Regarding the sorry Hubbard House situation, I've been posting here and on Facebook, as well as writing letters, etc., probably since late winter (as soon as I had found out about it).  On this page here, alone, are two photos of the very similar house on East 108th Street.  I wish someone with "power" had done something earlier, like consideration for Landmark nomination back in the spring.  Also, are the special architectural elements really already removed from the house?  As I wrote above, a stained glass window is clearly gone from the lunette in the back of the house, though that might have been removed earlier.

Just to reiterate a few important things, imho: Yes, the Hubbard was the Hubbard of Cowell & Hubbard Jewelers.  Alumni House could have gone with attachment to house concept or possibly added on in the rear.  In fact, they have a small addition there already which I heard was going to be demolished when the new building would be built.  There are many other venues in University Circle alone that make splendid settings for the type of events Alumni House feels they need the new space for.  The Hubbard House if one of the small number of very fine (in this case, outstanding) houses remaining of the original Wade Park Allotment.  That stretch of Juniper was originally part of Magnolia Drive - a beautiful, winding boulevard. This house has unusual slate dormers and other distinctive features - on the outside alone.

 

Does anyone now when a public meeting might be?  I hope the house lasts that long and this is not a case of "demolition by accident."  It really is a beautiful house and would make a wonderful single residence, for example.  I just wish the university would sell it.  There are so many in town who put so much into restoration/renovation of houses.  Of course, I'd like to see the fire escapes go, but if that sort of thing makes the house remain, so be it.  How about a club?  A fraternity or sorority with a lesser home?  Offices?  Condos? Apartments?  It can't need THAT much if the Police have able to have their offices there.

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Sorry to reappear from the dead, but here's more about the house in University Circle that CWRU wishes to tear down. An alumnus is attempting to justify it. You can read my super salty response in the comments.

 

Clancy in response to the editorial board’s “CWRU’s new alumni center not best use of space”

 

To the editor,

As the former Executive Director of Case Western Reserve University’s alumni office and graduate of the university’s law school, I thank you for this opportunity to share some of the history surrounding the creation of the existing Alumni House and the decision to build a new Alumni Hall.

The Alumni House itself opened in 2007 after decades of requests from Case Western Reserve University graduates that the university emulate its many peer institutions by offering such a space. Ultimately the Alumni Association Board established a task force to advance the initiative, and among the group’s top recommendations was inclusion of a large room to accommodate large functions. From there fundraising began.

 

READ MORE:

 

http://observer.case.edu/clancy-alumni-center/?fb_comment_id=1172232632791566_1175038285844334&comment_id=1175038285844334&offset=0&total_comments=3#faa51f97

 

 

I chimed in as well, with a bit of the smartassery that appeared in those pages more years ago than I care to think about.

A few projects in the Circle affiliated with CWRU and CC

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonowPZ4SZs

 

 

Case Western Reserve's plans to demolish home for alumni center on hold due to opposition

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/10/case_western_reserves_plans_to.html#incart_river_home

^ I am pleasantly surprised, and dare I say slightly optimistic.

Case Western Reserve's plans to demolish home for alumni center on hold due to opposition

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/10/case_western_reserves_plans_to.html#incart_river_home

 

Fantastic!  I find it hard believe there are no other options for expansion other than demoing one of the few remaining original houses. 

 

In recent memory, CWRU did demo a nearby house on Bellflower http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jXffsm4Wr3Q/S2dY8t6kF9I/AAAAAAAAHUw/QN1BABL5auA/s400/CaseWestern2.png

^^Very good news.

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I don't put a particularly high value on most of the remaining mansions at University Circle, or preservation of the turn-of-the-century suburban character. That said, I loathed the planned new construction in this case, so this is great news even to me.

Case Western Reserve's plans to demolish home for alumni center on hold due to opposition

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/10/case_western_reserves_plans_to.html#incart_river_home

 

Fantastic!  I find it hard believe there are no other options for expansion other than demoing one of the few remaining original houses. 

 

In recent memory, CWRU did demo a nearby house on Bellflower http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jXffsm4Wr3Q/S2dY8t6kF9I/AAAAAAAAHUw/QN1BABL5auA/s400/CaseWestern2.png

 

The old ZBT house.  IIRC they had infrastructure problems there as far back as the early 80s.

