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Zinn Lumber Company: Perfection Millwork

When I was working on my book, several old-timers remembered the Zinn Lumber Company at the corner of North High and Hudson. At last we have photos! Lauren Clark who is married to John Clark, the great grandson of J. Harvey Zinn, shared some of John’s family photos of the Zinn Lumber Company as well as other items related to J. Harvey Zinn. These show the lumber yard after it was rebuilt in 1926. I’ve tried to arrange the photos in geographic order from the Zinn Lumber Company’s showroom on North High Street, moving eastward along East Hudson Street to East Avenue. [Vintage photos courtesy of John Clark.]


Some additional background information on the yard and the Zinn’s can be found here.

And here are some pix of that intersection today, taken by Terry Miller. Note the North M.E. Church in the background; it was damaged in the Zinn Lumber Yard fire of November 14, 1925, and then had its own fire in 1929.

One Response to “Zinn Lumber Company: Perfection Millwork”

  1. Carolyn Venrick/ Sowers Says:

    My Dad worked at Zinn when I was a kid I remember going with him and sitting at his desk and him going over blueprints! I sure miss him. His name was Raymond Jr. Venrick. If you have any information about him I would love to see it!????❤️

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