The
Historic Old West End
of Toledo
THE LARGEST NEIGHBORHOOD OF RESTORED LATE VICTORIAN, EDWARDIAN, AND ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES
IN THE UNITED STATES
Vintage Photographs of Toledo Homes, Buildings,
and
Streets
All of these vintage photographs are of Toledo homes, buildings, and streets outside the Old West End of Toledo. Many are from the Uptown and near Downtown areas of Toledo. They are divided by the approximate area in which the subject is located.
Vintage home photographs from the Old West End of Toledo can be seen by going to
Vintage Home Photographs of the Old West End.
Updated: January 20, 2002
Downtown, Uptown and areas north to Cherry Street:
This house at 2313 Ashland Avenue stood approximately where the old AAA building, now the Girl Scouts, stands.
The home of Birchard A. Hayes at 2112 Ashland Avenue.
The tower and the unique dome on Birchard Hayes' house is visible behind the blank billboard in this picture taken in the late 20's. The house and the billboards, as well as the large urn in the traffic island, are all gone and what remains is an empty field bounded by Ashland, Fulton, and Floyd Streets.
The Belvedere Flats and Family Apartments is on Bancroft between Ashland and Collingwood. The porch with the common entrance for the two buildings is gone and one of the buildings suffered a severe fire early in 2001.
The John Stollberg Home at 2341 Putnam.
A home at 432 Victoria Place.
The Toledo League for the Hard of Hearing had their headquarters in this house at 1957 Franklin Avenue.
1957 Franklin Avenue: Interior picture # 1.
1957 Franklin Avenue: Interior picture # 2.
1957 Franklin Avenue: Interior picture # 3.
A view of Melrose Avenue with horse and carriage.
Here is a photograph of a house which I have been told was somewhere on or near 23rd street.
The Browning Block sat on the south corner of Monroe Street and 23rd Street. The lower floor was devoted to retail spaces and apartments were on the upper floors.
A full view of the Browning Block at Monroe and 23rd Streets.
In 1976 the Browning Block building caught fire resulting in it being razed.
The LaFlorence Apartments were at 1514 - 1518 Monroe Street.
Here is a photograph of the Majestic Flats. I think it was on Monroe Street but I'm not sure. Does anyone know? Email me!!
The Marvin Flats was located on Adams Street. The Ohio Plumbers Supply Company is in the building on the left.
A view from the late teens or early 20's of 13th Street.
The home of Dennison Billing Smith at the corner of Jefferson and Superior Streets in 1876. The Secor Hotel was later built on this site.
The Minot. I. Wilcox home at 1018 Jefferson Avenue was built in 1871 and demolished in 1908.
A photo, published in 1901, of the home of David Ross Locke (1833 - 1888) at 1305 Jefferson. Locke was part-owner and editor of the
Toledo Blade
and was famous for the satirical articles he wrote under the pseudonym "Petroleum V. Nasby." The Locke home was demolished in 1936.
The home of E. W. Tolerton, the Vice-President of the Craig Ship Building Company, was located at 1704 Jefferson Avenue.
The home of Francis P. Chapin, the business manager of The Toledo Bee, at 2211 Jefferson Avenue.
The Home of Samuel W. Nettleton at 2221 Jefferson Avenue in 1901. It was built in 1887 and was demolished in 1969.
The David Robison Jr. home was at 2310 Jefferson Avenue. In later years it was the Foth-Doefmeyer Funeral Home. It is now owned by the Ruth Ide Community Mental Health Center
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: An interior view, possibly of the library.
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: The entrance hall. Mr. Robison's hat rests on the chair at the left. He usually put his hat on the nearby statue but removed it for this photograph.
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: The parlor.
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: The dining room.
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: The dining room firplace
Robison House, 2310 Jefferson: The sitting room.
The home of Daniel Morton at Madison and St Clair Streets in 1877. Daniel Morton was a mayor of Toledo.
The twin-towered, twin-entranced home of Herbert J. Chittenden at 704 Madison Avenue.
