Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

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 ...