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Scenes of Downtown Mansfield Through the Years

July 31, 2017August 24, 2023

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  • The Smokehouse Bowling and Billiards was a sporting goods store in the Bird Building located at the corner of Main Street on the north side of Third Sreet. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The Richland County Courthouse looked like this in 1890. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The 1st Presbyterian Church located on Mulberry Street in 1894. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The Bissman block, as it was known in Mansfield in 1894. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The King building was located at the intersection of Walnut Street and Park Avenue West in 1894. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The Memorial Library building is shown here in 1894. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • This was the scene at the corner of Fourth and Diamond Streets in 1894. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The intersection of Main Street and 4th Street in 1898. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The Southern Hotel is shown in this 1908 photograph. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • A shoe store and a street car highlight this scene along Park Avenue West at Main Street in 1908. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • This was a view of the Carnegie Library in 1908. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The black-and-white version of the Carnegie Library in 1908. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • This was the streetcar barn on East Fourth Street. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • Mansfield City Hall and jail building are pictured here in 1913. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The intersection of Main Street and Park Avenue West in 1913. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The street car rails are illuminated with arc lights on Main Street at night in 1913. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • This man was shoveling snow along the sidewalks of Main Street in 1913. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • A bank building anchors the intersection at Park Avenue West and Main Street in 1936. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The famed Leland Hotel as it looked in 1939. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The lobby of the Leland Hotel looked like this in the 1960s. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • The Friendly House as it looked around 1949. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

  • This is the scene of Mansfield’s Main Street at night in the 1940s. (Photo courtesy of Mansfield Bicentennial Committee)

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