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TOP: First Congregational Church in Toledo ABOVE: Ornate designs on the church’s facade

Flowers in bloom at the Louis W. Campbell State Nature Preserve in Swanton

A service at Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral Antique machines inside the J.H. Fentress Antique Popcorn Museum in Holland

� e Casey-Pomeroy House Bed & Breakfast

Trees and headstones at Woodlawn Cemetery

By KIRK BAIRDBLADE STAFF WRITER

Tony Packo’s is famous. � e Mud Hens and Libbey glass company are iconic. And the Toledo Zoo

and Toledo Museum of Art enjoy stel-lar reputations nationwide.

But there’s much more to Toledo than chili dogs, baseball, glass, and those two cultural institutions, say a pair of local historians.

Tedd Long, a board member of the Toledo History Museum and a Lead-ership Toledo volunteer who provides tours of the region to the Leadership Toledo class and area organizations, and Dave Schlaudecker, the recently retired executive director of Leader-ship Toledo, suggested several sites in and around Toledo that likely aren’t on the must-visit lists of tourists and resi-dents but should be.

Louis W. Campbell State Nature Preserve, east of the Toledo Express Airport along Crissey Road, south of State Rt. 2, in Swanton. Named for a well-known Toledo naturalist and out-doors writer for � e Blade, the preserve is 211 acres of the “botanically signi� -cant” Oak Openings region in northwest Ohio. naturepreserves.ohiodnr.gov/campbell.

577 Foundation, 577 E. Front St., Perrysburg. Founded by Virginia Secor Stranahan, the 577 Foundation is ded-icated to preserving the 12-acre riv-er-front property she purchased with her husband in 1935 and features the couple’s 577 house, a cottage, a cow barn and dairy, a log cabin, gardens, a geodesic biodome, a river walk, and much more. 577foundation.org.

Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, 2535 Collingwood Blvd. Measuring 285 feet long and 215 feet wide with a ceiling rising 90 feet above the � oor, the cathedral is an ar-chitectural and artistic treasure near downtown built nearly a century ago at a cost of what would now be about $90 million. rosarycathedral.org.

First Congregational Church, 2315 Collingwood Blvd. Founded in 1833, the church is Toledo’s oldest congre-gation, and its present-day building incorporates the 16 stained-glass win-dows Louis Ti� any created and helped install as well as the original church pews. � rstchurchtoledo.com.

� e Toledo Police Museum, 2201 Kenwood Blvd. in Ottawa Park. � is museum’s collection of law enforce-ment artifacts from the 1830s to near present includes an electric chair, a Tommy gun from the prohibition era, a jail cell where visitors can be locked up, police motorcycles and cars, and much more. toledopolicemuseum.com.

� e Casey-Pomeroy House Bed & Breakfast, 802 N. Huron St. Built in 1870 in what is now the Vistula Historic District, this three-story, 8,000-square-foot Italian villa-style brick home was an impressive site that later fell into disrepair — until a local couple pur-chased the home and turned it into a bed and breakfast to help fund its ren-ovations. casey-pomeroyhouse.com.

� e J.H. Fentress Antique Popcorn Museum, 7922 Hill Ave., Holland. � is 1,800-square-foot museum features an extensive and varied collection of popcorn-related memorabilia, in-cluding dozens of original popcorn machines and peanut roasters, two Kistwich sandwich carts, hundreds of classic popcorn boxes, and more. antiquepopcornmuseum.com.

Woodlawn Cemetery, 1502 W. Central Ave. Founded in 1876 and recognized as a National Historic Site more than a century later, the cemetery is home to 300 species of trees and a diverse variety of nesting birds as well as architectural land-marks and postcard-worthy beauty. historic-woodlawn.com.

Contact Kirk Baird at: kbaird@theblade.com or 419-724-6734.

Lesser-known destinations in and around Toledo

Hidden gems

� e courtyard at the 577 Foundation in Perrysburg

A replica of the electric chair Old Sparky on display at the Toledo Police Museum