Saturday we heard of an old building being taken down in Akron. We loaded up and headed north. The strong front corner of the building was the only thing that remained by the time we had arrived. We parked and exited the vehicle camera ready -it was probably a good thing it was happening so fast or I would have been standing there with my mouth hanging open and tears streaming down my face.
The building -listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976- was designed in Akron ohio in 1895 by Architect Frank Meade for Paul Edward Werner of Werner Printing and Lithograph Company.
I had driven by this beautiful building many times over the years, always admiring it. It was known for resembling a german castle. A structure this spectacular did not appear overnight between Intricate details of stone, brick and wood work, I can’t even imagine the hours craftsmen put into this.
Hours and hours of labor, years upon years of people coming in and out to their jobs-A sea of faces, this wasn’t just a structure, an office, it was a livelihood. A place people came and went for over one hundred years, only to be knocked down in a manner of a few hours by just a few men.
This was very emotional for me to process the photos and write about. It saddens me greatly that so many years of history was erased for road construction-heartbreaking.
The building -listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976- was designed in Akron ohio in 1895 by Architect Frank Meade for Paul Edward Werner of Werner Printing and Lithograph Company.
I had driven by this beautiful building many times over the years, always admiring it. It was known for resembling a german castle. A structure this spectacular did not appear overnight between Intricate details of stone, brick and wood work, I can’t even imagine the hours craftsmen put into this.
Hours and hours of labor, years upon years of people coming in and out to their jobs-A sea of faces, this wasn’t just a structure, an office, it was a livelihood. A place people came and went for over one hundred years, only to be knocked down in a manner of a few hours by just a few men.
This was very emotional for me to process the photos and write about. It saddens me greatly that so many years of history was erased for road construction-heartbreaking.
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