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Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits granted to two buildings in Old Brooklyn Historic District
IMAGE COURTESY OF STEPHANIE RYBERG-WEBSTER Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University’s Levin School of Urban Affairs, is the author of Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation Amid Urban Decline In Cleveland, Ohio. She was one of three persons speaking about the topic of Preservation Advocacy at a…
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Fact checking corrects misinformation about history of Pearl & Memphis corner
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN German United Evangelical Church of Brighton, Ohio, built in 1853 and replaced in 1904. This little frame church faced Columbus Rd. (today’s Pearl Rd.) at the northwest corner of Mill St. (today’s Memphis Ave.) PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN St. Luke’s Evangelical…
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More information comes to light this past month concerning the Pearl Memphis project
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN One of the most prominent structures in the “South Brooklyn Commercial District” is the Pearl Broadview Building on the southeast corner of Pearl Rd. and Broadview Rd. After it was built in 1928, Hagedorn’s Drug was in the storefront at the corner, a jewelry store was…
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A variety of concerns drive opposition to proposed development at Pearl & Memphis
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN The Independent Order of Odd Fellows building at 3409 “Short” Broadview Rd. was built in 1913 and owned by the Odd Fellows until 1958. Since then, ownership has passed to several different entrepreneurs. At the time that the South Brooklyn Commercial District was established with the…
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Demolition of Pearl-Memphis historic buildings on hold until parking and financing confirmed for proposed development
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN In 2005 when the application for establishing the South Brooklyn Commercial District with the National Register of Historic Places was submitted, this iconic structure at the northeast corner of Pearl Rd. and Broadview Rd. was a branch office of US Bank. But when it was built…
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New developments could influence the future of the corner of Pearl and Memphis
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OLD BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Corner of Pearl and Memphis: Buildings in the South Brooklyn Commercial District in one of the photos submitted to the National Register of Historic Places when seeking approval of the historic district application. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press February 2025) The clock is ticking in the…
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A look at some of the buildings in Old Brooklyn’s Historic District
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN The H. Krather Building, built in 1895, is one of several historic buildings in the South Brooklyn Historic Commercial District, near the corner of Pearl and Memphis. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press December 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the…
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How the corner of Pearl and Memphis came to be included in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005
GRAPHIC COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE A map of the South Brooklyn Commercial Historic District from the United States Department of Interior National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press November 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd.…
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Old Brooklyn’s Brookmere Cemetery included in nationwide cemetery tour
PHOTO BY JOHN RAKAUSKAS Monday, August 5, 2024; Brookmere Cemetery, 3645 Broadview Rd., in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland: Cleveland residents as well as residents of other cities in Ohio and neighboring states attended an outdoor workshop demonstrating how to clean, repair and reposition headstones. The workshop was conducted by Jonathan Appell, founder of…
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Are prominent citizens still buried at the Old Burying Ground at Pearl-Memphis intersection in Old Brooklyn?
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press May 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd. and Memphis Ave. which the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) is seeking to “revitalize” with a $31 million new construction project. It is the most historic section of Cleveland’s Old…
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