{"id":622,"date":"2014-02-20T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/?p=622"},"modified":"2014-04-24T02:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T02:07:49","slug":"halls-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/02\/20\/halls-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall&#8217;s Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2014\/02\/33228-118899-Tara-Racher-Apr-23-2013-452-PM-Halls-Corners-1858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-522\" style=\"width: 209px\" alt=\"Hall's Corners 1858\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2014\/02\/33228-118899-Tara-Racher-Apr-23-2013-452-PM-Halls-Corners-1858.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Tara Racher<\/p>\n<p>Hall\u2019s Corners is the name given to the intersection of Howard St. and Market St. Named for Philander Hall who opened a general store (P.D. Hall &amp; Co.) at the intersection in 1835, it was the main business district in Akron for most of the 1800\u2019s. Several fires in the 1840\u2019s and 1850\u2019s destroyed many of the businesses and buildings around Hall\u2019s Corners. As a result, the business center shifted south with the building of the Masonic Temple in 1870 and the O\u2019Neil &amp; Dyas Co. site in the 1890\u2019s. In 1880, Hall\u2019s Corners was the location of Akron\u2019s first electric \u201cmast\u201d, a 208 foot high post with four arc lights at the top. It was believed that it would light up the entire city.\u00a0 It was not nearly as effective as anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Tara Racher Hall\u2019s Corners is the name given to the intersection of Howard St. and Market St. Named for Philander Hall who opened a general store (P.D. Hall &amp; Co.) at the intersection in 1835, it was the main business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/02\/20\/halls-corner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36282],"tags":[7160,36294,36354,36302],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown","tag-akron","tag-downtown-2","tag-halls-corners","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}