On Step. 16, it will be "Ciao and Grazie" for a half-century Ravenna landmark, the building at the corner of South Chestnut Street and Hazen Avenue that has been home for the Italian American Society, which is going up for auction.

In an era in which younger Americans are no longer the joiners their parents and grandparents once were, the Italian American Society’s dwindling membership makes maintaining and operating the building no longer feasible, two of its leaders, attorney Stephen Colecchi and businessman Charles Garro, said when telling of the building’s impending sale.