Not only commercial businesses located in the early twentieth century upon what would soon become Carnegie Avenue. A number of apartment buildings went up on both Sibley and East Prospect Streets in this period, some of them obviously designed for Cleveland's elite. The Verne, designed by architect Gustave B. Bohm and erected on the northeast corner of East Prospect (Carnegie) Avenue and East Madision (East 79th) Street in 1903, was one of them. An advertisement that appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 2, 1902, stated that each of the 12 suites in the building would have "a large private hall, and ample closet room, large window seats in the dining room finished in quartered white oak, and side boards and refrigerators built in. The parlors will be finished in birch, the halls will have marble wainscotting and mosaic floors, and the suites will have handsome mantels. The bedrooms are to be in white enamel. The bathrooms will have tiled wainscotting and floors, plumbing of most modern design. There will be no inside suites, each room having outside light, and all suites will have rear balconies and stairways." The apartment building is no longer standing. It appears to have been razed or otherwise destroyed in the late 1960s or early 1970s. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
