Hidden History of Cleveland

by Busta-peck, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781609494391
• ISBN10: 1609494393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-09
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Join local history preservationist Christopher Busta-Peck and unearth aspects of Cleveland's past that dangle too near extinction from city memory. Too often, we think of history as something that happens elsewhere. But it's not. Travel down East 100th Street to the home where Jesse Owens lived when he shocked the world at the 1936 Olympics. Ascend the stairs to Langston Hughes's attic apartment on East 86th, where the influential writer lived alone during his formative sophomore and junior years of high school. From the massive Brown Hoist Building and the Hulett ore unloaders to some of the oldest surviving structures in Cleveland, Busta-Peck (of the wildly popular Cleveland Area History blog) has Clevelanders talking about history again. Here's why. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Segue: Thomas Whelpley's Cleveland, 1833	p. 11
Early Homes and Settlers
Identifying the Oldest Houses: Does Your Basement Look Like This?	p. 15
Collinwood Farmhouses: The McIlrath Residences	p. 18
Little House, Big House: 4216 East Ninety-third Street	p. 19
Quarried on Site: The Rodolphus Edwards House	p. 22
A Pennsylvania Tavern in Garfield Heights	p. 25
Now We See It, Now We...	p. 28
Once a House, Now a Ghost in the Central Neighborhood	p. 29
Lakewood Farmhouse: The Isaac Warren Residence	p. 31
For Generations and Generations, a House in a Landscape: 4340 Turney Road, Cleveland, Ohio	p. 36
The Last Pioneer House	p. 42
Save This Greek Revival House!	p. 43
Built Before the Civil War	p. 45
Segue: Picturesque Cleveland, 1872	p. 47
Business
The Dunham Tavern	p. 51
Last of Their Generation: The Two Oldest Buildings in Downtown Cleveland	p. 53
The Mechanics Block	p. 55
Condemned: The Stanley Block	p. 57
The House of a Shipbuilder	p. 60
Garfield Savings Bank	p. 62
Out of Place?	p. 63
Segue: A Portrait of the City by a Young Artist-Cleveland in the 1870s	p. 65
Industry
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Luster Tannery	p. 71
The Fifty-Thousand-Ton Mesta Press Matters	p. 74
Hulett Ore Unloaders in Action!	p. 77
Cars, Beer and the Law	p. 78
The Brown Hoist Building: An Industrial Landmark	p. 81
The New Cuyahoga: A Proposal to Straighten the "Crooked River"	p. 83
The Day-Glo House	p. 84
Segue: Playing Catch on the Field Where Babe Ruth Hit His 500th Home Run	p. 87
Sports
The Largest Crowd for a Baseball Game: White Autos v. Omaha Luxus	p. 89
The Pitch that Killed	p. 91
The Jesse Owens House	p. 92
The Birthplace of John W. Heisman	p. 93
Segue: Snapshots of Cleveland, 1910	p. 95
Notable People
James A. Garfield Slept Here	p. 99
Breaking the Color Line: Charles W. Chesnutt	p. 100
The William Howard Brett House	p. 101
Langston Hughes: His Attic Apartment	p. 102
Designing History	p. 104
Segue: Views of Cleveland, 1927	p. 107
Notable Buildings
The Schofield Building, Undressed	p. 111
The Bare Bones of Severance Hall	p. 113
The First Cleveland Clinic Building	p. 115
Cleveland's Crystal Palace	p. 116
Streamlined	p. 118
Old House, Older House?	p. 119
Segue: Ancient Fort, Newburg, Vanished	p. 121
Lost and Threatened
Threatened: The Euclid Avenue Church of God	p. 123
The Last Act for Johnson's Cleveland Play House	p. 125
Saving Only the Bell	p. 126
The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge on East Fifty-fifth Street	p. 128
Good Homes Make Good Neighborhoods	p. 129
Charles Schweinfurth's Modest House	p. 129
Troubling News	p. 134
Notes	p. 139
About the Author	p. 143
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