On East 89th Street in Cleveland, it’s impossible to miss six new Victorian homes.
They brighten up the block with pops of blue, red and soft green between Cedar and Quincy avenues, just south of the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. With their porches and turrets, the large buildings nod to the neighborhood’s history – and hint at its future.
“This is about restoring what we once had,” said Tim Tramble, the developer.
Tramble and his wife have lived on East 89th Street, in the city’s Fairfax neighborhood, for almost 30 years. They watched the foreclosure crisis ravage the East Side. On their block, grand houses disappeared, leaving behind more than two dozen empty lots…