Jennifer Coleman, a Cleveland architect, continues to offer fresh material on her website, City Prowl Cleveland. Coleman received funding from the Civic Innovation Lab to complete audio walking tours of Cleveland neighborhoods. Currently, there are five downtown Cleveland tours, with three tours of historic neighborhoods soon to be available. These tours are a great way to learn about the history of the wonderful neighborhoods that exist in our city.
On her website, Coleman writes of her behind-the scenes look at Public Square, which includes an interview with Bill Taylor, a docent for the Soldiers and Sailors Monument:
“What was running through Moses Cleaveland’s mind when he landed on the eastern shore of Lake Erie? Did he realize that the forest on the bluff above him would become the city that would bear his name? And how did “Cleaveland” lose an “a”? We can’t tell you what Moses was thinking, but we do weigh in on the missing vowel in this prowl, which will escort you around Public Square, the heart of the city and one of the first areas that Cleaveland laid out as part of his 1796 survey to establish the city. You will hear how the village based on a New England town transformed into a tony residential neighborhood and then was surrounded by large civic buildings.”
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