Sunday, August 16, 2020

Akron downtown

 Inventors Hall of Fame courtyard

 year stone of the Municipal Building
 Some of the empty windows have paintings over them.
 Cadillac Hill (Bates Street) is a steep drive (28% grade) leading to the bottom of  Glendale Cemetery, it is currently closed.
Glendale Steps still has road construction around it, and now no flowers. Three years ago, click here.
Akron's alternative newspaper is named after an Akronistic term. Perhaps, on account of the influx of Pentecostalist Appalachians, the term for the lawn between the sidewalk and street.
 one of August Blepp's two lions in front of the courthouse
Werner Company Building (1895) has been long vacant, and has had different owners. The sheriff had it up for auction in 1979. It was one of eleven buildings  (and only remaining) of the printing and publishing company. They published encyclopedias and dictionaries, and were the largest book publishers in the country for a short time. Encyclopedia Brittanica broke the company in lawsuits. Paul Werner came from Germany, and the administration building has castle brickwork. Werner left Ohio in 1914.
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postscriptum: Werner Building demolished September 5th, 2020.

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