Posted June 24, 201113 yr Abandoned, vacant, vibrant, and under restoration...Cleveland is filled with awesome relics of its industrial past. Detroit Theater in Lakewood - possible demolition for McDonalds Joseph & Feiss Clothcraft Warehouse - proposed for conversion to 63 apartments Wigmore Collisium/Middough Building - planned for renovation to house Cleveland Playhouse, CSU, and PlayhouseSquare partnership Columbia Building - soon to be demolished for casino parking Stanley Block - this one might make it Brown Hoist Building - still occupied for industrial purposes East Cleveland's Main Street Cleveland's Rowhouse Warner & Swasey Observatory - abandoned since 1983 Euclid Avenue First Church of God - planned for demolition 1341 East Boulevard - under restoration for continued apartment use Former Sears Warehouse at the rear of former Playhouse Jesse Owens Academy - one of 25 Cleveland schools planned for demolition St. Luke's Hospital - undergoing major restoration for apartments and non-profit office space Warner and Swasey - proposed as office space Garfield Monument
June 24, 201113 yr Great pics. Thanks! Need more labels to describe locations of some buildings. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 24, 201113 yr Awesome pictures. Where/what is that picture of right above the St. Luke's pictures?
June 24, 201113 yr Beautiful buildings. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 24, 201113 yr Where are those rowhouses located? Also great pics! Along Prospect I believe, somewhere in the 3000-4000 blocks.
June 24, 201113 yr Awesome pictures. Where/what is that picture of right above the St. Luke's pictures? That is the Soverign Hotel (now called Univerity Tower Apartments) on East Boulevard, now completely surrounded by the VA.
June 24, 201113 yr Where are those rowhouses located? Also great pics! North side of Prospect, 3659. They're right between 2 parking lots, if I remember correctly. I saw them for the first time last week, they're really cute !
June 24, 201113 yr Where are those rowhouses located? Also great pics! Those are Cleveland's only East Coast-style rowhouses. One of them is a bed & breakfast. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 24, 201113 yr Where are those rowhouses located? Also great pics! North side of Prospect, 3659. They're right between 2 parking lots, if I remember correctly. I saw them for the first time last week, they're really cute ! Where are those rowhouses located? Also great pics! Those are Cleveland's only East Coast-style rowhouses. One of them is a bed & breakfast. Wow those are beautiful. Never seen them before. If only we had street after street of those!
June 24, 201113 yr Also do you know the history of them? Who built them and when? And why there and why weren't more built? Sorry for all the questions lol. :)
June 24, 201113 yr Cleveland I am surprised you have never seen the Prospect row houses since they are only a few blocks away from the CSU dorms you have photographed a number of times.
June 24, 201113 yr Ink...while it was even before my time (hard to believe), so I am not quite sure, but I think the Sears facility you mentioned behind the playhouse may have been an acutual store and not just a warehouse. Up until the early 60's there was quite of bit of retail in that general area. Do you know for sure one way or another (or anybody else)? And while not surprised, since the Clinic bought the complex, but this is the first I have heard that it is going to be torn down (I am assuming you mean just the Sears portion and not the rest of the playhouse complex to which it is attached).
June 24, 201113 yr Cleveland I am surprised you have never seen the Prospect row houses since they are only a few blocks away from the CSU dorms you have photographed a number of times. i know i know, just havent made my way over there yet.
February 12, 201411 yr Stanley Block - this one might make it Oops. Oh the irony of that Huntington sign on that building...
February 12, 201411 yr This is depressing. Why? Most are still standing and some have been saved and/or renovated. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 12, 201411 yr I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS.
February 12, 201411 yr I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS.
February 13, 201411 yr Was that before or after MTS learned he would now be working for Comcast? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 14, 201411 yr I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS. I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS. Was that before or after MTS learned he would now be working for Comcast? Why would that affect me?
