In 1993, Cleveland Planning Commission Intern Don Petit was tasked with the assignment of taking photographs of buildings on Lorain Avenue between West 32nd and West 58th Streets in connection with the City's National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) application to create a Lorain Avenue Commercial Historic District within that section of Lorain Avenue. He arrived too late for the historic Walker and Roegge Building designed by Cramer and Fugman and the Michael Gerstacker Drugstore Building both of which appeared in an earlier photograph in this array. He was also too late for another building just to the west of the Walker and Roegge Building that was designed by Cramer and Fugman in 1888 for Joseph Machke, a grocer and real estate developer. All three of these nineteenth century buildings had been razed by the time Petit appeared on the scene. All that was left in the general vicinity was the two-story building shown in the foreground of this photo, which was likely erected in the 1920s. In 1993, it was home to Kuka's bar. Even that building has since been razed. | Source: 1993 City NRHP application for the Lorain Avenue Commercial Historic DistrictDownload Original File
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1993 City NRHP application for the Lorain Avenue Commercial Historic District
