Description: This is a photograph of the Steubenville City Building. The Steubenville VFW post is located at the right corner, on the third floor. Underneath this, on the first floor is, what appears to be, the Olympic Restaurant, who's staff poses outside. An advertisement for Keith-Albee Orpheim Vaudeville sits outside the window. Also visible in this photograph is The Munker Jones Company, purveyors of dry goods and clothing. The Steubenville City Building, located at 304-314 Market Street, was completed in 1883 at a cost of $65,000. It was demolished sometime after 1911. The site on which this building stands was the original public square in Steubenville, and naturally, a place where farmers would gather to sell their goods. The Market building was built in 1816, a 1-story building consisting simply of a roof and brick pillars with arches, and provided the farmers and public shelter from the weather. This building was torn down in 1879 and the land returned to an open public square for several years, before the Honorable J. Dunbar and others pushed to have a city building built on the site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_031_001
Subjects: Public buildings Ohio; Demolished buildings
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Jeff. Co. Here is a land mark. The old city building. Torn down years ago." This photograph shows the old City Building, located at 304 - 314 Market Street in Steubenville, Ohio. At the time of this photograph, it appears that the building is being used as offices for a variety of business, the signs for which are difficult to read, and is in an almost dilapidated state. The top right window on the front of the building is a post of the "V of FW." In front of the building is a car with an advertisement which reads: "Family and Commercial Photograph. Ideal Studios." A new building has been built on this site, which houses the Steubenville Engineering Department. A sign for the "Grand Opening" of the Tempest with John Barrymore can be seen as well as a sign for US 7 on a post outside the building. Also visible in this photograph is The Munker Jones Company building (far left), which was located on the corner of Third and Market Street. Munker was a purveyor of dry goods and clothing. Endicott Johnson Shoes - Globe Shoe Store (far right) stands on the corner of South Court Street and Market Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_003_001
Subjects: Public buildings Ohio; Demolished buildings
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a brick four-story building with Gothic style windows and a fire escape. Signs on the building read: "M. Vigransky, Real Estate Est. 1905", "For Rent, Rooms, Store, Flats, Houses", and "Real Estate Office Entrance on 7th St." This building has been demolished, probably due to the expansion of Interstate 75 through this area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_09_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Demolished buildings
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Exclusive Home Furnishings. In front of the Sterling and Welch Store on Euclid near 12 street. District #4, Cleveland. File Negative #20. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, October 1940." A secondary caption reads: "Ident. - 61 - State Picture Book Page 45 - lower. Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio Writers' Project. Euclid Avenue at East 12th Street)." The marquee for the Hotel Statler is visible down the street, which reads: "The Cuban Terrace, Opens October 7th" and below, a second marquee reads: "Gable - Tracy - Colbert - Lamarr in Boom Town." Sterling & Welch began in 1845 when Thos. S. and Wm. Beckwith opened a dry goods store on Superior St. In 1857 the store replaced its dry goods line with floor coverings and curtains. Both Frederick A. Sterling and Geo. P. Welch joined the company in its early years and by 1889 they had control of the partnership which was incorporated in 1902 as the Sterling & Welch Co. In 1909 the firm moved from its location on lower Euclid Avenue to 1215-1225 Euclid Ave., where it built one of the largest and finest home furnishing stores in the area. In 1927 Sterling & Welch began the tradition of installing the nation's largest indoor Christmas tree in its atrium. The store closed in 1968 and the building has been demolished. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_08_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Department stores Ohio Cleveland History; Home furnishings industry and trade; Demolished buildings
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows the home of Alfred Kelley (1789-1859) in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County. Kelley was admitted to the bar in 1810, becoming Cleveland's first lawyer. He was elected to the state legislature in 1814 and became the leader of the Whig Party in Ohio. He was influential in the establishment of Ohio's laws and served as canal commissioner from 1825 to 1834 and was also president of several railroad companies. Kelley moved his family to Columbus and acquired an 18-acre tract of land on Broad Street between Fifth Street and Grant Avenue just north of downtown in 1831 for $917. Dubbed "Kelley's Folly" because of its marshy land, it appeared to be poor site to build a grand residence. He persevered and built a Greek Revival-style mansion, completed in 1838. The mansion was constructed of Ohio sandstone with porticoes and Ionic columns on all sides. It served as the governor's mansion under James Campbell between 1890 and 1892. In 1907 the house passed into the hands of the St. Joseph Cathedral School and was extensively remodeled. It was abandoned by 1958 and dismantled in 1961. Stones from the mansion were numbered and removed to Wolfe Park on Broad Street and then again to the Ohio Expositions Center in 1966. Although plans called for incorporating the stones into the new Ohio Historical Center in the late 1960s, they are now in the custody of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The Christopher Inn, a circular 1963 structure, was built on the site; it was demolished to make room for a parking lot in 1988. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_008_001
Subjects: Architecture; Mansions--Ohio; Demolished buildings; Alfred Kelley House, Columbus, Ohio; Kelley, Alfred, 1789-1859
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Cuyahoga County Criminal Court Building, July 1936. Cleveland, Ohio." The Cuyahoga County Criminal Courts Building was located at 1560 East Twenty-First (21st) Street, next to the Cleveland Police Department. The steel and concrete building was designed by Warner and Mitchell in the Art Deco style. The 13-story cut-back tower has a sandstone façade, while the remainder of the building is surfaced with light-colored brick. The Art Deco style was carried throughout the building’s interior and some of the light fixtures are on display at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The tower appears four-sided from the exterior, but within becomes an octagon, with a 3-story rotunda topped with a remarkable octagonal light which could be raised and lowered. Completed in 1931, the building housed courtrooms, offices for county officials and a 350 person jail, which was considered one of the most modern jail in the United States when it was built. With the construction of the new Criminal Courts Building in 1977, the building fell into disrepair. Attempts to repurpose the building for other county and local functions eventually failed and the building was demolished (sometime between 2008 and 2010) and is now the site of a large parking lot. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_02_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; County courts--Ohio; Art deco (Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.)--United States; Demolished buildings; Western Reserve Historical Society--Archives
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "The Dayton Public Library. Dayton, O. Montgomery County. See Card # 15 and # 15-C." Library service began in Dayton in 1805 with the Social Library Society of Dayton. The Dayton Library Association was established in 1847, which lasted until 1860, when it merged with the Public School Library, first organized in 1855. At the beginning, it occupied many different sites including: the old United Brethren building on the corner of Main and Fourth (4th) Streets; The Central High School building; the old city building and for a short time, improvised quarters in a building just north of the courthouse. The first building specifically for the Dayton Public Library, built in 1888, was located in Cooper Park, at the corner of Third (3rd) and Patterson, in downtown Dayton. The winning design was submitted by Messrs. Peters & Burns and the in the June of 1885, contracts for construction were let. The fireproof building was in the French Gothic or Romanesque style and built of Dayton limestone, with Marquette red sandstone trimmings. Fully completed and furnished it cost about $110,000. In 1956, the library officially changed its name to the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. A new $2.3 million building was constructed for the Main Library in 1960, adjacent to the old building, opened March 26, 1962, and is still in use today (albeit with renovations done in 1987 and 1998-2000). The old building was demolished in 1962 after having transferred to the new building. The Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library name stayed on until June 19, 2002, when it officially changed its name to the Dayton Metro Library. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F13_005_1
Subjects: Public libraries--Ohio; Libraries--Ohio--Dayton--1880-1890; Dayton (Ohio). Public Library; Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library; Demolished buildings
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)