Today, the Terminal Tower greets new arrivals as part of an expanded skyline, its feet overtaken by taller skyscrapers. But it is no less an icon, standing steadfast as 85 years of Cleveland's civic triumphs and catastrophes swirled around.
You knew you were coming to Cleveland when you looked out the window and saw the tower," says John Grabowski, 66, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University and historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society. Unlike the tower above, the outer facade of which has remained largely unchanged, Public Square has morphed with the priorities of the moment, changing form to fulfill the needs of city administrations, aesthetic standards, and wartime and financial interests.
It began as a prototypical New England town square with public grazing space where sheep roamed. But as the city grew, the square became the center of commerce, a commons encircled by the necessities: banks, hotels, a church and government buildings.
With growth came new priorities. In , the statue of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was moved to make way for traffic. Progressive mayor Tom Johnson once pitched his speaker's tent, made famous as a forum for free-flowing political discussion, on the square. Embodied there, where his statue will soon sit once again, is Johnson's firm belief in the city as public space. It seems Cleveland could not contain such greatness — the city's finest mayor died before its most iconic building was constructed.
In Johnson's Cleveland, the southeast corner where Terminal Tower now stands was jam-packed with storefronts, from clothes stores that doubled as credit houses to Humphrey's candy shop. In , pedestrians crowded the streets as signs advertised chewing tobacco and whiskey from above.
It was vibrant but did not fit the aspirational vision of the Van Sweringen brothers, who floated a plan to demolish the corner buildings and build the Terminal Tower in Cleveland's Terminal Tower in pictures.
In the Heartland. Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Margaret Bourke-White American, Gelatin silver print; Gift of Max and Betty Ratner The Plain Dealer. Plain Dealer Historical Photographic Collection - The accumulated rubbish of old sections were carted away in order that something more beautiful might be built.
Here is one corner of a tattered section now transformed. More than 1, buildings were razed for the Union Terminal Tower project.
The Plain Dealer circa Construction began in The Terminal Tower Building. Cleveland Ohio. Jouett, Chief Engineer. October 21, The Tower rises in This is a picture of the Terminal Tower construction is dated Inside construction.
Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, Architects. View from Public Square Cleveland Ohio. April 25, Rising above activity below. Plain Dealer file photo. Entrance completed. Changing Cleveland's skyline. Cleveland, Ohio. Beauty is sky deep. Our photographer was rushing to a fire, but he liked this shot better and stopped.
Cleveland News August 27, Air Show buzzes the Tower. Daredevil flyby. Plain Dealer file. Blue Angels flyby. Four jets from the U. Thunderbirds flyby. Air Force Thunderbird jets in a Terminal Tower flyby from Dropping a baseball from the top. August 18, Union Terminal. In May , track work is being completed at Cleveland Union Terminal. Special Collections, Cleveland State University. Charles Mintz. Union Terminal, then and now. Cleveland photographer Charles Mintz took this image of Cleveland Union Terminal, left, and then returned to the same spot, more or less, in to show what had changed.
Jump to page contents. The C. Collection consists of the original construction records of the building of the Terminal Tower complex. Writing in The Gamut , Dr. Walter Leedy has said of this model:. This seven-foot, four-inch tall illuminated wooden model right was purchased from Don Gress, son of Rudolph Gress, and the dating and provenance of it is based on Mary Strassmeyer's comment that "The original scale model used by architects who built Cleveland's symbol 50 years ago is in the hobby room of collector Rudolph Gress of Euclid.
He also is a musician, an instrument-maker, a fine woodworker and a tailor. In the last three professions, he is completely self-taught
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