Posted December 6, 201014 yr Hi everyone @ UrbanOhio. First time poster here. Some of you might know me from the SkyscraperCity forums and for a time, the SkyscraperPage forums. I visited a large city in the state of Ohio for the first time last spring and it was none other than the closest Ohio city to me, Toledo! I went to the Glass City in April of 2010 to see a couple of Mud Hens game and to check out the city and the Toledo Zoo. It was an amazing time, despite only staying a couple of days. Without further ado, my tour of Toledo... Huntington Center (formerly Lucas County Arena), home of the ECHL's Toledo Walleye Commodore Perry Hotel (now an apartment building) Looking up at one of Toledo's tallest, the Fiberglass Tower, once the world headquarters for Owens-Corning, now vacant... although soon-to-be-renovated... Seagate Convention Center Looking up at the National City building, completed in 1930 Riverfront Apartment Building How Toledo got its recognition as the "Glass Capital of the World" ToledoEdison building Riverfront buildings, including 1 and 4 Seagate My hotel, the Park Inn downtown My room, very nice... 15th floor view... of Fifth Third Field and downtown! Historic block across from Park Inn on Summit St. Fort Industry Square, downtown Toledo... Riverfront Promenade An interesting building and Anthony Wayne Bridge... Downtown skyline Docks Complex from across the Maumee River... Anthony Wayne Bridge Crowne Plaza Hotel, Imagination Station building, and One Seagate One Seagate, in the sun, where Fifth Third Bank is located... Looking up at One Seagate... Statue of the heads of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Cherry Street bridge... Skyline from the Cherry Street Bridge... Looking across the river at Toledo's south part... Glass City Skyway over the Maumee River Toledo's industrial signs... One Seagate again... Four Seagate Interesting Park downtown... Toledo Blade building with City Hall in the background... Base of City Hall... Looking up at Toledo's UNREMARKABLE city hall... Founding of Toledo plaque House in downtown Toledo... St. Paul's Lutheran Church The Cute Hamlin Inn... Lucas County Courthouse, completed in 1897... Toledo and Lucas County Public Library, built 1917... Hannon's Block (renovated) Buildings near and around the stadium and arena... Table Forty, opening soon... Pizza Papalis... a popular Detroit area Pizza eatery serving Chicago-style pizza... Cute market... This looks like either an old theatre or warehouse... Where I ate supper Friday night... Spaghetti Warehouse... St. Clair Village, near downtown... Swamp Shop building, where Mud Hens and Walleye merchandise are sold... Downtown Toledo... Skyline... Old Factory on the riverfront, not sure what it is... Fountain near Imagination Station museum on riverfront... Trinity Episcopal Church Valentine Theatre, home of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra... Another cute clock in downtown Toledo... Huntington Bank Building... National City Building... KeyBank building in a square near the arena... A little music hall at the base of the National City Building... ToledoEdison building from the rear... Huntington Center... One Lake Erie Center... Coming soon... Mud Hens game and Fifth Third Field, night time shots, Toledo Zoo, and Old West! Enjoy!!! Be proud of your city, Toledoans!
December 6, 201014 yr Nice pictures, and Toledo looks really good structurally, but everything looks deserted.
December 6, 201014 yr Looks like you captured Waite High School, which has twin (Scott) in the Old West End.
December 6, 201014 yr Welcome to Urbanohio, Jaybird! That's a really comprehensive tour of downtown Toledo, and excellent photography! I spent a bright, cold, windy Saturday in November walking around there, and you captured most of the places I noticed. Toledo looks a lot better with the green foliage in your photos. Thanks for identifying the buildings in your photos, too. Nice pictures, and Toledo looks really good structurally, but everything looks deserted. I echo that sentiment. During my November Saturday walkabout, except around the public library, at a few bus stops, and in the few cars that passed by, I saw almost no people anywhere. Despite losses of landmark buildings in recent years to a couple of fires and some demolitions, there's a wealth of beautiful, massive, imposing commercial architecture in downtown but a lot of it is vacant, at least so far as the street-level retail space is concerned. Even the Commodore Perry Apartments main lobby entrance was closed, with litter accumulated in the doorway and a sign in the window advising visitors to go to an entrance in the rear where there's an intercom and a keypad. The cold wind and low-angled intense early-winter light added to the atmosphere of desolation.
December 8, 201014 yr Really good pictures. It's uncanny that just late last week I was thinking how this Photo section needed a Toledo update. We got it...quite comprehensive. Neat little place...
December 8, 201014 yr yeah if im not mistaken that was an irish bar in the 80's. had an upstairs and equally large downstairs area. cant remember the name of it.
December 12, 201014 yr Thanks, guys, yeah, a few people thought I did a better job showcasing Toledo than any of its tourism ads combined! Toledo's got such a nice downtown, but it's too bad there aren't as people around to enjoy it. Though with the Fifth Third Field and Huntington Center and the emergence of the Warehouse District around it, downtown's heading in the right direction. Now they just need to get people to live downtown or maybe have another major employer move downtown or something. Toledo-native Jamie Farr would be proud of this, I am sure. Second part COMING SOON!
Create an account or sign in to comment