Chapman Avenue, East Cleveland
There are several empty apartment buildings on Chapman Avenue, north of Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland. After WWII, the town's population was 40,000; it is now 17,000. This addresses the population change. April 2018 a local teevee station ran a story about this abandoned block, which then had furniture, tires, and debris piled up in front of the buildings. Local amateur photographers and camera men had posted pictures and videos. Since then, that rubbish has been removed. Two years before that, a newspaper story was written about the properties, which all had reverted to the county because of non-payment of property taxes. About ten years ago, the East Cleveland Fire Department burned some of the vacant buildings for training.
Looking upwards toward Euclid Avenue, this block of Chapman is a ghost town.
A pretty new sign, it is a one way street.
Maybe come back when the ivy is in leaf.
Behind an apartment building entry door, the rubbish includes empty hip flasks of cheap fortified wine.
The taller buildings were pre-WWII, the lighter brick building a generation later.
The clay hip roof tile was an attractive detail, the gun slit plywood—no.
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