Buildings - Retro Toledo Metro

The Loop Theater, 419 Superior St.

**The Lincoln Club.** Source: Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Local History and Genealogy.

Long before The Loop, there was The Lincoln Club. The Lincoln Club was built on the Stewart Block in August 1898 and opened that same year.

Ken R Music, 1806 Madison Avenue

Ken R. Deutsch (“Ken R”) is a former Toledo-based radio broadcaster, jingle producer, and longtime enthusiast of the American radio-jingle tradition whose studio at 1806 Madison Avenue served as a production center from 1985-2000.

Whitney & Currier Building, 515 Madison Avenue

The Whitney & Currier Building is the six-story building right of center between the two-story Northern Bank building (center at Madison and Superior) and the four story Doyle & Lewis Building. Note the clock in front of the building. The ten-story Home Bank Building (former site of the Toledo Club building) is on the far right at Madison and Huron. Source: Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Local History and Genealogy.

Stevens House, 519 Madison St.

The John A. Stevens house was located at the corner of Madison Street and Huron Street. By 1874 it was the “former residence” of John Stevens and was converted into a boarding house.

Lake Family Property, 6700 W. Sylvania Ave.

Source: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Block Card Collection.

This building was located on the northwest corner of Sylvania Avenue and McCord Road. The Lake family home was at 6726 Sylvania Avenue, just west of this structure. Later became the site of a Marathon gas station. Currently Speedway gas station.

Allied Gear & Machine Company, 6820 W. Sylvania Ave.

Holly Plaza, 3303 Holland-Sylvania Road

Built c1961. Two buildings located on the northwest corner of Goodhue Drive and Holland-Sylvania Road. Originally named the Holland House Business Center.

Gainsborough Studios, 1221 Madison Avenue

Gainsborough Studios was located on the southeast corner of Madison and 13th, formerly the site (front yard) of the Haunted House. The address of this corner was changed over the years, from 233 to 1209 to 1217 to 1221. Various businesses occupied this space including Charles L. Lewis Studio (1904-20), George B. Sperry (1911-13), Donna J. Tenney Interiors (1924-25) and Carl F. Asmus (Insurance) (1926-28). Site is currently a parking lot.

Kline’s Greenhouse, 3009 Holland-Sylvania Rd.

Kline’s Greenhouse (1961) was located at or near the former McDonalds and operated by Charles Kleinknecht. It was also briefly known as Parks Greenhouse (c1950).

Caesars

133 N. Erie St.

The original Caesars opened in the mid-1970s. It was owned by Joseph C. Wicks and located in the 100 block of Erie Street between Monroe Street and Jefferson Avenue between the International Health Studio and the Carl H. Blank Beauty Salon. Caeser’s relocated to 725 Jefferson in the mid-1990s, moving into the old Burt’s Theatre building, a Venetian inspired playhouse, at Jefferson and Ontario Streets.