Hidden Cleveland: I Spy

Jennifer Coleman
The founder of CityProwl, which creates and distributes walking tours of downtown Cleveland, enjoys Hough’s League Park, which was renovated and reopened in 2014, for its historical significance to baseball and the city. “It’s a little hard to get to. But it’s a nice oasis in a hard-hit neighborhood, and it ties us back to our history.”

Paul Williams
The amateur photographer (follow him on Instagram at @forgotten_in_plainsight) and demolition inspector for the Cuyahoga County Land Bank says Independence Road in the Flats taps into our Rust Belt identity. “It’s just an immersion of industry down there: pipes, railroads, smoke, slag, 100-year-old brick warehouses next to massive steel sheds … all next to the Cuyahoga.”


Dan Ruminski
The Millionaires’ Row historian says the Samuel Mather Mansion on the eastern edge of the Cleveland State University campus is a lasting legacy of our industrial past. “We’ve done some talks there, and people are just amazed that they can feel it and touch it. My audiences are quite amazed that we didn’t save more of [the mansions].”