Reputed to be a bootlegging tavern where numerous illegal and unsavory transactions occurred in the 1920s, the former…

Many of the houses on Franklin Boulevard tell a story of the wealth that could be accumulated in Cleveland in the late…

In the mid 1970s, local rockers could see (mostly local) bands playing out in a downtown club called The Round Table.…

When it opened in 1931, the Heights Rockefeller Building became a key component of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s new Forest…

Most of Cleveland's suburban municipalities began as a residential or "bedroom" communities whose residents commuted…

You're driving south on West 65th Street in your Ford Model T, sometimes called a Tin Lizzie. You pass St. Colman…

The origins of Cleveland State University date to 1870, when the Cleveland Young Men's Christian Association began…

The Cleveland Public Library comprises one of the largest collections in the United States: nearly ten million items.…

The website of the American Greetings Corporation contains scant information — more corporate legend than historical…

It didn’t live long. Its street presence was minimal and its food unremarkable. Nonetheless, The Last Moving Picture…

Notre Dame College, a cornerstone of higher education in South Euclid, Ohio, concluded its 102-year journey in 2024.…

The Cinema Theater opened its doors to Euclid Avenue at East 17th Street on October 14, 1928. The movie house offered…

The construction of city-run public bathhouses in Cleveland began around the turn of the twentieth-century as municipal…

For decades, motorists driving up and down Miles Avenue in Cleveland's Union-Miles Park neighborhood would not have…

Two things about iconic hostelries. First, many had larger-than-life owners (consider Mushy Wexler’s Theatrical or…

Max Rosenblum was born in Austria-Hungary on December 5, 1877, and at the age of six he and his family immigrated to…

In 1921, Harvard University's Dean Roscoe Pound and Professor Felix Frankfurter--a future United States Supreme…

Urban renewal in Cleveland functioned as a tool to improve neighborhoods, thus invigorating the city. In tandem with…

In 1876, James A. Garfield was looking for a new home in his congressional district for himself and his family. He…

Although today the first sign of downtown that a motorist is sure to spot from any direction is the Key Tower, prior to…

Central to the success of the Van Sweringen brothers in the development of Shaker Heights was an understanding of the…

Since the establishment of the Cleveland Metroparks in 1917, many a sojourn in the wilderness has been highlighted by…

It's a long journey from the village of Čechtice, in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic, to…

More than a century before Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster was launched into space, the first crude electric carriage…