The Secret of Cleveland’s Monmouth Apartment Building

Jeff Rankin

On an edge in the Little Italy community of , , simply up the road from Case Western Reserve University, is a four-story white block and also rock apartment with deserted stores at road degree. Unless you take place to search for in between the initial and also 2nd floorings, you might not see the name MONMOUTH sculpted right into a rock entablature. Keep walking the edge and also you would certainly see the name on the side of the building once more.

What is the definition of the name Monmouth ? I was just recently asked this inquiry by a scientist with the Cleveland Landmarks Commission attempting to deal with a mistake in a designer data source that perplexed the Monmouth building with a previous building following door.

The scientist, Emily Spezia-Shwiff, attempted to verify a web link in between the apartment or condos and also Monmouth, Illinois, and also I had the ability to do the same. She was warned of the opportunity when she uncovered an obituary for the residence contractor's sibling in 1905.

Lucy B. Duer was birthed in Ohio in 1846, the little girl of a stonemason that took his family members west to Monmouth location at the age of 12, and also was recurring training at the university's academy. She never ever wed and also relocated to Cleveland in 1895 to live near her sibling Margaret.

It was Margaret's name that captured my focus, as Maggie Duer was one of the earliest participants of the Alpha Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, started at Monmouth College in1870 She ended up being an instructor at Monmouth's North Ward School in 1879 and also invested the summertime of 1881 in Cleveland, where she satisfied William Fairchild Bulkeley, an ambitious young accounting for the Cleveland DailyLeader The pair wed in Monmouth that drop from the President of Monmouth College, JB McMichael, and also promptly took a trip to Cleveland, where they resolved.

Margaret Duer and William Bulkeley were married in Monmouth in 1881 and moved to Cleveland.  After the death of her husband, Margaret built a house in Cleveland that was named after Monmouth.

Born in New York , William Bulkeley was the child of a popular priest and also teacher that brought his family members to Cleveland in1872 In 1889 he was called treasurer of the Daily Leader, and also he and also Maggie quickly located themselves in Cleveland culture. Maggie additionally functioned as assistant for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association in Cleveland.

Margaret passed away in Florida in 1922 and also was hidden with her hubby in Lake View Cemetery inCleveland She had a more youthful sibling, Anna, that was additionally energetic in Monmouth's Kappa Kappa Gamma Chapter and also finished from university in1879 Anna wedded Howard A. Pillsbury, a farmer in Cambridge, Illinois.

Jeff Rankin is editor and also chronicler at MonmouthCollege A long-lasting homeowner of Monmouth, he has actually been looking into neighborhood background for greater than 3 years.

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