Description: Dated ca. 1886-1888, this photograph shows a street in winter in downtown Fostoria in Seneca County, Ohio. The snow covered street is lined with local businesses including Chas. Hays. Drugs, Toilet Goods, Tobacco, and Cigars, [?]rell and Godfrey's Drug Store, a bakery, and other shops. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00438
Subjects: Central business district; Stores and shops; Winter; Streets--Ohio
Places: Fostoria (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Soldier's Monument at Fort Ball, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, ca. 1960-1969. Fort Ball was built in 1813. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00453
Subjects: Fort Ball (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers; Monuments & memorials
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn # 61, located at 7595 West State Route 12 in Seneca County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08683
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Seneca County Courthouse. This is the county's third courthouse, and it was built between 1884 and 1886 by architect Elijah Myers. During the 1940s, renovations modernized the Beaux-Arts building including the removal of the statue of Justice on top of the clock tower, lowering the tower's height from 148 feet to 107. Paired fluted columns and a triangular pediment frame the two-story archway that encloses the south entrance. In 2012, this courthouse was torn down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_434
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; arches; clock towers; columns (architectural elements); pediments; pilasters; cornices; balconies; Beaux-Arts
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio); 103 S. Washington St.
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Seneca County Courthouse. This is the county's third courthouse, and it was built between 1884 and 1886 by architect Elijah Myers. During the 1940s, renovations modernized the Beaux-Arts building including the removal of the statue of Justice on top of the clock tower, lowering the tower's height from 148 feet to 107. Paired fluted columns and a triangular pediment frame the two-story archway that encloses the south entrance. In 2012, this courthouse was torn down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_433
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; arches; clock towers; columns (architectural elements); pediments; pilasters; cornices; balconies; Beaux-Arts
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio); 103 S. Washington St.
 

Description: This image shows a stone that is part of the Seneca County Courthouse. It indicates that the building stone was laid by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio. This is the county's third courthouse, and it was built between 1884 and 1886 by architect Elijah Myers. During the 1940s, renovations modernized the Beaux-Arts building including the removal of the statue of Justice on top of the clock tower, lowering the tower's height from 148 feet to 107. Paired fluted columns and a triangular pediment frame the two-story archway that encloses the south entrance. In 2012, this courthouse was torn down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_437
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; arches; clock towers; columns (architectural elements); pediments; pilasters; cornices; balconies; Beaux-Arts
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio); 103 S. Washington St.
 

Description: This image shows the front entrance and clock tower of the Seneca County Courthouse. This is the county's third courthouse, and it was built between 1884 and 1886 by architect Elijah Myers. During the 1940s, renovations modernized the Beaux-Arts building including the removal of the statue of Justice on top of the clock tower, lowering the tower's height from 148 feet to 107. Paired fluted columns and a triangular pediment frame the two-story archway that encloses the south entrance. In 2012, this courthouse was torn down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_436
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; arches; clock towers; columns (architectural elements); pediments; pilasters; cornices; balconies; Beaux-Arts
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio); 103 S. Washington St.
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1934, this photograph shows the exterior door of a house identified as the Bates-Brinkeroff House in Melmore, Ohio, in Seneca County. The door is surrounded by an elaborate frame and slim windows. To either side of the door is a fluted, engaged Doric column. A spiral pattern trims the outer frame. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_3650_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Domestic architecture; Doors & doorways
Places: Melmore (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: This printed New Year's greeting from the Fostoria Bicycle Club of Fostoria, Ohio, features a gilt print poem with an image of a young man and woman on bicycles, and "1892, Fostoria Bicycling Club, A Happy New Year" on the horizon. It is printed on a pale green celluloid card. The illustration is credited to P.W. Shephard of Fostoria, and the poem was written by George MacDonald. The Fostoria Bicycle Club was a men's cycling group organized in the early 1880s, which regularly held regional races and took long cycling trips throughout Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM4801
Subjects: New Year's; Holidays; Celebrations; Bicycles and bicycling;
Places: Fostoria (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Tiffin. This church was home to early electrical illumination with an electric, brass chandelier. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06787
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Railroad tracks leading to and from the Tiffin Train Depot. This railroad used to be quite important to the area, allowing for easy transportation and becoming a driver of economic growth and prosperity. Multiple times the railroad was exchanged between various companies before it would eventually be shut down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06788
Subjects: Railroads; Railroads--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing an historic train depot in Tiffin, Ohio. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Fort Ball-Railroad Area Historic District," along with five other nearby depots. The earliest of these, located behind the one pictured, was built in 1862 by the Sandusky Dayton Cincinnati Railroad Company. The railroad line changed ownership multiple times until services on the line ended in 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06789
Subjects: Trains; Transportation--Ohio--History; Railroads--Buildings and structures
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)