| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Saint John's Episcopal Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Saint John's Episcopal Church | | | | Dates: | 1909-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Saint John's Episcopal Church is a congregation which maintains the oldest church edifice in Cleveland, Ohio, the group splitting off from Trinity Parish when it moved from Ohio City to Cleveland's east side in 1826. In the late 1960s, the congregation merged with the Inner City Protestant Parish, an interdenominational group of congregations which met at St. John's and other churches during the 1950s and 1960s. The church is also known as St. John's Historic Episcopal Church. The collection consists of minutes of the trustees and parish council, financial information, administrative records, documents pertaining to the restoration of the church building, and files relating to the parish history. The collection pertains to the administrative functions of a prominent Cleveland parish, its efforts to restore the church edifice, and its involvement in ecumenical and reform movements, from the 1920s to the 1980s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4371 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Saint John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | A. Donald Gray Papers
| | | | Creator: | Gray, A. Donald | | | | Dates: | 1917-1943 | | | | Abstract: | A. Donald Gray (1891-1939) was a notable landscape architect and designer in Cleveland, Ohio from 1920-1939. Gray worked briefly with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in Brookline, Massachusetts, before establishing a landscape architecture practice in Cleveland. He designed many private gardens and estates for some of the most elite families of Cleveland and its outlying suburbs, including the noted private development of Fairhill Road houses in 1931. Gray was also the landscape designer for several public projects, including the Cedar-Central apartments, the first federal public-housing project in the nation, and many of Cleveland's public parks. Perhaps his most notable achievemant was the creation of the WPA-funded Horticultural Gardens for the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1937, some of which remain on the site north of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The gardens were named for Gray as a memorial after his death. Gray took several trips to England, South America, Mexico and elsewhere throughout his career to study the landscaping of great houses and public places. He also contributed a regular gardening column to the Cleveland Press during the mid-1930s. The collection consists of some personal records, but largely records pertaining to Gray's numerous landscape design projects, including projects for William S. Halle, Mrs. Leonard C. Hanna, Edwin C. Higbee, Fred and Robert Lazarus of Columbus, Ohio, Crispen Oglebay, John Sherwin, and the Van Sweringen brothers. The records consist of correspondence, invoices, receipts, drawings, plans, photographs, blueprint designs, financial records, etc. The collection contains significant material regarding the Fairhill Road houses of the Fairmount Road Group Development Association, the Cedar-Central Housing Project, Cleveland city park projects, and, in particular, the Horticultural Gardens of the Great Lakes Exposition. Included are articles and clippings from Gray's gardening column in the Cleveland Press, lectures, travel reports, personal and financial papers and papers regarding Gray's personal residence, material pertaining to the preservation and restoration of the Dunham Tavern on Euclid Ave. in Cleveland, and photograph albums and photograph scrapbooks of Gray's trips and design projects, some by the noted photographer Margaret Bourke-White. | | | | Call #: | MS 3470 | | | | Extent: | 16.30 linear feet (28 containers, 9 oversize folders, and 21 rolled blueprints) | | | | Subjects: | Gray, A. Donald (Albert Donald), 1891-1939 -- Archives. | Dunham Tavern. | Cedar-Central Housing Project (Cleveland, Ohio) | Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937 : Cleveland, Ohio) | Landscape architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Landscape architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape gardening -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape contracting -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape architectural drawing -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Horticultural service industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Design. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Specifications. | Urban beautification -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel -- Views. | South America -- Description and travel -- Views. | Mexico -- Description and travel -- Views. | Nassau (Bahamas) -- Description and travel -- Views.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Western Reserve Region Records
| | | | Creator: | Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Western Reserve Region | | | | Dates: | 1969-1990 | | | | Abstract: | The Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Western Reserve Region was a regional office of the state agency designated to regulate funding and organize and administer an historic preservation plan in Ohio. It was established in 1973 and located at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. After state funding ceased in 1981, the Historical Society funded the office until 1990. Eric Johannesen served as the preservation officer. The Western Reserve Region includes 12 counties in Northeast Ohio. The collection consists of nomination forms, inventory forms, correspondence, photographs, and research material relating to the office's National Register of Historic Places program and the Ohio Historic Inventory program collected during the office's operation at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The first program was to recognize and nominate important historic structures within the region to the National Register of Historic Places. The second program was an on-going survey to record all buildings, sites and structures of architectural and historic significance in the state. The files include building and district histories, property records, architectural reports, and information on historic status. These files will be useful to professional preservationists, students of history and architecture, land-use planners, various local and county agencies, and neighborhood researchers. | | | | Call #: | MS 4569 | | | | Extent: | 6.40 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Western Reserve Region. | National Register of Historic Places. | Ohio Historical Society. | Western Reserve Historical Society | Ohio Historic Inventory. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic buildings -- Western Reserve -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic sites -- Ohio -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic sites -- Western Reserve -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic sites -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Conservation and restoration. | Architecture -- Western Reserve -- Conservation and restoration. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic preservation -- Ohio. | Historic preservation -- Western Reserve. | Historic preservation -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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