In 1903, "Steel King" Andrew Carnegie pledged $250,000—today's equivalent of eight million dollars—for seven new branch…

In the 1960s Mayfield Heights was enjoying a warp-speed shift from sleepy rural backwater to bustling residential and…

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

Cleveland's industry and population grew rapidly during the last quarter of the 19th century. As a result, the…

Shaped like an "E" opening onto Superior Avenue, Hotel Cleveland was built in 1918 by the Van Sweringen brothers on the…

Medical history museums long existed in Europe prior to their origins in the United States, which occurred following…

Alfred Atmore Pope had left his Millionaires' Row mansion in Cleveland in 1901 and moved to New York, but he remained…

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

The northeast quadrant of the Chagrin Boulevard and Lee Road intersection sat empty in the winter of 1990. The only…

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…

Visitors to the Moreland neighborhood in Shaker Heights are greeted with picturesque sights of an idealized inner ring…

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

In the summer of 1886, former councilman and real estate broker James M. Curtiss met with acting Cleveland Parks…

In 1973, architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable described "a huge, bleak, near empty plaza with a complete set of…

The story of Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation is almost as multifaceted as the products, services, and…

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

Beginning in 1955, Longwood (Area B) was the first urban renewal project in accordance with the General Plan for…

In the years following World War I, a real estate broker named Joseph Laronge set out to transform a section of…

On July 29, 1951, more than 500 guests of Temple Beth-El convened at the Hotel Hollenden ballroom in downtown Cleveland…

The southwestern quadrant of Lyndhurst, Ohio, is bounded by Richmond Road on the east, Cedar Road on the south, Oakmont…

In 1913, a Van Sweringen “Group Plan” was beginning to take form in the young village of Shaker Heights. Construction…

“Entering Apartheid Shaker: Home of Barricades” was the message commuters read as they drove under a large banner while…

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