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Toledo Museum of Art
The Toledo Museum of Art is well known around the world as an art museum located in Toledo, Ohio and started by local glassmaker, Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901. Its current location is a Greek revival building that was designed by Harry W. Wachter and Edward B. Green in 1912, which has been enlarged twice since then, in the 1920s and 1930s. The museum houses significant collections of 19th and 20th century American and European artworks, the gorgeous collection of glass art, Japanese, Greek, Roman and renaissance art collections. Some of the more prominent works include Fragonard's Blind Man's Bluff, Peter Paul Ruben's The Crowing of Saint Catherine and marvelous works by Sol LeWitt, El Greco, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore and Rembrandt. The Peristyle is a splendid concert hall in the east wing, constructed in the classical style that complements the rest of the interiors. It is the main concert venue for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and the grounds contain a beautiful sculpture garden with many postwar pieces that were installed in 2001. During the 1990s, the elegant Center for the Visual Arts was added, designed by Frank Gehry and contains the offices, studio, library and classrooms for the art department of the University of Toledo. An outstanding glass pavilion was added in 2006, after having been designed by the architectural company of SANAA and was widely acclaimed; it image is to the right. Inside this visual splendor is the initial glass collection that begin it all and now it has a proper home to showcase the many magnificent works that were gathered by Libbey. A new glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly has been installed here to magnify the beauty and serenity felt when visiting this wonderful pavilion.  The museum houses over 30,000 objects of art, and is considered one of the best in the nation, with over 35 galleries to showcase them all, the beautiful Glass Pavilion, and superb sculpture garden, that bring visitors from all over the world to peruse and enjoy the fascinating world of art. There are masterpieces of sculpture and paintings by the world's best that include; Matisse, Bearden, Monet, Cezanne, Picasso, Calder, Rembrandt, Close, van Gogh, Cole, Miro, Degas, Kiefer, Turner, Holbein and many more; with stunning works from Asia and antiquity, and decorative arts.

Toledo Mud Hens Baseball
The Toledo Mud Hens are one of the minor league baseball teams, located in Toledo, Ohio, since 1883, and play in the International League; also affiliated with the Detroit Tigers. It is one of the first professional baseball clubs that have played in the city, with the name Mud Hens beginning to be used in 1896, when the club was purchased by Charles Strobel. One of the two parks that the team first played on was located by Bay View Park, which sat next to a large marshland, inhabited by American coots, which were known as marsh hens or mud hens; so the team just took their name. In 2005 and 2006, they won the Governor's Cup championships, and now play at Fifth Third Field on Washington Street. The Hens have played in the International League since 1965, and have been affiliated with the Tigers since 1987, and before that with the Phillies from 1974 and 1975, Indians from 1976 to 1977, the Twins from 1978 to 1986, and the Yankees from 1965 to 1966. During the period from 1956 to 1964, the city didn't have any professional baseball, and it is historically significant because it was one of the first teams to break the race/color barrier, but failed. The Toledo Blue Stockings played from 1883 to 1885, and during 1884, played in the major American Association. That year, they were the only major league team that fielded black players, Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother, Welday Walker, before Jackie Robinson appeared in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Their mascot is Muddy, with the female version named Muddonna, and their logo has gone through various changes over the years. The Hens have won the Governor's Cup, the championship of the International League 3 times, and played in the series 4 times.

