Steve Kocevar

#Cleveland, 1905/2019 - the New England Building (Guardian Building/National City Bank Building) on Euclid Avenue. #ThenAndNow

#Cleveland, 1883/2024 - Euclid Ave. looking west towards #PublicSquare.
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#Cleveland - What do Cleveland Museum of Art portraits do on their Mondays off? These four from Picasso, Bacher, Monnier and Caillebotte take in a sunny afternoon at Cleveland Public Library's Eastman Reading Garden.

#Cleveland - Two Civil War volunteers for the Union Army excuse themselves from Cleveland Museum of Art’s
Winslow Homer masterpiece, The Brierwood Pipe, to spend some time next to Public Square’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
#thenandnow #winslowhomer

#Cleveland, 1912/2018 - Looking east from the corner of East 4th St. and Prospect Ave. with the Colonial Hotel (now Residence Inn) on the right.
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Thank you!

Looking back 150 years in #Cleveland. Superior Ave. looking east through #PublicSquare.

#Cleveland, 1920's/2024 - Euclid Ave. facing east near East 4th St. The original, arched Arcade entrance can be seen here. The Beacon stands proud overlooking a #streetcar memory.
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#Cleveland - The Veterans Memorial Bridge River Span Stress Sheet from over a century ago. Spanning the Cuyahoga River, the bridge was once one of the largest steel and concrete reinforced bridges in the world.
#thenandnow #bridge

#Cleveland, 1905/2021 - Superior Ave. looking east from East 3rd St.
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#Cleveland, 1880s/2021 - looking south at Ontario Street from #PublicSquare in the 1880's.
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#Cleveland- Re-constructing the east side of Bank Street (West 6th) north of Superior Avenue as it would have been seen in the 1870’s from the balcony of the Weddell House.
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#Cleveland 100 years apart - view looking northeast from the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in #PublicSquare.
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#Cleveland, 1908/2017 - The Colonial Arcade (b. in 1898) between Euclid and Prospect.
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#Cleveland - The Statler and The 1906 Union Club on Euclid Avenue and East 12th Street as seen from The Athlon. The roots of the Union Club stretch back to 1872. Charter members included Marcus Hanna, Samuel Mather, Jeptha Wade and Amasa Stone.
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#Cleveland - Prospect Ave. and East 9th St. in 1915. #thenandnow

#Cleveland, 1920s/2021 - cars turning onto East 22nd St. from Carnegie Ave. towards the future Cleveland State.

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#Cleveland, 1926/2019 - St. Clair Branch of the Cleveland Public Library - Wilson Stamp Club.
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#Cleveland, 1936/2021 - Euclid Ave. at #PlayhouseSquare

#Cleveland #bridges over the #CuyahogaRiver
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So let us walk, hand in hand,
Across this bridge, where dreams expand,
Where past and present intertwine,
A timeless crossing, yours and mine.

#Cleveland - The lower level of the Veterans Memorial Bridge fading into a reading room of the Main Library of the Cleveland Public Library system. Arches serve to lift the eye (and spirit) upwards to a higher plane/ideal. The symbolism holds true with these two beautiful structures.

#Cleveland, 1910 - we have such short memories. #dinorampage

#Cleveland, 1906/2017 - #Streetcars on Ontario St. as seen from the center of #PublicSquare looking south.
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#Cleveland, 1865/2017 - The remains of Abraham Lincoln in #PublicSquare, two weeks after his assassination.

Hi Terri. So glad to see you here too! 👍

#Cleveland - The Cuyahoga Building, erected in 1893 and demolished in 1982, on the east side of Public Square and Superior Avenue. This image of the eight-story building, designed by Burnham & Root of Chicago, was from 1895.

#Cleveland, 1920 - Southeast corner of #PublicSquare where the Soldiers and Sailors Monument is flanked by the Cuyahoga, Williamson, May Co. and Park buildings.

#Cleveland, 1869/2019 - Original Cleveland Public Library location in the Northrop & Harrington’s Block on Superior Avenue. The Forest City House is on the left and #PublicSquare in the background.

#Cleveland, 1887/2016 - Society for Savings Building under construction on the north side of #PublicSquare.
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Thanks, Kevin. I’ll be uploading my greatest hits as well!