The Historic Old West End in Toledo, Ohio - Collingwood Boulevard



This home at 1815 Collingwood was demolished to make room for a BP Oil Company's expanded gas station-food mart which was never realized. Today this 1888 home of the John William Ryan family is the site of a multi-bay garage serving a near-by apartment house. The 1900 Census listed his wife Anna and her sister Florence Haldeman as residents along with Ohio-born Johanna Dowling who was the family's live-in servant. The Ryan family still lived here in 1912 according to the directory of that same year. Mr. Ryan was the vice-president of the Arrbuckle-Ryan Company.

Now demolished, 2247 Collingwood was the home of pioneer auto parts manufacturer Thomas W. Warner Jr. and his wife Nettie between 1914 and 1925, having moved to this mansion from #2 Harold Arms Terrace

Warner was the President and General Manager of the Warner Manufacturing Company. His company, which had been making gears and a vertical two-cylinder engine since 1901, was acquired by the Chevrolet Company of New York in 1916.