Mysterious Eastside Building to Become Doubletree Hotel
Cleveland east-siders all recognize this building, on the southwest corner of Carnegie and East 107th Street, but few know anything about it. Some could mention that the Jobs Corps was in there, but feel unsatisfied with that reply, since the age and style of the building doesn't fit the idea of a governmental social service agency. And with the demise of the Carnegie Medical Building a couple of blocks to the west and with this building's upper stories wrapped in netting to prevent pieces from falling on the sidewalk and street below, we all have had the apprehension that its days were numbered, whatever exactly its history.
This morning's Plain Dealer solved the mystery (was I the only one?) and hopefully the apprehension when it announced that the old Tudor Arms Hotel had been sold to the Maron family of developers to be turned into a Doubletree Hotel. This is terrific news and I for one hope it goes through. According to the article, the building started life in 1931 as the home of the Cleveland Club -- shades of CSU's Fenn Tower, which started about the same time as the National Town and Country Club -- and then a hotel, a home for students and the Job Corps over time. Becoming a residential property again seems very fitting. Keep your fingers crossed.
(Photos from the Cleveland Press Collection, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, are dated 1960.)
Labels: Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland Club, Cleveland history, Cleveland Ohio, East 107th Street, hotel, Job Corps, Tudor Arms, University Circle
posted by Bill Barrow @ 10:05:00 AM
12 Comments:
The interior photos make it looks like a stunning place - it's good that it will be used for something.
any other photos of this building?
What great news! Love that building.
There are a few more photographs of that building in our Cleveland Press Collection, but unfortunately they haven't been digitized yet to show you here.
This is cool because I went here when it was a job corps! Wish I could learn all the history of the building online, being that it was built in 1931.
This is cool because I went here when it was a job corps! Wish I could learn all the history of the building online, being that it was built in 1931.
This really is bittersweet I too went to Job Corps here in 1979. I have so many great memories while living there. In addition it was a safe haven and a life saver for me at that time.
Is this building haunted?
Not that I've ever heard anyone claim, which are all silly claims anyway. Why do you ask?
Is the pool still there.
The hotel reports that the old pool is still there, but empty of water and closed off to the public.
I do wish the valet parking didn't protrude out onto Carnegie during rush hour home, backing up through traffic.
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