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Title
Cleveland
Museum
of
Art
viewed
from
University
Circle
Subject
Cleveland Museum of Art
University Circle (Cleveland, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works.
Place
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
Cleveland
Museum
of
Art
viewed
from
University
Circle
. The
Cleveland
Museum
of
Art
is
located
at
11150
East
Boulevard
in
Cleveland
,
Ohio
and
is
on the
north
side
of
Wade
Lagoon
. The
museum
was
founded
in
1913
and
opened
on
June
6
,
1916
. The
art
museum
was
funded
by
Cleveland
industrialists
Hinman
B
.
Hurlbut
,
John
Huntington
, and
Horace
Kelley
. The
Wade
Park
property
was
donated
for the
museum
site
by
Jeptha
H
.
Wade
II
. The
Cleveland
firm
of
Hubbell
&
Benes
designed
the
neoclassic
building
which
was
constructed
of
white
Georgian
marble
. The
cost
of of the
building
was
$1.25
million
.
University
Circle
is
bounded
by
Wade
Park
Ave
. on the
north
;
E
.
105th
on the
west
; and the
RTA
tracks
on the
east
and
south
sides
. The
circle
occupies
488
acres
.
It
was in
1799
that the
land
was
first
settled
with the
establishment
of
Nathaniel
Doan's
tavern
at what
is
now
E
.
107th
St
. and
Euclid
Ave.
, but was then
called
Doan's
Corners
.
University
Circle
began
to
take
shape
in the
1880s
when
Western
Reserve
University
moved
its
campus
from
Hudson
,
OH
, to
Euclid
Ave
. in
1883
.
Case
School
of
Applied
Science
moved
from
downtown
Cleveland
to a
location
adjacent
to
WRU
in
1885
(eventually
to be
federated
with its
neighbor
in
1967
as
Case
Western
Reserve
University.)
. In the
same
decade
,
Jeptha
H
.
Wade
donated
to the
City
of
Cleveland
a
large
piece
of
land
that
adjoined
the
WRU
campus
,
stipulating
that the
land
be
used
as a
public
park
with an
art
gallery
. The
name
of the
area
was
taken
from a
streetcar
stop
on a
line
running
on
Euclid
to a
turnaround
at
E
.
107th
known
as
University
Circle
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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Image Width
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Format
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Date created
2010-04-07
Date modified
2010-05-26
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