The Samuel Horchow Company manufactured clothing at 40-44 Gallia
Street. It would become the home of the Samuel Levi Furniture Company, and was later made into apartments .
The Scott Knitting Company was at 101-103 Gallia Street. It manufactured high quality knitted goods.
The Pure Milk Company was located on Eighth (8th) Street.
The Stockham Coal, Produce, and Cold Storage Company, at the corner of Chillicothe and Eleventh (11th) Streets, advertised "ice, coal, produce, and feeds." After the streets were realigned the Stockham Ice building ended up between the east bound and west bound lanes of Rt.52
The Masonic Temple building built in 1906 at the corner of Chillicothe and Fourth (4th) Streets housed Bragdon's Dry Goods Store on the first two floors. In December 1925 the building partially burned, but was rebuilt to only four floors to be Kobackers Department Store in 1928. The La Salle Hotel used the upper floors. In 1980, the building became Desco Credit Union.
The Daehler Building was located at 82-86 Second (2nd) Street. The F. C. Daehler Co. sold furniture, carpet, Queensware, and was also an undertaker.
W. J. Friel's Garage was at 14-16 West Fifth (5th) Street where he advertised automobiles, accessories, repairing, and vulcanizing. This view from Fifth (5th) looks directly toward the first half of the new National Bank Building built in 1912 on Chillicothe Street next to the Lyric Theater. In 1924 the Lyric was razed and replaced by the second half of the bank building. The "Located at 711 Chillicothe Street" is a typo error.
The Imperial Rolling Mills was located at 158-160 West Fourth (4th) Street. Headed by A. M. Frick, it produced flour, fine white corn meal, grain, and feed.
Spring Lane Distilling Company was located at 161-163 West Front Street, just outside the city limits at the junction of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, & Virginia Railroad and the N & W Railroad. The plant was built in 1888; the president was M. Stanton.
The Portsmouth Hat Company was on the West Side, at the junction of State Routes 104 and 73.
The Sixth (6th) Street Methodist Church was located at Sixth and Chillicothe Streets. The Government Building was the old stone Post Office facing Gallia Square (Esplanade). To the right stood the Portsmouth City Building (Kricker Building). The Coggswell Lion and Fountain are visible in this photo.
The first Scioto County Court House (not shown) was built in 1817 on Market Street. The second, shown lower left on this page, was constructed in 1836 at Sixth (6th) and Court Streets. In about 1926 the third Court House, shown at the top, was erected. The dates printed are not significant to any of the Court Houses.
The fourty-three room Hotel Grimes was built at 902 Second (2nd) Street by H S Grimes. It was razed in 1966 for the expansion of the Portsmouth Branch of Ohio University (Shawnee). In 1920 a tombstone was put up near the Roy Rogers Esplanade because people thought that Portsmouth would die economically as a result of prohibition.
The York Portland Cement Company was on the east side of Chillicothe Pike, 12 North on Kinney's Lane
The Buster Novelty Company was located on the east side of Market Street near Second (2nd) Street.
The Portsmouth Pressed Brick Company was located at Tenth (10th) and Court Streets.
The Portsmouth Paving Brick Company was on the west side of Chillicothe Street at the corner of Seventeenth (17th) Street.
The Wait-Fuller Furniture Company was located at Eighth (8th) and Boundry Streets.
The Portsmouth Brewing Company was on Second (2nd) Street in between Madison and Massie Streets. Later, the building housed the Brewery Arcade.
The Peebles Paving Brick Company's office was located at 317-320 Masonic Temple. The plant, started in 1902, was in New Boston at Gallia and Norfolk Streets.
