The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1896 was the first city newspaper to relocate from the historic newspaper row located in the Warehouse District to the Superior Avenue-East Sixth Street area, which, in the early twentieth century, became Cleveland's new newspaper row. From 1896-1908, the Plain Dealer occupied a civil-war era building on this site at the northwest corner of Superior Avenue and East Sixth, until a disastrous fire in 1908 destroyed that building. The new Plain Dealer building, shown in this 1924 photograph, was built at the same location,but on a larger site, in two phases between 1908 and 1912. The Plain Dealer remained at this location until 1932, when it purchased the Cleveland News and moved to the latter's printing plant and offices at Superior Avenue and East 18th Street. The former Plain Dealer building was sold to the Cleveland Public Library which used it as its annex building until 1994, when it was razed to make room for the new Louis Stokes Wing of the Main Library. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Digital GalleryDownload Original File