The Cheney house at 1511 Madison Avenue. This massive house had three stories and a cupola. This picture was probably taken from an upper floor of the Toledo Club. The large building in the background is the Hillcrest Hotel.
A view of the front of the Cheney house at 1511 Madison Avenue.
The Orville S. Brumback Home at 1603 Madison Avenue.
The home of Adelbert Spitzer at 1904 Madison Avenue.
The home of banker Leander Burdick at 2129 Madison Ave. This home was demolished in 1965.
The Sheldon Clark Reynolds Home at 2219 Madison Avenue.
Another view from 1901 of the Reynolds Home with a horse and buggy.
This house was at 109 Prescott street, up near Cherry street.
Vistula and North to Point Place:
A view of residences near Cherry Street
The Home of Dr. John A. Wright at 1812-1822 Cherry St. in 1901. The building is presently being used as offices.
The home of Valentine H. Ketcham, President of The Ketcham Furniture Company. The home, at Cherry and Bancroft Streets, served as the Toledo Hospital from 1889 to 1893 and was then a nursery school. The building was demolished in 1930.
A large four-square style home at 2621 Cherry Street.
The H. Canfield Sprague Home at 734 Superior Street.
Volentine Whitman Granger, the owner of Granger & Co, Tailors, lived at 1027 Superior Street.
The James Blass Home, built in 1867, at 1207-1209 Superior Street.
The home of Theodore B. Casey at 806 Huron Street.
The George E. Pomeroy Home at 896 Huron St in 1901.
The home of Owen J. Hopkins at 1330 Huron St.
Annie Hopkins, with daughters Adelaide and little Helen photographed on Huron Street in 1903. This is a great photo of ladies fashions at the turn of the century.
An interior view from later years of the Hopkins home at 1330 Huron St. showing Owen and Annie Hopkins.
The home of Judge Irwin I. Millard located at 1525 Huron St.
The Joseph K. Secor Home at Summit and Bush streets.
Running north off Lagrange Street is Sherman Street. A narrow street but big enough to have a trolley line.
A wintertime view of Lagrange Street taken near the intersection of Central Avenue in the 1920's.
Summit Street looking north from River Place.
A serene view of Riverside Park and the pavilion on Summit Street.
Another view of Riverside Park.
A view across Riverside Park and the Maumee River to the East Side.
Looking toward the North on Summit Street. The Maumee River is on the right.
Another view of Summit Street with a lot of details.
Point Place:
A view from 1907 of cottages sharing the lake shore with the interurban tracks and dirt road.
Another view of cottages, tracks, and road, but looking in the opposite direction.
Looking at the backyards of what may have been recently built homes in Point Place.
Bay Park on the lake in 1907.
Cottages along the lake at Bay Park.
Cottages at Bay Shore.
Interesting photo of a couple along the road behind the cottages in Point Place.
A large group of people and children playing near the Interurban tracks in Point Place.
A sailing club, The Dynamiter Club, with three of their boats.
The Gardiner cottage along Edgewater in Point Place.
A hand-colored postcard, dated 1910, of a solitary boater at Edgewater.
A photo from 1907 of Grove Avenue in Point Place.
A family on the shore at Bay Park along Lake Erie in 1912.
A scene along the Ottawa River.
A view of the lake shore community of Point Place.
A typical view of the cottages that lined the Lake and the Ottawa River in Point Place.
A view of the Point Place shore lined with boats and showing the interurban car.
A nice view of a solitary figure on the interurban bridge.
Point Place Road.
Another view of the lakefront cottages at Point Place.
South Toledo:
The Albert Neukom Home at 301 Broadway.
A view of Broadway Avenue in the near south end from about 1900.
This is the River Side Tourist Home at 2625 Broadway.
A 1½ story at 1425 Prouty Street.
The home of J. A. Brown at 702 Olive Street
A view of a residential section of Broadway.
A business section on Broadway east of South Avenue.
The corner of Broadway and South Avenue
A bus travels down Western Avenue heading for Yaekel's Grocery Store.
East Toledo:
The Olds family, East Toledo grocery store owners, lived in this home.
A view of the intersection of Front and Main Streets.
