Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful
This study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its “golden age”—roughly the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and World War I. By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business elites such as John D. Rockefeller. Encouraged by the spectacle and public  response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World’s Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to construct new governmental and civic structures known as the Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country. The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted architects to design all manner of new public buildings with similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders— with the goal of expanding the city’s cultural institutions to match the distinction of its civic center—established its counterpart in  University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first cultural center in the country.
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Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful
This study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its “golden age”—roughly the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and World War I. By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business elites such as John D. Rockefeller. Encouraged by the spectacle and public  response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World’s Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to construct new governmental and civic structures known as the Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country. The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted architects to design all manner of new public buildings with similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders— with the goal of expanding the city’s cultural institutions to match the distinction of its civic center—established its counterpart in  University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first cultural center in the country.
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Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

by Jeannine deNobel Love
Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

by Jeannine deNobel Love

Overview

This study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its “golden age”—roughly the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and World War I. By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business elites such as John D. Rockefeller. Encouraged by the spectacle and public  response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World’s Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to construct new governmental and civic structures known as the Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country. The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted architects to design all manner of new public buildings with similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders— with the goal of expanding the city’s cultural institutions to match the distinction of its civic center—established its counterpart in  University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first cultural center in the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611863499
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 06/01/2020
Edition description: 1
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 621,526
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

JEANNINE DENOBEL LOVE is an independent art historian focusing on American art and architecture from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part 1 Cleveland's Architectural Journey from Outpost to Metropolis

Early Cleveland and Its Western Reserve Legacy 3

Economics and Politics in Cleveland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9

The École des Beaux-Arts and Its Influence on the Academic Tradition in America 17

The Rise of the International Exposition and the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 27

The City Beautiful Movement and Emergence of City Planning 39

Cleveland's 1903 Group Plan and the University Circle Cultural Center Plan 49

Conclusion 67

Part 2 Catalog of Buildings

Commemorative Buildings 71

Commercial Buildings 89

Civic and Governmental Buildings 153

Cultural Buildings 221

Acknowledgments 243

Source Abbreviations 245

Notes 247

Bibliography 269

Index 287

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