Collingwood Presbyterian Church
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as public transportation made suburban living more feasible, Collingwood Avenue, known earlier...
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- Sep 25
- 1 min
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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- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
Water Street Station
The massive brick industrial building guarding Promenade Park is known today as ProMedica Headquarters, but it was originally named Water...
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- Jul 26, 2021
- 4 min
The Libbey House
Edward Drummond Libbey came to Toledo in 1888 from Boston, where he and his family owned the New England Glass Company. Libbey moved his...
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- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
IPS Fab Shop
129 Dixie Highway | Rossford Built in 1958 for LOF, this massive 100,000 square foot fabrication shop is the heart and soul of IPS,...
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- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
Edward Ford Plate Glass Co., Whistle
Iconic Whistle Found at Scrap Sale. This brass whistle, stamped with a Ford Plate Glass nameplate, was used to sound shift changes and...
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- Jul 15, 2021
- 4 min
The Ford Club
A 27,000 square foot, two-story brick Neoclassical building built on Dixie Highway in Rossford in 1917. Known locally as "The Ford Club,"...
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- Jul 1, 2021
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Council Lodge
As one of the nation's oldest Boy Scout facilities, Camp Miakonda boasts quite a few legendary buildings. But, probably the most famous...
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- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
Hearthstone
This graceful estate, surrounded by a tall stone wall and situated on 3.5 acres in the village of Ottawa Hills, is known as...
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