Black and white stereopticon card image of people and trees. BeechWood was the name given to the country home near Wheelersburg which belonged to Portsmouth attorney and poet Fernando Cortez Searl, 1825-1904.
Colorized image of Lincoln Elementary School at the northwest corner of Kinneys Lane & Waller Street. Ten rooms were completed in 1914 and a addition in 1922. It was Portsmouth's first integrated elementary because of overcrowding at Washington School in 1953. The building was closed in 2000 and razed in 2003. The site is now the SOMC Cancer Center.
Colorized image of The Turley Building on Chillicothe and 2nd (Second) Streets. Pictured also is the Corner Book Store. The Turley Building was built by Leslie Turley in 1905. In 1906 the First National Bank and several other businesses were in the Turley Building. The Checker Store was there from 1952 until 1973. It was razed for the expansion of Shawnee State University in 1992.
Colorized image of the Grimes Hotel, 902 Second (2nd) Street, "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)
