In circa 1861, William Scofield, a carpenter by trade, built an Italianate-style boarding house (shown on the right of this 1884 photograph, just west of the First Baptist Church) on the southwest corner of Euclid Avenue and Erie (East Ninth) Street. The boarding house, which also served as home to the Scofield family, fronted on Euclid, and replaced a smaller Scofield family home--built in about 1852, which had fronted on Erie St. Perhaps this informed son Levi's decision decades later to design the Scofield Building to wrap around the corner of Euclid and Ninth with prominent frontage on both streets. | Creator: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