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Toledo Zoo
The Toledo Zoo in Ohio started in 1900 as the Toledo Zoological Gardens and was managed by the city's parks board, but in 1982, the ownership was transferred to the Toledo Zoological Society, a nonprofit that organized and professionalized the zoo's management. Many of the structures here were constructed by the WPA, and have continued to be used, to even now. The zoo takes part in more than 30 Species Survival Plans, and is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, as well as the Butterfly Conservation Initiative. It has been the zoo with numerous firsts, like the hippoquarium that allowed the first video of a hippo being born, and the only place in the world where visitors can see the Kihansi Spray toad. It is the second zoo in the world to have saddle-billed storks on display. The first animal donated to the city in 1900 was a woodchuck and thus began the zoo. They rejuvenated their aviary in 1998, which had been constructed in 1930, and prior to entering the zoo over a bridge, visitors would enter the zoo through a tunnel underground. Outstanding exhibits include Africa!, African savanna, hippoquarium, aquarium, aviary, Arctic encounter, bald eagles, primate forest, cheetah valley, Museum of Science, children's zoo, kingdom of the apes, natures neighborhood, Ziems conservatory, snow leopards, tiger terrace and the reptile house.  Africa was opened in 2004 and sits on 12 acres, with the prominent exhibit, the African Plains occupying 5 acres, with artificial termite mounds for the free grazing animals like the wildebeest, Grant's zebra, East African crowned cranes, the ostrich, greater kudu, Nile lechwe, Masai giraffe, Guineafowl and impala. The savanna is naturally landscaped and primed to be more like an African safari with white lions, white rhinos, African bush elephants, meerkats, Cape clawless otters, Debrazza's monkeys and Kori bustards. The hippoquarium is an exciting underwater viewing display for the hippos and it is the first one in the world. The Arctic encounter contains a gray wolf exhibit, gray and harbor seals, polar bears and wolves. The children's zoo houses pigs, alpacas, dogs, owls, guinea pigs and chickens which the youngsters can pet and has always been one of the favorite places for the younger visitors. The primate forest has white cheeked gibbons, Allen's swamp monkeys, Francois langurs, Colobus monkeys and Diana monkeys. All of the exhibits contain marvelous wonders of animals from all around the world and contain some of the most exciting and visual splendors of the earth. 

 Toledo Botanical Gardens
The Toledo Botanical Garden is located in the city of Toledo, Ohio, and is owned by the metroparks of the city's area and originally sat on about 20 acres that were originally donated by George P. Crosby from Toledo. The garden is now 50 acres large with beautiful gardens like the green garden, Susan H. LeCron shade garden with a marvelous hosta collection, perennial garden, pioneer garden, rose garden and herb garden. The site has numerous special events happening all through the summer, including the Jazz in the Garden series, Saturday Evening Post states it is one of the best in the Midwest, community garden tour, gardening tips, podcasts, and so much more. The botanical garden's goal is to enrich the lives of the community with arts, nature and the gardens; which is a center for horticulture and the arts, a community resource for all local and regional gardeners, welcomes over 120,000 people a year, is free, except for special events and is the only botanical garden in the area. It is considered a museum for plants offering the entire community all the information and resources necessary to create a beautiful and useful garden and is full of beauty, tranquility and serenity; with numerous chances to explore and relax in a natural environment that is gentle on the senses. There are many sculptures located throughout the gardens and have inspired local gardeners to create such majestic home grown gardens of their own. With the economy being in the sad condition it is and will be for some time, this is the perfect venue to come and learn more about home gardening, once a mainstay in the 19th century when just about every homeowner had their own medicinal herb garden, vegetable garden and flowering garden to enliven their home with vibrant and smelly flowers that was more enjoyable and kinder to our senses and environment than the sprays, oils and candles that are used today.

