Look familiar?

The below is all quoted from the Clinton County History site, the same site that has the above photo.

Hotel Fealy

The below is all quoted from the Clinton County History site, the same site that has the above photo.

What we think of today as a simple trip by auto from town to town was, in its time, an arduous journey leaving man and beast exhausted. And for extended travel, say, from Clinton County to Cincinnati or Chillicothe and back, one bought a train ticket.

Consequently, nearly all small towns and villages at the turn of the 1900s had at least one establishment for weary travelers. Sometimes nothing more than a rooming house or inn in the 1800s, as travel grew and business with it, the rooming house gave way to substantial structures, often turning into one of the larger buildings of the county's smallest towns.
One such example was the Hotel Fealy, pictured here, in New Vienna at the corner of Main and South. Built in 1883, it faced the railroad, strategically placed across the corner from the train depot. It was owned by William Fealy from 1883 until about 1906 when the family moved to Columbus.

While the hotel is no longer in operation, the building remains, having been remodeled and expanded into part of the Wells Toy Manufacturing plant.

Oh, and I should add that Roberta Uible-King was the one who actually found this picture/article online, not me. Roberta has a story about words written in red, but I'll let her tell you.

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