Tinted image of the Excelsior shoe factory built in 1913. The July 16, 1935 Portsmouth Times announced that Williams Manufacturing Company had purchased the Excelsior Shoe Company building at Gallia Street and Campbell Avenue for $75,000.00. This was another step in the liquidation of the Excelsior Shoe Company.
The Esplanade, or Government Square, or Gallia Square, as it was called in the 1800's is located at the corner of Gallia and Chillicothe Streets. In 1959, during a special ceremony, the name was changed to the Roy Rogers Esplanade.
Sepia tone photo image of the Empress Theater at the south west corner Gallia and Chillicothe Streets (619 Chillicothe) during the 1937 flood. From 1908 to 1922 this was the Arcana Theater, but was known at the Empress Theater from 1926 to 1937 according to the Portsmouth City Directories.
Scanned page 21 from Henry A. Lorberg scrapbook containing black & white photographs of The Riversides (a Portsmouth baseball team); Colonel Oliver Wood (served in the 22nd O.V.I. Civil War.); George Helfenstein; Captain Williamson (steamboat captain); an unknown male; a paper with the text "Carriers' Blade Address"; and The Elk Building (originally the Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Episcopal Church Building, the Elk lodge #154 moved here from Second (2nd) Street in about 1916 and the building was razed in 1928 for the Masonic Temple Building).
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured: The Elk Building in the former Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Church building, Portsmouth, Ohio; Hall Bros; Portsmouth, Ohio; Fashion Park Clothiers
Black and white photo image of the Elk Building at the corner of Chillicothe and Sixth (6th) Streets, originally the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Building. The Elk lodge # 154 moved here from Second (2nd) Street in about 1916. This location was razed and Portsmouth's third Masonic Temple building was erected in 1928.
