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Cleveland Mall
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View of the Mall, looking north, toward Lake Erie before the northern sections were rebuilt 2011-2013.
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| Location | Roughly T-shaped mall area between E. 9th and W. 3rd Sts., Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°30′11″N 81°41′39″W / 41.503025°N 81.694143°WCoordinates: 41°30′11″N 81°41′39″W / 41.503025°N 81.694143°W |
| Area | 26 acres (11 ha) |
| Architect | Daniel Burnham, et. al |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts |
| NRHP Reference # | 75001360 |
| Added to NRHP | June 10, 1975 |
The Cleveland Mall is a long public park in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was conceived as part of the 1903 Group Plan by Daniel Burnham, John Carrère, and Arnold Brunner as a vast public space flanked by the city's major civic and governmental buildings, all built in the neoclassical style. Many of those buildings were built over the following three decades, including the Metzenbaum Courthouse (1910), Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912), Cleveland City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library main building (1925), and the Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education building (1931). Other buildings include Key Tower, the Global Center for Health Innovation, the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
In the spirit of the City Beautiful movement, formerly seedy areas were transformed into a "magnificent civic center", which was supposed to be crowned by the Union Terminal at the north end of the mall, on the shores of Lake Erie. However, the location of the station was eventually moved south and west, to Public Square, where it was finally born as the Terminal Tower. Even though the plan was never fully carried out, it was one of the few City Beautiful plans to be realized to a large extent, and remains one of the most complete examples in the United States. The Mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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