 

That used to be fraternity row over there, and the more independent houses, the southside houses were in university owned buildings.

Sears name added to @cwru think[box] facility.

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151028/NEWS/151029789/sears-name-added-to-case-western-reserves-think-box-facility

This is what I tried to post as a comment to the 10/28/2015 article but, even with a lot of help from someone at the PD, was not able to post on cleveland.com, which appears to be the only version whereby one can even consider posting a comment:

 

 

I've been trying to do something about this travesty since first finding out about it around March this year.  I alerted a number of people and organizations, including CRS and Alumni House staff,, but no organized opposition has appeared until the 11th hour.  First of all, the house is over 100 - constructed in 1910 or so. I don't know where "Caine" creeped in, because I believe no Caine family had anything to do with the house and a Frank Cain family lived down the street, originally part of Magnolia Drive, in a house now demolished (like most of the fine Wade Park Allotment houses).  I was hoping no more of these would be threatened in University Circle - with the last being the ZBT house - but I was wrong, even in this age when the preservation movement has really taken hold across America and certainly in Cleveland.  This threat looks like we're still in the 1960s, when mansions came down wholesale in the area.  I wrote a whole article for the Cleveland Heights Historical Society newsletter, "View from the Overlook," on how Case Institute of Technology was responsible for the destruction of almost twenty  wonderful houses on Carlton Road and also on Murray Hill Road.

 

Shame on the Alumni House staff, and the Linsalata family, for displaying so little respect one of the few remaining wonderful houses remaining from the once gorgeous Wade Park Allotment residential district. Indeed, CWRU won a Celebration of Preservation Award in recent years for the work done with the Aumni House itself, which is surely an inferior design to that of the Hubbard House.

The house, incidentally, is not only beautiful but it boasts  unusual features, such as dormers of slate. I was told refined architectural features were already removed from the house several weeks ago and, if so, what a shame.  Can at least some be re-installed?  Not only can this make an excellent fraternity or sorority house, but how about someone's persona, single residence?  So many around Cleveland have put so much into far inferior houses and, in many cases, houses in much worse  condition.

 

  What a fabulous location this would be for some.  How about apartments or condos?  I believe there are many who would die to be able to live in a former house with such architecture and in such a location.  How about an organization or club?  I really wish the university would just sell the house to someone or an entity who appreciates it and is willing to put some work into it.  My only consolations, basically, are that there is an unthreatened (presumably) "twin" house on East 108th, next to the Mt. Zion property, and the envisioned box is not absolutely horrible, but i twould really, really pale. compared to what is lost.

 

 

The ZBT house was demolished a few years ago, and I was hoping that would be it.  I'm sure a substantial house like that could have been saved, with the right party.  After the land was left fallow for months, the proverbial parking lot was constructed.  Meanwhile, however, in this case the fraternity actually constructed a brand new house on Magnolia - on land that had housed a Greek house that was demolished after a fire.  The current ZBT isn't great guns but it's a fairly creative, 21st-century fraternity house partially of brick and it does add something architecturally to the area.  I wish both houses could stand, but I was certainly happy to see new architecture of some interest going up where nothing was unnessarily destroyed.  The fraternity next to that one, at the corner of Hazel, is a still more substantial house, which also replaced a Mediterranean-style fraternity house that was also destroyed in the fire.  This relatively new house had a stucco-like exterior which, after a few years, was bricked over.  I'd say, by today's standards, both houses here on Magnolia enhance the area.  Just around the corner are the new apartments on Hazel, which demonstrate the appeal for living right there in the heart of University Circle.  They also stand where houses once were - and relatively unimpressive houses for the Wade Park Allotment, as far as I can tell.

 

I'm wondering where these Alumni House movers and shakers think people will park if there are events in the addition which will draw over 100 people.  No new parking facilities are planned for around there for the foreseeable future, as far as I know.

 

Gentrifying would be a good thing, certainly for that area (I like how people throw that word around as if it could possibly be a bad thing in the city of Cleveland...) 

I would say expanding at the expense of the historic neighborhood fabric, destructive in that sense....     

 

Agreed--that entire surrounding area is ripe for rehabs.  I love those old homes along East Blvd.

 

118th St.

 

 

 

 

 

Video to tie into this development:

 

The 118 Flats design is just so dated imo

IT'S GONE!

