This is the old Richman Brothers Company factory on East 55th Street, which once employed thousands in Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood. Constructed in 1917 with additions in 1924 and 1927, the hulking building was where the company manufactured clothing. The company was founded in 1853 by Jewish-Bavarian Immigrants Henry Richman, Sr. and Joseph Lehman as the Lehman-Richman company in Portsmouth, Ohio, relocating to the larger city of Cleveland in 1879. The business, initially located closer to downtown in a smaller building, rapidly expanded around the turn of the 20th Century, being renamed Richman Brothers in 1904 after being passed on to Richman’s three sons. The company lasted until 1969, when it was absorbed into the F.W. Woolworth Company; however, the factory remained in operation until 1992, when declining revenues led to the factory’s closure. Since that time, several options for adaptive reuse of the structure have been floated, but as of yet, none have come to be. Despite this, and it’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, I don’t see the building as being endangered at this point, as the building remains in somewhat decent condition, with the strong concrete structure and industrial-grade finishes appearing to be holding up well after a quarter century of abandonment.