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Near downtown Cleveland, Ohio is what some people consider the most haunted house in Ohio. I am not sure if there is any way to confirm that, but it was featured on an episode of the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures. In 1881, German immigrant, and Cleveland banker, Hannes Tiedemann, built the large four-story stone home
My new book Lost In Ohio: Discovering Strange and Historic Places in the Buckeye State is now available on Amazon HERE I have been working on it over the summer and I am excited that it has finally been published. I drove almost 2000 miles around Ohio visiting unique and interesting places that are not
In southeastern Ohio, deep in the Zaleski State Forest, the Moonville Tunnel cuts through a steep hill. In 1856, Samuel Coe owned the property where the tunnel now stands. He gave the Marietta and Cincinnati (M&C) Railroad permission to run a railroad line across his property. The village of Moonville sprang up near the tunnel.
This concrete bow section stands in Centennial Park in Nashville Tennessee. The park is mostly known for the Parthenon this odd looking structure with its ornate bronze adornments stands in a corner of the park and seems to be forgotten. In 1909 the bronze figurehead was displayed at the Worlds Fair in Seattle. It was a
Between Dayton and Cincinnati is the town of Middletown. There you will find a massive Richard Romanesque style stone mansion that looks like a castle. Known as the Sorg Mansion, it was built by Paul J. Sorg. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1840. After serving in the Civil War, he partnered with John Auer
This Queen Anne style home stands in the town of Drain Oregon. It was completed in 1895 and took about two years to construct. The home was built for Charles D. Drain Jr. the youngest son of Charles Drain. The elder Drain was a prominent politician on Oregon and sold property to the railroad to
The ruins of this abandoned mansion stand along the coast of Maine near Portland. It stood near Fort Williams and was built in 1853 for Colonel John Goddard. In 1900, during the expansion of Fort Williams, it was acquired by the federal government and eventually converted it to quarters for noncommissioned officers. Fort Williams was
This tall structure in Baltimore looks like a chimney for an old factory. Surprisingly, the tower was the factory. It was a shot tower for making lead shot for shotguns. Molten lead would be poured through a screen and the drops of metal would fall down into a vat of cold water at the bottom.
The American southwest architecture is mostly known for tan adobe walls and brown tile roofs. Standing in the heart of Phoenix Arizona is a brick Queen Ann Victorian house. It was constructed in 1895 by Dr. Roland Lee Rosson and his wife Flora. The Rosson family only lived in it a few years before moving
The funny sounding name Ha Ha Tonka State Park is located along the Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. High on a cliff overlooking the water are stone ruins from a massive structure built long ago. In 1903 Kansas City businessman Robert Snyder purchased a large track of land in the
