Chiesa S. Giovanni
In the decades around 1900, Protestants evangelised [the mostly Catholic] immigrants. From 1907 to 1962 this building held a Presbyterian congregation. It was a mission church to 1955, and as an independent church until c.1962 when it closed, and the property sold in 1963. It is now an art gallery. The stone reads in Italian, "Church of St. John". In local writing it is called, St. John Beckwith (Memorial Church). There is no "St. John Beckwith", money came from from the bequest of T. Sterling Beckwith. Beckwith was the second owner of the first mansion on Millionaire's Row, which now houses the Children's Museum.
just before Ford Drive ends to become Mayfield Road
Corner of Mayfield and Euclid, in front of MOCA
There is an exhibit of losing presidential campaign signs. Next time, trump pence can join the losers.
As Mayfield rises, there are two extended murals on a retaining wall. The older one is of the area around the nearby university, and of the sights of downtown. It is marked, "Art Education CWRU 1996 Tim Shuckerow". There is a stegasauraus (which has been repainted a new color) outside the Natural History Museum, and skeleton models inside of other dinos.
The other is a story of Italian Americans, and of the neighborhood of Pico Italia; and painted in it are two major buildings on near Euclid Avenue, one is a hospital cancer building opened in 2011. Mural ends at the entrance of Brush Park, and is kitty corner to Holy Rosary campus.
SPQR = Senatus Populusque Romanus = The Senate and People of Rome
bicycle racks outside RTA train station on Mayfield, across from the Italian mural
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