This is what I submitted to my Facebook Timeline yesterday regarding the late Hubbard House on Juniper Road, in University Circle:

Here there seemed to finally be a glimmer of hope for the Hubbard House (as in Cowell and Hubbard Jewelers) on Juniper Road in University Circle, after I started publicizing its planned razing many months ago and hardly anyone paid attention. Recently Councilman Jeff Johnson, the Landmarks Commission, and CRS got involved. Very recently. However, my asking around who might know what's going on received no responses.

Today I went over there to see if that lousy fence is still up, because I was hoping those who opposed this demolition might actually have some moxy, but was stunned to see NOTHING above the now-opaque fence. A more opaque fence is up such that it is almost impossible for one to look in to see the destruction, and a sign actually says "DANGER...." What on earth happened to the one or more public meetings required to possibly gather some opposition to a building being considered as a Cleveland Landmark? A delay had been called for. Were the meeting(s) actually held and how in heaven's name was one supposed to find out about it or them? No one was answering my calls, either. Since I had gotten no information on the status of this demolition, or Landmark designation, I was certainly hoping some progress would have been made and even the fence possibly gone. What happened to the "transparency" that's so often discussed today in regard to the government process?

 

I POSTED THREE PHOTOS OF THIS DESTRUCTION ON MY FACEBOOK TIMELINE, BUT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST THEM HERE.  I've added many photos to these blogs; that's not the problem; it's getting the Facebook - and Flickr photos - to "My Photos," which are files I can post here.  Nevertheless, I'm still including the text here I had on Facebook.  Perhaps someone could guide me?

 

As for the "DANGER" sign seen in the first photo, the danger really stands for those few former residences remaining for the original, elegant Wade Park Allotment. Obviously, demolition of one of these few remaining, early 20th-century, fine houses is still in full swing. Although this house did have a sort-of twin-in-reverse on East 108th Street, the Juniper Road (formerly Magnolia Drive) house really was unique in Greater Cleveland (and even more so in the city of Cleveland), with its slate dormers and other distinctive exterior details to delight the onlooker They say the condition of the Hubbard House was not bad. At one time it was the home of Northern Ohio Live magazine. If only CWRU would sell it and an imaginative party might have turned it into a home again - in the heart of University Circle. Imagine offices, apartments, an organization, on and on. Evena a Greek house that wants something better. There will never be another structure like it, and the ordinary looking Alumni House addition certainly won't win any architecture rewards. There are already so many facility venues in the area, who needs another one? And where will everyone park who comes to Alumni House events attracting larger numbers?

In the first photo there is a "DANGER" sign on the fence. In actuality, "danger" depicts the small number of originally elegant Wade Park residences - nothing is safe now, as long as the demolition disease is still going full speed. The second photo shows a pile of dirt next to where the beautiful house had been. The third photo shows there's a blank space over the fence, though the Alumni House, which had won a Celebration of Preservation Award about five years ago and was really an inferior house, stands smugly to the right. How truly sad the whole saga.

Here is the article. What a bummer.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/11/case_western_reserve_universit_69.html#incart_river_home

Removed, until I'm able to post the three photos, which are now in "My Pictures" but I'm unable to open them such that they appear here.

I find the Landmark's Commission and Cleveland Planning Commission at fault. Too busy to address historic landmark status so instead go ahead and demolish.  I am all for progress but ask yourself if what is being replaced is an improvement. Functionally, the answer is yes but I do not understand why this space was needed when any event of the magnitude they expect could easily have been held at the Tinkham Veale Center.

I became aware of the threat late winter of early spring.  I contacted CRS, Landmarks Commission, UCI and perhaps more.  I got no responses except a few comments in this forum.  Why the heck did CRS start seriously looking into this by May?  Oh well, there goes another one....

^^ I think the donor wanted it built, and that's the only reason. You're right that the Tinkham Veale Center could easily hold any events that would be held at this place. What a waste.

My alma mater disgusts me. Whatever, in so many ways, I've given up on the entire institution. Babs isn't going to see another cent from me.

 

Sometimes I wonder why I still fight for this institution at all.

 

Oh and if you were wondering, there was a meeting. In typical Case fashion they told no one and slid it under the radar. They then told everyone after the fact in some vague gloating victory.

