Nunley, Debbie and Karen Jane Elliott. A Taste of Ohio History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes. Winston-Salem, North Carolina; John F. Blair, 2001. Combining travel, architecture, and food, A Taste of Ohio History, is the second state in a unique series. The authors have compiled a list of almost 100 historic eateries [...]
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Ligibel, Ted and Richard Wrights. Island Heritage: A Guided Tour to Lake Erie’s Bass Island. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1987. In my ongoing quest to find books on the Lake Erie Islands, Island Heritage is a worthwhile relic. It is dated now, but still worth a look to history/architecture seekers. Ligibel and Wright [...]
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Ware, Jane. Building Ohio: A Traveler’s Guide to Ohio’s Rural Architecture. Wilmington, Ohio; Orange Frazer Press, 2002. I have a rule of thumb about towns in Ohio. If the municipality had 10,000 residents in 1950, there will be a few amazing streets of Victorian houses near the town square. I call it the “10,000 Residents [...]
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Knerr, Douglas. Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. The future of housing could have been centered in Ohio. For a brief period between 1947 and 1951, a public-private cooperation in building steel enameled houses for working and middle classes existed in the incorporation of [...]
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Berkhofer, George H. No Place Like Home: A History of Domestic Architecture in Springfield & Clark County, Ohio. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 2007. I am always looking for titles about Springfield and I was especially eager to get my hands on No Place Like Home because I knew there would be much on South [...]
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