Posted March 11, 200718 yr Cleveland has an interesting mix of housing types outside of the ubiquitous single family detatched house. I didn't put too many pics of the well known Cleveland two flat in the thread, as it's fairly well known here.
March 11, 200718 yr Wonderful shots. Cleveland is really a cornucopia of styles, interestingly. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 11, 200718 yr Neighborhood photos like only step2me can visualize, but this time in Cleveland. Thank you! Cleveland is really a cornucopia of styles, interestingly. I would describe it as a potpourri of styles but still distinctively Midwest in comparison to the cities of the NE.
March 11, 200718 yr Great stuff. I like this one, but don't recognize where it is... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 11, 200718 yr I'm pretty sure there is a building collection almost identical to this in Cincy (Avondale). I love the pics...some really classy looking old buildings!
March 12, 200718 yr Great stuff. I like this one, but don't recognize where it is... How old is that pic? That is the back of an early 70's Buick Skylark.
March 12, 200718 yr Great stuff. I like this one, but don't recognize where it is... How old is that pic? That is the back of an early 70's Buick Skylark. That pic was taken about 4 years ago on the West Side.
March 12, 200718 yr Great photo thread. We don't have enough rowhouses in Cleveland, but I do think the ones we have are an attractive lot.
March 12, 200718 yr Cool pics, step2me, thanks. Has anyone ever noticed the little section of rowhouses jutting off the south side of Chester Ave just east of E30th? I lived there for a couple years and loved it. It's just so random since it's surrounded by.. well.. nothingness.. Great mix of people, and a fairly decent sense of community.
March 13, 200718 yr I have- they've always intrigued me for being so random since they are surrounded by.. well.. nothingness. What's up with all the pigeons?
March 13, 200718 yr oh man.. The pigeons are because of this old man at the end -- he LOVES them.. You're going to think I'm making this up, but I swear I saw him cover himself with birdseed once and allow the pigeons to feast upon him. It was wild.. Nice family though.
March 13, 200718 yr Wow! I thought maybe someone was feeding them to plump them up and the one day **BANG!** stuffed pigeon for dinner. The truth is even better!
March 13, 200718 yr I'm pretty sure there is a building collection almost identical to this in Cincy (Avondale). I love the pics...some really classy looking old buildings! That's actually one building called the Eastman. Just 10 years ago, it was a grimy derelict with no windows where vandals and drug addicts would go. Here's more information about the building in its present state... http://www.howardhanna.com/apps/propertysearch/homes/index.cfm?search_LN=2336278&action=detail&lnsrc=c&MLSTYPE=NORMLS Cool pics, step2me, thanks. Has anyone ever noticed the little section of rowhouses jutting off the south side of Chester Ave just east of E30th? I lived there for a couple years and loved it. It's just so random since it's surrounded by.. well.. nothingness.. Great mix of people, and a fairly decent sense of community. I heard somewhere those townhouses were built as the servants quarters for John D. Rockefeller when he lived on Millionaires' Row. Any truth to that? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 13, 200718 yr ^ Hm, I never heard anything like that, but they're nothing fancy and I could certainly imagine them having been servants quarters.
March 14, 200718 yr Beautiful thread once again proving how diverse, wonderful and quirky Cleveland architecture truly is... As usual, step2me is comprehensive and gets down and dirty where I like -- in the neighborhoods. Not just glitzy downtowns..
March 14, 200718 yr I'm pretty sure there is a building collection almost identical to this in Cindy (Avondale). I love the pics...some really classy looking old buildings! That's actually one building called the Eastman. Just 10 years ago, it was a grimy derelict with no windows where vandals and drug addicts would go. Here's more information about the building in its present state... http://www.howardhanna.com/apps/propertysearch/homes/index.cfm?search_LN=2336278&action=detail&lnsrc=c&MLSTYPE=NORMLS The Eastman Apts are gorgeous but, here we go again, despite Howard Hanna's impressive looking Eastman website, they promote that it's "convenient to everything" but only note it's close to I-90 West but, yet, is totally silent on transit options, despite the fact Eastman sits in one of the most walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods in the region, along the RTA's busiest, most frequent buslines which feed the West Blvd Red Line Rapid station, which is within walking district... Indeed, while the Rapid is within walking distance, I-90 is a mile (and several lights) away -- but this is Cleveland where the car is king... Will this City ever "get it?"... sometimes I seriously wonder.
