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Title
Severance
Hall
Exterior
Photograph
Subject
Architecture
Arts and Entertainment
Cleveland Orchestra
Orchestras
National Register of Historic Places
Place
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
This
8
"
x
10
"
(20.32
x
25.40
cm)
photograph
shows
the
exterior
of
Severance
Hall
,
home
of The
Cleveland
Orchestra
.
Opened
on
February
5
,
1931
, its
neoclassical
facade
has
remained
virtually
unchanged
. The
building's
architect
was
Walker
&
Weeks
, a
Cleveland
firm
that
specialized
in
large
public
buildings
during
the
early
20th
century
. The
entire
building
project
,
including
land
,
construction
,
furnishings
,
pipe
organ
, and
endowment
funds
,
totaled
nearly
$7
million
and and was
completed
in
slightly
less
than
15
months
.
John
and
Elisabeth
Severance
donated
$2.6
million
and
Western
Reserve
University
donated
the
land
,
valued
at
$600,000
. The
people
of
Cleveland
raised
the
remaining
amount
.
Before
ground
was
broken
Mrs
.
Severance
died
unexpectedly
and the
new
music
hall
was
subsequently
named
in her
memory
. The
Cleveland
Orchestra
,
along
with
Boston
,
New
York
,
Philadelphia
and
Chicago
,
is
acknowledged
as
one
of the "
Big
Five
"
American
symphony
orchestras
. Its
first
concert
was a
benefit
for
St
.
Ann's
Parish
(in
Cleveland
Heights)
at
Grays
Armory
on
December
11
,
1918
.
Adella
Prentiss
Hughes
and the
Musical
Arts
Association
recruited
Nikolai
Sokoloff
as
conductor
. A
substantial
gift
from
Mr
. and
Mrs
.
John
L
.
Severance
enabled
the
Association
to
build
its
permanent
home
in
University
Circle
,
five
miles
east
of
downtown
Cleveland
.
Severance
Hall
opened
in
February
1931
. At the
end
of its
50th
season
in
July
1968
, the
Orchestra
inaugurated
its
summer
home
,
Blossom
Music
Center
, in
Cuyahoga
Falls
,
Ohio
. In
1992
the
Orchestra
became
the
first
American
orchestra
to
establish
a
residency
at
Austria's
Salzburg
Festival
.
After
a
two-year
,
$36.7
million
renovation
and
restoration
project
, The
Cleveland
Orchestra
reopened
Severance
Hall
in
January
2000
. The
Orchestra's
seventh
music
director
,
Franz
Welser-Moest
,
began
his
tenure
in
September
2002
.
Creator
Hastings, Peter
Date of Original
1965
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Cleveland Orchestra [The]
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1736_1744413_001.tif
Image Height
2203
Image Width
2769
File Size
395.575 KB
Format
picture
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