{"id":114,"date":"2026-11-01T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:44:41","slug":"who-built-2014-west-100th-cleveland-historic-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Who Built This 1900 Cleveland House? Help Solve the West 100th Street Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can You Help Identify This 125-Year-Old Cleveland House?<\/h2>\n

🏠 Cleveland history buffs, architects, old-house owners \u2014 I need your help solving a 125-year-old house mystery!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m researching a house at 2014 West 100th Street in Cleveland, Ohio<\/strong>, as part of a larger project exploring historic residential architecture and modern accessory dwelling unit (ADU) development.<\/p>\n

What makes this house interesting?<\/h2>\n

The house reportedly dates to 1900<\/strong>, before the Sears Modern Homes program began in 1908.<\/p>\n

Its architecture appears to be Folk Victorian vernacular<\/strong>, with a prominent front gable, front porch, and two-story wood-frame construction.<\/p>\n

The property is reported to contain approximately 2,084 square feet, five bedrooms, and 2.5 bathrooms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At that time, Cleveland’s working-class neighborhoods were expanding rapidly. Local carpenters and independent builders constructed homes using architectural styles and layouts that were already familiar throughout the region.<\/p>\n

My theory: look for architectural relatives, not just an exact blueprint<\/h2>\n

When Sears began publishing its house catalogs, many of the architectural forms it offered were not necessarily new. Similar houses had already been built by local contractors for years.<\/p>\n

So instead of searching exclusively for the original blueprints of this particular house, I want to examine the earliest Sears house catalogs and identify front-gabled Folk Victorian designs that resemble homes built throughout Cleveland between approximately 1890 and 1910.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I’m looking for<\/h2>\n
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  • Early Sears house catalog pages and floor plans, especially 1908\u20131915.<\/li>\n
  • Photographs of similar Folk Victorian houses anywhere in Cleveland.<\/li>\n
  • Historic architectural pattern books and builders’ plans from 1890\u20131910.<\/li>\n
  • Examples of original staircases, room arrangements, front porches, and building footprints.<\/li>\n
  • Local historians, preservationists, architects, and homeowners who recognize this style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I am not looking for a perfect inch-by-inch match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I’m looking for architectural relatives<\/strong> \u2014 houses that share the same basic design principles, proportions, and construction traditions.<\/p>\n

    A close match would be fantastic. A collection of similar examples could be just as valuable.<\/p>\n

    The bigger goal is to understand how Cleveland’s historic housing stock was designed and constructed, and how that knowledge can inform practical, affordable housing development today.<\/p>\n

    Help solve the mystery \u2014 share your findings in the comments<\/h2>\n

    Does anyone have access to early Sears catalogs, historic Cleveland house plans, or photographs of similar homes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Post a catalog reference, share a link to a photograph or archive, identify a possible builder, or tag a local historian. Please leave your suggestions in the comments below<\/strong> so other researchers can follow the clues.<\/p>\n

    Let’s see what we can uncover together.<\/p>\n

    #ClevelandHistory #OldHouseResearch #FolkVictorian #SearsHomes #HistoricPreservation #ClevelandArchitecture #ADU #HousingHistory<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Who built this circa-1900 Cleveland Folk Victorian home? Help identify its original builder, architectural relatives, Sears-era catalog plans, and historic floor plans for 2014 West 100th Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-stories","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsilva.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}