Hayford.
Fernwood St., Wm. Meister, 1924
This stamp from William Meister is on the northwest corner of North Hayford Avenue and Fernwood Street, facing Fernwood. (Google Maps thinks Fernwood is an Avenue but all the street signs I’ve seen have it as Street. I’ve found quite a few of these Street/Avenue discrepancies.) There’s another one a bit further west on Fernwood, the same year.
My previous entry on William Meister referenced an old Lansing State Journal article I had found which reported that Meister and Fred Johnson would be constructing a new cobblestone entrance to Moores Park from Woodlawn Avenue, one which promised to be “one of the most attractive and artistic of any in any of the municipal walks.” I remarked in that entry, “I am not very familiar with Moores Park, so I don’t know what the walk in question looks like today.” Now seems like a good time to mention that I later checked the Google Street View of the Woodlawn entrance to Moores Park and could plainly see the sloping cobblestone-lined path. It is indeed attractive. It would lead one right to the Moores Memorial Natatorium, a historic and impressive-looking raised pool currently threatened with demolition.
Fernwood Ave., C. Gossett, 1960
I have cleared up the mystery regarding the initial before “Gossett” on those Regent Street stamps: it is definitely “C”. I found this very clear example on the south side of Fernwood Avenue a short distance west of the intersection of North Hayford.
C. Gossett must have been in business at least a little while, as I found a classified advertisement in the October 29, 1949, Lansing State Journal: “Building, repairs, concrete work, and basements sealed.” Unfortunately, nothing else is given besides the name and a phone number.