Description: Picture postcard looking north on Broadway from 4th Street in Lorain, Ohio, following the devastating tornado of June 28, 1924. Businesses can be seen lining the street as residents work to clear rubble. The deadliest tornado in Ohio history struck Lorain and Sandusky on Saturday, June 28, 1924. This was not the largest or strongest tornado to occur in Ohio, but the violent storm struck an urban center where thousands of people were put at risk. There were 85 fatalities, 72 of which occurred in Lorain. The Lorain Tornado formed over Sandusky Bay and passed eastward, striking the northern edge of Sandusky at 4:35 PM. One hundred homes and 25 businesses were destroyed in the town, and there were eight deaths. The tornado continued over Lake Erie before coming ashore at the Lorain Municipal Bath House in Lakeview Park. Buildings were damaged for 35 blocks along Broadway and at least 200 automobiles were buried in bricks and other debris. More than 1,000 homes were damaged and 500 destroyed in Lorain. All downtown businesses sustained some damage. The death toll of 15 in the State Theater is the most ever killed by a tornado in one building in Ohio. Dozens of doctors and hundreds of nurses arrived in Lorain Saturday night from Cleveland to attend to the injured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC169_010
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio; Tornado damage; Natural disasters; Climate and Weather;
Places: Lorain (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Stephen C. Foster. Marker. On Guilford School 4th Str. East of Broadway." Plaque reads "On the site of the school between the years 1846 - 1850 lived Stephen C. Foster - Master of the art of song; Composer of "My Old Kentucky Home", "Swanee River", "Old Black Joe" and many others; in native ballad form and melodic strain distinctively American. He sang of simple joys and pathos to all the world." Stephen Collins Foster was born July 4, 1826 and died January 13, 1864. He was known as the 'father of American music'. As well as the songs listed on the plaque pictured, he also wrote "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" and "Beautiful Dreamer." Foster, originally from Lawrenceville (now Pittsburg), Pennsylvania, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1846 to be a bookkeeper for his brother's steamship company. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. The Guilford School located at 421 East Fourth Street, at the corner of Ludlow Street was a public elementary school designed by Frederick W. Garber and completed in 1914. The four story brick building was named after Nathan Guilford, Cincinnati's first Superintendent of Schools in 1850. There is a D.A.R. marker on site which indicates that this area was once part of the Fort Washington military reservation. The building has since been converted to apartments View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F06_010_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cincinnati (Ohio). Public Schools; Foster, Stephen C.; Garber, Frederick; Guilford, Nathan, 1785-1854; Fort Washington (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_109
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_108
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: This is the front entrance of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_111
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: This image shows the front facade and clock tower of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_110
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: This image shows a window on one of the side facades of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_113
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: This image shows the side facade of the Darke County Courthouse. The building was completed in 1874 by architect Edwin May, and unlike many other courthouses, it was not built on the site of the buildings that preceded it. Instead, the county commissioners moved the location of the county courthouse from West Main Street to Broadway Avenue just after the Civil War because Broadway was becoming the city's main thoroughfare. The Second Empire and Renaissance building is rectangular in shape and has columns with rusticated bases as well as rusticated blocks framing the entrance doorway. In front of the tower stands a statue of Justice. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_112
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; eaves; cornices; pilasters; cupolas; Second Empire; Renaissance
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio); 4th and Broadway
 

Description: Reverse reads "D. of A. Marker. On Guilford School. 4th. Str. East of Broadway." Plaque reads "Fort Washington. The ground on which this building stands formed part of the Fort Washington Reservation. 1789 - 1808. This reservation was bounded on the north by Fourth Street, on the east by Ludlow Street, on the south by the Ohio River, on the West by Broadway, which was then the eastern boundary of the city. This tablet placed by the Cincinnati chapter Daughters of the American Revolution in 1913." The Guilford School located at 421 East Fourth Street, at the corner of Ludlow Street was a public elementary school designed by Frederick W. Garber and completed in 1914. The four story brick building was named after Nathan Guilford, Cincinnati's first Superintendent of Schools in 1850. There is a D.A.R. marker on site which indicates that this area was once part of the Fort Washington military reservation. The building has since been converted to apartments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F06_012_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History; Fort Washington (Ohio); Daughters of the American Revolution. Cincinnati Chapter; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Darke Co., Greenville, O., Mar. 25, 1938. Court House, Broadway & W. Fourth St. Dedicated in 1874." The Darke County Courthouse, located at 504 South Broadway, just south of West 4th Street in Greenville, Ohio. Designed by Edwin May, and built by Rouser & Rouser, the building was completed in 1874. The courthouse is designed in the Second Empire style with traces of Italianate style. The rectangular building is lined with Buena Vista sandstone with a rusticated foundation and smooth stones lining the floors above. The windows were designed as arches until long rectangular panels were placed during the renovation. Above each window is a decorative head casing in the shape of an arch or pediment. A central projection on the front facade is topped by a tower. The tower contains the main entrance with pilasters on either side holding a balcony. A pediment rests at the top floor and is surmounted by a statue of Justice. The tower rises to a dome which is capped by a spire. Four stone chimneys line the sides of the courthouse. The flat roof was once a mansard and is supported by a decorative entablature. The large complex which combines the Courthouse, Sheriff's House and the Jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_001_1
Subjects: Ohio Government; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Ohio--History.; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Elizabeth Jane Harrison of East North Broadway in Clintonville, near the tennis courts which were built for the community near Dunedin Road and Calumet Street (at the time called Beech Hill Avenue). The courts were dedicated during a July 4th picnic in 1915, and the club colors were forest green and white. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_128
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; Columbus (Ohio)--History; Sports and leisure
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)