Building Ohio - A Traveler's Guide to Ohio's Urban Architecture (Paperback)

It Features Youngstown's great Mill Creek Park, designed in the 1890s; the fabulous houses of Toledo's West End; Columbus's nineteenth-century German Village and pioneering late twentieth-century Wexner Center; and where to find Ohio's best barroom in Canton. And in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Akron, it finds the three best man-made landscapes, Ohio's places of perfect beauty. Building Ohio, A Traveler's Guide to Ohio's Urban Architecture is the first architectural guidebook ever for Ohio -- and the first book at all on Ohio buildings in almost 30 years.

Writer Jane Ware spent years tracking down over 600 buildings chosen from a statewide perspective. Two centuries of Ohio courthouses, skyscrapers, museums, houses, churches, and factories appear with photos, drawings, floorplans and directions on exactly how to find them. Here are the famous architects who came from other places to design buildings in Ohio, as well as the now largely forgotten local architects who built beautiful places. Building Ohio's first volume, a look at architecture in eight Ohio cities -- their buildings show just how great, how ambitious, how rich, how smart, how much fun -- those cities once were.