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The exterior of the "Slovene National Home" as viewed from the sidewalk. Located at 6409 St. Clair Ave. the Auditorium is described as the "hub of Slovenian life in Cleveland."

A view of the Slovenian Auditorium and businesses along St. Clair Avenue. The storefronts are filled with merchandise and streetcar tracks run down St. Clair. While the building's signage states that this is the Slovenian Auditorium, the photograph…

An exterior view of the "New Slovenian Home" located at 3563 East 80th St.

A close up view of the exterior of the Old Slovenian National Home located at 6409 St. Clair Ave. This is in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood on Cleveland's east side.

The Slovenian community pack into the Slovenian National Hall to hear Richard Celeste and Ted Kennedy talk. All the seats appear to be full as people line the walls.

Bishop Frederic Baraga was born in Slovenia - then a part of the Habsburg Monarchy - in 1797 and became a Roman Catholic priest after studying religion in Vienna. He came to America in 1830, working as a missionary with the Ottawa Native American…

Ivan Zorman, born in Yugoslavia of Slovene descent, came to Cleveland at a young age, becoming involved in Slovene language, music, and poetry despite his distance from Eastern Europe. Indeed, many Slovenes came to Cleveland in the late nineteenth…

Throughout the twentieth century, Cleveland has been home to one of the largest Slovenian immigrant populations in the world. Slovenes began coming to Cleveland in the 1880s to work in the city's bustling steel industry, forming communities and…