2026 Miscellany #8

Howland Ohio, at least since 2009, no other information found.

Cleveland Railway. Cedar Avenue. Several derelict buildings to be demolished in the area.

Joy in Cleveland Heights

Mystic Knights MC. Cleveland. Miles Avenue.

backyard neighbours

Former Sacred Heart School, now scab. Cleveland.

Central part of glass of Sarah Dana Harmon, commissioned by her son 1876 for the family home.  Warren Library since 1971, previously in another library window.

 

Are 12' skeletons the new cement geese? Cleveland Heights. 

Concerning one sentence of lies by Robert Tayek

detailing the lies
The compact, and efficient use of lies some people employ is their talent. The spokesman for the Cleveland Roman Catholic Diocese, Robert Tayek, has this ability. Note this photograph, and the lies it reveals in this one sentence:

Tayek said, "The plaques were located in an area of the church, the bell tower, which was unusable and had been closed off as unsafe for some time. ..."

Lies 1 & 2 Note: only one memorial war plaque is near, but not inside the bell tower.
Lie 3 The other tablet was on the nave wall opposite this wall, and at the time of the photograph in the heap of rubble.
Lie 4 Note: worker inside bell tower. The supposed unsafe bell tower is where a worker stands to water the dust down. The rest of the building, except the facade is rubble. The floor in front of the steeple has disappeared. Later the facade was taken down. The bell tower was, perhaps, the sturdiest and strongest part of the building. If not this worker's (see last foto) life was in danger for all the hours he stood in the bell tower.
Lie 5 Note: gray rectangles with crosses on top, on either side of the entrance way of the tower. These were where stations of the cross plaques were removed, while the war memorial tablet remained.
probable Lie 6 Note: no evidence area was closed off.photograph taken Friday 23 September 2011.

worker inside tower wetting demolition, building visible is the school

___________________________________
Postscriptum: Saturday, 8 October 2011.
Later, Tayek would write this similar lie on the diocesan website:

"It was explained to reporter O’Malley that the plaques remained in the building as an oversight since no one had been inside the bell tower for some time because that portion of the structure was condemned."

After lying to the reporter, Tayek then prints a similar lie for the diocesan website; but he is complaining that the reporter wrote what he said, and then Tayek writes the statement again. He is upset that the reporter acted as a stenographer. Tayek then writes more lies. In one fashion he wishes to deny that the plaques were left in the building, that the organ was left in the building, and was subsequently destroyed, and that the building was demolished. He also libels two concerned Catholics that found the plaques, and notified him of the initial plaque. Tayek invents lies, and says the same events, did happen, and did not happen. He also defines truth as that which does not embarrass the "Church", and the "Church" for him is not all members, but only the administrators. Now, consider all the other documented lies he has invented. What exactly is his job description?

Saint Catharine's falls

Saint Catharine's property is listed, to-day [a,b], for $495,000 on the diocesan realty internet site. A parcel transferred 8 August for $200,000 to Schoolhouse Finance LLC of Columbus, O. (Arlington Virginia). St. Catharine's is being torn down. To-day is the 5th day of demolition, which began on Monday. I saw the pipe organ go down in bits. As of an hour and a half ago, the front facade and bell tower were still standing.
Part of a rank of the longest diapason flue pipes of the pipe organ are making a final descent, from the left, water flows from a hose to keep the dust down.
From behind a large pile of soil the remaining exterior is visible, behind these bricks at the moment of photographing is a large vehicle with a front loader bucket that has gnawed away the rest of the building.
On an arch, there was painted these words from John i. xlix, “Rabbi, thou art the Son of God”. Within two seconds it was mostly gone.
The plaque is from the Second World War. It is entitled, "Our Boys and Girls Serve their Country". Three chaplains are listed, and then 250 of the laity. Four names are preceded by a star (died in service?).

The parish was founded in 1898 as a mission, and then daughter parish, of Holy Name. Bishop Ignatius Horstmann founded thirty parishes in his episcopacy (1892-1908). He donated a marble statue of St. Catharine to the parish. He chose the patronal name to be that of his mother's patron saint, Catharine of Alexandria. The first church building burned in 1899, three months after its dedication. For the second church the statue was given. A grander building with an upper and lower church was built during the First World War [then known as the European War]. The first Mass in the new building was said in 1917. That building is now being destroyed.

rubble and tower

The last Mass held, was one of eviction. Richard Lennon presided at the last Masses of St. Henry, and St. Catherine on 30 December 2007. They were the fifth and sixth churches he closed in Cleveland. They merged with St. Timothy's. The Catharine statue is now at Timothy's.

former italian marble altar of St. Catharine's Church, once priced by an agent of the diocese for $200,000 sans statues, St. Catharine at center