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The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust in 1913 with an endowment from prominent Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley. [ 6 ] The neoclassical, white Georgian Marble, Beaux-Arts building was constructed on the southern edge of Wade Park, at the cost of $1.25 million. [ 7 ]
The Arcade in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is a Victorian -era structure of two nine-story buildings, joined by a five-story arcade with a glass skylight spanning over 300 feet (91 m), along the four balconies. [ 2] Erected in 1890, at a cost of $867,000 ($29,400,000 in 2023 dollars), the Arcade opened on Memorial Day (May 30, 1890), [ 2] and is ...
Public Auditorium. / 41.504061; -81.694017. Public Auditorium (also known as Public Hall) is a multi-purpose performing arts, entertainment, sports, and exposition facility located in the civic center district of downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
I. M. Pei. Ieoh Ming Pei FAIA RIBA [ 2] ( / ˌjoʊ mɪŋ ˈpeɪ / YOH ming PAY; [ 3][ 4] Chinese: 貝聿銘; pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the ...
The Hall is a marvel of engineering whose 197-foot-high curtain wall of laminated glass would seem to tempt fate in an island nation whose collective memory is haunted by catastrophic earthquakes. Not so: though "extremely light and flexible", the Glass Hall's structural system is designed to withstand "extreme seismic forces" (Rafael Viñoly).
www .mocacleveland .org. The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (abbreviated to moCa) is a contemporary art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the only contemporary art venue of its kind in Metropolitan Cleveland. [1] The organisation was founded by Marjorie Talalay, Agnes Gund, and Nina Castelli Sundell in 1968 and has undergone ...
Civic Center (Cleveland) The Civic Center is a mostly governmental district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, that is home to the 1916 erected Cleveland City Hall Building. [1] The 1925 Cleveland Public Library main branch, [2] the 1976 massive Cuyahoga County Justice Center, the 419 foot Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building (named after the 1953 ...
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