Colorized image of the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church at 1325 Gallia Street. The Holy Redeemer church was founded when a need arose for the separation of English and German-speaking congregations. In 1853 the Irish Catholic congregation built their first Holy Redeemer building on Sixth (6th) Street. This building was constructed in 1905 on Gallia Street.
Colorized image of Chillicothe Street at night time. Unknown people can be seen milling about as well as several lighted street cars in the middle of the lane. At the far back left, the Lyric Theater is in view, located at 426 Chillicothe followed by the First National Bank Building located at 428 Chillicothe, then the Post Office at the corner of Chillicothe and Gallia.
Colorized image of the concrete bridge stretching over the lagoon in Millbrook Park. Levi York began developing Millbrook Park in 1899. It covered over 85 acres. Greatly damaged by the flood, it was totally dismantled by 1935.
Colorized image of the Lincoln School which was built in 1915 at the corner of Gallia Street & Mabert Road. It was enlarged in 1919 and a gymnasium was added in 1957. It closed in 1975 and in 1976 the Scioto County Commissioners bought it. The Vern Riffe School followed after that.
Colorized image of the Portsmouth High School. The building was built in 1912 to replace the Davis High School. It was built in the same location: the corner of Waller and Gallia Streets. It was closed in 2006 and razed in 2007.
Colored image of the old stone Post Office building at the corner of Gallia and Chillicothe Streets after it was expanded in 1914. The post office was completed in 1891, closed in 1936, and razed in 1956 for the construction of a five story Montgomery-Ward Department Store.
