Philip Schambach's Bakery, 1912
1301 Banklick

Kentucky Livery, 123 W. 13th Street, 1940, (between Banklick St. and the railroad)

 

Bowling Alley at 1129 Banklick, owned by William Haunert, a grandfather to Frank G. Hehman, grandfather of Gerri Hehman Joseph, who posted this image on Facebook.

 

Marion G. Grubbs, Grocer, 44 Pike Street	Gus W. Menninger, Undertaker 66 W. Pike

 

Hellmann Lumber, 321 West Twelfth. The Hellman Lumber history.

 

The Casino Theatre, 1912, Parker & Stephens, proprietors 7 Pike Street

 

Riesenbeck's Grocery, 7th an Bakewell From a Facebook post by his granddaughter, Kathy Koch Santangelo		Theodore Vogt's Delicatessen and Grocery, 701 Bakewell

 

The Avey Drilling Machine Company was at 25 East Third. From a Facebook post by Charlie Pyles			Avey Drilling Machine Baseball Team, 1928 From a Facebook post by Hillary Delaney

 

Window says Threlkeld and Simpson, 5 and 10 store. Geo. and Wm. Threlkeld (the only name we find remotely close in the city directories, were at the swc of 8th and Greer, and were merchandise brokers.

 

J. C. Ritter's Groceries, 6th and Craig
From a Facebook post by Old Northern Kentucky

 

G. B. Murphy sold groceries on the s.e. corner of Fourth and Main; the nw corner of 5th and Philadelphia, and on the s. e. corner of 5th and Scott. We've no idea which location this is.

 

Zimmer home at 712 Pike. It has four stories; the bottom story well into the ground to store excess produce and beer.  The family moved here after living above the grocery at the right.	Zimmer Grocery, on Lewis and Western. Proprietor Charles Zimmer also owned a second grocery store on the corner of 12th and Hermes in 1910. That's Frances Bockweg Zimmer, 3rd from the left.	Zimmer Garage at 555 Pike, in the 1937 Flood	Zimmers Grocery from a Facebook post by Joe Metz

A big thanks to Erica Miller Broenner for sharing these Zimmer pictures. Frances Bockweg Zimmer is her g-g-grandmother

 

The S. H. Knox Five and Ten Cents Store,   The Busy Store of Our City  At 40 Pike Street, 1908	The Hippodrome, 7th & Washington. Background.	John Arink, Fashionable Merchant Tailor, 1890, 6th between Main and Bakewell

 

Covington Sawmill and Manufacturing Co, N.E. corner, 2nd and Main	The Star Foundry Company  Manufactures of Famous “Reliable” Line of Stoves and Ranges 221-231 Main Street	Fred Seifert's Bakery 1429 Russell Street, 1952 photo courtesy Frederick and Catherine Seifert

 

	Nie Norbert's was at the corner of Russell and 11th

 

Consumer Ice on the C & O Railroad, at 8th Street	Kentucky Planing Mill Eighth Street

 

	The Overman & Schrader Cordage Company’s Eagle Twine Mills had their offices at 26-28 E. Second Street in Cincinnati, but the mill was in Covington, on the northwest corner of 16th and Russell. They were “manufacturers of coarse and fine twines, wrapping and sail twines, tube and hide ropes. Also full line of Manila and sisal rope, tarred and untarred lath yarn, plumbers oakum and packing.” At it’s peak, 500 or so people worked there, but the demise of steamboats killed virtually all rope businesses.
Overman Schrader Cordage Company
In 1902, Charles Schrader, the company's president, wrote to Congress concerning a regulation that would cause enormous harm to the business community. It seems the government wanted to institute the 8 hour work day on government contracts (“to the detriment of every citizen in the land”). You can read his letter here.

 

1922	1901

Sebastian Lathe, southeast corner of 3rd & Philadelphia

1904 Location	1905 Location	1917+ Location	1917+ Location

 

Kelley and Koett	1917+ Location	Workers	The magnificent Koett Home, 515 Russell Street
The Kelley - Koett Manufacturing Co., casually known as Keleket, was one of the largest X-ray machine manufacturers in the USA.  212 W. 4th St, Covington
A history of the firm from 1924 is here.		A company description from 1915 is here.
Kelley buys an airplane in 1927.		Kelley obituary.

