September 25, 200519 yr ^If you are going to add Miamisburg, you might as well add Franklin - Main St. I should get some pics sometime, there are some interesting buidlings downtown, just not much activity though.
September 26, 200519 yr zanesville - need help with this one It is sort of a mixture of all three, but if I had to pick one, I would say main street because it is US 40 (National Road), the courthouse "square" is on it as well the best looking intersection downtown at 5th, and the Y-Bridge is part of Main Street.
September 26, 200519 yr ^If you are going to add Miamisburg, you might as well add Franklin - Main St. I should get some pics sometime, there are some interesting buidlings downtown, just not much activity though. ...one of the neat things about Franklin is its riverfront, which is parkland lined, on both sides, by these grand villas and mansions...very urbane.....one of the better urban ensembles in SW Ohio. @@@@@ As for Englewood, it is mostly main Street....along Main Street..Route 48, I think....youd think there'd be a more "National Road" orientation, but the older part of town is really strung out N-S, rather than E-W. Englewood is a bit like Centerville in that there is still an "old town" core there to some degree...one of Daytons suburbs that has a "there " there.
September 28, 200519 yr Lodi - square Gahanna - main street Waynesville - main street Vermilion - intersection Parma - main street Strongsville - intersection Springfield - square Chilicothe - main street Marietta - main street Oberlin - intersection Grafton - main street Any thoughts on Sandusky and Oxford? Could be all three?
September 29, 200519 yr Oxford is a main street town. Functionally, the park only forms a wider street, and unfortunately, just adds a lot of dead space. The parking lot behind the amphiteater doesn't help.
September 29, 200519 yr is marietta really a main street? it kinda seems like marietta and all the other river cities might be their own category (portsmouth, cincinnati, steubenville, e liverpool, ironton)
January 16, 200619 yr The village of Milan has a square. The city of Norwalk's main intersection is Main Street (east/west direction) and Whittlesey Avenue (north direction) / Benedict Avenue (south direction). The city of Bellevue's central intersection is at Main Street and West Street, with Kilbourne, Exchange, and Sandusky Streets branching diagonally off of them. The village of Monroeville, I have no clue how they set up that place! LOL
March 15, 200619 yr new list, updated with the controversial rivertown option added :shoot: and dayton changes again of course. maybe some of the new people here can fill in the blanks akron - main street alliance-main street ashtabula-main street aurora - intersection amherst - five points intersection ashland - main street avon - main street avon on the lake - intersection baltimore - intersection barnesville - main street batavia - main street bay village - intersection beavercreek - as long as kettering can be called an intersection city, beavercreek can be too bedford - intersection bellbrook - intersection bellefontaine - main street bellevue - intersection bexley - main street bowling green - main street brunswick - intersection bryan - square bucyrus - square cadiz-intersection caldwell - square cambridge - main street canal winchester - main street celina - square centerville-intersection chardon - square chagrin falls has a triangle cheviot - main street chilicothe - main street cincinnati - rivertown circleville - main street cleveland - square columbus - square conneaut - main street coshocton - main street dayton - canal for now defiance - main street delaware - main street dublin - main street e liverpool - rivertown eaton - intersection elyria - square euclid - main street fairborn - main street fairview park - main street findlay - main street franklin - main street fremont - main street gahanna - main street galion - square gallipolis - french square grafton - main street grandview heights - main street granville - main street greenville - intersection hamilton - main street with a square hilliard - main street hillsboro - intersection huron - port off lake independence - square ironton - rivertown jackson - intersection jefferson - intersection kenton - square kettering - either intersection or nothing lakewood - main street lancaster - main street lebanon - main street lima - square lodi - square logan - main street london - main street lorain - main street mansfield - square mariemont-6 way intersection... marietta - rivertown marion - main street marysville - main street mcconnellsville - intersection medina - square mentor - between a main st. and intersection miamisburg - matin st middletown - main st? milan - square millersburg - main street mt gilead - intersection mt vernon - square napoleon - intersection newark - square new lexington - intersection new philadelphia - intersection north olmstead - main street north ridgeville - main street north royalton - main street norwalk - intersection oakwood - main street oberlin - intersection ottawa - main street painesville - misc. (all 3?) parma - main street paulding - square port clinton - main street portsmouth - rivertown prospect - fried bologna sandwiches ravenna - main street richwood - main street rocky river - main street sharon center - (under review) sidney - square springfield - square st clairsville - main street st mary's - main street steubenville - rivertown strongsville - intersection tiffin - main street toledo - T town troy - intersection upper sandusky - intersection urbana - intersection van wert - main street vermilion - intersection wapokeneta - main street warren - square washington c.h. - intersection wauseon - main street waverly - ouch waynesville - main street west carrolton - main street westlake - mainstreet/iintersection combo westerville - main street willoughby - main st and triangle? wilmington - interseciont woodsfield - intersection wooster - was a square worthington - square xenia - intersection yellow springs - main street youngstown - main street zanesville - need help with this one canton carrollton cleveland heights cuyahoga falls dover e cleveland e palestine fairfield gambier garfield heights huber heights johnstown kent lisbon mason massilion middlesburg heights montgomery nelsonville new concord norwood orrville perrysburg pickerington reynoldsburg riverside salem sandusky shaker heights solon tipp city university heights upper arlington vandalia west union
March 15, 200619 yr Mayfield Hts - Main Street: Mayfield Rd. and Intersection: Mayfield & SOM Center Mayfield Village - Intersection: Wilson Mills & SOM Center
February 9, 200718 yr Plymouth: triangle Sandusky has a few main streets: north-south Columbus Avenue (the east-west division street) east-west Shoreline Drive, Market Street, Washington Row Willard: main street I think.........but that is one messed up town thanks to the railroads
February 12, 200718 yr Oh hell, I like this game: Berea - small triangle and main street Olmstead Falls - intersection Parma - shopping mall. What would be the main st.? Ridge, Ridgewood, State? Parma Heights - Pearl might be considered the main street. North Royalton - wouldn't the center be the triangle of Ridge, Bennett and Royalton? Broadview Hts. - Intersection Brecksville - Intersection
February 12, 200718 yr I put her out in a town that was so small You could throw a rock from end to end A dirt-road main street, she walked off in bare feet It's a shame I won't be passin' through again Ok, I heard it on Majic 105.7 yesterday and it "stuck in my ear". Name that tune.