 

 

My alma mater disgusts me. Whatever, in so many ways, I've given up on the entire institution. Babs isn't going to see another cent from me.

 

Sometimes I wonder why I still fight for this institution at all.

 

Oh and if you were wondering, there was a meeting. In typical Case fashion they told no one and slid it under the radar. They then told everyone after the fact in some vague gloating victory.

 

 

 

Why have you given up on Case? Because they demolished a house you wanted them to keep?  By all accounts, Case is doing better than ever. Enrollment is up, the national profile of Case is much higher, and applicants are much higher than they were five years ago.  Not to mention the new student center, the repurposing of the temple into an arts campus and all of the future expansion and construction plans. Sounds like they are going in the right direction to me.

 

 

"Oh and if you were wondering, there was a meeting. In typical Case fashion they told no one and slid it under the radar. They then told everyone after the fact in some vague gloating victory."

 

Zak - You're saying Case sponsored a meeting?  When they're the ones who want the appease the Alumni House, why would they hold a meeting?  How did you find out about it?  It was the responsibility of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission and Planning Commission to hold a public meeting.  First, they should have done something about this months earlier, and just in case they didn't even know about it I did contact the Landmarks Commission, I'm sure.  Too bad the ward's Councilman took the other side but I'm hardly surprised.  Meanwhile, too bad Jeff Johnson didn't act sooner, but at least he made some good statements that possibly will be remembered in the future.

 

 

 

 

At this point, I would much rather have it made into green space than that uninspired, one-story sh!t structure.

 

- CWRU alumnus

My alma mater disgusts me. Whatever, in so many ways, I've given up on the entire institution. Babs isn't going to see another cent from me.

 

Sometimes I wonder why I still fight for this institution at all.

 

Oh and if you were wondering, there was a meeting. In typical Case fashion they told no one and slid it under the radar. They then told everyone after the fact in some vague gloating victory.

 

 

 

Why have you given up on Case? Because they demolished a house you wanted them to keep?  By all accounts, Case is doing better than ever. Enrollment is up, the national profile of Case is much higher, and applicants are much higher than they were five years ago.  Not to mention the new student center, the repurposing of the temple into an arts campus and all of the future expansion and construction plans. Sounds like they are going in the right direction to me.

 

I have my reasons besides this. This is just emblematic. And I don't want to start another thread derailment.

MuRay HILL - Here we disagree.  There's plenty of parkland and other greenery in that vicinity.  At least they put some effort into coming up with a brick that goes well with the current Alumni House; I actually saw where there were bricks af several types for aesthetic testing.  I'd like to see buildings, of some sort, wherever the residents were.  This would be agood, early suburban density. I'd also relish the reconstruction of Manolia Drive, as the sweeping boulevard it once was, but that's a whole separate issue....  I've studied extensively - and written and spoken on- the history of Overlook and Carlton roads.  The most offensive of all the residential destruction, is of the loss of the four mansions on the west side of Overlook - flanking the entrance to Carlton.  Torn down with no specific plans to repace them with anything useful.  Still unneeded open space, other than the tennis courts.  What a waste of beautiful architecture, the appearance of an historic neighborhood, and links to the past.

 

Many of us who follow the rail industry closely have no love for CSX. It's run by hedge funds that are more interested in serving Wall Street than their customers and communities...

 

Railroads need to clean up their University Circle bridges: editorial

By Editorial Board

on November 20, 2015 at 2:46 PM

 

Trains are cool to look at. Their bridges, not so much. At least not the bridges that carry Norfolk Southern and CSX freight trains over three major roads in and out of University Circle.

 

The leaders of University Circle Inc. have concerns about the condition of railroad bridges that cross Mayfield Road, Cedar Road and Euclid Avenue in their district.

 

And although Norfolk Southern has shown a willingness to address those concerns, CSX appears to be dragging its feet. A spokesman told the editorial board that CSX would make a decision on "aesthetic" improvements and "proposed attachments" to one of the bridges by year's end, but that's not good enough.

 

MORE:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/11/csx_needs_to_clean_up_its_rail.html

University Circle Inc. sells Commodore Place Apartments to nonprofit developer of mixed-income housing

November 30, 2015 UPDATED 32 MINUTES AGO

 

The Community Builders Inc., a nonprofit developer of mixed-income housing, is taking over where University Circle Inc. is leaving off in owning and updating the Commodore Place Apartments, a 13-story building at 10700 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland.

