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I'm excited to see this tower get built. This is exciting for Cincy.

I freakin' love these pictures.

I LOVE Cleveland!

So as I understand it, this rendering is not the final design for the hotel? So in other words, there is a chance it could look completely different and hopefully taller?

For your viewing pleasure! 1976 Black & white file photo of Columbus' first skyscraper, the Wyandotte Building at 21 West Broad Street. Downtown circa 1940s or 1950s Sinkhole on W. Broad St. in front of the Palace Theater. The sinkhole resulted from a sewer line that collapsed in the westbound lanes and the car was swallowed in Columbus, Ohio, July 9,1986. Billed as the world's largest pothole . Sitting inside is a Mercedes-Benz driven by local lawyer Michael M. Schmidt. 20-foot-deep hole. Looking west from 3rd and Broad Streets to Lincoln LeVeque Tower. 1925 This 1969 photo shows the Maramor restaurant in Columbus Scioto with city skyline - from McKinley Ave Bridge Civic Center, State Office Building Complex. October 15, 1936 City National Bank, on the southeast corner of Gay and High Streets. Circa 1920 The Broadway Vaudeville Theater, circa 1910s Aerial view overlooking the grounds of Central High School toward downtown Columbus in 1983 F. & R. Lazarus - downtown Columbus - "Northwest corner of Town and High streets where Lazarus store now stands. This fire was faked by a movie company in 1908." The banner on the building reads "FUTURE HOME OF THE F. & R. LAZARUS CO." The signs below the banner reads "Busy Bee" (bread and cakes, chocolates) and "LODGING." Lazarus On Nov. 11, 1918, when an armistice ended World War I, a crowd thronged Broad and High streets. This view looks northeast. Broad and High in 1928 Taken in the 1930s, this view along Broad Street looks southwest toward High Street. In 1957, a billboard advertising Gambrinus beer dominated the corner of Broad and High. The Deshler Hotel.

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Here are some historical photos of streetcars in Columbus. Streetcars ran in Columbus from 1863 until 1948. One of the first streetcars in Columbus in 1863. The earliest Columbus streetcars were pulled by horses. The strike is on in front of the Metropole Hotel, 71 South High Street. In late July 1910, 500 members of the streetcar workers union hit the bricks. They wanted their pay upped to 24 cents an hour. Columbus Railway Power & Light used the double-decker only in 1914, finding it too slow to unload. Streetcars and automobiles share the road on High Street near the Lazarus building in downtown Columbus. At the corner of Broad and High, a trolley car with a billboard urges the buying of war bonds during World War I. Looking north on High St., passengers board a streetcar near Gay St. High St., looking north from State St. on January 21, 1937. In 1947, streetcars stand idle behind this White Castle restaurant at 2725 N. High St. Motorman Charles Davis is about to start the last streetcar run from Broad and High streets to Blenheim Road near Whetstone Park in Clintonville just before midnight on Sept. 6, 1947.

Hi, I'm not exactly new here but it's been so long since I've posted here that I forgot my old user name and password. Anyway, I was checking out some really cool photos in the Columbus Dispatch and I thought I'd share them with everyone here and some of these photos are the first time I've ever seen them or even knew they existed so enjoy. The Columbus that could have been Over the years, several plans have been proposed that never made it off the drawing board. Some of these plans would have greatly transformed the Columbus skyline and the city we know today. Here is a look back at what could have been. A plan for development of Columbus' downtown and riverfront, proposed in 1908 by city leaders and designers including architect Frank Packard, called for a complex of Greco-Roman style buildings, complimented by public walkways and green space, that stretched from the banks of the Scioto River east to about S. 4th Street. Design for the Ohio State Capitol showing changes proposed by Isaiah Rogers, August 24, 1858. In 1993, plans were underway to erect a colossal statue of Christopher Columbus by the Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli. The Whittier Street peninsula, south of Downtown on the east bank of the Scioto River, was the first choice for the location of this statue. Edit to add, as I remember it, even though the statue was a gift, the statue was so ugly and unimpressive that the city refused to build the damn thing and it became the logo for the other paper. An artist rendering of a proposed plan for Franklinton from the 60s. In 1997, voters rejected a tax issue that would fund a hockey arena and a soccer stadium at the site of the old Ohio Penitentiary. Architect's drawing of Trinity Church at the corner of Broad and Third Streets, with horse-drawn buggies outside, depicting the steeple that was never completed, circa 1865. A proposed buidling from the 60s at the site of One Columbus. This is the one that really blew me away. This would have beeen the tallest building in Columbus if it was ever built but in my opinion it would have looked out of place. Anyway, this picture threw me for a loop. Imagine looking down toward the Broad Street bridge from your Downtown high-rise office and seeing a giant, serpentine canopy of cobalt blue glass pieces in the shape of Adams County's Serpent Mound. The serpent-canopy stretches the length of the bridge, mouth open to swallow a giant egg at the bridge's eastern end. In 1995, Todd Slaughter, a Columbus artist and associate professor of architecture at Ohio State University, proposed the sculpture to the Greater Columbus Arts Council. I never did understand what the hell they were thinking with this one. A variation of the Columbus Center at 100 E. Broad St. in downtown Columbus. In 2006, proposals were being considered that would involve expanding the Hyatt Regency Hotel adjoining the convention center. I know we've all seen this one before but this is the biggest rendering of this building I've ever seen. An artist's rendering of the proposed tree-lined Broad Street. This is looking east from High Street. I find it interesting how the dispatch left out the one building they almost built but here it is