Many residents of Shaker Heights know that the Van Sweringen brothers built the Shaker Rapid Transit in the early…

Traveling through the naval blockade zones of World War I, trained lookouts aboard American merchant ships scanned the…

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

Sears Roebuck and Company built many a marketing campaign around its ability to supply "everything for the…

Many Cleveland-area residents are familiar with Fairmount Boulevard, the beautiful, winding thoroughfare that treks…

In 1991 a derailed construction project had left an abundance of weeds and hills of mounded dirt in the vacant…

Visitors to University Circle are often struck by the area’s grandeur. Magnificent museums. Huge hospital systems. A…

The opening of the CoventrYard Mall in 1977 signaled a new era for the Coventry business district in Cleveland Heights.…

“Greatest Bus Terminal in World,” barked the Cleveland News when the Greyhound Bus Terminal opened its doors on March…

In 1873, Isaac Leisy and his two brothers (all originally from Bavaria in Germany) left their small brewery in rural…

Founded in 1919, Hotz Café, located at the corner of Starkweather Avenue and West 10th Street in the Tremont…

Travel back in time to the sixties, and the epicenter of Cleveland’s counterculture scene may well have been 11605…

In an era of industrial expansion and technological advances, the Hulett Ore-Unloader helped Cleveland become one of…

As you look around Cleveland – attuned to the city's built landscape – you may not know it, but you are looking at many…

With the Second Industrial Revolution in full swing, large industrial cities in the East and Midwest were expanding…

Opened in 2008, Stone Mad Pub is the latest in a long tradition of saloons and bars located at 1306 West 65th Street.…

The sweet smell of retail success was in the air in the early 1870s due to the example set by William Taylor and Thomas…

Constructed in 1913, the Georgian Revival residence at 2931 Sedgewick Road was built as the home of the often-forgotten…

In 1958, City Hospital officially became Cleveland Metropolitan General, through a vote of the Cuyahoga County…

The S. S. Canadiana was originally built in 1910 to ferry passengers from Buffalo, New York to the Crystal Beach…

In 1888, Charles Eisenman and Jacob Kastriner pooled their resources to create a company that would provide boys with…

Into the early 1960s, Cleveland nightlife opportunities for students and young adults were limited until the opening of…

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

Willie Pierson was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, in 1898. After serving in World War I, he migrated to…