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It’s not difficult to locate this site today: there is a big 99 on the building to identify it on the street for the various offices inside. For a number of generations it was known as the Tucker building. Originally it was constructed as the Grafton Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the late 1940s. In 1966 the […]

The springhouse at Malabar Farm State Park is found on Pleasant Valley Road, up behind the produce stand at Malabar Inn. When Louis Bromfield launched his Malabar Farm project in 1939 and acquired the Neiman farm as part of his acreage, the springhouse at Neiman’s had already been standing for many years. Built originally as […]

Mansfield has been known for a lot of different things throughout American History, and the world has come to know our name by way of a countless variety of people, companies, products, works of literature, pop music, celebrities, and events of historic proportion. But our town’s chief contribution to aid in the evolution of civilization […]

When the Nickles empire of baked products was at its broadest influence, there were loaves and sweet rolls in familiar red, white, yellow wrappers on shelves in seven states. The company began not too far from here in Ohio and it has been a part of Mansfield on Park Avenue East since the early 1940s. […]

In 1878 Mansfield had everything going for it: a booming economy based on dynamic industries, a favorite son prominent in national politics, an infrastructure growing all the most modern conveniences available, and a state of the art city center reflecting culture and refinement. Mansfield was riding the crest of American civilization. Yet, in spite of […]

Just lately heavy machinery has been chowing down on the Park Avenue West streetscape, and revising the way a city block looks near the 5-way light. As iron jaws do the work of chewing up the past, folks heave a wistful sigh at the end of an era as they watch the familiar landscape segue […]

Of all the views you might look for on the Square in order to compare the streetscapes of today with those of 100 years ago, the one on the eastern end of North Park Street is probably the most changed. A major fire in the 1940s took out the buildings on the left side of […]

As with many great ruins, sometimes all you can find to indicate the presence of a noble history are a few rocks; and if time has been kind they are still stacked one atop another. This is the story of a graceful and glorious chapter of Mansfield’s past. True to classic centers of culture from […]

After the Civil War, when towns all over the country were petitioning Congress for old cannons to decorate their town squares, Mansfield was given four huge cast iron beauties that weighed 8,500 pounds apiece designed for coastal defense. They stood guard on the Square for about 70 years, but when the city decided to cut […]

Just like the path of the sun and the moon and all the planets, the principal route into Mansfield is from the east. If you have entered from the east on U.S. Route 30 you know this thoroughfare has the most commanding view of the city. In fact, if the guardians of the city were […]