 

The Community Builders and University Circle Inc. announced Monday, Nov. 30, that Community Builders has bought the building on the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Ford Road from UCI and will undertake a $28 million redevelopment of the property.

 

Terri Hamilton Brown, Midwest vice president for The Community Builders, said updates will continue to reposition Commodore as a mixed-use property. Improvements range from repairing the building’s masonry exterior to updating kitchens in suites in the building, as well as making updates to its heating and cooling system. Brown is based in Cleveland and previously served as University Circle Inc. president and the city of Cleveland’s director of community development.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20151130/NEWS/151139975/university-circle-inc-sells-commodore-place-apartments-to-nonprofit

^UCI bought the bank-owned building for $418,000 in 2007, according to Cuyahoga County land records, which did not disclose the latest sale price for the property as of 2 p.m. Monday.

 

That's got to be a typo. 

^UCI bought the bank-owned building for $418,000 in 2007, according to Cuyahoga County land records, which did not disclose the latest sale price for the property as of 2 p.m. Monday.

 

That's got to be a typo. 

 

County records called the transaction in 2007 (actually Nov. 30, 2006) a "rental disclosure" by University Circle West LLC which was still listed as the owner until the deed transferred to "1990 Ford Drive Owner LLC" was recorded On Nov. 24, 2015. University Circle West LLC bought the building on Nov. 24, 2004 for $6,150,000.

My alma mater disgusts me. Whatever, in so many ways, I've given up on the entire institution. Babs isn't going to see another cent from me.

 

Sometimes I wonder why I still fight for this institution at all.

 

Oh and if you were wondering, there was a meeting. In typical Case fashion they told no one and slid it under the radar. They then told everyone after the fact in some vague gloating victory.

 

 

 

Why have you given up on Case? Because they demolished a house you wanted them to keep?  By all accounts, Case is doing better than ever. Enrollment is up, the national profile of Case is much higher, and applicants are much higher than they were five years ago.  Not to mention the new student center, the repurposing of the temple into an arts campus and all of the future expansion and construction plans. Sounds like they are going in the right direction to me.

 

 

 

I will say that the campus and vicinity is vastly improved since the early 80s, never mind the late 70s when the President actually said "learning is suffering" during a formal address.  Despite the bad circumstances of my visit (daughter at RBC) I was very impressed.

 

Nevertheless, this "meeting no one knew about" sounds like something they would have done then.

^UCI bought the bank-owned building for $418,000 in 2007, according to Cuyahoga County land records, which did not disclose the latest sale price for the property as of 2 p.m. Monday.

 

That's got to be a typo. 

 

County records called the transaction in 2007 (actually Nov. 30, 2006) a "rental disclosure" by University Circle West LLC which was still listed as the owner until the deed transferred to "1990 Ford Drive Owner LLC" was recorded On Nov. 24, 2015. University Circle West LLC bought the building on Nov. 24, 2004 for $6,150,000.

 

Thanks... that's a BIG difference.  Crain's needs to step up its game.

Here's Michelle's coverage of the sale of Commodore Place: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/commodore_place_apartments_aft.html

Not surprisingly, she gets the facts right.

 

The Community Builders is a top-notch org. This is good news.

Here's Michelle's coverage of the sale of Commodore Place: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/commodore_place_apartments_aft.html

Not surprisingly, she gets the facts right.

 

The Community Builders is a top-notch org. This is good news.

 

This is a feel good story as well as a win-win for University Circle.  The Commodore is a grand, beautiful building right at the core of one the City's hottest/up-and-coming neighborhoods.  As Chris Ronayne asked: why shouldn't it be there for people of all income levels?  But as Michelle's story notes, it would have been easy for such a building in such a location to be sold to market rate developers ... as in, ridiculous, crazy rental rates, but UCI held on to it and insisted it remain accessible for all.  And yet, I haven't heard any widespread stories of "problems" at this building, even though I'm sure there are bumps and bruises as there are in any large apartment complex.  Ronayne's stature just grew even higher in my eyes.

Kinda scared me to read the part where they had to fend of "demolition minded" developers for the property. Such a grand building and people would seriously consider tearing it down in this day? smh

Kinda scared me to read the part where they had to fend of "demolition minded" developers for the property. Such a grand building and people would seriously consider tearing it down in this day? smh

 

Amen.  It's sort of nondescript except for that bay window on the top floor which I bet is sweet, but it really is a landmark over there.

Here's Michelle's coverage of the sale of Commodore Place: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/12/commodore_place_apartments_aft.html

Not surprisingly, she gets the facts right.

 

The Community Builders is a top-notch org. This is good news.

 

This is a feel good story as well as a win-win for University Circle.  The Commodore is a grand, beautiful building right at the core of one the City's hottest/up-and-coming neighborhoods.  As Chris Ronayne asked: why shouldn't it be there for people of all income levels?  But as Michelle's story notes, it would have been easy for such a building in such a location to be sold to market rate developers ... as in, ridiculous, crazy rental rates, but UCI held on to it and insisted it remain accessible for all.  And yet, I haven't heard any widespread stories of "problems" at this building, even though I'm sure there are bumps and bruises as there are in any large apartment complex.  Ronayne's stature just grew even higher in my eyes.

 

Proximity to the Circle and UH probably means "mixed income" includes a lot of students.

Kinda scared me to read the part where they had to fend of "demolition minded" developers for the property. Such a grand building and people would seriously consider tearing it down in this day? smh

 

Amen.  It's sort of nondescript except for that bay window on the top floor which I bet is sweet, but it really is a landmark over there.

 

The Commodore is a big, powerful building even in it's somewhat austere architecture, but its flourishes makes it seem distinguished.  These factors, plus the ground-floor retail and closeness to the curb, reminds me of a lot of Manhattan mixed-use apartment buildings, especially on the Upper West Side.  It meshes nicely with the curving, similar-aged mixed-use University East apartments across the street and, together, they add contrast and vitality to the corner which is, of course, occupied by ultra-mod Uptown and MOCA across Ford-Mayfield.

This is technically transportation related, but thought it'd make sense here since it's specific to UC. UCI's transportation plan is on the CPC agenda this week

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/12042015/index.php

 

Just a few of the many slides:

 

 

 

 

 

HUGE presentation on the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. There's more than 40 images at the link below...

 

http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/designreview/drcagenda/2015/12182015/index.php

 

City Planning Commission

Agenda for December 18, 2015

 

EUCLID CORRIDOR DESIGN REVIEW

EC2015-010 – Cleveland Museum of Natural History: Seeking Final Approval

Project Address: 1 Wade Oval Drive

Project Representative: David Mechum, Fentress Architects

Julie Criscione, Project Management Consultants, LLC

William Mason & Sonia Jakse Barone, AECOM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fentress does pretty good work. I'm hoping this will look better in person.

I just wish they would do more to mask the appearance of the garage on East Blvd. As a whole, I'm super excited about this project!

I just hope they won't ruin the museum by making it too child-oriented and too much of the "push-button" type, like the Science Center.

 

Glidden House pitches tent, adds Juniper Room

ERIN O'BRIEN | TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016

 

When spring arrives in University Circle, one perennial resident will be notably absent: The large white tent that has occupied the side yard of the Glidden House, 1901 Ford Drive, for more than 15 years during the fairer months. The canvas structure, however, will not likely be missed.

 

In its place will be a welcome upscale addition. The 3,200-square-foot Juniper Room will seat up to 150 guests for weddings, meetings and conferences. Currently under construction, the new space will feature stone and brick on its exterior in order to complement the stately and historic Glidden mansion, which was built in 1910. The hotel was added in 1989.

 

MORE:

http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/gliddenjuniperroom011216.aspx

AsI had said all along: When the Alumni House always gave as the main excuse for having the beautiful, original Wade Park Allotment house next door demolished,  they declared they had a need for a large space for large weddings, etc., that there are many such places in the area.  Here's a brand new one, and almost next door....

AsI had said all along: When the Alumni House always gave as the main excuse for having the beautiful, original Wade Park Allotment house next door demolished,  they declared they had a need for a large space for large weddings, etc., that there are many such places in the area.  Here's a brand new one, and almost next door....

 

Oh well.

I see Alumni House is now "Insalata Alumni House."  Gee....  :roll:

 

I see Alumni House is now "Insalata Alumni House."  Gee....  :roll:

 

 

It is The Linsalata Alumni House  named after their major donation to it's construction