February 13, 200718 yr Ok, this thread is way too nerdy. I'll just point out that if by "square" you mean town square we don't have one. We have the most non-town square square if at all..
February 13, 200718 yr Wickliffe - main street (Euclid Avenue) intersecting with Rockefeller Road Willowick - main street (Lakeshore Blvd) intersecting with E 305th St I'd say that Euclid has a different main street, Lakeshore, with a triangle for the intersection of E 222nd and Babbitt. This is where the signs say "Downtown Euclid."
February 13, 200718 yr Isn't Sandusky a kind of square & compass town ? I saw a graphic once that overlaid the masonic compass over a picture of downtown and it fit perfectly. It was pretty interesting... does anybody else know about sandusky's masonic heritage???
February 14, 200718 yr Chevy Van? Correct answer! I wonder how many Chevy vans that song sold I think GM changed the nameplate on their vans to "Chevy Van" after that song became a hit. The song itself was a reflection of the customized van craze back in the early/mid 1970s..the ones with the bubble windows, airbrushed scenes, and shag carpet... @@@@@@@@@ The legend behind Sanduskys plan was that it was founded by a Mason, who used that Masonic symbol in the town plan. The town itself had no other connection to the Order as far as I know (and plenty of other Ohio towns had Masons who where early settlers, so....)
February 14, 200718 yr Carrollton - square Minerva - main street Sebring - intersection Wellington - intersection LaGrange - intersection (like Mount Gilead, with a monument stuck in the middle) Oberlin has a square (Tappan Square) that is bordered on three sides by the college, and on one side by downtown, but it also has a main street downtown extending along Rt 58 for about three blocks south from the square. So I guess you have to flip a coin... Also, just to screw up your classification, Tallmadge is a "circle" town, maybe Burton also (it's called Burton Square, but it's really kind of an oval with one-way traffic).
February 14, 200718 yr It's kind of funny seeing Springfield listed as a square town since it used to be a main street town for many years. A long, long time ago there was a fountain out in font of city hall. Dunno if that would have made it a square town then or not.
February 14, 200718 yr ^What street would have been considered the main? Springfield is packed with great architecture, but the one thing I don't particularily like about it is how scattered downtown seems. The square is modern and ugly and seems disconnected, perhaps because downtown isn't as dense as it once was. You have a stretch of great buildings with the post office, Sun, courthouse (not amazing, but made up for with the city hall), Shawnee hotel, etc leading north of the square, and a couple great buildings in the old city hall area, but I can't really picture what would have been a commerical strip.
February 14, 200718 yr The main street, I believe, was Main street. It was kinda truncated to the east of downtown with that one bypass, (North/Columbia ?) & that left a dead little arm of it sitting there. To the west people were rerouted to North/Columbia (?) over by the Madonna of the Trail & off of Main. I grew up there many years ago, so I am not sure of some of the street names. I was told by my parents generation it was the street to cruise for younguns. This would have been the WWII generation. THe hideous square was the core downtown block. The fountain was on Fountain Ave between the arcade (where the Springfield Hotel is now) & the old city building. Again, the fountain was before my time.
