Before Ace Hardware, Medina site was a lovely home

Posted 24 March 2014 at 12:00 am

By Bill Lattin
Orleans County Historian

MEDINA – This 1890s Queen Anne style house was located on East Center Street in Medina.

For many years it was the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert J. Richards. He was for decades the leading professional photographer in Medina. A.J. Richards lived from 1868 to 1949.

In the early 1970s this house and one west of it were torn down for a super market, leaving the Richards’ house site for a parking lot.

The present business located there is an Ace Hardware. A Jubillee grocery store was at the site prior to the Ace Hardware.