The Joseph G. Reed Company Building, dated 1906, is located at 700 Second (2nd) Street at the corner of Washington Street. The company sold wholesale dry goods and notions. The building is now Horizon House apartments.
The Portsmouth Machine and Casting Company Machine Shop, location unknown.
Their Foundry at 401 Third (3rd) Street is now PCL Building Supply.
Portsmouth City Water Works was on Mill Street on the Ohio River.
The old Portsmouth Times building, at the corner of Chillicothe and Front Streets, was razed in 1969 for the expansion of Shawnee Community College.
The Portsmouth Daily Times new building was at 637 Sixth (6th) Street until about 2018.
The Portsmouth Blade was located on Sixth (6th) Street.
The Portsmouth Stove Company was located at 14th (Fourteenth) and Chillicothe Streets. It was started in 1889.
Harsha Flour Mills was located on 8th (Eighth) Street east of Campbell Avenue.
The mill burned in 1954, and then was used by Harbison-Walker Refractories.
The Carnegie Building or the Portsmouth Public Library, at 1220 Gallia Street was opened in 1906 thanks to Henry Lorberg and Andrew Carnegie.
Damarin Block Building is at the corner of Second (2nd) and Court Streets. It was home to the Hansen Furniture Company and had held many other businesses.
The Kricker Building was built by George Kricker in 1893 on Gallia Street facing the Esplanade or Government Square. It held a business college, grocery, bank, jewler, Portsmouth city offices and many other businesses and offices. It was also called the City Building.
The W. L. Reinert Clothing Company was located on Gallia Street near the Columbia Theater.
The Samuel Horchow Company manufactured clothing at 40-44 Gallia
Street. It would become the home of the Samuel Levi Furniture Company, and was later made into apartments .
The Scott Knitting Company was at 101-103 Gallia Street. It manufactured high quality knitted goods.
The Pure Milk Company was located on Eighth (8th) Street.
The Stockham Coal, Produce, and Cold Storage Company, at the corner of Chillicothe and Eleventh (11th) Streets, advertised "ice, coal, produce, and feeds." After the streets were realigned the Stockham Ice building ended up between the east bound and west bound lanes of Rt.52
The Masonic Temple building built in 1906 at the corner of Chillicothe and Fourth (4th) Streets housed Bragdon's Dry Goods Store on the first two floors. In December 1925 the building partially burned, but was rebuilt to only four floors to be Kobackers Department Store in 1928. The La Salle Hotel used the upper floors. In 1980, the building became Desco Credit Union.
The Daehler Building was located at 82-86 Second (2nd) Street. The F. C. Daehler Co. sold furniture, carpet, Queensware, and was also an undertaker.
W. J. Friel's Garage was at 14-16 West Fifth (5th) Street where he advertised automobiles, accessories, repairing, and vulcanizing. This view from Fifth (5th) looks directly toward the first half of the new National Bank Building built in 1912 on Chillicothe Street next to the Lyric Theater. In 1924 the Lyric was razed and replaced by the second half of the bank building. The "Located at 711 Chillicothe Street" is a typo error.
The Imperial Rolling Mills was located at 158-160 West Fourth (4th) Street. Headed by A. M. Frick, it produced flour, fine white corn meal, grain, and feed.
Spring Lane Distilling Company was located at 161-163 West Front Street, just outside the city limits at the junction of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, & Virginia Railroad and the N & W Railroad. The plant was built in 1888; the president was M. Stanton.
The Portsmouth Hat Company was on the West Side, at the junction of State Routes 104 and 73.
