Built Environment : Example Properties : USA : Old Northwest : Ohio : Ross County : Bainbridge :

Bainbridge elevator

A Small Town Gatepost

Formerly located at Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, USA. The building was at UTM 17 viewable on a USGS topographic map.

Building Type: Grain Elevator

Self-Contained Type-Family, Square-Bin Supertype, Vertical Square-Bin Type, Wood Construction Material

Architectural Style: nonstyled

Chronology: unknown - demolished c1990

A now-vanished small-town elevator in south-Central Ohio (near my alma mater high school - go Bearcats!). The asymetrical cupola implies that the rear indentation has been enclosed for additional equipment. There is also a tall lean-to addition on the rear in this view that is not there in the bottom, 1950s photo. I can't quite remember the interior other than the stairway to the top was your typically twisted, steep grain elevator stairway. The top part, into the cupola, was little more than a ladder.

The ugly stubby concrete and corrugated steel thing to its left (north) was a mill. It was probably gutted by fire, and the burned-out first floor and basement were renovated as...something. I'll bet the elevator was built after the mill burned.

The mill's original appearace is preserved in a blurry postcard photo, viewed from the railroad to the north of it about 1900. Apparently, the grain elevator had not yet been built beside it (in this view, behind it). A boxcar is parked next to the mill on a railroad siding. Note the rear lean-to with the tall square boiler furnace smokestack.

Behind the mill (to its left in this view) is the village water tower, and beside that, the village powerhouse that generated electricity, with its circular boiler furnace smokestack. The powerhouse still stands (1/04). In front of the water tower, closer to the camera, is a railroad turntable. It's concrete ring is also still there (at least until a few years ago), even though the railroad was abandoned a decade and a half ago (grumble...). [From the collection of June Gregg, Bainbridge, Ohio]

The grain elevator is visible in this circa 1950s view of the railroad station farther in front (to the west) of the elevator. Note the absence of the mill, but its rear appendage (the rear lean-to with the tall square boiler furnace stack) with exposed inner wall, complete with whitewash, is still there. The railroad station was moved a county away when the line was abandoned. [From the collection of June Gregg, Bainbridge, Ohio]

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