February 14, 201411 yr I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS. Relic? Idk.... he looked fairly spry while getting some landscaping done at his parents' home in Shaker last summer:
February 14, 201411 yr I guess if I really wanted to do a comprehensive Cleveland relics thread, I should have included a picture of MTS. Relic? Idk.... he looked fairly spry while getting some landscaping done at his parents' home in Shaker last summer:
February 14, 201411 yr I blame myself for this thread getting off topic. Lesson learned: don't mess with MTS.
February 14, 201411 yr I blame myself for this thread getting off topic. Lesson learned: don't mess with MTS.
February 14, 201411 yr Was that before or after MTS learned he would now be working for Comcast? Why would that affect me? You didn't hear? They're relocating you to Philadelphia, cheese! Oh I think a little bit of cabin fever is creeping in. The natives are gettin' restless! So.... This has become one of favorite Cleveland buildings that I didn't know about until recently. I think this is in an area that may be next on the "discovery" and redevelopment list... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 14, 201411 yr ^It's awesome. It's on Hamilton Ave in the industrial area northeast of downtown: http://goo.gl/maps/jCAHX Was that before or after MTS learned he would now be working for Comcast? Why would that affect me? You didn't hear? They're relocating you to Philadelphia, cheese! Just to nip this one in the bud, I'm pretty sure MTS works for Time Warner, NOT Time Warner Cable, which was spun off years ago and is the company being acquired by Comcast.
February 14, 201411 yr ^Beautiful and huge building. In what area is this? This is the former Brown Hoisting Company plant built in 1902 at 4403 St. Clair Avenue with a nice write-up and photos from a few years ago is here http://www.clevelandareahistory.com/2011/03/brown-hoist-building.html The ornate office building in the lower left of the above rendering still stands..... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 14, 201411 yr I thank the St. Clair - Superior industrial area has awesome potential. It's Cleveland's REAL warehouse district.
February 15, 201411 yr I love this thread, and I really love the style of building in the "1341 East Blvd" photo. It seems (through photos here on UO) that this is a pretty common building type in Cleveland, is that correct? We don't have many buildings like it in Cincinnati. Is this style of building uniquely Cleveland or Great Lakes?
February 16, 201411 yr I love this thread, and I really love the style of building in the "1341 East Blvd" photo. It seems (through photos here on UO) that this is a pretty common building type in Cleveland, is that correct? We don't have many buildings like it in Cincinnati. Is this style of building uniquely Cleveland or Great Lakes? This is fairly common in some of Cleveland's higher-density residential districts especially on the East Side that grew up between 1900-1930. Unfortunately, many of those districts (Hough, Glenville, Kinsman, East Cleveland, etc) have seen significant decline, abandonment and demolition. However, you can still find some of these apartment buildings in or near the University Circle area (as is the East Blvd site) and the Coventry and Cedar-Fairmount areas of Cleveland Heights. There are also a few in the Cleveland-Edgewater/Lakewood-Gold Coast areas. I have seen similar apartment buildings, though not exactly similar, in Detroit. But like Cleveland's East Side, many of Detroit's neighborhoods where these were built have seen serious abandonment. I don't recall seeing these in Chicago, but then again I wasn't looking. But it's possible it has some of these style of apartment buildings. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 16, 201411 yr ^Chicago has millions of apartments of this general type, but with a single stack of units that traverse the entire building from front to back entered through a common entrance. They call them "flats" and are numbered 2 through 4 (in some cases 5) based on the number of floors they have; 2 flats or 3 flats, etc... Cleveland has the above type scattered in many neighborhoods but are usually shorter, 2 or 3 stories, but with front-to-back units in pairs on either side of a common stairwell. My parents lived in one in the late 40s, early 50s on the East Side. Many have balconies but not supported with the grand, monumental pillars like the above building. A number of them are in more buff brick, have wrought-iron balustrades on the balconies and have a Moorish influence. They are esp prevalent in the Buckeye-Woodland, Larchemere and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods. One can drive through a block of wood-frame houses when these 4 and 6 unit buildings just seem to pop up mid-block.
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