Browse Exhibits (70 total)
Cleveland Comes Full Circle
Suburbanization in North Royalton
This exhibit will illustrate how changes in the city of North Royalton over the last 140 years have reflected the overall national trend of suburbanization.
Great Lakes Exposition 1936-1937
Lake to Land, Cleveland's Nature Preserve
Dike 14 at Gordon Park hosts88 acres of nature preserved space. It has been recently acknowledged for the abundance of birds and butterflies that 'stop by' during thier annual migrations. However, Dike 14's birth and development recalls a much less serene or pretty image.
From Red, White and Green to "White"
The Story of assimilation, anglicization, and suburbanization of Cleveland's Hungarian Community, as told through the exodus of the Hungarians from the city, and the ethnic landmarks left behind.
Lake View Cemetery: Silent City on a Hill
Lake View Cemetery, is as diverse as the City of Cleveland. This Cemetery will look at the History of Lakeview, with special emphasis on certain architecual projects, notable deaths, and what you can do throughout the seasons within the walls of the Cemetery.
When Lake View was first built the founders wanted to have something that they could be proud of within their city. The founders believed that the city should have a rural, or garden cemetry, like those found in Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Cincinnatti's Spring Grove Cemetery.
Lake View was created on the outskirt of the city, and would include dramatic landscapes enhanced by curved roads, artful plantings, and carefully designed monuments.
The Story of Lake View is also the Story of Cleveland. Lake View is the final resting place for many of the cities civic leaders including some of the oldest political, cultural, and economic institutional leaders. The classes, religious ethnic diversity has altered Lake View Cemetery's landscape. Thus changing ideas about remembering life and death. Now situated in the heart of Cleveland communitites, Lake View will continue to enliven and enrich the lives its visitors and neighbors.
The Golden Age of Air Racing, 1929-1939, Cleveland Municipal Airport
The era from 1929-1939 is often referred to as the “Golden Age” of aviation. It was during this period that Cleveland, Ohio became the center of the aviation universe during the National Air Races held at Cleveland Municipal Airport, (now known as Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport.)  The 1929 National Air Races attracted all of the legends of aviation of that time including legendary pilots like: Charles Lindbergh; Amelia Earhart; Roscoe Turner; and Jimmy Doolittle. U.S. military pilots came to the 1929 National Air Races, too, including the Navy High Hats squadron and the U.S. Army Air Corps, but those military teams would be outraced in that first Free-For-All Race (later known as the Thompson Trophy Race) pylon speed race in 1929 by non-military pilot Doug Davis flying the Travel Air Mystery Ship.
Cahoon Memorial Park
Cahoon Memorial Park contains 115 acres of public space operated by the city of Bay Village within the restrictions accepted from the will and testement of the donar, Ida Maria Cahoon. The restrictions prohibit non Bay Village residents from using the park, and prohibits alcohol sales and consumption, as well as gaming at any time, or organized sporting activities on Sundays. The park has served as a center for civic activity and the restrictions imposed on the park has helped the city develope in a in a fashion that promotes demographic homogeneity.
Woodland Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery, established in 1853, represents an intersection of Cleveland's history and present. While today it sits largely forgotten in the city's Central neighborhood, Woodland once held an esteemed position in the public's eye. As Cleveland changed, so too did the cemetery, and with each burial a piece of the city was placed in the grounds. Though the prestige is long gone, monuments and memorials attesting to Woodland's place in our city continue to remain and remind us of the past.
Panoramic Cleveland
Panoramic photographs can provide simple, fixed understandings of place at a specific moment in time. They can also reveal layered narratives of particular streets and buildings, demonstrating how place can also serve as an intersection of multiple narratives across time. Uncovering and revealing the narratives from three neighborhoods found within a 1921 panoramic photograph of Cleveland help us to better understand the grand narrative of the city's growth.