November 22, 201311 yr Sherman's home never looked better. And when I say Sherman, I mean the real Sherman. Oh, and it's amazing how Lancaster feels so Appalachian versus, say, London on the other side of the metro. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 24, 201311 yr Nice to see downtown Lancaster holding up well -- love the courthouse concept. Also great to see the Mithoff still standing.
November 24, 201311 yr Nice mix of structures - I'll take one of these, please and thank you :-) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
November 24, 201311 yr Lancaster seems to be a popular town name (wondering to myself how many states have Lancasters...Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, ?) but the Ohio version seems to be exceptionally well preserved compared to many other towns its size. Some curiosities...like the "Hungry?" sign on one old building's ground floor which is hidden behind papers taped on the glass. I assume it was an outreach to homeless or indigents probably by a local ministry or charity. A real surprise was seeing the county's Municipal Courts adaptive reuse plans for the former Columbian building which looks like it will be brought back to its late Victorian era appearance when the project is completed. Some lovely architecture still remains in Lancaster and it was nicely captured in your collection. Thanks for posting and sharing.
November 28, 201311 yr the courthouse is an epic project, thats great to see. i dint know how they managed that one? i had a roomate from the pa lancaster and he always shook his his head at me when i gave him that clevelandy LAAAncAAster thing haha.
December 3, 201311 yr Nice set. Haven't been through town in a while. Love the Southeastern side of Columbus metro...topography makes all the difference.
July 8, 2024Jul 8 Revisiting "Lancaster Revisited" 11 years later and I have to say the city is looking pretty impressive these days. Sustained population growth, the downtown is looking better than ever, and the historic architecture seems to be mostly fixed up and occupied these days, at least in the core. Not quite the doom and gloom that was predicted in Glass House a decade ago. I plan on going back later this summer or fall to really walk around and soak it all up - it's on track to become a really nice satellite of Columbus and a gateway to Hocking Hills even in spite of the unnecessarily huge US-33 beltway. Now, let's see Springfield take this trajectory...... “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
July 30, 2024Jul 30 I love Lancaster. It has amazing architecture, both with commercial and residential buildings. It has good pre-war housing density. It has many of its own amenities that most suburbs rely on parts of Columbus for. And to top it off, it has terrain that you simply don’t find in the rest of Central Ohio. Adding commuter rail to connect Lancaster to downtown Columbus would be incredible. I think you would see Lancaster really take off. The plan to make 33 into a true limited access highway will definitely help though.
July 30, 2024Jul 30 55 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: I love Lancaster. It has amazing architecture, both with commercial and residential buildings. It has good pre-war housing density. It has many of its own amenities that most suburbs rely on parts of Columbus for. And to top it off, it has terrain that you simply don’t find in the rest of Central Ohio. Adding commuter rail to connect Lancaster to downtown Columbus would be incredible. I think you would see Lancaster really take off. The plan to make 33 into a true limited access highway will definitely help though. The Lancaster Invitational at OU-Lancaster was one of my favorite high school cross country races, and OU-Lancaster almost always hosted the regional meet on top of that. The hills around that campus made for a different kind of cross country feel than a lot of the central Ohio programs were used to seeing, since Lancaster sits basically right where the hills begin, whereas Franklin County is much flatter (same with Delaware, Union, and honestly most of the more populated parts of Licking and Fairfield, too). The distance from Lancaster to Columbus probably makes a commuter rail link an impossibility, though. If we ever finally get commuter rail in Columbus, it'll start small, almost certainly entirely within Franklin County to start, and possibly even just within the City of Columbus. The heart of Lancaster is less autocentric than newer burbs, but there's still not what I'd call an obvious spot for a station, even with a park-and-ride facility.
July 30, 2024Jul 30 The existing rail line runs parallel to US-33 and is lightly used. It would need upgrades for light rail due to its condition. As far as a station goes the old station is still there but it was condemned the last time I visited in 2021. It is not really in a premier part of town these days. Edited July 30, 2024Jul 30 by GCrites
July 31, 2024Jul 31 On 7/29/2024 at 11:43 PM, GCrites said: The existing rail line runs parallel to US-33 and is lightly used. It would need upgrades for light rail due to its condition. As far as a station goes the old station is still there but it was condemned the last time I visited in 2021. It is not really in a premier part of town these days. That would actually be a perfect commuter rail line. It already goes through the dense residential areas of Groveport, Canal, Carroll, and Lancaster. It even goes all the way down to downtown Logan and Nelsonville. With a bit of work to extend it, you could get all the way to Athens. There are a lot of people who commute to downtown Columbus from Logan/Nelsonville/Athens, and of course of you have a sizeable student population at OU that are from Columbus.
August 1, 2024Aug 1 18 hours ago, cbussoccer said: That would actually be a perfect commuter rail line. It already goes through the dense residential areas of Groveport, Canal, Carroll, and Lancaster. It even goes all the way down to downtown Logan and Nelsonville. With a bit of work to extend it, you could get all the way to Athens. There are a lot of people who commute to downtown Columbus from Logan/Nelsonville/Athens, and of course of you have a sizeable student population at OU that are from Columbus. GoBus currently runs a CMH-Columbus-Lancaster-Logan-Nelsonville-Athens route (continuing on to Coolville, Marietta, and Parkersburg) 3x a day. https://ridegobus.com/routes/ Seems like it would be a perfect candidate for a commuter rail route. I recall the route being particularly popular for OU students flying out of CMH. I'd love to see something akin to New Mexico's Rail Runner connecting Albuquerque to Santa Fe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Rail_Runner_Express
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