Architecture: The Mood Ring of a City
Cities are constantly evolving and being reborn. New buildings are created—old ones are torn down or repurposed. People flow in and out...
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- Jun 1
- 4 min
Westminster Rises Again
The city’s oldest neighborhood is transforming—thanks partly to an exciting new project called "Gateway at Vistula." If this building...
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- Feb 14
- 1 min
Backstage at the Valentine
Watching over the Grand Lobby of the Valentine Theatre are 47 caricatured actors, singers, musicians, and dancers roguishly grinning as...
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- Feb 14
- 6 min
The Valentine Theatre
While the Valentine Theatre is a spectacular building with its own colorful story to tell, the backstory of how the building was saved...
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- Jan 22
- 3 min
Fort Meigs
Built as a supply depot and staging point for operations into Detroit and Canada, and also to provide command of the rapids of the Maumee...
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- Jan 19
- 1 min
Cooke-Kuhlman Home
Some say this historic home located at 5717 Main St. in Sylvania was originally built around the time of the Civil War as a...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Tillinghast-Willys Home
2210 Robinwood Avenue Designed by Brown, Burton & Davis of Cincinnati and built on a half-acre lot in 1901 for Alvin B. Tillinghast, a...
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- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Medusa Gardens
A Company Town. You’ll find this former company town along Centennial Road, north of Brint, on the western edge of Sylvania Township....
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- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
A Midcentury Masterpiece
Hylant Building | 811 Madison Avenue We shared the story of how Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Harroun Family Barn
Many of the spaces we feature on Remarkable419 are noted for their distinctive architectural elements or styles. While this historic barn...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
Isaac Ludwig Mill
A Remarkable Space with an Incredible Story This large wood-frame structure, sitting on a cut stone foundation sandwiched between the...
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Tony Packo's Café
The original Tony Packo’s Café, made famous by Toledoan Jamie Farr as homesick Corporal Max Klinger on the comedy-drama series M*A*S*H,...
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