As Classic Greyhound Bus Stations Close, Some Find New Lives

When it opened in 1948, Cleveland’s new bus station was a curvilinear wonder.

Greyhound Lines was then near the apex of its powers; the company claimed that the $1.25 million depot was the biggest in the world, with 88,000 square feet of floor space. It was designed for additional floors to be built on top of it, as the city’s population was still racing toward its 1950 peak of more than 900,000. An estimated 25,000 people showed up for the building’s opening on March 31, including Ohio Governor Thomas Herbert and Mayor Thomas Burke, who called the swoopy station — a prime example of the late Art Deco style known ...