New Borden house photo found!

While watching the documentary “Murder in the Family,” produced for American Justice and A&E, “newsscout” noticed and reported to me that the film contains a hitherto unseen image of the Borden house on 92 Second Street. I looked at all my sources and online collections and lo and behold I discovered that it is indeed a rare shot, and one that does not seem to be reproduced in any other source. Below is a screen capture from that film.

After careful examination, the conclusion is that the building to the right of the Borden front door is the rear shed from the Kelly yard. It appears to be so large because of an optical illusion created by the position of camera so low to the ground and the angle of the shot pointing up towards the front door, capturing the distant building as looming much larger than it did in real life.

Ta da!

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