Tag: Business

The Waldo Hotel was one of West Virginia’s premier hotels – now abandoned.

When discourse arises concerning the declining fortunes of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, and its inner-ring suburbs, many are quick to lament the vacant stretches of sidewalks, devoid of pedestrian activity, and the boarded-up storefronts, waxing nostalgic about the halcyon days of the 1950s and 1960s.

Beautiful, warm weather, coupled with explorations of various historical and abandoned structures, always beats off the winter blues.

The Vernon Manor, constructed in 1924 and modeled after the Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, England, was one of the premier hotels in Cincinnati, Ohio.

As the season of Halloween approaches, it is time to explore the annals of my favored derelict structures and allegedly haunted locales.