The 1912 Sanborn fire insurance map of Cleveland shows the new location of the J. W. Wills Co. at 2529 Central Avenue. The same map book, on the previous (adjacent) page, also labels the original location "undertaker." The funeral home occupied this two-story tile-roofed brick building for twenty-three years until it was pushed out for construction of the Cedar-Central Apartments housing project, which destroyed not only the first two locations of Wills's business but also virtually every other structure in the area bounded by Cedar and Central Avenues between East 22nd and East 30th Streets. | Source: Sanborn map, 1912, Cleveland Public Library; inset photo: Call and Post, May 23, 1942Download Original File
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Sanborn map, 1912, Cleveland Public Library; inset photo: Call and Post, May 23, 1942
