In 1869 (nice), the Church of the United Brethren in Christ voted together for the funding and building of a seminary in Dayton, Ohio. With the denomination’s publishing house already located in the area, Milton Wright, who later became the school’s chairman, felt it was a perfect location. On October 11, 1871, the school was officially opened under the name

For more than 100 years, Acme-Cleveland Corp. led the industry in machine tools. These tools are used by manufacturers to shape metal into usable parts. In the 1980s, the industry saw a sharp decline in the demand for these tools, and the company transitioned to a high-tech firm, decreasing their overall size and focusing on telecommunications and industrial sensors. As

I first visited…or should I say, I first had an actual chance to explore the Packard Plant without running into trouble (at least in Detroit) in 2014. The first two attempts made at exploring here in previous years had ended quite unfavorably for my friends and I. The first time, upon seeing a car’s windows being smashed and the car

The Bancroft home in Chagrin Falls is easily one of the most notable, and recognizable historic structures within the community. Standing tall atop Grove Hill, the historic home looks out over the village, still displaying all of its original architectural elements. The home, built in 1878 was constructed in the Italianate style with a WPA-built retaining wall wrapping around the

Ya know those sunny winter days when you wake up, look out the window and think to yourself ‘damn that looks so nice and warm,’ only to get outside and be blasted by a gust of negative ten degree wind? Well, it was on one of those deceptively sunny, though freezing cold winter days when I photographed one of the

The neighborhood of Woodcliff spans approximately 36 acres, containing over 150 condos, most of them duplexes.

The 860,000-square-foot Westland Mall – once a lively shopping center now sits a defunct shell of its former days. The mall which sits at the intersection of U.S. Route 40 and Interstate 270 on Columbus, Ohio’s west side has now sat decaying for years. Most of the mall had been shut down by November 2012, though some anchors and other

When it comes to old houses, why does it seem that it’s always the seemingly ordinary old farm houses that have the most interesting history?

bed bugs, dirty elevators, and a terrible smell coming from the rooms.

Behind the decaying architecture of this once grand home lies a small room filled with instruments.