If you want to see Cleveland’s connection to the Titanic, which sank 111 years ago on April 15, you only have to look up 85-feet above East 9th and Euclid.
Located at the corner of E. 9th Street and Euclid Avenue Heinen's Grocery Store occupies a space that once housed the Cleveland Trust Company. The 1908 building reflects the grander of the period complete with murals circling the rotunda., 1846-1912, painted the murals with two assistants over the course of a year. Millet’s original renditions were much smaller, 18-inches by three or four-feet wide.
Millet lived a life that was as big as the paintings he made. The artist served as a drummer boy, and a surgical assistant in the Civil War. Later he worked as a journalist in the Russian-Turkish War, and as a newspaper editor. However, in the early part of the 20th century Millet was in Cleveland painting 13 murals inside the Cleveland Trust building at E. 9th and Euclid Avenue.
Millet’s final adventure sealed his fate. In 1912 the artist, who had art hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, booked a first class ticket on the maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic.
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