GRAND RAPIDS, Wood County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DELTA, Fulton County

 

 

 

 

BRYAN, Williams County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SANDUSKY, Erie County

 

 

 

 

 

NAPOLEON, Henry County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARCHBOLD, Fulton County

 

 

 

 

 

DEFIANCE, Defiance County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOLEDO, Lucas County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BELLEFONTAINE, Logan County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAUSEON, Fulton County

 

 

 

Thanks for the set! I love that church in Napoleon, and I think there's a very similar one in Upper Sandusky.

 

Also: Brian-->Bryan.

Thanks for the set! I love that church in Napoleon, and I think there's a very similar one in Upper Sandusky.

 

Also: Brian-->Bryan.

 

Yep, it is very similar to First Presbyterian in Upper Sandusky (pic here: ). I am partial to the church in Upper Sandusky over Napoleon, although both are great and have a few other cousins around the state like Forest Avenue Presbyterian in Dayton (pic here: http://s18.photobucket.com/user/phototigress/media/Dayton%20Neighborhoods/ForestAvePresbyterian3-8-5-2009.jpg.html).

 

 

Thanks for the set! I love that church in Napoleon, and I think there's a very similar one in Upper Sandusky.

 

Also: Brian-->Bryan.

 

Yep, it is very similar to First Presbyterian in Upper Sandusky (pic here: ). I am partial to the church in Upper Sandusky over Napoleon, although both are great and have a few other cousins around the state like Forest Avenue Presbyterian in Dayton (pic here: http://s18.photobucket.com/user/phototigress/media/Dayton%20Neighborhoods/ForestAvePresbyterian3-8-5-2009.jpg.html).

 

And good catch on the Bryan spelling. That is like putting the "u" in Bellefontaine!

Nice.

Great photos - looks like Jefferson County's courthouse has a fraternal twin (or used the same hapless architect for the addition):

 

Such wonderful architecture and detail! I had about 20 favorites in there.

I love the way the two buildings blend into each other in the second Bryan picture.

this reminds me, the drive along the river between toledo and grand rapids is really nice.

Haha, I was just visiting family in Ohio and hit Grand Rapids last week. It's a great little tourism town, and I was happy to see they were restoring some historic rail cars, including an old Blue Bird passenger car. It has always been a popular day trip for Toledoans and seems like it's starting to pick more people from further away. I was talking to a girl working at an ice cream stand, and she said they're bringing in a big crowd for the Apple Butter Festival. I had heard about that festival as a kid, but regrettably never made it out.

 

Also, Grand Rapids is portrait central in Northwest Ohio. That old rail bridge and Providence Metropark are big photography spots. It's an almost perfect time capsule into the late 1800's in the Maumee Valley. The Maumee Valley is very beautiful in the fall and Toledo's outstanding metroparks capture some of it, notably Sidecut, Bend View, and Providence. I highly recommend hiking along the river in those parks. Further down the road in Defiance, there is Independence Dam State Park. That's also worth hitting. It is a very bucolic drive along the river and quite "Old Midwest" with lots of remnants of the Miami and Erie canal. Some of those towns along the river haven't changed much in over 100 years.

 

*Also, it appears like the Great Lakes Terminal Warehouse in Toledo is now abandoned. Can anyone confirm? That building is awesome and one of the top warehouses in the Midwest. I hope it can be saved and turned into lofts. Most Great Lakes cities have lost their big landmark cold storage warehouses. Toledo's is one of the last ones left standing. It's also cool how it butts against the Anthony Wayne Bridge and Ohio Plate Glass Company. It's very big city urban.

 

**And tears for Sandusky after seeing that empty lot where the Keller Building stood. I knew saving it was a longshot, but it was such a Sandusky landmark. The city still looks somewhat sleepy, but I see so much potential...I love how the downtown connects to the water.

Great small town photos in this collection Ink, it shows me some of what we missed during our ten day Ohio-Indiana-eastern Kansas visit in September. We spent two days touring around Mansfield-Galion, two days in Springfield-Dayton, a day in Hillsboro, and a day in Cincinnati. Tons of photos (which I've put in my Flickr albums as I've never uploaded a photo here) I did want to ask a question...the Public Library building in Defiance has a unique type of stone I've only seen before on a grand Victorian mansion in Mansfield (right off Park Avenue West...these stone columns show the weird stone graining well: ) I had assumed, given the opulence of the Mansfield mansion, that the stone was brought there from some far-off exotic location-yet here I see it in Defiance as well. That leads me to wonder if its actually from somewhere in Ohio..any clues?

I cannot remember, John. But I did ask at one time.

 

The Defiance Library uses stones from near Mansfield.

http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15005coll20/id/6763

Thanks Ink. Wikipedia only mentions the Library was built in 1904 with Andrew Carnegie funds. It states the facade was built from "red sandstone". While I agree it has reddish tints it's much "wilder" than that-it almost has a kaleidoscopic effect.  We have a (now rare) Victorian mansion in Fort Worth, TX : the 1899 Ball-Eddleman-McFarland mansion was built with red Arizona sandstone but it looks nothing like this stuff and it cost several hundred thousand dollars to replace deteriorated pieces of the stone from the original quarry a few years ago. Anyhow, maybe someone else will have some information. Amazingly, the freeze-thaw cycles which sometimes decimate softer limestone details don't seem to have much impact on this stuff so I question if it even is sandstone or some other exotic sedimentary rock.

Thanks for the Ohio Memory link.  There must not have been much of it available because its seldom seen even in Mansfield. I think there might have been one commercial building there with less colorful specimens of the material: ...I took this photo in September. Come to think of it, I didn't see a lot of rock outcroppings around Mansfield-Galion. I was making a comment to Ink's reply then your posting uploaded.