Rivchun Chas S & Sons

Charles S. Rivchun founded his jewelry business in downtown Cleveland in 1917, opening his first wholesale store in the Old Arcade Building on Euclid Avenue. Four years later, he moved the store to the Hickok Building on the corner of Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue. In 1943, Rivchun Jewelers moved to the City Club Building where Charles encouraged a number of fellow jewelers to relocate and thus, was instrumental in establishing Cleveland Historical Jewelry Center. Charles three sons, Sandy, Fred and Armand joined the business after World War II, along with Sandy's wife, Lynne, and Fred's wife, Muriel. Over the next five decades, the two families developed a reputation in both the community and the industry as experts in diamonds, precious gemstones and metals, watches and estate jewelry. Rivchun embraced the most current trends and methods of the industry as was apparent by their introduction of lab certified diamonds to the Cleveland area. In the spring of 2001, the Rivchun families were gracious enough to continue the jewelry store's legacy by selling the business to their long time employees. Today, Chas. S. Rivchun and Sons, Jewelers is owned and operated as a wholesale/retail establishment by partners Joe Soukenik Sr., Sharon Porrello, and Joe Soukenik Jr. Rivchun staff of ten full-time employees share more than 240 years of jewelry experience and maintain the formula of the company for success: Service, Quality and Value!