Description: Children playing on a playground in Oakwood, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_029_001
Subjects: Playground; Oakwood (Montgomery County, Ohio)--History.
Places: Oakwood (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Oakwood Water Tower 75 ft. high 95 Metal on Concreat foundation Capacity 500, 500 gallons Montgomery Co. Water Tower - City of Oakwood, Montgomery Co." This water tower is in Oakwood, an affluent neighborhood of Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_24_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Water towers
Places: Oakwood (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Stadium under construction at Oakwood High School, Oakwood,Dayton,Ohio. 1936 Montgomery County - People at Work" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F10_010_001
Subjects: Stadiums; Tracks; Construction
Places: Oakwood (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated August 4, 1936, this photograph shows the stadium at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio, under construction. The original caption for the photograph reads "Montgomery Co., Dayton, Ohio Stadium at Oakwood High School, Aug 4, 1936." 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_B13F04_022_001
Subjects: Football stadiums; Sports and recreation facilities; Education; Athletic fields; Schools--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Henry Patterson (December 13, 1844-May 7, 1922) was the founder of National Cash Register Company. He was a business man and salesman. He lived in his Swiss Chalet estate "The Far Hills" in Oakwood, Montgomery County, Ohio. He built a summer estate on Beaver Lake in New York. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_059_1
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio; National Cash Register Company; Patterson, John H. (John Henry), 1844-1922
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co. Dayton, O., Feb. 3, 1938- OAKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL- FOR OFFICE FILE ONLY DO NOT REMOVE." Oakwood High School is part of the Oakwood City School District, in Montgomery County, Ohio. The building in this photo is still used. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_017_001
Subjects: Dayton Public Schools; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co.,Dayton,O.,Jan.1938 Home of J. Harvey McClure 9010 Oakwood Ave." More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_006_1
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works., Domestic--Ohio--Dayton; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Home of Harry I. Schenck 1123 Harmon Ave., Oakwood, Dayton." Harry I. Schenck was a partner of Schenck and Williams architectural firm in Dayton. The firm worked on many projects in and around Dayton, including the Hawthorn Hill home of the Wright brothers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_017_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works., Domestic--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Probasco Home, see 21,22. Sept. 1937. Cinci., O.)." The Henry Probasco home, known as Oakwood, is located at 430 West Cliff Lane in the Clifton community of Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect William Tinsley, it was built in the Anglo - Norman Romanesque Revival style using beige and golden tan sandstone, set in limestone borders, between 1859 and 1866. Norman arches lead to an impressive stone porch and typical Romanesque floral and geometric designs surround the front entrance. A round tower with an octagonal roof is topped by an intricate weathervane. The mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1972. Benn Pittman hand carved the main staircase of rare woods and other decorative woodwork, along with Henry Fry, in the architectonic and Ruskinian naturalistic styles. Francis Pedretti painted a fresco on the ceiling of the red cedar paneled library. The Herter Brothers, interior designers, decorated the home originally and again around 1800 when Probasco remarried. Henry Probasco, born July 4, 1820, moved to Cincinnati from Connecticut with his family in 1834. He began working as a hardware store clerk in 1835, and by 1840, had become partners with owner Tyler Davidson and married Tyler’s half sister, Julia Amanda Carrington. Davidson died in 1865, and Probasco sold Cincinnati’s largest hardware store to Lowry, Perin & Company. He erected a bronze statue, designed by August Von Kreling, in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square in 1871, in honor of his brother-in-law, which continues to draw tourists. His wife Julia died in 1886. He married Grace Sherlock in 1887, with which he had two children, Grace S. and Henry Jr. Probasco died in 1902 and was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F15_024_1
Subjects: Architecture; Historic houses; Cincinnati (Ohio); Tinsley, William, 1804-1885; Pedretti, Francis, 1820-1891; Pittman, Benn, 1822-1910; Fry, Henry L., 1807-1895; Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Henry Probasco home, known as Oakwood, is located at 430 West Cliff Lane in the Clifton community of Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect William Tinsley, it was built in the Anglo - Norman Romanesque Revival style using beige and golden tan sandstone, set in limestone borders, between 1859 and 1866. Norman arches lead to an impressive stone porch and typical Romanesque floral and geometric designs surround the front entrance. A round tower with an octagonal roof is topped by an intricate weathervane. The mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1972. Benn Pittman hand carved the main staircase of rare woods and other decorative woodwork, along with Henry Fry, in the architectonic and Ruskinian naturalistic styles. Francis Pedretti painted a fresco on the ceiling of the red cedar paneled library. The Herter Brothers, interior designers, decorated the home originally and again around 1800 when Probasco remarried. Henry Probasco, born July 4, 1820, moved to Cincinnati from Connecticut with his family in 1834. He began working as a hardware store clerk in 1835, and by 1840, had become partners with owner Tyler Davidson and married Tyler’s half sister, Julia Amanda Carrington. Davidson died in 1865, and Probasco sold Cincinnati’s largest hardware store to Lowry, Perin & Company. He erected a bronze statue, designed by August Von Kreling, in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square in 1871, in honor of his brother-in-law, which continues to draw tourists. His wife Julia died in 1886. He married Grace Sherlock in 1887, with which he had two children, Grace S. and Henry Jr. Probasco died in 1902 and was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_036_001
Subjects: Architecture; Historic houses; Cincinnati (Ohio); Tinsley, William, 1804-1885; Pedretti, Francis, 1820-1891; Pittman, Benn, 1822-1910; Fry, Henry L., 1807-1895; Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Henry Probasco home, known as Oakwood, is located at 430 West Cliff Lane in the Clifton community of Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect William Tinsley, it was built in the Anglo - Norman Romanesque Revival style using beige and golden tan sandstone, set in limestone borders, between 1859 and 1866. Norman arches lead to an impressive stone porch and typical Romanesque floral and geometric designs surround the front entrance. A round tower with an octagonal roof is topped by an intricate weathervane. The mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1972. Benn Pittman hand carved the main staircase of rare woods and other decorative woodwork, along with Henry Fry, in the architectonic and Ruskinian naturalistic styles. Francis Pedretti painted a fresco on the ceiling of the red cedar paneled library. The Herter Brothers, interior designers, decorated the home originally and again around 1800 when Probasco remarried. Henry Probasco, born July 4, 1820, moved to Cincinnati from Connecticut with his family in 1834. He began working as a hardware store clerk in 1835, and by 1840, had become partners with owner Tyler Davidson and married Tyler’s half sister, Julia Amanda Carrington. Davidson died in 1865, and Probasco sold Cincinnati’s largest hardware store to Lowry, Perin & Company. He erected a bronze statue, designed by August Von Kreling, in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square in 1871, in honor of his brother-in-law, which continues to draw tourists. His wife Julia died in 1886. He married Grace Sherlock in 1887, with which he had two children, Grace S. and Henry Jr. Probasco died in 1902 and was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_029
Subjects: Architecture; Historic houses; Cincinnati (Ohio); Tinsley, William, 1804-1885; Pedretti, Francis, 1820-1891; Pittman, Benn, 1822-1910; Fry, Henry L., 1807-1895; Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co.,Dayton,O., Jan.1938 Home of Harry I. Schenck 1123 Harmon Ave. Oakwood, Dayton." Harry I. Schenck was a charter club member of the Engineers Club of Dayton. He was also a partner in a notable architectural firm in Dayton, Schenck and Williams. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_004_1
Subjects: Architecture; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)