When it was built in 1926 at 2341-2351 Carnegie Avenue, it was originally called the Jones-Finny Lincoln Building after the automobile dealership which occupied the entire first floor of the building. In the 1920s, as realtors and other city boosters touted the benefits of locating on Cleveland's "5th Avenue," a number of automobile dealerships--including ones for Pierce-Arrow, Hudson, and Packard, in addition to Lincoln, responded by moving onto the Avenue in that decade. The building today is better known as the Walker and Weeks building after the famed Cleveland architects who not only designed it but moved their offices to the building. This photograph was taken in 1937 after the Lincoln automobile dealership had left and had been replaced, in 1935, by the R. J. Schmunk Hudson automobile dealership. The building is still standing today and is part of the Walker and Weeks Apartment complex located near the Cleveland State University campus. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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