My Cleveland Photos

[Chadoh25]

East 9th Street

[Chadoh25]

Back up Euclid

















East 14th Street



Euclid Avenue







And finally CSU. I spent much of my time in the building below.









Goodbye from Cleveland, Ohio

[Chadoh25]

[Jaybird]

Great pics, man. You really give an essence of what streets and street life is like in Cleveland.

[Chadoh25]

Thanks!

[JeffKR]

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[srsmn]

Originally Posted by JeffKR

Nice photos I have a few cool pics i took.

http://89471e93.placepictures.com

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You know, Jeff, spamming us here doesn't really make anybody want to go to your crappy youtube channel any more than they would otherwise.

moderator, can we get rid of him please?

[wheelingman]

Great work. Cleveland does have a great downtown and some neighborhoods, but a larger deal of bad ones than it should have. Hopefully the city will recover over the next decade. It's going to take a while if it truely happens.

[desertpunk]

Beautiful shots! Downtown Cleveland keeps improving and unfurling her surprises!

[Chadoh25]

April 24th 2010. Part One.

Sorry about the quality but unfortunately the weather was not very nice that day.

We begin at East Sixth Street.





The Library is on the left and the School Board building and BP Tower are on the right.



The Hyatt on Superior Avenue.



Looking East on Superior Avenue.





East Sixth Street





Federal Reserve Babk on the corner of Superior Avenue and Sixth Street.



Head up Sixth.



Quick look down Vincent Avenue



Sixth Street again.





On Euclid Avenue. This building is the former William Taylor & Son, Co. Department Store, now The Residences at 668 This is what it looks like now.



And this is what it looked like over a year a go.





Looking up Euclid towards East Ninth Street



The Prospect Avenue side of The Residences at 668.



Residence Inn on Propect Avenue



Looking down Prospect Avenue







Fourth Street area. Lots of bars and places to eat here. There is even a Bowling Alley here!



Prospect Avenue



Fouth Street



On the right, we have the Propect side of the old May Company Department Store. I'd really like to see it restored!





More to come.......

[Jaybird]

It seems like every time you post pictures of Cleveland, it makes more excited to go! I plan on going in July this year. Keep them coming!

[Chadoh25]

Originally Posted by Jaybird

It seems like every time you post pictures of Cleveland, it makes more excited to go! I plan on going in July this year. Keep them coming!

More power to ya my friend! I'm no fan of the city but I try to present the best image possible of Cleveland

April 24th 2010. Part Two.



Heading towards Ontario Street and Tower City





Loking up Euclid.



The old Higbee's Department Store. It was featured in the movie "A Christmas Story" As a matter of fact, Ralphies house is also no to far from here. The Department Store is no longer there but the house, which is in Tremont is now a Museum. It is located on West 11th Street. Here is the website. http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/



Terminal Tower





On the left, the Public Square facade of the May Company Department Store. On the right, The Park building.



The base of the Soldiers and Sailors monument








Superior Avenue, front to back; Howard M Metzenbaum United States Courthouse, Cleveland Public Library, and Federal Reserve Bank



Superior Avenue.



Terminal Tower



Society for Saving building and the Key Tower on the right.



Left to Right; 55 Building, ?, and Old Stone Church.



























Ontario Street

Next stop, the Warehouse District.....

[Chadoh25]

April 24th 2010. Part Three.


The Warehouse District in Downtown.

The Warehouse District is a nationally recognized historic district located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It is roughly bounded by Front Avenue, Superior Avenue, West 3rd Street, and West 10th Street.

On September 30, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Cleveland Warehouse District. On February 21, 2007, its boundary was increased to include 1384 to1410 West 10th Street.

In the first half of the 19th century, this neighborhood was part of Cleveland’s original residential area. Later in the century, it became the center of Cleveland's wholesale commercial area, and was occupied by warehousing and distribution terminals for more than 100 years. But after warehouse traffic moved elsewhere, it fell into serious disrepair with empty, run-down warehouses.

After the late 1980s, the Warehouse District became a hot night spot for twenty-somethings and urban professionals, following a pattern pioneered in Cleveland by the Flats entertainment district, which it ultimately supplanted as the city’s premier weekend place-to-be.

The metamorphosis to the Warehouse District’s current state began with the opening of Hilarities Comedy Club in the late 1980s (Hilarities has since moved to E. 4th Street). The transformation of the district initially sought to attract artists in live-work spaces, but rent and popularity became too high, and drove artists to nearby Cleveland neighborhoods of Tremont or the St. Clair Superior.

