Description: Posed photograph of nine well-dressed adults in front of a large two-story frame hotel. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b11_f610
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Hotels
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This photograph showing a group of people outside the Kanawha Hotel was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. The Kanawha Hotel is now an historic landmark, located in Elizabeth, West Virginia. Its construction dates to about 1800, and it was in operation from 1812 through 1928 before being sold as a private residence. Like most of Ewing's work, the photograph was taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b02_f170
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Hotels
Places: Elizabeth (West Virginia)
 

Description: Caption reads "The Hurth Hotel - First Class, South East corner - 3rd Street and Chillicothe." Built in 1923, The Hurth Hotel was named for and owned by Adolph Hurth. Architect C.C. Taylor created the hotel in a Renaissance Revival style out of brick, metal, stone, and wood. Later, the hotel would be converted into an apartment building called Rivertown Apartments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F10_012_1
Subjects: Portsmouth (Ohio)--History; Historical hotels; Hotels--1920-1930
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is postcard of Hotel Onesto in Canton, Ohio. Hotel Onesto was created by Francis A. Onesto in 1930. He wanted a hotel design to rival those in large cities. Today the hotel is home to luxury apartments. In 1982, the hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F07_010_001
Subjects: Hotels--History; Postcards--Ohio--Canton; National Register of Historic Places; Canton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Canton (Ohio)--History; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph, looking south down High Street from Broad Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, comes from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. Several Columbus businesses can be seen lining High Street across the street from the Ohio Statehouse, including the Neil House Hotel and Johenstine Jewelers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F05_02_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Downtowns; Businesses; Hotels
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photo depicts the Second Neil House Hotel in Columbus, Ohio as it appeared in 1898. Situated on the southwest corner of Broad and High Streets, the second Neil House, a five-story, 150-room building, was home to then-Ohio governor William McKinley and his wife Ida. Eventually, the second house was torn down to be replaced by the 10-story, 655-room "third Neil House" in 1925. The final incarnation closed in 1980 and was demolished in 1981. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04C_008_1
Subjects: Hotels--History; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Hotels; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten and sketched broadside for the Xenia Springs and Tawawa House Resort, located on US 42 three miles from Xenia, Ohio. The land once occupied the Tawawa Springs health resort is now home to Wilberforce University. Xenia Springs was established in 1851 due to the presence of mineral springs, which were used as a "water cure" (or "hydropathy") for guests seeking the waters' medicinal and therapeutic qualities. The three-story wooden Tawawa House opened in June of that year with Dr. Samuel Silsbee, a Cincinnati skin specialist, as its superintendent. After several years, the property was sold in October 1855, and Tawawa House became the main building for the fledgling Wilberforce University. It lasted only a decade in its new role, burning down in 1865. While it was rebuilt on the same foundations, Wilberforce eventually relocated to new buildings to the south. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4695
Subjects: Hotels; Travel; Wilberforce University; Medicine--History;
Places: Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Hartman Building, located at the intersection of Main and 4th Streets in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1920. Completed in 1902, the Hartman Building was developed by Columbus physician Samuel B. Hartman (1830-1918), who used it as a combination hotel/medical complex for his patients. Since it was leased to the state in 1921, the building has held the Bureau of Motor Vehicles as well as a succession of banks, and is now home to residential lofts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05241
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus; Hotels--Ohio--Columbus--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: " Superior Avenue at East 6th Street (Site of the Hollenden Hotel). About 1880." The 8-story Hollenden Hotel was built at this location and was the first large commercial hotel east of Public Square when it opened on June 7, 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_020_001
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History.; Roads; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Hotels
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a view of South High Street Columbus, Ohio, looking north. A streetcar and autos share the road; parked cars line both sides of the street. The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians. The top of the LeVeque Tower is seen in the far background. Columbus's famed Neil House hotel is situated in the middle of the block. The hotel was erected in the 1820s as a tavern. Proprietor William built a hotel on the site in 1839; this structure burned down on Nov. 6, 1860 and was replaced in 1862 by new building. In turn, that hotel was replaced in 1924 by the structure seen in the photo. This 600-room hotel was torn down in the 1980s to make room for the expanded Huntington Bank Building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05698
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Architecture--Ohio; Automobiles; Hotels--Ohio--Columbus--History; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three men stand near ladders outside of the Ohio Stater Inn, located at 2060 North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Stater Inn now operates as student housing adjacent to the university campus. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B11F282_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Hotels; Rental housing
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This overhead view is a snapshot of downtown Columbus, Ohio, looking north on High Street. Several notable buildings are visible in the photograph, including the Southern Hotel and the Lazarus Department Store. Opened in 1897 as the Great Southern Fireproof Hotel and Opera House, the landmark hotel is now known as the Westin Columbus Hotel. Founded in 1851 by Simon Lazarus, the department store merged with Macy's in 2005. The large skyscraper in the distance is the Rhodes State Office Tower. Completed in 1974, the Rhodes Tower is the tallest building in Columbus. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B05F139_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Hotels; Skyscrapers; Department stores
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)