The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY can trace its origins to 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City. His invention ...

CLARK, MAURICE B. (6 Sept. 1827-9 March 1901) was a Cleveland businessman remembered chiefly as the first partner of JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. Clark was a ...

The RICHFIELD COLISEUM located at 2923 Streetsboro Road in Richfield Township Ohio, was built in 1974 for 36 million dollars in order to replace the CLEVELAND ARENA. Nick Mileti who had bought the ...

Jennifer A. King is an assistant professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity who's passionate about empowering students to become ...

FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL, formerly Fairview General Hospital, in 2006 was located at 18101 Lorain Avenue. The hospital was founded in July 1892 as the Society for Christian Care of the Sick and Needy (also ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

The SHEPPARD MURDER CASE (1954-66) assumed legal importance when Dr. Samuel Sheppard's 1954 conviction for the murder of his wife was set aside by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that the ...

The SHAKER HEIGHTS RAPID TRANSIT, built by the VAN SWERINGEN brothers, provided a convenient transportation link from the residential properties they were developing in the suburb to the downtown ...

HAMILTON, MARGARET (1902-15 May 1985), a Cleveland actress best remembered as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in the film classic The Wizard of Oz, graduated from HATHAWAY BROWN in 1921. Daughter of ...

The NATIONAL AIR RACES, begun in 1920 with the first Pulitzer Trophy race, were first held at Cleveland Airport in 1929 and included an aircraft exhib ...

The MASONS, members of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, organized their first lodge in Cleveland in 1811. Chartered as Concord ...

WADE PARK, which joins the southern end of ROCKEFELLER PARK at E. 105th and extends south of EUCLID AVE. along East Blvd., encompassing much of UNIV. CIRCLE, was originally the private estate of ...