March 15, 200718 yr I would describe [Cleveland] as a potpourri of styles but still distinctively Midwest in comparison to the cities of the NE. I just came back from a trip to the East Coast, where I spent some time in Jersey City and New Haven in addition to NYC. It's striking how much the architecture of the old Connecticut industrial cities (Bridgeport, New Haven) mirrors Cleveland's. Not surprising, though, given our history as a Connecticut province. ;) New Haven has an almost identical mix of doubles, detached Victorians and scattered rowhouses. My friend who lives in New Haven, and who has visited me in Cleveland multiple times, remarked as we drove around "It looks a lot like Cleveland." I had to agree. (And before anyone makes jokes, we were in the nicer areas of New Haven.) Places like Poughkeepsie, N.Y. also remind me a bit of Cleveland in their housing stock. In other words, East Coast housing stock doesn't necessarily = only masonry rowhouses. Especially in New England and upstate New York, there's lots of woodframe. Great thread by the way.
March 15, 200718 yr ^ I agree. All though I am making a generalization, I do believe that Cleveland's housing stock has a distinct Midwestern feel compared to the cities of the NE of similar or larger size. What I am referring to for the most part is the inner city housing stock of cities like Pittsburgh, Philly, DC, Boston, etc. All though there is lots of similar stock like Cleveland's, it is more prevalent on the outskirts, in the inner-ring suburbs and in smaller cities & towns.
March 20, 200718 yr He goes all over, but it looks like he has some pictures on the west side then heads east from the Lakewood/Cleveland border along Detroit Avenue to Fulton (the new construction townhouses 21 pictures down). He then jumps to the west end of Cleveland Heights in the next eight photos, goes into East Cleveland for about four or five photos to Shaker Square (the one with the rapid transit tracks in the foreground). Next, he shows the Ford/Hessler area and up East Boulevard, then jumps back to Ohio City (Franklin Castle) and along Bridge Avenue. He then goes back east to the Shaker Square area and toward MLK/Buckeye, up to Glenville, back south to Hough and Fairfax, over to Central (Arbor Park -- the three photos in a row of new, similar construction), back west to Clifton near West 110th, Detroit Avenue near West Blvd, Bridge Avenue again, Tillman Avenue at the Shoreway, new Little Italy townhouses (after the Magnolia -- I don't know where the Magnolia is), and a few more buildings at the end I don't recognize. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 20, 200718 yr I know the one was in East Cleveland..could tell by the street sign color and the police car in front of the building....GREAT shots though!!!
June 25, 2024Jun 25 On 3/12/2007 at 9:30 PM, KJP said: That's actually one building called the Eastman. Just 10 years ago, it was a grimy derelict with no windows where vandals and drug addicts would go. Here's more information about the building in its present state... http://www.howardhanna.com/apps/propertysearch/homes/index.cfm?search_LN=2336278&action=detail&lnsrc=c&MLSTYPE=NORMLS I heard somewhere those townhouses were built as the servants quarters for John D. Rockefeller when he lived on Millionaires' Row. Any truth to that? @KJP Hey Ken, not to revive comment of yours from literally 17 years ago, but I may or may not be owning my own little slice of heaven in the Eastman here in the next few weeks. To refresh everyone's memory, its on the NE corner of W. 111th and Detroit. I was trying to do a deep dive on this building but could not find any historic photos or illustrations for it. Vintage or otherwise. The Cleveland Memory Project yielded some results of the immediately surrounding areas, but no sign of the building itself. Considering that it was built in 1903, this building has to appear in something, somewhere. Any tips on where to look/who to ask? If anyone else reading this is able to suggest something, please feel free to share!
June 25, 2024Jun 25 At my age, 17 years seems like a long weekend! But seriously... Do you know who the architect is? If you can find that out, it may help your search. Same with contacting the developer/architect who oversaw its renovation. I'll bet they have old pictures in a file. So might the City Planning Commission. Hope that helps. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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