Amelia Flats Apartment Building, Akron, Ohio

Amelia Flats Apartment Building

This five-story apartment building (built 1901), stood on Park Street across from Grace Park and overlooked the city’s Union Station. Amelia Flats was one of Akron’s earliest apartment houses. Constructed by Horace B. Camp as upscale apartments in a neighborhood where Akron’s elite families lived. Neighbors would have included names like Barber, Buchtel, Firestone, Hower, and Seiberling.

 

 

Amelia Flats was named for Camp’s wife, Amelia.

 

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