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What It Was: The Idea Center in Cleveland

Season 28 | 1m 07s

Ever walk by a cool old building and say to yourself, "I wonder what that used to be?" Follow us around Northeast Ohio to learn what buildings were before, well, what they are now. The Idea Center at Playhouse Square first opened in 1912 as the home furnishings store, Kinney & Levan Co. It housed several more occupants over the last century before becoming the home of Ideastream Public Media.

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Northeast Ohio artists bring together birding, dance and jazz in Akron.
A stirring look at what is lost and found at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Sterling Lindner Davis department store on Euclid Ave. was known for its large Christmas tree.
The new home of Visible Voice Books in Ohio City used to be a theater dating back to the 1920s.
Fashion makes a powerful statement at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
We enter the historic wardrobe of the Kent State University Museum.
Learn about the Akron artist who gave the Black Keys its moniker - Alfred McMoore.
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is one of the spookiest spots in Ohio.
A Cleveland artist brings his journey of self-discovery to the stage.
A once abandoned parking lot is now a gathering place with public art in Cleveland's AsiaTown.
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Northeast Ohio artists bring together birding, dance and jazz in Akron.
A stirring look at what is lost and found at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Fashion makes a powerful statement at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
We enter the historic wardrobe of the Kent State University Museum.
Learn about the Akron artist who gave the Black Keys its moniker - Alfred McMoore.
The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield is one of the spookiest spots in Ohio.
A Cleveland artist brings his journey of self-discovery to the stage.
A once abandoned parking lot is now a gathering place with public art in Cleveland's AsiaTown.
North Pointe Ballet welcomes all on the dance floor in Berea.
Portrait artist Autumn Joi Ellis paints the faces of her community in Youngstown.