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Every day there is something new to write about. The list is long. Here is one item that's been on my list for awhile.
Perhaps you too are a native Clevelander, and perhaps you too have frequently driven by the Filed under: City life, History, Toledo
There isn't much that will cause a building to stand out from the crowd quite so much as the use of different and 
contrasting colors. Toledo's Lasalle Apartments is a good example. The limestone of the upper and lower parts is accented by the mellow brick of the middle. It's sort of like an architectural layer cake. The icing is provided by the copper cornice with its green patina.
The Lasalle was built in 1917, for the Lasalle and Koch Department Store, or "dry goods" as it was called then. Lasalle and Koch was one of Toledo's oldest businesses, having been founded in 1865. To design their new store, they hired the New York firm of Starrett and Van Vleck. This firm specialized in large retail structures. Their work could be found all over the eastern USA, including Polsky's in Akron. I've been told they built an almost exact duplicate of the Lasalle in Atlanta.
Starrett and Van Vleck's design for the Lasalle is in the
