Again thwarted by a one-way on Cote Brilliante (I looked at the Cupples School on it in the past) in the Kingshway East neighborhood, I took Kingshighway south to Aldine Avenue, which I’ve looked extensively over the years and how it was eventually demolished due to rampant land speculation by the Roberts Brothers and others.
I then doglegged over to Cote Brilliante Avenue in between North Euclid and Marcus avenues, which I’ve looked at least four times over the years, first in April of 2013, then in April in 2019, again in November of 2020, and finally in July of 2021.
Houses have disappeared, burned down or been demolished over the last decade I have looked at this fascinating and devastated block.
There is one nicely maintained house, but then there is more abandonment.
We cross over Marcus Avenue, where back in April of 2013 I photographed these devastated houses, and now enter the Greater Ville. We are near the former Wagoner Place church that collapsed back in July of 2021.
At this point I headed up Marcus Avenue because so many streets are blocked off in the western tail of the upside down U that is the shape of the Greater Ville neighborhood.
Heading east after looking at the last of these four-families, I headed east, I think, on North Market Street over into the Ville proper.
