There's a good stone retaining wall along the edge of the higher section of the park. ( I'm from Pennsylvania. There's no way I'm calling it a hill. )
A lot of work went into this. Rather more work than you'd expect in a small park.
Too bad the City doesn't put a whole hell of a lot of work into maintaining it.
The old South Branch Library on Broadway. This is a fantastic building. More pictures, tomorrow.
I believe this picture was taken around 1913. The church, behind the mizzen mast is Westminster Presbyterian, in the Vistula Historic District. It's still standing, vacant and in rotten shape. The tall building at the left is St. John's College.
I'm very impressed with the sandstone decoration above the main entrance.
This building is proof of one of my main blogging points. People can walk, or worse yet, drive, past a building every day, without really looking at it. Familiarity breeds completely unwarranted contempt.
A rare survivor. This garage began life as a stable. It's on an alley, off Walbridge, near Broadway.
I have a serious backlog of interesting pictures to post, over the next few days.
A statue outside Tony Packo's location near Fifth Third Field, the Toledo Mudhens' home. You may remember Tony Packo's and the Hungarian hot dog, as well as the Mud Hens, from Toledo native Jamie Farr's portrayal of Max Klinger, on the television series MASH.
A magnificent altar. The statues are of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Vaulting, even simple vaulting was not common in Protestant churches of this period. Very well done, and the design on the bracket is wonderful.
The rose is a Lutheran emblem.
The pews are divided, down the center. This is a holdover from the old Protestant custom of having men on one side of the church and women on the other.
I like the lighting fixtures. Simple, but not too simple.
There seems to be some nice openwork decoration around the base of the pulpit.
The font is beautiful, but it competes for attention with a fine library table and what may be a very old ironstone ewer.
Thanks to commenter ShariYS for the pictures. I'll post more tomorrow.
The old Masonic Temple, on Broadway, in the Old South End, is an impressive building with a lot of good stonework. I'll post more pictures tomorrow, but this has me curious. The Masonic calipers symbol, in the arch over the main entrance has been seriously obliterated. It's too high, and way too painstaking to be vandalism. It had to be done deliberately. Reminds me of what the Egyptians at the last stages of the 18th Dynasty did to Ahkenaten's name.
The cornerstone had the same treatment. The question is, was it done by the Masons when they sold it, or by the Evangelical "ministry" that bought it?
I just took about thirty pictures. Still have to fiddle with them, so they'll be posted over the next few days.
