I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
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This 1924 Sun Oil Station is located at Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. With a pagoda-style roof and blue and yellow color scheme, Sun Oil or Sunoco, was among the first companies to standardize the look of its service. The first “no-knock” tetraethyl lead gasoline was sold at the…
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The Print Shop building showcases the 1930s printing office in Dayton, Ohio with period equipment. It interprets an era when the city was home to 77 printing companies. Dayton was home to the immense McCall Company printing plant and other leading companies in the production of periodicals, business forms, music…
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The old and historic Corliss Engine Building is located inside the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. The building displays the Corliss Engine that provided the National Cash Register Company electrical power and steam heat from 1902 to 1948. Interesting historical facts: 1. The components of the 210-ton Corliss Engine…
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The Deeds Barn Replica houses exhibits about the lives and work of acclaimed inventors, Charles F. Kettering and Colonel Edward A. Deeds. Inside the original barn, from 1908 to 1912, Deeds, Kettering, and a group of friends invented the electric automobile ignition, and later, the electric automobile self-starter. Interesting historical…
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The Greek-revival-styled Newcom House at Carillon Historical Park was built in 1841 by Dayton settler George Newcom. Fun historical facts: 1. To make the wood siding look like a stone, a popular treatment was to cut vertical grooves into boards and add sand to the paint. 2. Greek Revival architecture…
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The Sugar Camp and WAVES Cabin 22 is located at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. While riding horseback on the hill of his sugar maple grove, John H. Patterson decided that the grove would be a good place for a training camp for his salesmen. The 1934 cabin…
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What a lovely park it is at the Indian Mound Reserve! The 169-acre park has the Cedar Cliff Falls and Massie Creek Gorge to boast about. Whether it is summer or winter, the park creates an amazing view in either season. You can enter the park in three ways. In…
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The Spreckels Organ Pavilion is one of the most unique attractions inside the Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It is a historic outdoor music venue. It is home to one of the largest outdoor pipe organs in the world, the Spreckels Organ, which was built in 1914 for the…
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