A view of Sixth Street in east Toledo.
The Snyder home at 527 East Broadway
A family on the front porch of the home at 708 First Street
There's a lot of activity in this view of Clark Street .
A view of Main Street looking west toward the river and downtown Toledo.
Another view of Main street from the late 1920s looking west from Front Street and showing the recently completed Pennsylvania RR overpass.
Now we're looking east on main street, apparently at the sunrise.
A 1907 photo of Main and Front Streets following a snowstorm.
Main Street was widened in 1930. This is a photo of some of the work.
Another photo, taken in September, 1930 of the Main Street widening project. In order to widen Main Street, the buildings were lifted and moved back.
This is the corner of Utah and Fassett Streets in winter showing the post office and trolley stop.
A view of 6th Street in East toledo
A man named George Baumgartner built his farm-style home with victorian trim at 708 Earl Street. Note the window box below the second floor window and the ornate gable trim.
Phillips Avenue, Sylvania Avenue and The Point :
A great view of Phillips Avenue. David Marleau Hardware is on the left.
Another great view of Phillips Avenue. Horses, wagons, and a trolley!
A view of what is known as
The Point
- the intersections of Sylvania, Phillips, and Lewis Avenues. Mancy's Restaurant occupies the large brick building on the right.
Another shot of the Point with a trolley, waiting room, and ice cream store. Lots of people about, too.
Looking east on Phillips Avenue in about 1910.
The intersection of Sylvania and Watson in the late 1920's.
Areas west of Detroit Avenue:
The family, and the bicycle they rode in on, are shown here at 1518 Foster Street
A small home at 1211 Detroit Avenue.
A 1914 photograph of the Thatcher home at 1832 Bancroft.
The George Meissner Home. According to Bill Speck, this house was at 420 Division Street at Tecumseh. It was built in 1865 and demolished by 1900.
A nice looking home at 919 Prospect Avenue.
The OWE Homepage is probably the only web site that will ever show you a 1934 photograph of frost heaved paving bricks on Post Street.
As if one picture of a frost-heaved street weren't enough, here's Post Street again from a different angle.
Other areas of Toledo:
The C.A. Earl Home at 4215 River Road.
The Ernest Tiedtke Home at 4000 Dorr Street in the late 1920's.
Looking north on Secor Road to Alexis Road. This photograph, taken in the 1920's, shows an area that is unrecognizable today.
A photograph from the mid 1930's of Kenwood Boulevard looking west toward Douglas Road.
At the foot of Upton Avenue near the Champion Sparkplug Company headquarters once stood Doc Hettinger's self proclaimed "Garden of Eden." A partially vine covered house and a yard full of homemade statues and sets depicting biblical scenes. Don't look for it now though - it's gone.
Unidentified and Unknown Subjects:
An unidentified older city street in Toledo. Judging by the cars, and the slightly worn look of the two houses, this picture was probably taken in the late 30's or early 40's .
An unidentified house, however the house number is 2212. The street where it is located is unknown.
Another unidentified house. It has a house number of 2121. There is a small "room to rent" sign on the porch pillar. This house may have been located on Monroe Street.
The home of W. T. Taylor. I have no idea where this home was located but apparently one had to cross a ravine by means of a bridge to get to it. There is a windmill on the property and in the background is possibly a river.
From the picture it looks like this house was labeled
The Rosella
or
The Rosena
and it was located in Trilby. Does anyone know anything else about it?
This is an advertising card for a brand of cement that was used in the construction of the Loiston Apartments. The Loiston was a great looking building but I don't know where it was located.
A photo of the Victoria Apartments. Does anyone know where it was located?
A photo from the mid-1930's taken in West Toledo of a street that intersects with Pennhurst. Does anyone know the name of the street the bus is on?
A streetcar travels an unidentified street in an unidentified section of Toledo.
A nice photo of a lady holding a baby in front of small house. No discernible house number or landmarks to help identify this subject.
An intersection with great looking buildings is pictured in this photograph. There is no information as to its whereabouts.
A house at an unknown location is pictured here. It looks like the name "P Meyoris" is written on the top margin.
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