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Mancy's Steaks Appetizers; smoked salmon thinly sliced with traditional garnishes & horseradish cream; vine-ripe tomato & fresh mozzarella with fresh basil, purple onion & extra virgin olive oil; jumbo shrimp cocktail; crab stuffed mushrooms is oven roasted, finished with mozzarella & parmesan; crisped buttermilk onion rings; hot & spicy shrimp is sautéed in Cajun spices, butter, mushrooms, red bell pepper & scallions; fresh oysters Rockefeller with spinach soufflé & hollandaise. Soups; Mancy's French onion soup is housemade with toasted croutons & covered in cheeses & browned; New England clam chowder house made with milk, clams, potatoes & blend spices. Salads; spring mix with gorgonzola, toasted almonds, dried cherries, chopped red bell pepper & red onion tossed on raspberry vinaigrette; chopped spinach apple pear salad with spinach, spring mix, chopped apple, pear, strawberries, slivered onion, chopped tomato, red bell pepper, pecans & bacon with poppy seed dressing; steakhouse wedge is crisp wedge of iceberg lettuce with tomato, chopped bacon, red onion & packed with Maytag blue crumbles, choice of dressing; Caesar salad with house made croutons & reggiano parmesan. Chops & chicken; pork chop is thick cut 12oz. chop, marinated & grilled, port wine, cherry demi glase, with Lyonnaise potatoes; double cut lamb rack chops grilled simply & finished with olive oil, fresh herbs, mint infused bordelaise sauce; veal porterhouse is thick cut 14oz. chop from shortloin, roasted garlic & béarnaise sauce. Seafood; cold water lobster tail served on rice pilaf; two pounds Alaskan king crab legs steamed & served with drawn butter & lemon; shrimp chef Alexander baked in lite herb & garlic bread crumb crust, white wine butter sauce, rice pilaf & fresh vegetable. Steak & seafood; steak & 7oz. lobster tail; steak & one pound Alaskan king crab legs; steak & shrimp Alexander. Manhattan Restaurant Prologue; calamari el Greco is grilled & brushed with oregano & red pepper flakes olive oil, kalamata olives; Chinatown salmon rangoon is buttery salmon fried in lite pastry served with spicy sweet & sour cocktail sauce; Fulton Market cevice is scallops fresh on shell with red onion & lite vinaigrette; Mediterranean antipasto is hummus, roasted red pepper hummus & eggplant hummus served with grilled veggies & flatbread; coconut palm chicken is fried coconut bread topped with roma tomatoes, fresh basil, red onions & parmesan; Times Square over stuffed mushrooms is crab & salmon stuffing topped with provolone; Chelsea crab cakes is lump crab cakes, broiled & crowned with shredded parmesan crumbs; spinach artichoke dip is sprinkled with sun dried tomato bits, served with grilled flatbread; coconut shrimp is coconut breaded & fried, served with sweet Polynesian dip; Ellis Island eggplant is fresh mozzarella, tomato slices with creamy tarragon sauce over olive oil-brushed & grilled eggplant. Act 1; SoHO scallop blt salad with leafy greens, grilled scallops, bacon & tomato, lite lemony white wine vinaigrette; Maumee Bay is field greens, pine nuts, blue cheese crumbles, strawberries topped with grilled asparagus & strawberry vinaigrette dressing; wildwood wonder is greens mix, house glazed pecans, dried cranberries, red onions, green apples, capped with gorgonzola cheese & balsamic dressing; Caesar; Broadway chicken is grilled chicken, fire-roasted red peppers, fresh mozzarella on bed of greens, with house honey orange poppyseed dressing. Act II; South st. cedar plank is Scottish salmon with chef's seafood choice, drizzled with hollandaise, with shaved fennel salad; Herb-roasted game hen with zucchini & red pepper succotash & stock of béarnaise pomme frites; scallop espoma is seared then laced with citrus foam & caviar, nested with lemon scented portabella ragoue.

Wildwood Manor House
The Wildwood Manor House in Toledo, Ohio, is a magnificent Georgian colonial mansion that is sitting on the landscaped 500 acres Wildwood Preserve Metropark that is resplendent in the spring with wildflower blossoms and in the fall with the beautiful foliage. The home was constructed in 1938, and the residence of the Stranahan family that is open for tours. Robert A. Stranahan was the founder of the Champion Spark Plug company, with his mansion containing 16 fireplaces and over 50 rooms, furnished in period style and antiquities. The park has many marvelous trails, for walking as well as walking, playgrounds, picnic areas and exciting views of nature and its inhabitants.

