Category: Downtown

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, November 29, 2018February 22, 2021

Elaine Higgins was a fixture in downtown Toledo in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

Toledo History Box, September 23, 2017October 5, 2017

The West Toledo Expressway – an 8.8 mile section of Interstates 75 and 475 – opened in December, 1970. Sylvania felt snubbed.

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.

Toledo History Box, July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

The aviation pioneer made Toledo one of his proving grounds for his lighter-than-air craft.