Description: Dated January 8, 1941, this photograph shows the Alexander McDonald estate in Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamilton County. Alexander and his brother James settled in Cincinnati in the late 1860s and played a prominent role in the petroleum industry by establishing the Consolidated Tank Line Company. In 1890, they exchanged their stock in the Consolidated Tank Line Company for stock in the Standard Oil Company and Alexander McDonald became president of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky. In the nineteenth century, mansions with set in extensive park land, woodlands, and gardens were built in this area. The McDonald mansion was designed by Samuel Hannaford in the later part of the nineteenth century. 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_B03F05_028_001
Subjects: Mansions--Ohio; Estates; Photography--Ohio; Federal Writers' Project; Oil industry
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated January 8, 1941, this photograph shows the Alexander McDonald estate in Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamilton County. Alexander and his brother James settled in Cincinnati in the late 1860s and played a prominent role in the petroleum industry by establishing the Consolidated Tank Line Company. In 1890, they exchanged their stock in the Consolidated Tank Line Company for stock in the Standard Oil Company and Alexander McDonald became president of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky. In the nineteenth century, mansions with set in extensive park land, woodlands, and gardens were built in this area. The McDonald mansion was designed by Samuel Hannaford in the later part of the 19th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F08_001_1
Subjects: Mansions--Ohio; Federal Writers' Project; Oil industry; Architecture--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Adena Mansion, the home of Thomas Worthington in Ross County, Ohio. Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) served as one of Ohio's first two senators as well as the sixth governor of Ohio. Adena Mansion was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and was completed in 1807. This image depicts the front of the house from the driveway. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08587
Subjects: Ohio History; Worthington, Thomas, 1773-1827; Governors--Ohio; Mansions
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Adena Mansion, the home of Thomas Worthington in Ross County, Ohio. Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) served as one of Ohio's first two senators as well as the sixth governor of Ohio. Adena Mansion was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and was completed in 1807. This image shows the back of the house. The flower garden is in the foreground. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08588
Subjects: Ohio History; Worthington, Thomas, 1773-1827; Governors--Ohio; Mansions
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Adena Mansion, the home of Thomas Worthington in Ross County, Ohio. Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) served as one of Ohio's first two United States senators as well as the sixth governor of Ohio. Adena Mansion was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the main house was completed in 1807. This image was taken from the garden on the south side of the house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08589
Subjects: Ohio History; Worthington, Thomas, 1773-1827; Governors--Ohio; Mansions
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Joseph Bimeler's house in Zoar village. Led by Joseph Bimeler in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. Today, the Ohio Historical Society operates a portion of the town as a historic site. A number of the Zoarite buildings are restored and are open to the public. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV9_B03F08_001_001
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Historic houses; Mansions
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas 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: A photograph taken by Joe Munroe of ""Hearst Castle"" in California. The home was built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in 1919, on the Hearst's expansive ranch. It was designed by Julia Morgan and is a favorite of many celebrity guests. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B33_F2400_JPG243
Subjects: Joe Munroe; National Register of Historic Places; Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951--Homes & haunts--California--San Simeon; Mansions
Places: San Simeon (California)
 

Description: The Mather Mansion in Cleveland, Ohio. Now named University Hall, it is on the campus of Cleveland State University. The mansion, with 45 rooms, was completed in 1910 and belonged to the Samuel Mather family. He was an iron ore shipping magnate. It is on the Euclid Avenue in the Millionaire's Row. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07259
Subjects: Mansions; Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Iron industry
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Adena Mansion, the home of Thomas Worthington in Ross County, Ohio. This image shows the back of the house. There are flowers in the foreground. Adena was the home Benjamin Henry Latrobe built for Thomas Worthington in 1807. Worthington was the sixth governor of the State of Ohio, serving from 1814 to 1818. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08586
Subjects: Ohio History; Worthington, Thomas, 1773-1827; Mansions; Renovation (Architecture)
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a large home in Cleveland, Ohio. The typed caption on the back reads, "Lakewood 'mystery' mansion with secret passage to beach. Cleveland, Ohio." Handwritten underneath this reads, "Tunnel said to have been used to take runaway slaves to the beach--Lakewood a station of the Underground R.R." This has since been identified as the home of Julius Feiss (1848-1931), a prominent Cleveland businessman in the garment industry. The original address for this home, which numerous references refer to as Ednawood, was 10520 Lake Avenue in Cleveland, which was later changed to 10530 Edgewater Drive. Rumors about use of the home's tunnel as an Underground Railroad route appear to be false, as the home was constructed in the 1890s, and the connection to Lakewood, a nearby Cleveland suburb, is also incorrect. This is one of many visual materials collected for publication 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_B04F09_29_01
Subjects: Mansions--Ohio; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Domestic architecture; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Works Progress Administration
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1898, this photograph shows the home of Allen W. Thurman, located at 513 East Rich Street in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County. Thurman was President of the Ohio Board of Administration in 1912. He was also the president of the American Association Baseball League in 1890 and 1891 where he was known as "The White Winged Angel of Peace." 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_012_001
Subjects: Architecture; Mansions--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio); Baseball; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)