Thursday Doors- The Round House

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This is the last door I have from our trip to Put-in-Bay, OH back in May.

The Round House Bar.

Round House Bar–Front View

I love the arched door, color theme, the dome roof, and the structure at the top of the roof. What is that called? Viewing room? Oh, and the Rooster weather vane. I do like the rooster theme. Fun fact about me: I was born in the year of the Rooster in Chinese Astrology.

Round House Bar-Side View

We didn’t have time to go inside, but I do want to return so maybe one day I will get to see the murals on the walls.

Here’s some history:

“Originally housing the Columbia Restaurant, this building opened in 1873. Back in the day, there wasn’t a good way to keep things cold. Thanks to intrepid island dwellers including Valentine Doller, they figured out a way. The Columbia Restaurant was able to serve up ice cream and cottage cheese using blocks of ice gathered from Lake Erie in the winter. Housed in what is now the Put-in-Bay Winery, the ice kept things nice and cold.

The famous circular bar was then built in 1944 by the Greunke family, commissioning the Cincinnati Brewing Company to construct it. It was the perfect place to hold concerts “in the round,” with Mrs. Greunke as the featured pianist. They moved the stage to its current location so the performer wouldn’t have to play with their back to the audience.

The McCann family has owned the Roundhouse since the early 1950’s. Most of the building is original, with the exception of the floor and front porch. The original plaster walls have remained. They were also responsible for painting it its signature red, white, and blue along with artist Scott LoBadio painting the outside. The inside walls features murals by Canoe Bob.”https://putinbay.com/dinings/round-house-bar/

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31 thoughts on “Thursday Doors- The Round House”

  1. I love taking pictures of facades, doors, windows and buildings. In the Axarquia area in the south of Spain we have some traditional streets. With fishermen’s houses converted into homes. Walking through this area is a wonder for my camera.

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    1. I thought of Cupola for a half second, but didn’t think that was quite right because of the windows but, I don’t know. Thank you for shedding more light on the meaning of a cupola! I’ll remember that some sources refer to them as lanterns.
      I do like the idea of it being a version of a widow’s walk. It fits being that the building is on an island.

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  10. Beautiful find and great historical information on that structure and Door! And, we now realize we’ve been asking the wrong people that rhetorical question, “why did the chicken cross the road?” We now find the expert to answer that question has always been right next to us😉🤣. Thanks for sharing the photo, door and history, Deborah!

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  12. Wonderful pictures of a neat building that is Deborah! Concerning the thing on top of the roof the word ‘lantern’ came to my mind. They are designed to let daylight in and are often placed above a staircase or so. But to be true, I like the widow explanation better 🙂 Like you I dig the colour scheme and I like the name too! Round House Bar – how descriptive can you get. (I buy my drinking water from a company that is named: Drinking Water Company. I love that!) 🙂

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  14. That’s a neat building. The structure on top probably is a variation on the traditional ‘widow’s walk’ — the uppermost part of a home where women watched for their men to return from sea. Given Put-in-Bay’s location, that makes sense to me. I especially like the roof, which appears to be metal. As for roosters, given your fondness for them, I suspect you’ll get a kick out of this.

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    1. LOL!! That’s a great video!! Thanks for sharing it and for the laughs this morning.

      I don’t think the roof is metal, but I could be wrong. That’s a great thought about a version of the widow’s walk! I didn’t think of that.

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