Category: Buildings

Buildings

The Commodore Perry closes

Toledo History Box, August 17, 2017August 19, 2017

The Commodore Perry, still standing at Superior and Jefferson downtown, spent 53 years as Toledo’s top hotel.

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Toledo’s new Union Station opens

Toledo History Box, July 21, 2017January 15, 2018

A week-long celebration marked the opening of Toledo’s new train station, Central Union Terminal, in 1950. It was a long time coming.

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The Toledo Tomorrow exhibit

Toledo History Box, February 15, 2011October 18, 2015

Toledo Tomorrow, a vision of a future Toledo, came at a time the city was straining under the weight of many problems.

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How Tiedtke’s Burned Out, and Up

Toledo History Box, April 19, 2017September 20, 2017

A spectacular fire in May of 1975 brought down the Tiedtke’s building at Summit and Adams. But what brought Tiedtke’s, the business, down?

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The Spielbusch Armory Fire

Toledo History Box, March 2, 2017March 2, 2017

The long-forgotten Spielbusch Armory burned in December, 1934 in a spectacular fire.

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Toledo’s Westwood Art Theater

Toledo History Box, February 24, 2013April 11, 2017

The Westwood Art Theater was a West Toledo landmark for all the wrong reasons. It’s gone from a theater to a “private club” to closed but now a neighborhood group is looking into the building’s possibilities.

Buildings

Old Orchard School

Toledo History Box, August 1, 2016August 1, 2016

I went back to Ohio, and my school had been totally rebuilt! The old one was gone forever.