Art and Architecture in Northwest Ohio, plus anything else I damn well please.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The Hall Block, Downtown Toledo
This was at Jefferson and St. Clair. The cupola at the corner was deliberately put there, by architects James Young and Carl Schon, to match that of the Boody House Hotel, at Madison and St. Clair. The tower, in the middle of the block was the First Congregational Church.
The Hall Block was built in 1875, but only lasted seven years. It was destroyed in a spectacular fire, on December 15, 1882.
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
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