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This 1905 Swiss Chalet Revival style house was built for Frederick W. Bomonti, a famous Swiss American restaurateur in Cleveland. It is an exemplar of the type of architecture favored by Swiss Americans, a large and influential immigrant group in Cleveland in the late 1800s. 19: Broadway Avenue Historic District: Broadway Avenue Historic District
But from 1945 to 1970, the Cleveland area shed most of is heavy industry, and the loss of industrial jobs hit the North Broadway neighborhood particularly hard. [94] Cleveland also suffered significantly from a strong trend toward suburbanization, [94] and by 1970 the Broadway district had lost 36 percent of its population. [93]
Public Square is the central plaza of Downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Based on an 18th-century New England model, it was part of the original 1796 town plat overseen by city founder General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company. The historical center of the city's downtown, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Cleveland's downtown architecture is diverse. Many of the city's government and civic buildings, including City Hall, the Cuyahoga County Courthouse, the Cleveland Public Library, and Public Auditorium, are clustered around the open Cleveland Mall and share a common neoclassical architecture. They were built in the early 20th century as the ...
Lee–Harvard Shopping Plaza; Cleveland Industrial Park – this community's largest development site. At 114 acres, this industrial park is located near I-480 with interchanges at Lee Road and Broadway Avenue, and was created by city government in 1981.
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 1953–1962 popular Cleveland Mayor), [3] the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (one of only twelve in the US), [4] the historic Cuyahoga County Courthouse, the Cleveland Public ...
William Garrott Brown, Official Guide to Harvard University, Harvard Memorial Society, 1899, page 23. Douglass Shand-Tucci, Harvard University: Campus Guide, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001, pages 22–23. ISBN 1-56898-280-1. Bainbridge Bunting, Margaret Henderson Floyd, Harvard: An Architectural History, Harvard University Press, 1985.
Cleveland in 50 Maps. Cleveland: Belt Publishing. ... Cleveland Architecture 1890–1930: ... and Slovaks in an American City, 1890-1950. Harvard Studies in Urban ...