September 3, 201212 yr akron - main street alliance-main street ashtabula-main street aurora - intersection amherst - five points intersection ashland - main street avon - main street avon on the lake - intersection baltimore - intersection barnesville - main street batavia - main street bay village - intersection beavercreek - as long as kettering can be called an intersection city, beavercreek can be too bedford - intersection bellbrook - intersection bellefontaine - main street bellevue - intersection berea - small triangle and main street bexley - main street bowling green - main street brecksville - intersection brunswick - intersection bryan - square bucyrus - square burton - kind of an oval with one way traffic square cadiz-intersection caldwell - square cambridge - main street canal winchester - main street carrollton - square celina - square centerville-intersection chardon - square chagrin falls has a triangle cheviot - main street chilicothe - main street cincinnati - rivertown circleville - main street cleveland - square columbus - square conneaut - main street coshocton - main street dayton - canal for now defiance - main street delaware - main street dover - main street dublin - main street e liverpool - rivertown eaton - intersection elyria - square euclid - main street fairborn - main street fairview park - main street findlay - main street franklin - main street fremont - main street gahanna - main street galion - square gallipolis - french square grafton - main street grandview heights - main street granville - main street greenville - intersection hamilton - main street with a square hilliard - main street hillsboro - intersection huron - port off lake independence - square ironton - rivertown jackson - intersection jefferson - intersection kenton - square kettering - either intersection or nothing lagrange - intersection lakewood - main street lancaster - main street lebanon - main street lima - square lodi - square logan - main street london - main street lorain - main street mansfield - square mariemont-6 way intersection... marietta - rivertown marion - main street marysville - main street mcconnellsville - intersection medina - square mentor - between a main st. and intersection miamisburg - matin st middletown - main st? milan - square millersburg - main street minerva - main street mt gilead - intersection mt vernon - square napoleon - intersection newark - square new lexington - intersection new philadelphia - intersection north olmstead - main street north ridgeville - main street north royalton - main street norwalk - intersection oakwood - main street oberlin - you have to flip a coin olmstead falls - intersection ottawa - main street painesville - misc. (all 3?) paulding - square plymouth - triangle port clinton - main street portsmouth - rivertown prospect - fried bologna sandwiches ravenna - main street richwood - main street rocky river - main street sebring - intersection sharon center - (under review) sidney - square springfield - square? main street? st clairsville - main street st mary's - main street steubenville - rivertown strongsville - intersection tallmadge - rounded square tiffin - main street toledo - T town troy - intersection upper sandusky - intersection urbana - intersection van wert - main street vermilion - intersection wapokeneta - main street warren - square washington c.h. - intersection wauseon - main street waverly - ouch waynesville - main street wellington - intersection west carrolton - main street westlake - mainstreet/iintersection combo westerville - main street willard - main street willoughby - main st and triangle? wilmington - interseciont woodsfield - intersection wooster - was a square worthington - square xenia - intersection yellow springs - main street west union - probably a square, but something it just seems wrong youngstown - main street zanesville - need help with this one ?= canton cleveland heights cuyahoga falls e cleveland e palestine fairfield gambier garfield heights huber heights johnstown kent lisbon massilion middlesburg heights montgomery nelsonville new concord norwood orrville perrysburg pickerington reynoldsburg riverside salem sandusky shaker heights solon tipp city university heights upper arlington vandalia Any new ones to add, or ones that I have missed?
September 3, 201212 yr I don't get it. If Cincinnati is "rivertown" wouldn't Cleveland be "laketown"? And Columbus... I would say High Street is the main street center of Columbus.
September 3, 201212 yr ^:-) ^^because of the way the street is routed & the way the sidewalk is routed, I'd say Urbana is more of a square than an intersection. Maybe a square outline, but.....
September 3, 201212 yr I don't get it. If Cincinnati is "rivertown" wouldn't Cleveland be "laketown"? And Columbus... I would say High Street is the main street center of Columbus. For this, a rivertown is where the river was the main street. Cleveland I list as a square after looking at probably too many old maps. It looks to me like the four squares around the Superior and Ontario intersection area was the defining point. There just so happens to also be a huge lake, and a major river, really close by. Columbus I put as a square due to the huge square for the statehouse. High street is quite the significant street, but historically Broad street was even more so. All of the larger cities are difficult to categorize. Some of the small ones seem to be too, as there are squared intersections, random shapes, newer or destroyed areas, and some that seem to be everything all at once.
July 25, 20159 yr painesville - misc. (all 3?) Gee, I guess because they've done so much to f*&! up Painesville for several decades it's hard to tell into what category it falls, but I guess it's mainly a "square." A short Main Street off the square really doesn't even look like a Main St. is supposed to anymore due to so much destruction. Yet I think it's odd that now the park downtown is routinely referred to as "the square", something I never heard growing up-- glancing east you can see Main St (highlighted in red) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 25, 20159 yr Who likes Circles? okay, that's not Ohio. I see palm trees! I think I recognize this though. Is it St. Armand's Circle in Sarasota? (I'm probably wrong :oops: ) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 25, 20159 yr Who likes Circles? okay, that's not Ohio. I see palm trees! I think I recognize this though. Is it St. Armand's Circle in Sarasota? (I'm probably wrong :oops: ) You nailed it! Good guess! I just wanted to throw a circle in there and St. Armands came to mind quickly lol.
July 25, 20159 yr Mmmm...Daiquiri Deck... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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