Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Jean Baptiste Regnier M. D., who immigrated to the Ohio River Valley area from France in 1790. He is among the founders of Gallipolis, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00239
Subjects: Pioneers--Ohio; Other--Health Care
Places: Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a view of the front exterior and one side of Our House Tavern, Gallipolis, Ohio, ca. 1960s-1970s. Much of the front exterior is covered with ivy or a similar plant. The three-story brick tavern, built in the Federal style, dates from 1819, when it was built by Henry Cushing and his sister Elizabeth in this Ohio River community. The tavern acquired its popular name because Henry Cushing invited Ohio River travelers to "come over to our house." The Cushing family operated the tavern until the 1860s. Our House was the center of the Gallipolis community’s social life for many years. It featured a taproom, dining room, ladies' drawing room, a ballroom, and accommodations for overnight guests. On Independence Day, 1820, the citizens of the town, after conducting appropriate ceremonies at the court house, paraded to Cushing’s Tavern with a military escort in full regalia. Our House was also the place where General Marquis de Lafayette, then on his triumphant tour of America, was entertained on Sunday, May 22, 1825, by the prominent citizens, an event which has lingered in the city’s memory so vividly that it is customarily marked with an annual event. During the Civil War the building was a receiving hospital. It later became a private residence and then a boarding house. Charles E. Holzer, Sr., M.D., and his wife, Alma Vomholt Holzer, purchased Our House in 1933, refurbished it, and donated it to the state of Ohio in 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06658
Subjects: City and town life; Taverns (Inns); Bars (Drinking establishments); Genealogy & local history; Gallipolis (Ohio); Historic houses
Places: Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Public Library. Portsmouth." Portsmouth's traces of a public library began in 1831 when a small library opened at the corner of Market and Front Streets. However, the library closed a short time later. It wasn't until 1879 when the Portsmouth City Schools Board of Education donated a building at the corner of Fifth and Court to provide these services. In 1902 Andrew Carnegie donated $50,000 to construct a new library with the solicitation of Henry Lorberg. The new library, designed by architects Richards, McCarty and Bulford, opened on February 1, 1906 at 1220 Gallia Street and is still used to this day. Much of the architecture stays true to the numerous Carnegie libraries even though the library received renovations and extensions in 1971 and 1995 by the architectural firm of Donaldson, Wittenmeyer and Associates and Myers, NBD. Four Ionic columns at the entrance, holding a pediment which reads "Public Library". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F13_015_1
Subjects: Public libraries--Ohio; Carnegie libraries--1900-1910; Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)