Hey everyone! I finally got around to taking some more pictures in the Ohio Valley!  Sadly, it's still Steubenville like my last photo tour. But, instead of showing off Downtown, I took a walk around North End Historic District, specifically North Fourth Street. North Fourth Street is Steubenville's traditional "millionaire's row" and had an interesting mix of historic mansions of various architectural styles. The historic district begins at the Fourth Street off-ramp of OH-7. The most impressive houses are on the 800 block, closest to OH-7. The closer to Downtown you get, the more blight and "urban renewal" you will see. Most houses are actually kept up well, but a few are clearly in need of TLC while others are flat out abandoned. Anyways... here's the tour!

 

CLICK HERE for my Downtown Steubenville Photo Tour.

Disclaimer: I did not venture onto the side streets because I didn't have much time; however there are some neat houses to check out in the surrounding blocks as well.

 

Steubenville's Historic North End:

 

We are going to begin at the corner of North Fourth Street and Clinton Street. This house is beautiful and has it's main entrance facing the corner. Peculiarly, a small one story office building is wedged between this house and the one next to it....

 

 

Two more houses on the 600 block:

 

Next I crossed Ross Street to enter the 700 block of N. Fourth Street. Unfortunately, a huge Victorian mansion was recently demolished here - it was simply too far gone. The empty lot where it once stood is next to the run down white house:

 

My favorite house on this block was this beautiful abandoned house. It looks really cool and eerie, but the sad reality is that it will likely be torn down in a few years. Actually, this whole block is at a huge risk and needs to be better preserved before it's all gone.

 

 

I really like the style of this next house. I assume it was built long after the surrounding homes, probably in the 1920s. Nonetheless, it's a great fit into the North End:

 

This Italianate on the corner of N. Fourth Street and Madison Avenue is one of many houses in the neighborhood that have been redeveloped into Bed and Breakfasts:

 

The opposite side of the street on the 700 block is very bare and has seen a lot of demolition over the years. Here are two of the remaining homes:

 

 

 

Now moving on to the 800 block, which is the most preserved:

 

 

 

 

On the other side of the street....

 

 

 

This next house was really strange. It stood back significantly farther from the street than any other house on the road. It is a really cool house though:

 

This next house is probably my personal favorite from the neighborhood:

 

 

 

And finally, this is the house on the end of the street that borders OH-7:

 

Thank you for reading and hopefully I can get more photo tours up in the future!

Edited December 24, 20186 yr by Dblcut3

Thank you very much for this.  Steubenville really does have great bones.

Thanks for the tour!

 

My preferred route from Pittsburgh to Columbus is US 22 to SR 7 to IR 70. When I hit Steubenville, I always veer off to take Fourth Street through this district and downtown.

 

The last house you showed is my favorite; it seems like the owners have been working on the porch for years.