1927 Kele Ket Baseball Team
From a Facebook post by James Woltenberg

The Remains of the T. S. Hamilton Tobacco Warehouse after being burned down by Night Riders, March 26, 1908.
The warehouse was on the north side of 4th, between Philadelphia and Bakewell.

On March 24, the Post boldly proclaimed that night riders wouldn't dare come into Covington.
On March 26, the Post had a detailed account of the damage done by the fire.

The Kentucky Post's story on the 27th is here.

A list of other buildings destroyed in the fire is here.

If you need a little background on who the Night Rider's were, it's here.

Dixie Wholesale Grocery
8th & Washington
From a Facebook post by Brad Wainscott

 

Joseph VonHandorf Sr., Dealer in Wines and Liquors, 609 Main from Facebook posts by Amy VonHandorf Weaver.

 

	Family Theater	Shirley Theater	Family Theater Re-Model
	The Family was on Main Street between 6th and 7th; the Shirley on Holman. Both were owned by Ethel and Nick Shafer. Two images at left both taken in 1943. from Facebook posts by Jeff King

 

The Moeschel - Edwards Corrugating Company on the railroad, between 8th and 9th

 

Brownfield's Mill Work, 33-37 W. Eighth
More on the Brownfield Company

 

“My dad's (Vern Ernst) grocery store at 670 W. 3rd & in Covington. Opened in April 1963. The original store opened in 1944 on Dixie Highway in Park Hills. He owned the store with his brother Wally Ernst, and later partnered with his brother-in-law Gene Sturgeon and long time friend Ernie Franklin.” From a Facebook post by Rick Ernst

 

Sears & Roebuck, 1940, 7th, West of Madison	Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing, 1922 11th, between Madison and Russell	Feders at 602 Pike, in the 1937 Flood from the Fall-Winter 2012 issue of Northern Kentucky Heritage.

Here's the application for the Wadsworth Building to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps.

Tate Builders Supply
Covington and Dayton

 

Lockett and Tate, 19th and Russell, 1928	Tate, c. 1950	Tate Builders Supply, 1940 Tate builders was at W 19th & Russell, on the NE corner.

“One hundred feet of the stone wall of Gaylord's foundry, Covington, fell in the river yesterday. Its height was 55 feet. It had been undermined by water. Loss $15,000” Courier-Journal, May 7, 1870	Goldsmith's was in the 600 block of Russell, and made baseballs, dolls, and toys. Where “The ladies do not begin work before 7 o'clock and quit at 6 o'clock. On Saturday's, work stops at five o'clock.
Greer's manufactured steam locomotives on Philadelphia between Third and the river.	American Wire Screw and Nail did manufacturing at 16th and Washington (when the railroad ran down the center of Washington Street)

The Honey dipper, John George Exterkamp, 1907, 8th and Dalton (a honey dipper cleaned out outhouses) from a Facebook post by Mark Exterkamp	Jesse Sanders on his Ice Wagon in Covington, c. WWI

 

Quality Coal Company, 1943 "The Hottest Coal in Town" 130 W. 19th Street	T. W. Spinks Company, You're looking northeast, just north of the 19th Street Bridge.	Phoenix Manufacturing Co., 314 Russell

 

The Spinks family sold bricks, lime, stone, and cement mostly in Covington and Latonia but also in Newport. These images are c. 1910.
More on the Spinks Company.

The Houston, Stanwood & Gamble Co., (best picture quality available)

Engine Shop	Boiler Shop

The Houston, Stanwood & Gamble Co., northwest corner of 3rd & Philadelphia
More about Houston, Stanwood & Gamble

Dick's, mid-1940's From a Facebook post by Kim Walker Bourke	Dick's Standard, Fifth and Main from a Facebook post on the Old Northern Kentucky page

 

A proposal for the old Covington IRS site, 2022
The news release.

“One Cent Reward.  Ranaway from the subscriber, HENRY FINCH, an apprentice to the Saddling
business.  The above reward and no thanks will be paid for his return.  The public are forewarned
from trusting or employing him.  Andrew Ross, Covington.” 
from the Licking Valley Register, August 10, 1844.