WTOL's Lou Herbert Connects John Gunckel with the Old Newsboys...

322 East Broadway. Built in 1835, this home was transformed into a Greek Revival house by "itinerant column workers" in 1844. It's more...

1949 Glendale Ave. In 1920, Toledo voters approved an $11 million bond to expand the city school system. Community forums and feedback...

501 River Road. Dudley and his officers tried vainly to stop them, but their efforts were futile, and they joined the fray. Once they...

802 North Huron Street. The important thing to remember is how Libbey was recruited to Toledo before the Chamber of Commerce, the Port...

410 Adams Street. The story of how the Valentine Theatre was saved from the wrecking ball is a lesson in community action. Listed on the...

Toledo History Tour from High Above Downtown Over the years I've given tours of downtown Toledo from the 28th floor of One SeaGate. In...

If you were looking for a place to lodge in the Sylvania area in the 1800's, you would have been lucky to book a room at the Bidwell ....

The fire wiped out 19 businesses along the west side of the block we now call Main Street between Maplewood and Monroe. As you browse...

A trip back to Sylvania's past. This entry is a compilation of a series of articles Kathryn Keller wrote in the summer of 1977 for her...

Tying Toledo's past to the future. This video is from TEDxToledo 2013. "We're all products of the time and the culture that we live in. ...

Connecting Toledo with East Toledo via Cherry/Main Streets. The Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge (formerly Cherry Street Bridge) is a...

301 Morrison Drive. You can't miss Waite High School as you look out to East Toledo from the top of One SeaGate.  Waite High was named...

Front and Main. The corner of Front and Main in East Toledo is dominated by the 3 story brick commercial Weber Block, a Queen Anne style,...

The story of Toledo's High Level. Commonly called the "High Level Bridge," the Anthony Wayne Bridge was designed by Waddell and Hardesty...

The heart and soul of Toledo runs straight through town on its way out to Lake Erie. Formed at Fort Wayne, Indiana by the confluence of...

Few Midwest cities can claim the ethnic heritage of Toledo. Although our region has a very diverse ethnic heritage today, we got a late...

How a German Brewer Founded a Toledo Neighborhood. Today, much of Lenk's Hill and the eastern part of Kushwantz form the neighborhood we...

The Development of Toledo's Urban Canyon was Driven by Pride and Ego Over the years, Toledo has seen several major building booms in the...

Once the headquarters for Toledo enterprise. The area between Swan Creek and the Maumee River is called the Middle Grounds, an important...