Remarkable 419

The downtown Toledo architecture scene may not be known for a wide variety of Art Deco designs, but there are a few classic...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as public transportation made suburban living more feasible, Collingwood Avenue, known earlier...

Cities are constantly evolving and being reborn. New buildings are created—old ones are torn down or repurposed. People flow in and out...

The city’s oldest neighborhood is transforming—thanks partly to an exciting new project called "Gateway at Vistula." If this building...

Watching over the Grand Lobby of the Valentine Theatre are 47 caricatured actors, singers, musicians, and dancers roguishly grinning as...

While the Valentine Theatre is a spectacular building with its own colorful story to tell, the backstory of how the building was saved...

Built as a supply depot and staging point for operations into Detroit and Canada, and also to provide command of the rapids of the Maumee...

Some say this historic home located at 5717 Main St. in Sylvania was originally built around the time of the Civil War as a...

2210 Robinwood Avenue Designed by Brown, Burton & Davis of Cincinnati and built on a half-acre lot in 1901 for Alvin B. Tillinghast, a...

A Company Town. You’ll find this former company town along Centennial Road, north of Brint, on the western edge of Sylvania Township....

Hylant Building | 811 Madison Avenue We shared the story of how Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to...

Many of the spaces we feature on Remarkable419 are noted for their distinctive architectural elements or styles. While this historic barn...

A Remarkable Space with an Incredible Story This large wood-frame structure, sitting on a cut stone foundation sandwiched between the...

The original Tony Packo’s Café, made famous by Toledoan Jamie Farr as homesick Corporal Max Klinger on the comedy-drama series M*A*S*H,...

The massive brick industrial building guarding Promenade Park is known today as ProMedica Headquarters, but it was originally named Water...

Edward Drummond Libbey came to Toledo in 1888 from Boston, where he and his family owned the New England Glass Company. Libbey moved his...

129 Dixie Highway | Rossford Built in 1958 for LOF, this massive 100,000 square foot fabrication shop is the heart and soul of IPS,...

Iconic Whistle Found at Scrap Sale. This brass whistle, stamped with a Ford Plate Glass nameplate, was used to sound shift changes and...

A 27,000 square foot, two-story brick Neoclassical building built on Dixie Highway in Rossford in 1917. Known locally as "The Ford Club,"...

As one of the nation's oldest Boy Scout facilities, Camp Miakonda boasts quite a few legendary buildings. But, probably the most famous...