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Owners and staff of Bonfoey Gallery mastered the art of craftsmanship through 120 years: Elegant Cleveland
It's an archetypal story of how a "cottage" business evolved into something more. While that happened a lot in late 19th- and early 20th-century Cleveland, a city on the rise, this story is about a business that survived. Today, the gallery on Euclid Avenue still bears its founder's name: Bonfoey.
Elegant Cleveland: Society magazines offer a look back at the well-to-do in the Roaring '20s
Clevelanders could get a visual sense of their town's stylish high life in the 1920s, as in this jazzy ad for a hotel, through the glossy society magazines published in the city. Publications are courtesy of the Western Reserve...
Floral designer Ella Grant Wilson captured Cleveland at turn of the 20th century
Ella Grant Wilson was a floral designer in the late 1800s, owned her own business at the turn of the 20th century, became a newspaper garden editor in her 60s, and then, wrote a quintessential history of Cleveland's "Millionaire's Row."
Fenn Tower's opulent start as social club quickly faded in Depression era: Elegant Cleveland
The National Town and Country Club was being built in 1929, and set to open in 1930 as one of the city's swankiest private clubs ever. Yes, the timing turned out to be spectacularly bad, but it left Cleveland with an Art Deco tower that remains a downtown gem.
In Cleveland's 'second downtown,' jazz once filled the air: Elegant Cleveland
Cleveland was an epicenter of jazz from the 1920s through the first part of the 1960s, and it was all happening in Doan's Corners, known as Cleveland's "second downtown." Today we call the area University Circle.
If these walls could talk: Bay Village's Cashelmara linked to Gilded Age tragedy
Cashelmara in Bay Village is linked to the Gilded Age, tragedy and a Chicago murder
The Stockbridge in Cleveland has been sitting proudly on Euclid since the days of Millionaires' Row
Elegant Cleveland: Celebrating its 100th birthday this year, the Stockbridge is one of the last physical reminders of the city's celebrated Millionaires' Row still standing -- and still operating as a residence.
Renowned Rose Iron Works going strong after a century in Cleveland
Rose Iron Works' ornamental designs have been featured in noteable Cleveland homes, businesses and institutions. The firm was founded in 1904. Melvin Rose, son of the firm's founder, Martin, still has a hand in designing and comes to work at the showroom on E. 43rd Street each day.
Rose Iron Works timeline
Rose Iron Works has a 106-year-history in Cleveland
Rose Iron Works timeline
A closer look at Rose Iron Works and Cleveland history
Louis Rorimer's elegant, original designs defined public and private places: Elegant Cleveland
Louis Rorimer was an artist, decorator and educator who looked to the future and brought Art Deco to Cleveland and the Midwest.
Kokoon Arts Club symbolized era of revelry, artistic revolution 'a splendid time' in Cleveland: Elegant Cleveland
The Kokoon Arts Club was part of a dynamic as old as time: the avant-garde opposing the old guard.
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