Old West End Toledo

OFFERED FOR SALE

2709 COLLINGWOOD, TOLEDO OHIO

We are pleased to offer for sale our historical home situated in the Old West End Historic District of Toledo, Ohio.  Located blocks away from the Toledo Museum of Art, the Collingwood Arts Center and walking distance to Rosary Cathedral, this 1926-built house was the home of Gerald James Hayes, former Cleveland gangster, and his wife Nora.  "Jimmy's" story may be read in books such as Unholy Toledo and Nothing Personal, Just Business.

Designed by Toledo architect Harry Wachter, the house features walnut wood entry and an over-sized living room, French Zuber wallpaper (scenic) in the dining room and three fireplaces along with leaded-glass windows.  A family room, paneled in a pickled wood, can be found in the basement with its wood-burning fireplace.

The lawn is spacious with large walnut trees, bushes and flowers along with a two-car garage.  Aparagus and ruburb grow in the garden as well as strawberries.  Wild black raspberries hug the property border providing a yummy treat in July.

Contact Judy Stone at Danberry Realty for more information about this offering, the first time in 25 years.  It's a jewel worth your prompt attention.  Follow this link for more information and photos: http://www.danberry.com/property/19757847/2709-Collingwood-Blvd-Toledo-Oh-43610

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The Olsons are trying to identify the individuals seen in this 1927 photograph of the Northwestern Lumber Company, 4021 Fitch Road.  One of the gentlemen seen in this image may be Richard Davenport who was the yard foreman from 1924 until 1930.  Mr. Davenport is the great-grandfather of Patricia Olson.  Can any of our viewers help identify the men pictured here?

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OUR MOTTO: SHARING VINTAGE TOLEDO PHOTOS, RESEARCH and MORE.

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$26.95

 Make your check payable to the Old West End Association in the amount of just $26.95.

Mail to: Lawrence Stine, 2709 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43610

The first book written about the Old West End was published in 2005 and sold out in six months.  It has now been republished.  All proceeds benefit the Old West End Association.

The book has an 8 1/2 X 11 inch glossy soft cover with 176 pages and over 380 rare and vintage photographs. It was written by Old West End resident Lawrence Stine with assistance from David Clawson, Fred Folger III, Kent Illenden, and the late Vince Rupp, Jr.

Available in Toledo at these fine outlets: (Please note that prices may vary)

Cutting Edge Barber Shop-The Toledo Club

Happy Historian Book Shoppe-Grand Rapids, Ohio

Libbey Glass Factory Outlet Store-205 South Erie Street

Old West End Antiques Market-2023 Collingwood Blvd.

You may also order by mail.  Send your $26.95 check made payable to the OWEA and send to :  Lawrence Stine, 2709 Collingwood Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43610.

If you have older photos of the Old West End, we would be pleased to consider using them in our next book and this website. Your vintage Toledo photos are very important to us and our website viewers. Call 419-255-6956 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it your photograph.

We are always looking for Toledo Polk city directories to add to our research library.  Call us at 419-255-6956 if you have one to donate or sell.  We may just need the one you have to fill in the missing volumes in our incomplete collection.   Years 1901 through 1906, 1908, 1909, 1913 through 1917, and 1919 are a high priority.

Thank you, Anita of Toledo for selling us your 1911 Toledo directory. 

Thank you, Tom of California for selling us your 1907, 1912, and 1954 Toledo directories.

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Imagine the Old West End of yesteryear: swamps, howling wolves, Indian trails, and virgin forests.  Today only some centuries-old trees of oak and black walnut remain as a picturesque backdrop for the vintage architecture for which the neighborhood is so well known.

By the late 1870s Frank Scott, son of Toledo pioneer Jessup Scott, platted a new subdivision on family land off Monroe Street and west of Collingwood Avenue.  Toledo's leading families began to build "out in the woods" in the west-end.  Business and churches soon followed.

The "woods" district of Toledo would become the most prestigious address in the city by the end of the nineteenth century.  Rapidly growing northward, farm after farm was platted into building lots.  The growth would continue through the 1920s when the last of the available lots had been improved.  The old town of Tremainsville was absorbed by the rapidly expanding west-end of Toledo.

Forming a triangle with roughly Detroit Avenue (The Great Trail) on the west, the Museum area (the Scott property) on the South, and Collingwood Boulevard (Territorial Road) to the east, and with the lost settlement of Tremainsville at the northern point, the Old West End neighborhood is a potpourri of architectural styles popular from the 1870s through the 1920s, many of the houses were designed by Toledo's leading architects of the day, including Fallis, Bacon, Stine, Mills, and Wachter: these architects built for the leading citizens of the day, including Reynolds, Libbey, Spitzer, and Bartley.

Today, the Old West End boasts one of the largest remaining collections of late Victorian and Edwardian homes in the nation.

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