What better way to celebrate the unseasonably warm weather the day after Christmas than to head to Bellefontaine Cemetery? So today and the three following days, we’ll look at four different themes of various sights we saw as we walked the grounds away from the roads. We saw old favorites and many new ones. Take…
Around the Former Plaza Theater, West End
It’s hard to believe it, but I first photographed the former Plaza Theater way back in April of 2009, when we were first starting to explore the West End and points to the north, such as Hamilton Heights and Wells-Goodfellow by heading up Clara Avenue. Today, it’s the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, which has occupied…
Julian Avenue Between Hamilton Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard, West End
The first thing we see at the corner of Julian and Hamilton avenues is this nice church, and then we head east. A block west on Julian Avenue from the concrete block houses I looked at back in March of 2022 are houses that are more indicative of the West End as you move further…
West Cabanne Place, West End, Revisited
I hadn’t been back to look at West Cabanne Place, platted in 1888, in a while, so I thought I would go take a look and check up on it. I first explored the street back in August of 2009, and revisited the Theodore Link House in September of 2014 and August of 2019. In…
Enright Avenue Between Porter Mall and Clara Avenue, West End
I somehow forgot to go down Enright Avenue west of Ruth Porter Mall, but here is the street east of there. It is perhaps a portent of what the West End would have become if the City had not lost out to the suburbs: increasingly dense with apartments replacing single family homes built earlier in…
Cates Avenue Between Porter Mall and Clara Avenue, West End
Before we get up to Cates Avenue, we’ll look at a couple of buildings down on Clemens Avenue, such as this apartment building. We’ve looked at Clemens Avenue east of Clara Avenue, back in April of 2019. We looked at Cates Avenue west of Porter Mall back in late November. To the east of the…
Cabanne Avenue Between Porter Mall and Belt Avenue, West End
I want you to understand that with the exception of the two houses you see below, every other single house on Cabanne Avenue in the fire insurance map above is gone. Sorry to go on a tirade, but this is what happens when you let government go crazy and implement its vainglorious ideas on entire…
Maple Avenue Between Clara and Belt Avenues, West End, Revisited
I realized I had so much fun revisiting the West End a couple of weeks ago that I decided to go back. This time I tried to hit blocks on the east side of the Ruth E. Porter Mall (read about Porter here). The two houses below are on the other side of the street…
Crunden Martin Ruins, Revisited
Hey, office and flex space for lease! I revisited Crunden Martin to check up on the state of the buildings after the disastrous Black Friday fire. Yes, in case you were wondering, that sign is new. As I had appraised on Black Friday, the building that had already suffered a fire back in 2011 is…
Normandy High School and Viking Hall
The former Eden Seminary and then the old Normandy High School was in the process of being torn down in 1953 when it was captured in the photograph above. It had used the old seminary build since 1923. The new Normandy High School, designed by William B. Ittner, opened later in the 1920s, was constructed…