Event Title
Location
HEART Headquarters, 2094 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland Ohio 44106
Event Website
http://bluestoneheights.org/bsh/portage-periplus/little-italy-set-in-stone/
Start Date
10-26-2013 4:00 PM
End Date
10-26-2013 5:30 PM
Cost to Attend
Free
Pre-registration required?
No
Event Type
Tour
Description
Bluestone Heights and Heart of Little Italy host, Murray Hill, Set in Stone, a walking tour of Little Italy side streets. The walk, about a mile in length, covers Murray Hill and intersecting side streets. We explore a Little Italy that most tourists don't see.
The tour departs, rain or shine, from HEART headquarters, 2094 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland.
The walking tour follows up on the unveiling of the Portage Periplus Journal (October 23, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm).
Murray Hill, Set in Stone Walking Tour
HEART Headquarters, 2094 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland Ohio 44106
Bluestone Heights and Heart of Little Italy host, Murray Hill, Set in Stone, a walking tour of Little Italy side streets. The walk, about a mile in length, covers Murray Hill and intersecting side streets. We explore a Little Italy that most tourists don't see.
The tour departs, rain or shine, from HEART headquarters, 2094 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland.
The walking tour follows up on the unveiling of the Portage Periplus Journal (October 23, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm).
http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/octavofest/2012/all/84
Comments
The Portage Escarpment has two beds of high quality sandstone. At the base of the escarpment, on Doan Brook, Little Italy and stone working are closely linked. By the late 1870s, Italians worked in local quarries and used the products to fashion infrastructure, buildings, and monuments. Little Italy had more and retains more worked local stone than any other Cleveland neighborhood. We will walk the Murray Hill area to see beautiful examples and learn the deep history. The tour will be led by Roy Larick, Bluestone Heights and Bill Barrow, Cleveland Memory Project