{"id":82,"date":"2013-07-08T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/akroninteractive\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-04-24T02:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T02:19:05","slug":"n-o-t-l-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/n-o-t-l-building\/","title":{"rendered":"N.O.T. &amp; L. Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2013\/07\/NOTLBuildingOlder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22\" alt=\"NOTLBuildingOlder\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2013\/07\/NOTLBuildingOlder.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2013\/07\/NOTLBuildingToday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" alt=\"NOTLBuildingToday\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/files\/2013\/07\/NOTLBuildingToday.jpg\" width=\"173\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jaime Palinchak<\/p>\n<p>The N.O.T. &amp; L. Building is located at 47 North Main Street.\u00a0The Northern Ohio Traction and Lighting Company was the longest lasting electric traction company in Akron.\u00a0It owned and operated all of the interurban railway lines out of Akron.\u00a0The Terminal Building, also known as the N.O.T. &amp; L. Building, was built in 1917 along with car barns.\u00a0Two stories were eventually\u00a0added. During the four decades that Northeastern Ohio\u2019s urban railways were in use, longer distance travel was made more efficient and comfortable compared to horse drawn carriages and steam trains.\u00a0In fact, Ohio had the largest system, with a total of 2,798 miles connecting cities from Lake Erie to Cincinnati.\u00a0Passengers could thus appreciate travel \u201cthe dustless way.\u201d Despite its reputation for being a passenger transit service, the N.O.T. &amp; L. Co. profited most from freight service on the Electric Packaging Agency, a collective group of regional traction companies.\u00a0The growing rubber industry in Akron provided the most clientele for these services. Other services included local postal delivery, milk delivery, and the transportation of the deceased in mortuary cars to funeral parlors and burial sites. Interurban railway transportation went out of vogue with the advent of metro bus lines and more affordable private automobiles in the early 1930s.\u00a0Passenger rail service was discontinued in 1932, and the Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company became Ohio Edison.\u00a0The building currently functions as the home of the Summit County Department of Job and Family Services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jaime Palinchak The N.O.T. &amp; L. Building is located at 47 North Main Street.\u00a0The Northern Ohio Traction and Lighting Company was the longest lasting electric traction company in Akron.\u00a0It owned and operated all of the interurban railway lines out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/n-o-t-l-building\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[7160,36286,36306,36302],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown","tag-akron","tag-dowtown","tag-notl","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}