Perrysburg: Historic Architecture

by C. Robert Boyd

Overview

Congress created Perrysburg in 1816 to secure control of its strategic trading location on the largest river flowing into Lake Erie, the Maumee River, an integral waterway for shipping and also an important passageway for western migration. As a busy port and shipbuilding center, Perrysburg attracted entrepreneurial pioneers from the East, who, as they prospered, built remarkable homes, buildings, and other structures. During the World War I era, wealthy Toledo industrialists also arrived, building riverside mansions. Over 100 of this small 19th-century community's architectural treasures still stand, and they include examples of nearly every major domestic architectural style popular from the 1820s to the 1930s. Most of the structures that make up the historical character of Perrysburg are best represented in the Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738534022
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/10/2005
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Since retirement from a career in public relations and salespromotion, author C. Robert Boyd, a University of Missouri journalism graduate, has published many articles and several books on Perrysburg historical subjects. Active for years in the preservation group Historic Perrysburg, Inc., he has researched and documented the history of many of the most significant structures in Perrysburg.