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Westbound on US Route 224 near Ohio State Route 11.

Westbound on US Route 224 in Canfield, Ohio.

Southbound on Ohio State Route 625.

In 1996 I found this massive old house near Ruggles, Ohio on US-224. I noticed that there were three houses in the vicinity that appeared to have been built about the same time, perhaps by the same builder, all with Italianate detailing. I knocked on the door but didn't find anyone home. Unfortunately the next time I went by in 1998 it had been abandoned and never had occupants after that.

I found out many years later that the house was built by Rollin Kimball Beach some time around 1870. For more on the history of the house, see here:
architecturalafterlife.com/2019/08/the-nova-house/

Scanned from a black and white print

Westbound on Ohio State Route 14.

Northbound on Interstate 75 in Ohio.

nrhp # 73002259- The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without interior supports.

The building has a unique shape which has been described as "half a silkworm's cocoon, cut in half the long way." It is 1,175 feet (358.14 m) long, 325 feet (99.06 m) wide, and 211 feet (64.31 m) high, supported by 13 steel arches. There is 364,000 square feet (34 000 m²) of unobstructed floor space, or an area larger than 8 football fields side-by-side. The airdock has a volume of 55 million cubic feet (or about 1.5 million cubic meters). A control tower and radio aerial sit at its northeast end. At each end of the building are two huge semi-spherical doors that each weigh 600 tons (544 000 kg). At the top, the doors are fastened by hollow forged pins 17 inches (43 cm) in diameter and six feet (1.83 m) long. The doors roll on 40 wheels along specially-designed curved railroad tracks, each powered by an individual power plant that can open the doors in about 5 minutes.[2]

The airdock is so large that temperature changes within the structure can be very different from that on the outside of the structure. To accommodate these fluctuations, which could cause structural damage, a row of 12 windows 100 feet (30.48 m) off the ground was installed. Furthermore, the entire structure is mounted on rollers to compensate for expansion or contraction resulting from temperature changes. When the humidity is high in the Airdock, a sudden change in temperature causes condensation. This condensation falls in a mist, creating the illusion of rain, according to the designer.

In 1929, Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, later Goodyear Aerospace, sought a structure in which "lighter-than-air" ships (later known as airships, dirigibles, and blimps) could be constructed.[5] The company commissioned Karl Arnstein of Akron, Ohio, whose design was inspired by the blueprints of the first aerodynamic-shaped airship hangar, built in 1913 in Dresden, Germany.[6]

Construction took place from April 20 to November 25, 1929, at a cost of $2.2 million (equivalent to $27.64 million in 2021[7]).

The first two airships to be constructed and launched at the airdock were USS Akron, in 1931, and its sister ship, USS Macon.

When World War II broke out, enclosed production areas were desperately needed, and the airdock was used for building airships. The last airship built in the airdock was the U.S. Navy's ZPG-3W in 1960. The building later housed the photographic division of the Goodyear Aerospace Corporation.

In 1980, the Goodyear Airdock was designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.


Interior of the Goodyear Airdock, May 1985
The airdock has more recently served as the site of the 1986 kickoff rally for the United Way of Summit County, where 200,000 members of the public visited. Bill Clinton spoke there during his 1992 election campaign, bringing some 30,000 visitors to the site.

In 1987, the Loral Corporation purchased Goodyear Aerospace and the Goodyear Airdock as a result of James Goldsmith's greenmailing of Goodyear. The Loral Corporation (and its holdings, including the Goodyear Airdock) was purchased by Lockheed Martin in 1996.

As of 2021 California company LTA Research and Exploration, together with the University of Akron, plans to use the airdock to develop electric-powered airships.[8]

The airdock is not open to the public, but it can be seen by those traveling on U.S. Route 224 east of downtown Akron.

from Wikipedia

nrhp # 74001639- The Van Wert County Courthouse is a historic governmental building in downtown Van Wert, Ohio, United States. Located at 121 E. Main Street, the courthouse is a Second Empire structure built in 1876.[1] It is Van Wert County's third courthouse: when the county was established, the village of Willshire was designated the county seat; Van Wert was made the seat in 1838,[2] and a courthouse-and-jail complex was built in that community in the following year.[3]

Designed by T.J. Tolan,[1] an architect from Fort Wayne, Indiana, the courthouse is a square structure with towers on all four corners. Its architecture combines copious amounts of brick and stone: the foundation and the walls of the first floor are stone, along with the pilasters, columns, and quoins on the upper parts of the exterior, while the walls of the remaining stories and of the tower are built of brick.[4] Tolan employed multiple groundbreaking construction techniques throughout the structure, such as pressed steel; his success in using these innovations earned recognition for both him and the courthouse in a national trade journal.[5] Rising above the front of the courthouse is a clock tower with a statue of Justice placed in a niche. Made of zinc, the statue is 8 feet (2.4 m) tall; before its installation at the courthouse, it was awarded first place in a Philadelphia sculpture competition.[4]

Today, county officials continue to use the courthouse for everyday operations.[5] Among the offices in the courthouse are those of the county treasurer,[6] the county recorder,[7] the county auditor,[8] and the Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.[9] Some other county agencies maintain offices in other locations, such as the county sheriff and the county commissioners.

In 1974, the Van Wert County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, becoming the first building in the county to receive this distinction.[1] It qualified for inclusion because of its well-preserved historic architecture, which was seen as significant statewide.

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Seville, OH. May 2021.
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The river was named in honor of the famous legend of "Virgin Mary." Indiana people come to the river to stare dumbly at its muddy water as they recall personally meaningful versions of her apocryphal story.

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In Decatur, Indiana, on July 27th, 2019, the St. Marys River as viewed from the north side of East Monroe Street (U.S. Route 224). Yon bridge is on East Jackson Street and was built in 1965.

The St. Marys River flows to the Maumee River, which flows to Lake Erie.

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Akron, OH. May 2021.
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US224 and Westfield Road
ODOT District 3

This ruined barn is on the south side of US-224, just east of Dull Robinson Road, in rural Van Wert County, Ohio. The name "Balyeat" and a date in the 1880s (the last digit is illegible) are spelled out on the roof.

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But even without these, the imposing windowless wall of light gray pebbledash would be an architectural triumph.

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In downtown Decatur, Indiana, on July 27th, 2019, an office building (built in 1968 according to the Adams County Assessor's Office) at the southwest corner of North 1st Street and West Monroe Street (U.S. Route 224).

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I would like for the inside of the box to be a storage area accessible via a small door inside the building. I think about the supplies I would store there if this building were my residence.

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In downtown Decatur, Indiana, on July 27th, 2019, outside a CenturyLink building (formerly Embarq) (built in 1975 according to the Adams County Assessor's Office) at the northeast corner of North 3rd Street and West Monroe Street (U.S. Route 224).

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