The idea of The Old Angle Tavern was conceived in 2001, after a fire, along with changing shopping habits, closed a neighborhood hardware store on West 25th Street, at Bridge Avenue, in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The vacant, burned out, Ohio City Hardware Building, needed a new purpose to save it from further destruction, and quite possibly, the wrecking ball. That idea was a grand, old school, neighborhood Irish tavern to help anchor/stabilize a prominent corner of the West 25th Street corridor, Ohio City’s commercial district, later known as The Market District. A two and a half year, nearly million dollar renovation (both inside & out) took place, and on Saint Patrick’s Day, 2004