Built c1944. Demolished 2004. Names associated with this property: Pahl and Matty.
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Nichols Home, 3205 Moffat Rd.
Built c1948. Demolished c2001.
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Built c1944. Demolished c2000. Other names associated with this home: King, Jones, Adams.
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Built c1947. Demolished c2021.
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The fuel tanks at the back of the mobile home suggest this was a residence. It’s assumed that whoever lived here was likely associated with the Kujawa residence to the right in this image (5918 Bonsels Pkwy).
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Built c1940. Demolished c1989. Currently a small office building.
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Built c1944. Demolished 1990s. Currently another car wash.
Continue reading “Foster Home, 3503 Holland-Sylvania Rd.”The Kmart Dirt Mounds
Back in the ’80s there was a small cluster of dirt mounds behind the Kmart at 5956 Central Avenue. Perhaps about five to ten of them, about four or five feet high and maybe ten feet in diameter. Over the years vegetation and small trees grew on them.
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“Generally fair and warmer tonight and Sunday, fresh winds, becoming southerly.” That was the forecast for the evening of April 14th, 1900 when Kate and her sister Johanna sat down for dinner. The day before Easter Sunday.
At about 7 o’clock that evening Henry Wendt, a farmer, was standing at the well on his property when he saw a women crawling slowly up the road toward his house. He recognized that it was his neighbor Miss Kate Sullivan. As she approached, Wendt was shocked to find her covered in blood from head to foot and gagged with a strip of red tablecloth. Wendt took Kate into his home and tried to untie the gag but found it so tight that his wife had to cut it off with pair of scissors. Her hair was hanging down and clotted with blood. She had multiple wounds on her head and blood was flowing from them all. A doctor was called to the Wendt farm but by 6am Sunday morning Kate was dead.
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Being that 428 10th Street is being demolished, we thought we’d post about it.
The Child Study Institute (CSI) in Toledo, Ohio, was a long-running Lucas County juvenile detention and evaluation facility tied to the juvenile court system. CSI on 10th Street opened in 1953. The structure was designed by the Toledo architectural firm Bellman, Gillett & Richards.
By 2000 CSI was described in the Toledo Blade as being “plagued by problems from deteriorating plumbing, aging heating systems, poorly secured detention areas, and outdated court areas.” In March 2001 operations were transferred over to a new juvenile detention center at 1801 Spielbusch Avenue. By May of 2001 equipment and fixtures at the “Old CSI Bldg” were being auctioned off. The building was used as storage over the years but eventually ended up on the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department’s Code Red list. A Code Red building is in such disrepair that it’s a danger to emergency personnel. Asbestos contamination got CSI put on the list.
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