This section of the 1892 Atlas of Cleveland provides a glimpse into early industrial and ethnic life in the Lower Buckeye Road neighborhood of Cleveland. Outlined in blue is the location of Slovak immigrant Jacob Gruss' home on Corwin Aven (now East 92nd Street). His house served as the first offices of the First Catholic Slovak Union. Across the street is St. Ladislas Roman Catholic Church--the first Slovak Catholic Church in Cleveland. A few streets west of the Gruss house and depicted as a collection of grey buildings is the site of the Eberhard Manufacturing Company, an iron processing facility, which employed thousands of Hungarian and Slovak immigrants in this neighborhood in the late nineteenth century. All of these buildings--the Eberhard Manufacturing Company, the Jacob Gruss house, and St. Ladislas Roman Catholic Church, have been, over the course of the last century, razed. | Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital CollectionDownload Original File
