By the 1880s, Denver’s 17th Street had established itself as the financial center of the region, earning it the nickname of the Wall Street of the Rockies. Major banking institutions, brokerage firms, and law firms lined the corridor, and the multi-story commercial buildings that housed them gave the street a dense, canyon-like character that was…
For one of the first articles here on Lost Urban Vistas, I wanted to explain what I chose for the header photograph and how it relates to my goals for this site. The building at the center of the photo is America’s Packard Museum, located at the southern edge of downtown Dayton, Ohio. It’s a…
For the past several years, I’ve been running Dayton Vistas, a website and social media project dedicated to the history, architecture, and urban redevelopment stories of Dayton, Ohio. That started as a way to share my research from my book Lost Dayton, Ohio, but it grew into a deeper look into the city and its…