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Italian Renaissance style terra cotta

Home Telephone Co. Cleveland 1895 > Cuyahoga Telephone Co. 1898  
Ohio State Telephone Co. absorbed Cuyahoga Telephone Co. 1914
Ohio Bell absorbed Ohio State Telephone 1921

This building on East 81 was built in 1909 as a telephone exchange. Before 1906, this street was Princeton. For a new business that was competing with the national Bell System, they had some architectural taste. Eventually it did become a part of the Bell System.

 

For a time before 1983, Icabod Flewellen had his Afro-American Cultural and Historical Society here. He had previously had it in a classroom at St. Marian's starting in 1968. Recently it has been converted into a residence. This is in the Hough neighbourhood of Cleveland.