Black and white photo negative of the R & G Blum store, located at the Third (3rd) and Market Streets corner. The store was owned and operated but Robert and Gus Blum.
Black and white photo of the First Presbyterian Church 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 negative of the outside and inside of the First (1st) Presbyterian Church, located at 221 Court Street at the corner of Third (3rd) Street.
Digital Image. Rear of the building.
1846-Portsmouth Foundry & Machine Shop. Manufactured boilers, engines and other products. Employed about 50.
Civil War Years- The company manufactured cannons for the Union military.
1864-1865 Murray, Moore & Company Iron Foundary & Machine Shop, n w c 3rd & Jefferson.
boilers, engines & other products.
Digital image.
Built in 1923 as a new car showroom for Hill Motor Company. They were the distributors for the Rickenbacker & Gardner automobiles. Hill Motor Company remained until 1928.
1928-1934 Portsmouth Motor Company automobile showroom.
1935 H.S. Howe & Company Automobiles
1937-1985 Roy P. Bower Welding Service & Bower Apartments.
1986-2016 No information available
Built in 1938. From The Portsmouth Daily Times, June 30, 1938: "Karl Wasserman has completed the erection of a new building at 618-622 Third Street in which he will conduct his new and used automobile business under the name of Wasserman Motor Sales. Mr. Wasserman will handle Graham, Nash and Lafayette as his new machines and a full line of used cars."
Prior to 1938, the location was home to a blacksmith shop. That building was razed for construction of Wasserman's building.
Private residence built in the late 1800's. Frank & Louise Graf lived in the house from about 1897-1935.
Francis Xavier Graf b. December 26, 1861, Yorkville, Indiana, d. October 20, 1934, Portsmouth, Ohio
Mary Louise Knittel Graf b. February 9, 1867, d. March 11, 1941, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Frank was a baker for the Knittel Baking Company for over 50 years.
Private residence. Scioto County Auditor states year built as 1900. From about 1918-1930, the house was occupied by Dr. Joseph H. Gill, veterinarian. The veterinary hospital is listed as in the "rear" of the house at 517 3rd Street.