Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio
Title | Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Betti & Doreen Sauer, For Columbus Landmarks Foundation |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1626198969 |
Though only a handful remain today, the Capital City once boasted a wealth of illustrious hotels and raucous two-bit establishments. Grande dame hotels like the Neil House, the Great Southern, the Hartman, the Chittenden and the Deshler achieved the height of elegance and refinement. More modest establishments were frequented by fugitive Confederate generals, notorious bootleggers and Fidel Castro's family. Join the Gilded Age bachelors who decked out banquet halls to look like camping sites and the Hungarian revolutionaries who failed to keep a low profile. From devastating hotel fires to ornate outhouse fittings, authors Tom Betti and Doreen Uhas Sauer introduce you to a whole new side of Columbus history.
Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio
Title | Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Betti |
Publisher | History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2015-09-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781540213235 |
Though only a handful remain today, the Capital City once boasted a wealth of illustrious hotels and raucous two-bit establishments. Grande dame hotels like the Neil House, the Great Southern, the Hartman, the Chittenden and the Deshler achieved the height of elegance and refinement. More modest establishments were frequented by fugitive Confederate generals, notorious bootleggers and Fidel Castro's family. Join the Gilded Age bachelors who decked out banquet halls to look like camping sites and the Hungarian revolutionaries who failed to keep a low profile. From devastating hotel fires to ornate outhouse fittings, authors Tom Betti and Doreen Uhas Sauer introduce you to a whole new side of Columbus history.
Historic Columbus Taverns
Title | Historic Columbus Taverns PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Betti |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2012-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614235449 |
One of the first buildings in Central Ohio in the 1790s was a tavern and 200 years later--Columbus as a "foodie" town shows renewed interest in discovering its historic "liquid assets." Once historic taverns in frontier Columbus featured live bears chained to giant wheels, pumping water for travelers in need of a shower and giving new meaning to the term "watering hole." Existing historic taverns in Columbus span from 1830s through the 1930s and still have little-known histories, stories, scandals, as well as, architectural fabric to explore. One is built on a still active graveyard; another is in the building of a former Pentecostal church. Several remain from the Irish and German migrations and survived Prohibition; one was the quintessential gentlemen's bar still with pool room that connected by underground tunnel to the Ohio Statehouse in a time of temperance. Another was both a tavern and a bordello for Union and Confederate officers (though on different nights). Set in the social and political historic context of a changing city, the taverns offer a chance to explore the city's history through its watering holes.
Forgotten Landmarks of Columbus
Title | Forgotten Landmarks of Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Betti & Doreen Uhas Sauer, For Columbus Landmarks Foundation |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-09-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467143677 |
Explore the stories behind Columbus' most stunning landmarks, both those sadly lost and others miraculously saved.
Historic Hotels of the World, Past and Present
Title | Historic Hotels of the World, Past and Present PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Borneman Ludy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Bars (Drinking establishments) |
ISBN |
Columbus Pizza: A Slice of History
Title | Columbus Pizza: A Slice of History PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Ellison |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467143766 |
For nearly a century Columbus, Ohio pizza parlors have served up delicious meals by the tray and by the slice. This history goes back to the 1930s, when TAT Ristorante began serving pizza. Today, it is the oldest family-owned restaurant in the city. Over the years, a specific style evolved guided by the experiences and culinary interpretations of local pizza pioneers like Jimmy Massey, Romeo Sirij, Tommy Iacono, Joe Gatto, Cosmo Leonardo, Pat Orecchio, Reuben Cohen, Guido Casa and Richie DiPaolo. The years of experimentation and refinement culminated in Columbus being crowned the pizza capital of the USA in the 1990s. Author and founder of the city's first pizza tour Jim Ellison chronicles one of the city's favorite foods.
Living Downtown
Title | Living Downtown PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Groth |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780520219540 |
From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.