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A sign posted at a work site of the Wooster Downtown Economic Development Project, the precursor to Main Street Wooster

The Daily Record interviewed Herman and he was honored but had wanted to keep it secret. The store and the college had a long standing relationship with many of the students and their parents shopping at Freedlander’s.

The sign for the Main Street Wooster and Chamber of Commerce building on West Liberty Street

Photo taken in 1993, during the Main Street Wooster/Chamber of Commerce project to rebuild the square

The article describes President Lowry’s remarks during a university chapel service for Herman. Lowry reflected on his personal relationship with Herman and gave him a plaque to celebrate his 80th birthday.

The main academic building on campus burned down early in the morning in mid December 1901. Students and faculty could only watch in horror as the fire destroyed the building.

The photograph shows just how little remained of the campus’ main academic building after a fire ravaged the structure in 1901.

President Holden wrote his autobiography for his children in 1932 and it featured an extensive portion on his time as the President of the College of Wooster. He focused on the difficulties he ran into as he desperately tried to find donors for…

A photo of the town square, after it was rebuilt by the Cahmber of Commerce and Main Street Wooster

A photo of a banner on the town square advertising the Ohio Light Opera

A photo of the gazebo on the northeast corner of the square, with banners advertising events downtown

Photo of a man watering a planter on the corner of West Liberty and South Market Streets, part of Main Street Wooster's beautification efforts

A photo of South Market Street, near the Square, in 2013.

Rear view of newly-built lofts in the Merchant's Block building on West Liberty Street, many are already sold

223 W Liberty Street in 2013, visible businesses include Friendtique, Uptown Downtown Antiques, and The Wooster Book Company

A graph charting the change in the types of businesses downtown, from the 1970s to today. Estimates are based on phone book listings.

A 2007 Daily Record article about the appeal of downtown lofts

A 2009 Daily Record article describing the development of the downtown "entertainment district" and Main Street Wooster's campaign to grant more restaurants liquor licenses, the first of which was Muddy Waters Cafe and Grill

Portrait of Louis H. Severance, trustee of the University of Wooster, circa 1910

View of Severance Hall (chemistry), constructed in 1902, from the academic quad of the College of Wooster

A sketch of the original Old Main building, focusing on the awkward middle section that the townspeople nicknamed "Bitter's Bottle," because it looked so much like a pill bottle.

Artwork depicting the original Old Main academic building on the University of Wooster's campus.

Photo taken for a "Rep. for Frick," of the original Old Main Building. Presumably, this is one of the photos that encouraged Henry Clay Frick to donate money to build a library for the new, Christian school.

Modern photo of Kauke Hall, the College of Wooster's famous landmark.

An illustration of the Sultana disaster in Harper's Weekly. It shows the steamer in flames and dozens of men stranded in the Mississippi.

An illustration from an 1861 edition of Timothy Shay Arthur's 1854 temperance drama, Ten Nighs in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. This story was presented in play form in the Quinby Opera House at the height of Wooster's activity in the temperance…

The first section of an editorial about the merge of the Wooster Republican and the Wooster Daily News. Appeared on the front page of the first issue of the Wooster Daily Record.

Circular seal placed at the top of the folio of the June 28, 1998 issue of the Daily Record that commemorates the 100th year after Albert and Emmett Dix bought the Wooster Republican and entered the Wooster newspaper scene.

Photograph of Albert Dix, owner of the Wooster Republican and later the Wooster Daily Record. Appeared in the Wooster Daily Record September 8, 1953 in a spread featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper.

Photograph of Albert Dix, owner of the Wooster Republican and later the Wooster Daily Record, looking up from a copy of the paper. Appeared in the Wooster Daily Record September 8, 1953 in a spread featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper.