Colored aerial image of the Portsmouth Steel Company and homes at New Boston, Ohio River and Kentucky in distance. This mill was known as Crucible Steel Company of America before 1902, Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902-1909, and Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909-1920.
Print of a watercolor of the 1810 House on Waller Street in Portsmouth, the historic home of the Aaron Kinney family. It is now a museum operated by the Ohio Historical Society.
Black and white photo of the aftermath of the October 23, 1910 fire that destroyed the Gilbert Grocery Company at 50-54 West Second Street. The Gilbert wholesale grocery business was established in 1832 by Martin B. Gilbert. After this fire, a new building was built at 640-648 Second Street.
Tinted image of the Irving Drew Shoe factory. The 1920 Portsmouth City Directory lists the locations of the Irving Drew Company at 1658-1662 Eleventh (11th) Street and 533-537 Front Street. This image is the Welt and Turn Factory at 1658-1662 Eleventh St. according to "Illustrated and Descriptive Portsmouth, Ohio" a publication of the early 1900's.
Tinted image of the new Hempstead Hospital opened in 1908, named for Dr. Giles S.B. Hempstead. Enlarged with a third floor and 2 wings in 1923, it was re-named Portsmouth General Hospital in 1925. In 1964 it became Scioto Memorial Hospital until the new building was built on Twenty-Seventh (27th) Street in 1968. The old building on Scioto Trail was razed in 2006.
Tinted image of the First Presbyterian Church Building at 221 Court Street at the corner of Third ( 3rd) Street. It was built about 1850 and has walls made of two-foot thick native brick. It is listed on the National Historic Register.
Black and white photo of the Masonic Hall dated 1901 in Wheelersburg on the corner of Gallia Street and Lick Run/Lyra Road. The Western Sun Masonic Lodge has met here since 1923.
Colored image on the Fireproof Hotel Hurth at the corner of Third (3rd) and Chillicothe Streets. Built in 1923 by Adolph Hurth, it had 107 rooms with adjoining baths with hot and cold running water. It also had a barber shop, a pressing room and a restaurant. The building has been used as senior citizen apartments since 1982.
Colored image of the Grimes Hotel at 902 Second (2nd) Street. This building was "Portsmouth's first flat building" according to the Portsmouth Daily Times of July 27, 1907. Built by H S Grimes at the corner of Second (2nd) and Gay Streets, it had forty-three rooms. In 1912 the Y.W.C.A. rented it for their home. It was Grimes Apartments from about 1922 to 1966 when it was razed for the expansion of Ohio University Portsmouth Branch (now Shawnee)