Blair Museum of Lithophanes
The Blair Museum of Lithophanes is located in Toledo, Ohio, in the Toledo Botanical Garden, and has been a unique and outstanding museum for many decades. A lithophane, according to the Greek origin, means a "light in stone" or to "appear in stone", but is actually a porcelain art work that looks like a piece of glass or ceramic with various bumps or rises on its surface, that when viewed with a backlight, like the sun or light from a lamp, highlights a beautiful scene, image or other image like form. Shown in ambient light, the bumpy surfaces can look something like a picture, but more distinct once lit or illuminated. It becomes a three dimensional image that contains excellent depth and detail. The work was very popular in Europe during the mid 19th century, and lithophanes started out as thin sheets of beeswax, with artists or artisans carving images in the soft wax, which was then placed into a plaster-of-Paris mold, to be filled with porcelain slip and dried. After the porcelain was taken out of the mold, it would be fired in a kiln, and once done, a magnificent image would be seen. If the porcelain is light colored, it is thinner than most, which when darker is thicker. They have been used for lampshades, candle shields, night lights, tea warmers, fire screens or hung in windows to reflect the beautiful sunlight that shines into them and through them showing a marvelous image of various degrees and types. Laurel Gotshall Blair was the founder of the Blair Museum of Lithophanes, and a native of the city, whose father, Roy Blair, was the owner and founder of the Blair Realty and Investment Company of Toledo in 1908; with Laurel joining the company at his birth in 1909. During the 1920s, the company would become a major force in the development of the city, involved in creating many well-to-do communities like Heatherdowns and the Heatherdowns Country Club. Laurel went to school and soon the University of Michigan and became part of the Toledo Board of Realtors, once serving as president like his father before him. He became a lover of beauty, and started collecting music boxes, when visiting a fellow collector in Berlin Heights, Ohio, saw one of the delicate porcelain lithophanes being lit by the sun hanging in the window and immediately fell in love with them. Over his life, he began to collect many of the marvelous and magical lithophanes, and soon began a private museum in his house to showcase them to visitors and friends. He began to study them, their origin, designs and usage, soon becoming the world's foremost authority on them. Laurel passed on in 1993, and left his large collection, with 2300 lithophanes to the city, where everyone, from around the world and across the country could come and see these beautiful artworks, hand crafted and illuminating the world with their beauty and enjoyment. It is a wonderful venue to visit and enjoy, viewing the unique lithophanes that were such a joy to Laurel and are becoming such joys to the people that come here and spend hours looking at the delicate pieces.

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Imagination Station
Imagination Station is a nonprofit science museum in Toledo, Ohio, sitting on the riverfront, which was the Center for Science and Industry called COSI and contains more than 300 hands-on displays for the enjoyment of visitors and their families. In 1984, the Portside Festival Marketplace shopping mall opened on the side of Maumee River hoping to start a revitalization of the downtown Toledo area, but had to close six years later because of financial problems and left behind a 100,000 square foot modern structure without any uses. The mayor appointed a committee to find the best way or idea for the empty space, and after getting repeated options for an educational family oriented attraction, the members appealed to the COSI Columbus to open a similar facility in their city. A major fundraising campaign started and raised almost $10 million with the state matching their funds. In 1997, the center opened with about 250,000 visitors a year coming here for the enjoyment and educational resources for their families. It won a National Award for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and it was presented by Laura Bush at a White House ceremony in 2006. In the same year, the two COSIs split to focus on their own individual financial troubles, but in 2007, was forced to close because of funding problems. In 2008, the Lucas County voters approved money for a science center and it reopened in the fall of 2009 under its new name with more ideas and venues. The image to the right is a Rube Goldbergian style machine that stands in the main lobby and makes music when people drop billiard balls into it, randomly. Some of the main attractions include the Boyo which uses science like the common yo-yo and helps a rider go up into the air some 13 feet using their own strength and science principles. The high wire cycle has riders more than 20 feet in the air on a 2 inch cable with a 275 pound counterweight that lets them defy gravity and ride a bike across the wire, which is very exciting and not dangerous at all. Another is the simulator theater where you will be bounced in every imaginable direction, using a virtual reality video to allow you to imagine you are in some other environment. There are many more such exciting and educational venues that will keep you and your children busy the whole day, having fun while you learn more about science and the earth.

Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery and arboretum can be found in Toledo, Ohio, one of many such cemeteries with the name in the country, but one of the few that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was started in 1876, and occupies 160 acres of landscaped spaces with 65,000 interments. Summers are a marvelous time to visit the tranquil settings in Woodlawn with over 300 different trees located in their arboretum that offer shade and serenity. It is the final resting place for many of the city's upper crust, and has been in operation for more than 135 years, with almost 50 acres of undeveloped land and room for many more interments. When it first opened in 1876, it was a growing space, much like the city, as was considered the best place for a rural country cemetery which instead grew into a quiet natural retreat that existed in the city, with an outstanding natural habitat for a large number of birds, wonderful architectural landmarks and a large collection of private mausoleums that have become part of the city's history and brings many genealogists and history buffs to the area. Not usually a place to bring families unless you are visiting past loved ones, but it is unique and one of those hidden venues in the city that brings folks here for quiet retreat from the hustling bustling noisy city that surrounds it.

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Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral
Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is the Roman Catholic church sitting in the Old West End of Toledo, Ohio, and is the mother church to 163 parishes in the Roman Catholic diocese of Toledo and is rather unique because of its Spanish plateresque style architecture. It had been designed with the city's sister city in Toledo, Spain and was completed in 1931, resembling the great European cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Inside is a magnificent 5500 pipe organ created by Ernest M. Skinner, and its twin sits in the peristyle concert hall in the Toledo Museum of Art. Samuel Stritch, the second bishop of the diocese of Toledo, was responsible for the choosing of the plans that approved the architectural plans of William Perry of Pittsburgh, with ground breaking starting in 1925, and cornerstone place in 1926. It was finished, structurally in the Great Depression, 1931, at a huge cost of $3.25 million and it wouldn't be until October, 1940 that Bishop Karl Joseph Alter, the third bishop of the diocese, dedicated the magnificent and splendid church as the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral. During 2000, the interior was restored, after having been subjected to many years of coal-fired and oil-fired boilers that were finally taken off and bringing up the beautiful mosaics that had graced the church since it opened.

Toledo Firefighters Museum
The Toledo Fire Department has been saving and protecting the lives and property of the citizens of Toledo, Ohio since 1837, and has evolved from a volunteer bucket brigade into the highly trained workforce it is today, trained in all the latest and current fire fighting methods of modern day fire fighting and life saving technology. The department has 525 men and women that are responsible for taking care of the city's 330,000 residents in an 84 square mile area. The Toledo Firefighters Museum was started in 1976 to preserve the history of the Toledo Fire division, as well as teaching the people of the city about fire prevention and safety; and the memory of fallen firefighters. The museum sits in a two story working fire station, Old Number 18 fire house that was built in 1920, and replaced with a newer one in 1975. There are a million dollars of exhibits shown that include numerous large items of vintage fire fighting equipment, with the most prominent and highlighted 1837, Neptune, which had been the city's first fire pumper, and adoringly restored by the fire fighters themselves, this hand-pulled, hand operated Neptune needs to have 20 men or women involved in its usage with 300 gallons of water each minute. There is also a 1969 Willy's Fire Jeep, 1927 American La-France pumper, Horse drawn steamer, 1929 Pirsch pumper and 1936 Schacht service ladder truck. Also included are hundreds of antique fire toys, firefighters sleeping quarters, watchman desk & tape register, fire gongs, bells, badges, ornate speaking trumpets, Toledo area memorabilia, sweat sticks, buckets, elaborate trumpets, vintage uniforms, and command officers room. Their library has a wonderful collection of photographs, scrapbooks and reference materials that date back to the early 1800s and many more displays.

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