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Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930 - Building the City Beautiful (Hardcover)
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Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930 - Building the City Beautiful (Hardcover)
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This study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland
during its "golden age" - roughly the period between post-Civil War
reconstruction and World War I. By the early twentieth century,
Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in
America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its
rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political
clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business
elites such as John D. Rockefeller. Encouraged by the spectacle and
public response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World's
Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to
construct new governmental and civic structures known as the
Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest
and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country.
The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted
architects to design all manner of new public buildings with
similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three
decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders - with the
goal of expanding the city's cultural institutions to match the
distinction of its civic centre - established its counterpart in
University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first
cultural centre in the country.
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