Artists Steven B. Smith and S. Judson Wilcox were two early "urban pioneers": artists who settled the Warehouse District in Cleveland in 1981. Artists, musicians and renegades moved there to revel in Cleveland's industrial beauty.

Smith's spot in the warehouse became a gathering spot for other artists in the building, including S. Judson Wilcox, Melissa Jay Craig (AKA "Field Marshal May Midwest"), Laszlo Gyorki, Ken Nevadomi, Randy Rigutto, Jay Clements, Beth Wolfe and others. Guests were offered keepsakes of miniature toy soldiers, babies in plastic bubbles or poetry.

Spaces Gallery was located on the first floor, making the warehouse the de facto epicenter of creative activity.

The affordability of Cleveland neighborhoods periodically caused mass migrations of artists. In the 80s, Smith was one of the urban pioneers to move into the Warehouse District. In '85, he was one of many artists who moved from the warehouses to Tremont, in the typical pattern where artists move into undesirable but inexpensive neighborhoods, fixing up old buildings in which to live and work.

Although more than half of the original eight-block area has been razed and replaced by parking lots, by 2000 the remaining restored buildings were home to many restaurants and clubs. West Sixth Street is known as the heart of the district and on this street can be found live music at the Blind Pig, the Velvet Dog's rooftop patio bar, and the restaurant and bar Panini's. The Metropolitan Cafe, Blue Pointe Grill, and Johnny’s Downtown serve food on W. 6th as well, while the Cabaret Dada theater has provided improvisational comedy for over a decade.

The neighborhood has seen many of the rehabilitated warehouses converted to office and residential space. The ornate Victorian age facades of these historic warehouses are often preserved and restored, while the interiors of the buildings experience complete transformation into contemporary and trendy spaces. Its apartments and condominiums are responsible for a large portion of downtown Cleveland's recent population growth. Most of the remaining structures have been rehabilitated, and developers have started to plan and build infill construction projects.

It was announced at the end of 2005 that local developer Robert L. Stark, of Stark Enterprises, is planning a $1,000,000,000+ redevelopment of what are currently surface parking lots in the Warehouse District, adding retail, office, housing, and structured parking in a series of buildings from the lakefront to Public Square. Phase 1 is beginning in the blocks bound by W.6th, W.3rd, Superior, and St. Clair. Stark Enterprises would like to complete Phase 1 by 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehou...ict,_Cleveland

Walking down West St. Clair Avenue.









Intersection of St. Clair Avenue and West Sixth Street.



Looking down West Sixth Street.



St. Clair Avenue.



West Sixth Street



West Sixth Street. The tall dark building on the left is the Rockefeller



Intersection of St. Clair Avenue and West Sixth Street.





St. Clair Avenue.



Apartmends and Condos on West Ninth Street

Walking up and down West Ninth Street













Looking towards the flats.











This is my biggest issue with the Warehouse District. You'll have a block of beautiful old warehouses and then between it and the next is a block of nothing but surface parking lots. Before the economic shitshorm we now find ourselves in, there were plans to turn these lots into mixed use developments. I'm not sure if thats still gonna happen or not. I don't keep up to date on things in Cleveland much these days now that I'm back home in Columbus.



The tall white building is the Federal Courthouse

More to come later.....

[Chadoh25]

April 24th 2010. Part Four

Warehouse District in Downtown.

Still on West Ninth Street









Looking down Lakeside Avenue.

Walking up Lakeside Avenue.





Walking up West Sixth









Looking down Lakeside Avenue towards the Shoreway. I use to take this road 5 days a week to get to and from class. At the time, I lived in Lakewood.



Well, that's all from Lakeside Avenue and the Warehouse District. Again, I'm sorry about the quality! Hopefully I can get up there again when the weather is nice!


A few from East Ninth Street



The church in the middle is the Catholic Cathedral of St. John.



The building with the glass roof is the Galleria at Erieview, which is the building that is hardly visible on the right. I did my internship there at Sen. Brown's office.

Next stop, Cleveland State University.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Thanks Chad, I love Cleveland's Warehouse District.

[Chadoh25]

University Circle Randomness





Pentecostal Church on East 105th Street





New University Hospital building.

[Chadoh25]

Cleveland State University, Euclid Avenue.







Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Viking Hall on the right.





Fenn Tower





Parker Hannifin Administration Centerand Parker Hannifin Hall.





College of Education building



Mather's Mansion



Student Center and Rhodes Tower



Viking Hall.

