Category: Buildings

The Lorraine Motor Hotel – updated!

Toledo History Box, June 7, 2017February 13, 2025

I started writing about the Lorraine Motor Hotel but somehow ended up at the Jefferson Avenue Circus.

Toledo History Box, January 25, 2020July 15, 2020

Yet another forgotten building, the Waldorf Hotel sat on Summit Street where Promedica’s headquarters is now.

Toledo History Box, June 13, 2018June 17, 2018

One of Toledo’s first suburban shopping centers, Miracle Mile survives to this day.

Toledo History Box, December 23, 2017January 2, 2018

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library’s “Images in Time” archive has some photos of Toledo that are too good to ignore.

Toledo History Box, July 4, 2011December 11, 2017

It took nineteen years for the Franklin Park Mall to go from idea to reality before it finally opened in July, 1971.

Toledo History Box, August 8, 2016August 8, 2016

The Jeep Administration building was a landmark in central Toledo until it was imploded on a Saturday morning in April, 1979.

Toledo History Box, January 11, 2017November 10, 2017

The Fiberglas tower is seeing some new life, but a lot of hopes were pinned on its construction.