Today was suppose to be the day we in Cleveland celebrated Pride Month with the annual festival and parade downtown. It has been postponed until Saturday, September 12 due to COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate and honor the LGBT history here! 2014 Gay Games Cleveland and Akron hosted ninth Gay Games in […]
Moses Cleaveland We begin a look at some of the Public Square statues, past and present. We will start with the obvious choice, Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city. Moses of course arrived here on July 22, 1796. Instead of talking about him, I’d like to focus on the statue itself. The statue was […]
Have you taken the time to walk across the Hope Memorial (or Lorain-Carnegie) Bridge and get better view of the Guardians of Traffic? Last month, I was looking for a different spot to get my daily walk in, so I met a friend and we walked the bridge. The bridge is about a mile in […]
Today, the Statler offers Cleveland apartment living in the heart of downtown but in its past it was the Hotel Statler with several restaurants, a speakeasy and a grand ballroom! The hotel opened in 1912 as part of what would become one of the first hotel chains in the country started by E. M. Statler. […]
Hi Everyone – We have started a video blog series on our social media channels. If you don’t already follow us on social media, now is a great time to start. We are on Facebook and Instagram @toursofcleveland, Twitter @toursofcle and LinkedIn @tours-of-cleveland. Our video blog will be looking at some of the great places […]
Are you familiar with the Hermit Club? It is a bit of a secret here in Cleveland but chances are you passed by it. The Hermit Club “is the nation’s oldest continuously operating private club devoted to amateur performing arts”. It sits just behind Playhouse Square and is attached to the Hofbrauhaus. The Hermit Club […]
Last February during Black History month, we looked Carl Stokes (former Mayor of Cleveland), this year we look at his brother Louis Stokes. Louis Stokes was born in 1925 and grew up in Cleveland in one of the first federally funded housing projects in the country. Louis served his country in the Army in the […]
February is Black History Month and once again we will look at some of Cleveland’s famous African-Americans. Most people know Jackie Robinson as the first African-American to play Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era and Frank Robinosn as the first African-American manager of a major league club. But it was Larry Doby who […]
The Cuyahoga County Courthouse on Lakeside Ave opened in 1912. It was the fifth home of the courthouse which moved throughout the years around Public Square. It was part of the Group Plan of 1903. The buildings architects would be Lehman and Schmitt who would create the Beaux Arts structure modeled after the Hotel de […]
The Cleveland Public Library this week, just opened their new exhibit called Cleveland 2020: A Photographic Exploration of Cleveland, in conjunction with the Cleveland Print Room. I was able to attend the grand opening on Monday afternoon (Martin Luther King Jr. Day). The exhibit is a celebration of Cleveland through photography. Cleveland 2020 contains works […]
