With all that’s going up, it’s hard to remember what Cleveland looked like a decade ago, let alone a century ago. From the Cleveland Memory Project and a book on the brief history of Cleveland, entitled Cleveland Illustrate and published in 1889 by H.R. Page & Co., come these pics of life in Cleveland back in the late 1800s.

Photos courtesy of the Cleveland Memory Project

By Maddie Capron

City Hall
Jewish Orphan Asylum
Central High School
Broadway School
Woodland Cemetery Fountain
Post Office
Church of the Holy Name
More Boats on Cuyahoga River
Euclid Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church
Cuyahoga Falls Bridge
East on St. Clair
St. John’s Church
Ore Docks
Broadway and Ontario
Lake View Cemetery
City Infirmary Hospital
Fountain in Wade’s Park
First Baptist Church
Cleveland City Hospital
Water Works
Bank Street, North from Superior
Boats on the River
Cuyahoga Falls
Public Square
More River

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