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The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center collections have several pictures of the Sloane House Annex from June of 1969. The Annex was a building on West Washington Row adjacent to the Sloane House hotel for several years. In 1949 the LaSalle store opened next door, on the site of the former Sloane House hotel. The Parkview Barber Shop and the Kubach and Buderer pharmacy were at the street level of the Sloane House Annex in 1969. You can see a portion of the Beecher House on the left side of the picture below. In the 1960s, the Beecher House was the home of the American Legion. (The small structure between the Sloane House Annex and the Beecher House was unoccupied at the time this picture was taken.)
On the east wall of the building was a sign advertising free downtown parking. Note the classic Volkswagen beetle parked on the street.
Today the Erie County building is at the corner of West Washington Row and Columbus Avenue, where the Sloane House hotel once stood. First Federal Savings-Lorain is at the site of the former Sloane House Annex, and two businesses are in operation at the Beecher House. Visit the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center to see these and hundreds of other historic images of Sandusky and Erie County.
2 comments:
Thank you for the history of that site.🙂
During the 1940s or so, that "small structure between the Sloane House Annex and the Beecher House" was a newsstand. There it was possible to buy a Sunday copy of The Cleveland Plain Dealer late on Saturday night. A large supply was brought into town by Greyhound Bus as I recall.
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