He was a Massachusetts physician who migrated to Cleveland in 1835. He purchased this house--located on the south side of Public Square where the May Company building now sits--in 1839. Erastus Cushing resided there until 1869 when he razed the house and built the Cushing Block, which was said to be one of the first commercial buildings erected on the south side of the Square. His son, Dr. Henry Cushing, the father of the famed neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, built the Cushing building--located just a hundred feet or so east of the Cushing Block, five years later in 1874. | Source: Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical LibraryDownload Original File
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Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
"Dr. Erastus Cushing Home, circa 1851" appears in: Cushing Building