[Chadoh25]

Goodrich/Kirtland Park a.k.a. Midtown

Randon midtown






masonic auditorium, Euclid Avenue @ East 36th Street



St. Paul's Shrine, Euclid Avenue and East 40th Street


Next Stop, University Circle and Rockefeller Park/ Cultural Gardens

[Chadoh25]

University Circle, May 24th, 2010. Part One

University Circle is the cultural, educational, and medical center of Greater Cleveland, and is located on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. University Circle occupies approximately 550 acres (2.2 km²) around the campus of Case Western Reserve University and the adjacent Wade Park Oval. It borders Cleveland's Little Italy, home to many private art galleries and restaurants, as well as the neighborhoods of Hough, Glenville, Buckeye-Shaker, and Fairfax (also known as Midtown).

University Circle is a major source of employment in the Cleveland area, currently providing more than 30,000 jobs in a variety of fields. Over 13,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students attend area institutions, and approximately 2.5 million people visit the Circle each year. University Circle Incorporated, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1957, fulfills many administrative and quasi-governmental functions for the area, including security, transportation administration, and marketing. Nearly 50 cultural, medical, educational, religious, and social service institutions are based in the University Circle area, the largest of which is Case Western Reserve University.


Institutions

University Circle houses a large number of allied and independent institutions, most of which are members of University Circle Incorporated. The Cleveland Museum of Art, a world-renowned art museum situated in front of Wade Lagoon, is currently undertaking a massive expansion project that will more than double its exhibit space. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is located in the Circle as well. Severance Hall is home to the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the United States' Big Five orchestras. The Cleveland Botanical Garden includes a greenhouse offering two ecosystems: Madagascar desert and Costa Rica cloud forest. The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Cinematheque, and Sculpture Center are located in the Circle. Case Medical Center is one of the nation's premier cancer hospitals and is closely affiliated with Case Western Reserve University. The Louis Stokes Veteran's Administration Medical Center is another medical institution in the area. The Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine is currently located in the Circle, but will soon move to suburban Independence. The Cleveland Institute of Music and the Cleveland Music School Settlement are also located here. The Circle is home to a variety of smaller museums as well, such as The Western Reserve Historical Society and Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, the Children's Museum of Cleveland and the Dittrick Museum of Medical History.

Located nearby are a number of other museums, places of worship, and specialty health care facilities, including the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Play House.

Transportation

The Circle area is served by public transportation, including a stop on the RTA's Red Line. The CircleLink shuttle service (colloquially known as the "Greenie") provides free public transportation within University Circle. On October 24, 2008, the RTA HealthLine began operation, introducing bus rapid transit along Euclid Avenue from Public Square to Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland. University Circle is a major destination on the line, and Euclid Avenue was rebuilt during construction, with the installation of public art, new lighting, and sidewalks along the entire length of the HealthLine.

Uptown project

In the spring of 2006, Charter One Bank announced its $150,000,000 "UPtown Initiative". The UPtown Initiative will earmark $100 million in funding for economic development, including financing for the large amount of research, medicine, and technology industries in the area. This funding will be used to create jobs and spur further investment in the circle and areas around it. The other $50 million in funds will be used to upgrade, renovate, and build new housing in the Circle and surrounding neighborhoods. Portions of the funding are earmarked for local retail and other amenities of a successful urban district.

In addition to this investment, Case Western Reserve University, Zaremba Homes, and MRN Ltd have announced a partnernship to develop a new urban "uptown" district within University Circle, to be centered on the "triangle" at the corner of Euclid, Ford, and Mayfield. Anchored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, which will be moving to the area as part of the project, the university envisions a $120 million development that will include restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, fashion and specialty clothing stores, general retail, and over 400 units of housing and office space. The current apartment towers of the Triangle development will remain. It will also be the new home of the university's bookstore.

Future plans

There are a large number of future plans for producing growth in the University Circle area. Case Western Reserve University is involved with a large amount of planning in the area, including the creation of a large medical and technological research center, known as the "West Quad", which is to be built on the campus of the former Mt. Sinai Hospital. Future plans for the area include large apartment and condominium towers, and other housing for residents, with projections of 20,000 people living within the University Circle area.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Circle







Wade Lagoon and Serverance Hall.



Epworth Euclid Methodist Church. Constructed in 1926. Begun by Bertram Goodhue and completed under the Cleveland firm of walker and weeks.





















Severance Hall on the corner of Euclid and East Blvd.



Looking up Euclid Avenue





















Cleveland Museum of Art





Next stop, front lawn of the Cleveland Museum of Art and it's lovely fountain. After that, the Cultural Gardens (The Chinese Cultural Garden will be first!)

[Chadoh25]

University Circle, May 24th, 2010. Part Two

Cleveland Museum of Art





































































Cleveland Institue of Art











Next Stop, the Chinese Cultural Garden..........