Black & white photo image of the Norfolk & Western Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets. It was used from 1901 until the new terminal was constructed at Sixteenth (16th) and Findlay in 1931. This location was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
Colorized photo image of the N & W Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets. It was used from 1901 until the new terminal was built on Sixteenth (16th) and Findlay Streets in 1931. This location was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
Black & white photo of the Norfolk & Western Railway Depot at Tenth (10th) and Waller Streets in the 1913 flood. It was built for another railroad and acquired the N & W in 1901 and used until 1931, when the new terminal was constructed at Findlay and Sixteenth (16th) Streets. This location was used for storage until it was razed in 1968.
Black & white photo image of the Baltimore & Ohio passenger station(right) and freight station(left). View is looking south along Market Street at Fifth (5th) Street.
Tinted sepia tone photo image of Gallia Street in the Eastend of Portsmouth. The Flood Drug Company was at 2109-2111 Gallia Street on the corner with Lawson Street.
Tinted photo image of Blake Block in the east end at the corner of flooded Gallia and Lawson Streets. Boats are shown at the front of Flood & Blake Drugs and Sundries at 2109-2111 Gallia, John W. Flood Proprietor. About 1900 a well-known butcher named Thomas B. Blake purchased the property and developed five store rooms in the block facing Gallia Street at the corner of Lawson.
Sepia toned photo image of the Bohemian Club Building, location unknown. The 1908-09 Portsmouth City Directory lists the Bohemian Club at 596 Gallia Street and lists the Sieling & Cunningham Gent's Furnishings (sign in center windows) at 1011 Lawson Street.
black & white photo image of the Eagles Hall located and Gallia & Bond Streets. Back of card: "River City Aerie No. 567 F.O.E. Instituted Dec, 7th , 1903, Forty years of Progress. Located at Gallia and Bond Sts., In the Heart of Portsmouth, O. Located in new home July 8th, 1938. Burning of mortgage, April 30, May 1st and May 2nd, 1943." Years earlier this building was known as the Auditorium.
Sepia toned photo image of the Auditorium at the corner of Gallia and Bond Streets. The building was new in 1921 and had a dance hall and the first indoor swimming pool in the area. The Selby Shoe Company used it for employee activities. The Eagles had it from 1938 to 1986 when the American Legion acquired it.
