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Cleveland's Group Plan by Arnold Brunner from the Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on City Planning, Cleveland, June 5-7, 1916. " The Group Plan of 1903 " as provided by D.H. Ellison Co., Architects. A "City Beautiful" Mall for Cleveland by Walter C. Leedy, Jr.- from The Gamut, number 8 (Winter, 1983). p. 39-62.
The Group Plan of Public Buildings in 1903 was an ambitious city-planning scheme that—as much as any single initiative—shaped downtown Cleveland. The Plan’s six public buildings are the Federal Building (1910, now the Howard Metzenbaum US Courthouse), the Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1911), City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library (1926) and the Board of ...
Sep 7, 2017 · A vintage photo gallery of the buildings the resulted from the Group Plan of 1903. ... How the Group Plan of 1903 molded Cleveland (vintage photos) Updated: Sep. 07, 2017, 1:00 p.m.
Early in the 20th century, Cleveland was a city on the rise and was known as the "Sixth City" due to its position as the sixth largest U.S. city at the time. [ 39 ] Its businesses included automotive companies such as Peerless, People's, Jordan, Chandler, and Winton, maker of the first car driven across the U.S.
The Cleveland Board of Education Building was designed by the architectural firm of Walker and Weeks and is a six story example of Beaux-Arts style influenced by the Italian Renaissance. The Cleveland schools sold the property at auction to the St. Louis-based Drury chain in 2013 and after a $52-million renovation, the building re-opened on April 29, 2016 as the Drury Plaza Hotel Cleveland.
Crowds gathered on the Mall in downtown Cleveland, 1968. The Mall is a significant part of the Group Plan. Originally patterned on the "White City" of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, it is conceived of as a "court of honor" and is integral to the realization of the Group Plan. The original presentation of The Group Plan of the ...
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The industrial rich and the middle-class professionals also used chamber committees to advance a variety of environmental reforms, such as neighborhood playgrounds, the PARKS that became the Cleveland and Metropolitan park systems, the Group Plan of public buildings, and city and later regional planning, and the Housing Committee over many years advocated such reforms as health and fire ...
