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This exhibit explores the essential question, what is a community?  Who are the members of the community of Lakewood, where did they come from, what were their talents and contributions, and most importantly, how does this idea of community shape identity? 

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.