UNIVERSITY DISTRICT PHOTO ALBUM- Images of our neighborhood from the past 150 years: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 |
February 13, 2016- The original Waterbeds-n-Stuff, 2194 N. High. A campus institution, supplying those who partake for over 40 years. Store is located in the old Alhambra Court retail and rowhouse complex, built before the First World War. |
Great find Sunday at the Paper, Postcard, and Book Show at Rhodes Center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds. This postcard from the 1919 Methodist Missions Centenary at the fairgrounds chronicles a Crawford County, Ohio farmgirl's visit there on July 8 and 9, 1919. More about this here. |
Campus scene, c. 1910. |
September 26, 2015- Scene in Ohio Stadium at Ohio State vs. Western Michigan game. |
Mirror Lake, c. 1910. |
Old fieldstone steps remain 50 years after the fine old house they served was demolished to make way for an ugly box. N. 4th St. at Maynard. |
SE corner of N. High and Chittenden in the late 1990s. Demolished to make way for South Campus Gateway in 2002. More of the old South Campus here. |
1910 advertisement for King-Neil Building and the building today. |
Old McMillin Observatory overlooking Mirror Lake Hollow. Stood between Pomerene Hall & Honors House (formerly President’s House). Built in 1895. Used until 1968. Demolished 1976. |
The original Ohio Union (now Enarson Hall) on W. 12th Ave., shortly after opening to students in 1910. This building was a hub of campus social life until 1951 when the second Ohio Union, on High St., replaced it. Now Hale Hall. |
Dumpster marriage proposal on South Campus, c 2010. |
Outsider art car by neighborhood eccentric "The Redneck Rebel," parked on E 13th in 2003. Neighborhood eccentrics have pretty much disappeared as the rents have skyrocketed in recent years. |
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