Inside Cleveland Public Library‘s downtown Main Building on the third floor is the John G .White Special Collections Department. It is one of the stops on our Cleveland From the Inside walking tour! It is full of rare books, chess sets from around the world, a collection of miniature books and even a brick from […]
On August 25, 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” was released by MGM. Eighty years later it is still considered one of the most seen films in the world. The picture starred Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and of course Cleveland’s own Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West. In 2003, […]
Today we wrap up our series on Lake View Cemetery with a look at the James A. Garfield Memorial. Garfield was the 20th President of the Untied States. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1831. He represented Ohio in the House for nine terms. His term as President was only four months long, […]
We having been looking at Lake View Cemetery over the past couple weeks. Today we look at a collection of some of the famous Clevelanders buried at the cemetery. John D. Rockefeller – Rockefeller was of course the founder of Standard Oil, the largest corporation on the planet and the richest man on the planet […]
One of the more famous graves in Lake View Cemetery is the Haserot Angel, actually named “The Angel of Death Victorious.” The life-size bronze angel holds an extinguished torch upside-down. Her wings are outstretched and she gazes straight ahead as she sits over the graves of Francis Henry Haserot and family. The Haseort Angel’s most […]
Lake View Cemetery is home to the Wade Chapel. This is a small chapel built on the grounds of Lake View and dedicated to Jeptha Wade by his grandson. Jeptha Wade was the founder of Western Union Telegraph Company and the first president of Lake View Cemetery. He donated the land in which the Cleveland […]
Continuing our look at Lake View Cemetery and its famous residents, today we “shine our light” on Charles F. Brush. In 1879, Charles Brush would invent the first arc lamp. His lamp burned as brightly as four thousand candles. This was too bright for the inside of people’s homes so he chose to look outside […]
(This is a long post and bit of a tearjerker.) The All-Star Game is here! We begin to transition from baseball to a series on Lake View Cemetery and the folks buried there. Today we begin that transition with baseball great Raymond Johnson Chapman. Chapman was a star shortstop for the Cleveland Indians from 1912 […]
For Father’s Day we will take a look at Cleveland’s “Father”, Moses Cleaveland. Moses is considered to be the founder of Cleveland. No, that is not a typo on my part, that is how he spelled his name. Moses Cleaveland served in the American Revolutionary War and lived in New England. In 1795, the Treaty […]
This week I. M. Pei passed away at the age of 102. I. M. Pei was an architect who began his career in 1948 after he earned his graduate degree at Harvard. He is famous for many buildings he created such as the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris, the East Building of the […]
