Meanwhile, over in Tremont

The Olney Art Gallery still stands in surprisingly good condition. Yes, I know, there's a tree in the middle of it. Color me compositionally perverse.


The only public art gallery in Cleveland until the opening of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913.


Subsequently used as a hall for various ethnic organizations. Now boarded up and, presumably, empty. Still, it looks eminently ready for rehabilitation in some form or another.

Bill Blasko's "Adopt-a-Building" Program

5613 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Last old timer standing at the intersection of Euclid and East 55th Street, until the Depression a bustling intersection anchored by an important railway station, now decimated and abandoned. Street renovation on Euclid may result in redevelopment of the area, which is mostly empty lots now, but it will certainly mean the end of this turn-of-the-19th-century ghost, with its delightful signage and beautiful decay.

UPDATE: It's gone.