The Oil Exchange & National Transit
Two of Oil City’s most imposing and unique buildings once stood opposite each other in the city’s North Side business district. The towering structures – the Oil City Oil Exchange…
Two of Oil City’s most imposing and unique buildings once stood opposite each other in the city’s North Side business district. The towering structures – the Oil City Oil Exchange…
…summer and stop at a designated site across the river from the Boat Club. The return trip was set for 10:30 p.m. Access to the club would be via a…
…the top of the street and later became the site of the Oil City Opera House. The church building came from Pithole where it was dismantled as the Presbyterian Church…
…the South Side. It became the favored residential building site. In addition, the Cottage Hill neighborhood on the North Side was quickly expanding. While the efforts to lure homebuilders were…
…well as escort young boys off the site when they were spied crawling out of the third-floor windows and running around a ledge just below the roof line. The building…
…(right) and a spire of St. Joseph Church can be seen in the picture. The motel was built on a site that had housed old railroad freight buildings. There were…