Starlight Boyd's House.

ID: 10406 | This file appears in: Carnegie Avenue
Starlight Boyd's House.
One of the first African Americans to own a home on then prestigious Carnegie Avenue was Albert Duncan "Starlight" Boyd, a Mississippi native who moved to Cleveland in the late nineteenth century, became a successful businessman and political activist here, and, in 1917, bought a nineteenth century Queen Anne style house at 7410 Carnegie in which he lived for the rest of his life. While white families fled to the suburbs in the 1950s, Boyd's daughter, Gloria Boyd Clark, who inherited the house, stayed and maintained it in such good condition that, in 1984, she was given an award and recognition by MidTown Corridor, Inc. (now, Midtown Cleveland, Inc.), the economic development corporation which for almost forty years has been trying to breathe new life into Cleveland's Midtown Corridor. After Clark's death in 2005, the house along with the one next door at 7414 Carnegie, which her family also owned, were torn down and a large billboard sign (still standing in 2020) was put up on the properties by Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. This photo, which shows Clark sitting in front of her two Carnegie Avenue houses, appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 10, 1984.

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