“Gratiot Avenue and Church Street, Mount Clemens, Michigan,” between 1880 and 1899, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
From the 1870s until World War II, Mount Clemens attracted film stars and the wealthy to its mineral baths.
The view of this intersection today is here.
enclos*ure 
Definitely prefer the “before” view, which is just lovely.
The before is so much better.
What a sad-making comparison.