Vistula Historic District

Vistula is a neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, that preserves the city's earliest remaining mix of homes, shops, churches, schools and industry. Its buildings, mostly from the 19th century, range from Greek Revival to Italianate, Queen Anne and High Victorian Gothic, built of brick, cast iron, sandstone, limestone and wood. Commercial blocks along Summit Street, a hotel and a large brewery stand close to modest workers' houses, apartment buildings and the mansions of wealthy businessmen, showing the social and economic mix of the community. Cobbled pavements and carriage houses recall the era of horse-drawn transport. Landmarks include Westminster Church and Chapel, Salem Lutheran Church, St. Joseph's Church and the medieval-styled Undine Flats. A later statement extends the district's significance into the 1920s, when industrial, commercial and residential buildings of consistent brick and stone, scale and height continued the neighborhood's mixed-use pattern, including the Continental Baking Company building of 1924.