Composer and music critic, Herbert Elwell, owned this house in 1967. He arrived in Cleveland in 1928, teaching composition and music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Elwell was music critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 32 years. As a composer, one of Elwell's earliest pieces, "Quintet for Piano and Strings" (1924), was held in higher regard than George Gershwin's classic, "Rhapsody in Blue" when both premiered at the same concert. Elwell was the winner of the first Cleveland Arts Prize for Music in 1961. He passed away in 1974.