Professional Building is Professionally Demolished

A Google Maps view that is no more

While taking care of some business in Downtown Lorain a few weeks ago, I noticed that the building (shown above) next door to the Lorain Elks Lodge on W. 6th Street was in the process of being demolished. Staring at the steaming pile of rubble® I remembered that it had been a small, unassuming office building that I had only been inside once or twice – back in the 1980s.

And it was exactly 72 years ago today that the Grand Opening ad for The Professional Building, as it was known, below appeared in the Lorain Journal on May 22, 1953.

A small photograph (below) had appeared in the Journal the previous September when the land was being prepped for construction.

From the Lorain Journal of Sept. 23, 1952

According to the Grand Opening ad, when The Professional Building first opened, many doctors, lawyers and dentists had their offices there. The building was also home to The Professional Pharmacy.

It was a very nice looking building that acquired an addition over the years. To access the parking lot from Sixth St., you drove under a walkway that connected the two buildings.

But time marches on. The Lorain County Auditor website noted that the Elks owned the building. Perhaps it needed too many repairs, or maybe the Elks have plans for the property. We'll see.