A walk down Jefferson Avenue from the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, past Mercy College, through Uptown, and to Downtown and the Maumee River on October 23, 2022.

 

I posted these on SkyscraperCity a few days ago, and am posting the same and a few more photos here upon request (thanks PittOhio for the note). I'll add a few comments here not on the SSC thread. 

 

This is the back of the Glass Pavilion, opened in 2006. Architects SANAA Group from Japan won the Pritzker Prize in 2010 in part because of their work on this building. 

 

 

This section of Jefferson Street didn't exist until after WWII.

 

A mansion used to sit where the road passes.

 

I believe US 24 was routed up Jefferson St for a time which might explain some of the automobile infrastructure. 

 

 

 

 

 

A new bike path was carved out of Jefferson about two years ago. 

 

 

Park Lane Apartments

 

Mercy College

 

 

 

Many of the upper blocks of Jefferson were cleared in the 1960s for new construction.  

 

 

 

 

Some of the original sandstone sidewalks. Several places along Jefferson have old curbs and sidewalks, and many of the numbered streets in Uptown are still brick. 

 

 

This has to be one of, if not the last full service gasoline station in Toledo. 

 

 

 

 

 

Bitwise, out of Fresno, is renovating the old Toledo Public Schools Jefferson Center. It was originally the Toledo Central Post Office, soon to be a training center for programmers and other technology careers. 

 

The Lorraine Hotel was open as a flophouse until just a few years ago when the city shut it down.

 

There have been a couple of proposals to renovate it into a new boutique hotel, likely to serve the new Bitwise center up the street but everything's fallen through so far.

 

 

The Lorraine Hotel sits on a modest rise above the old path of the Miami and Erie Canal, and the Maumee River. 

 

 

Lucas County Courts Annex

 

 

Veo is the second company Toledo has contracted to supply bicycles and scooters for the downtown area. Despite the cost these are quite popular. 

 

 

 

 

From left to right, these buildings are

 

(1) the modern Glass City Center, home to several offices;

 

2) newly renovated "Lofts on Jefferson";

 

(3) the ornate Moorish style building used to house "Burt's Theater", where the scene that inspired Kenny Rogers' song "Lucille" occurred..."At a bar in Toledo...", and

 

(4) the newly renovated Pythian Castle, which still lacks tenants. 

 

 

The former Lamson Brothers Department Store at Jefferson and Huron. 

 

 

Looking up Huron

 

The Seagate Centre, Toledo's downtown convention hall, is completing a renovation and rebranding as the Glass City Center. 

 

Looking between the newly renovated Fort Industry Square (l) and Hilton Hotel (r), through to the Oliver House and water tower atop the Great Lakes Terminal Warehouse down by the Anthony Wayne Hi-Level Bridge. 

 

 

The old Edison Steam Plant was recently converted into the HQ for Promedica. The original smokestacks had to be removed, but bless them for rebuilding them. 

 

Fort Industry Square is the last collection of old commercial buildings along the downtown section of Summit Street. These buildings were connected with skywalks in an early 1980s renovation, but the skywalks have all been removed, and first floor commercial and upper floor apartments will be filling up soon. 

 

Backside of Fort Industry Square facing the Maumee River

 

The Sandpiper is a small excursion boat for tourist views of the city.

 

In the background on the far right is the global HQ for Owens-Corning, the Anthony Wayne Hi-Level Bridget crossing the Maumee, and then in the far background under the main span is the recently complete Glass City River Wall - the world's largest mural - of sunflowers and three Native American women on the side of the ArcherDanielsMIdland silos. 

 

 

Come visit the beautlful Glass City!

Edited October 29, 20222 yr by westerninterloper

Great shots! Toledo has an under appreciated building stock!

Good stuff--thanks for the pictures! 

Great photos! There's so much potential in Toledo, but wow, their downtown is still so embarrassingly gritty for a city its size. 

15 hours ago, Dblcut3 said:

Great photos! There's so much potential in Toledo, but wow, their downtown is still so embarrassingly gritty for a city its size. 

Lots of, shall we say, potential. Housing prices are still very reasonable, and the city has a pretty open culture about it - lots of ways to get involved or start something new. 

***** for the great thread, rare new ohio thread content and even rarer toledo.

 

so nice to see the familiar along with all the newer sights and rehabs in t-town.

Great photos!!!