A look at lost buildings in the rarely-photographed 600 block of Ward Street.

Bits of three buildings that burned in Nelson in 1972 and 1976 are still with us, but you have to know what you’re looking at.

For a period in the 1910s and ‘20s, if you wanted to rent transportation, you’d head to the nearest livery stable and be asked: “What’ll it be, horse or auto?”