The first extension of Carnegie Avenue--eastward from East 89th Street to East 100th Street--was begun in 1917. Standing in the path of the planned extension was Hart Hall, a four story, eight suite apartment building designed in 1903 by architects Searles & Hirsh and erected at 2080 East 93rd Street. In April, 1919, the building was slowly moved--fifty feet each day--from its original location to 8919 Carnegie Avenue, where, in 1923, it became an annex of the new Bolton Square Hotel built in that latter year. Hart Hall was demolished in circa 1967 by the Cleveland Clinic. This 1919 photograph shows the apartment building up on blocks and workers of G. Alexander and Sons posed ready to begin moving it. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
