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 […]
Cora Holden was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1895 but moved to Cleveland to attend the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art) where she earned her graduate degree in 1918. She would also teach at the school throughout her life. Locally she worked with architects Walker and Weeks. They would hire her […]
I have done several posts (March 2018 and September 2018) on the two eagles that once sat in front of the old Chamber of Commerce Building downtown. They have found their new home outside Post Office Plaza and they look fantastic! First these are not live eagles, they are two 5,000 pound pink granite statues. […]
