Euclid Township Hall and Euclid City Hall

On the afternoon of April 12, 1929, Euclid's city hall on North Street was ablaze and would soon burn to the ground. Fire Chief Ernest Earick blamed the fire on faulty wiring, specifically a short circuit that sparked tarred hemp used by the water department to pack pipe joints. Chief Earick was on the first floor of the two story building, built in 1894, and had the misfortune of falling through the burning floor into the basement. He was rescued, revived and remained on scene.

Talk about hardcore.

Having no city hall, everybody (even the police) moved over to the "old hotel" (The Euclid Inn) on Chardon road, near Euclid ave. The depression made rebuilding a slow process, and the temporary city hall ended up being a 9 year solution.

Plans were completed in 1934 and construction of the new "old" Euclid city hall began in 1937. There was a bit of back-and-forth about the location, though.

Here's a photo of the newly constructed hall in 1938. It was completed by WPA workers and cost $100,000.

City Hall still stands today, but was outgrown in the mid 1980's. The basement of this building was actually the police department until 1950.

It currently sits right next to the current (municipal center) city hall, completed in 1989.

Bonus: Showing off a 4 year old city hall in the 1942 Euclid city directory.

The Many Inn's of 27981 Euclid Avenue

In 1963, the city of Euclid welcomed a new Holiday Inn at 27981 Euclid Avenue.

In the Fall of 1969, the Holiday Inn at I90 and East 279th Street became Sheraton Inn.

Inside the Sheraton Inn you'll find Zappone's Western Reserve Restaurant and Lounge.

Zappone's nationally acclaimed Western Reserve Restaurant and Lounge, featuring cuisine par excellence and live entertainment.

15 years after the doors open, the hotel becomes Euclid Inn in 1984. Their dining room is called the Pewter Mug.

In 1986, there are ads running and the inn is going by the name of North Shore Inn.

But only a year later, the hotel has become a Best Western.

The last name the hotel would go by was Ramada, and came to be in late 1990 or early 1991.

The restaurant now goes by JP's on the Avenue.

The Ramada name was short lived. The hotel was vacant by some time in 1992.

In 1994, Mayor David Lynch tried to lure investors into turning the hotel into an 80,000 square foot theater.

Mayor David M. Lynch is trying to help raise the curtain on a proposed $13.5 million theater that will seat 3,800 patrons and book a wide spectrum of top entertainment acts.

The Procaccianti Group, a Rhode Island company that owns the old Ramada Inn at Euclid Ave. and Interstate 90, near the Lake County line, wants to tear down the building and put up an 80,000-square-foot theater.

The project is not ready for prime time yet, however, largely because of financing problems. Lynch has been busy trying to get loan guarantees.

The mayor is optimistic about the proposal, but said finding money to put it together would not be easy.

"Commercial financing is very tough to come by," he said.

Lynch will present plans for the project, including the proposed loan guarantee, to council members at a City Council Executive Committee meeting Monday.

Douglas Bonoff, whose family has successfully run a similar theater in Warwick, R.I., would manage the Euclid theater. He said the closing of the Front Row left a void in the eastern suburbs for a theater showing live performances.

"I'm very, very thrilled to have a chance to do this," he said during a visit to Euclid yesterday. "We will do everything possible to bring this to fruition."

Lynch said he would approach several governmental entities to ask them about guaranteeing loans for the project.

The mayor said he would even ask Lake County commissioners to back some of the loans, since the theater is on the Cuyahoga County-Lake County line and would benefit the western suburbs in Lake.

"I see my job as trying to get development going," Lynch said.

Obviously, this never did come to fruition, and the building was razed in 1996 after the owner defaulted on the loan and the property fell into disrepair.

Here's the lot about 2 years ago. There's big mounds of dirt and stuff there now.