There isn't much to Xenia, yet it has several appealing features. There are huge swaths of 70's development which I suppose are likely a result of a major 1973 tornado.

 

 

 

 

Post Office; Middletown had one with the exact same design, but it has been demolished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Literally a block from the courthouse, Xenia has a huge downtown strip center

 

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Xenia Crossing has one tenant...yeah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abandoned Carnegie

 

Great photos. It seems like a perfectly nice town, but ever since I saw the trailer for some movie that takes place in Xenia, it will always seem a little weird to me.  :-P

Nice courthouse! Xenia has more good old buildings than I expected, having seen photos of the town after the tornado hit. The whole place looked like somebody took a giant weedeater and scalped it down to the dirt.

Great photos. It seems like a perfectly nice town, but ever since I saw the trailer for some movie that takes place in Xenia, it will always seem a little weird to me.  :-P

 

Gummo, probably.

 

Yeah, there isn't much to Xenia, but it really isn't their fault.  Blame mother nature.

Great photos. It seems like a perfectly nice town, but ever since I saw the trailer for some movie that takes place in Xenia, it will always seem a little weird to me.  :-P

 

Gummo, probably.

 

Yeah, there isn't much to Xenia, but it really isn't their fault.  Blame mother nature.

 

Yep, it was Gummo. ...not really fair to the city, especially since most of it was filmed in Nashville.

 

And this is probably in the thread about Carnegies, but when was the library abandoned? After the tornado?

Some cool old buildings. Nice work.

I think Xenia's social row was wiped out by the tornado, so the old victorians one would expect arent there any more.  There is some older housing around the downtown, east and south, but its more working class.

 

Though the courthouse is fab, the rest of the town always was blah to me, and surrounding the old parts  are subdivisions filled with crackerbox houses.  And of course the replacement of the tornado damage with 1970s version suburban srpawl....hmph....The place is just a bit depressing for me.  Culturally the place is about as Southern as anywhere south of the Ohio River, down to including an black neighborhood in town, on the east side, which is sort of unusual for Ohio country county seats, but not so unusual in Kentucky and points south.

 

 

 

And this is probably in the thread about Carnegies, but when was the library abandoned? After the tornado?

 

The library was relocated in 1978. Someone soon bought the old Carnegie to use as a personal residence, but that never happened. In 2003, Greene County had an idea to put a law library in the building, but that hasn't happened either.

There are some very nice older buildings in the tour, thanks goodness they weren't all destroyed.  I remember quite well the news about the tornado.  I hadn't known there was a city in the US of any size which began with an X.  Thanks for the tour ink.