Thanks to the deft work of Ryan Urban, we have a more personal look into downtown Cleveland circa 1907. Here’s a photo of Public Square – fully outfitted with color, by way of the magic of Photoshop – that shows just how much the city has grown in the past 100+ years.
Check out his website for similarly astounding colorization work.
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2013.


Where are all the bums and garbage blowing in the wind?
Back when the warehouse district had actual warehouses and not parking lots.
This photo must be at east 40 years ago…. bedfore 200 Public Sq., before Key Tower, back when there were street-cars using the square…
Wow, that is a beautiful photo. That’s some nice work colorizing that.
that’s really cool!