Remarkable 419

Watching over the Grand Lobby of the Valentine Theatre are 47 caricatured actors, singers, musicians, and dancers roguishly grinning as...

While the Valentine Theatre is a spectacular building with its own colorful story to tell, the backstory of how the building was saved...

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...

Sylvania Heritage Center Museum Some say this historic home located at 5717 Main St. in Sylvania was originally built around the time of...

2210 Robinwood Avenue Designed by Brown, Burton & Davis of Cincinnati and built on a half-acre lot in 1901 for Alvin B. Tillinghast, a...

A Company Town. You’ll find this former company town along Centennial Road, north of Brint, on the western edge of Sylvania Township....

Hylant Building | 811 Madison Avenue We shared the story of how Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to...

Many of the spaces we feature on Remarkable419 are noted for their distinctive architectural elements or styles. While this historic barn...

A Remarkable Space with an Incredible Story This large wood-frame structure, sitting on a cut stone foundation sandwiched between the...

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,...

The massive brick industrial building guarding Promenade Park is known today as ProMedica Headquarters, but it was originally named Water...

Edward Drummond Libbey came to Toledo in 1888 from Boston, where he and his family owned the New England Glass Company. Libbey moved his...

129 Dixie Highway | Rossford Built in 1958 for LOF, this massive 100,000 square foot fabrication shop is the heart and soul of IPS,...

Iconic Whistle Found at Scrap Sale. This brass whistle, stamped with a Ford Plate Glass nameplate, was used to sound shift changes and...

A 27,000 square foot, two-story brick Neoclassical building built on Dixie Highway in Rossford in 1917. Known locally as "The Ford Club,"...

As one of the nation's oldest Boy Scout facilities, Camp Miakonda boasts quite a few legendary buildings. But, probably the most famous...

This graceful estate, surrounded by a tall stone wall and situated on 3.5 acres in the village of Ottawa Hills, is known as...

Some say this structure could be one of the oldest buildings in the Maumee Valley. Now resting comfortably on the grounds of the 577...

Julius and Katherine Lamson, formerly of 1216 Jefferson, hired David L. Stine to design this Georgian Revival house at 2056 Scottwood...

Mansfield serves as the county seat of Richland county and is known as the Carousel Capital of Ohio, The Fun Center of Ohio and Racing...