Includes alphabetical listing of names of city residents, as well as a classified directory of businesses, a directory of streets, avenues and alleys, and a miscellaneous directory of government offices and cemeteries. For ease of use and faster...
Includes alphabetical listing of names of city residents, as well as a classified directory of businesses, buyer's guide, and a directory of street adresses. For ease of use and faster download, the volume has been organized as 22 separate PDF...
Style is modified Renaissance with classical elements The Library is located in a triangular site surrounded by a park. The building's materials of brick, limestone and terra cotta provide a contrast of texture and color. It has banded and fluted...
View looking north, with St. Patrick's church on Bridge Avenue visible on the right. The building is a modified Renaissance architectural style with classical elements.
Carnegie West Branch was described in the Library's 1910 Annual Report as modified Renaissance, using elements of classical style. The Library is located in a triangular site surrounded by a park. The building's materials of brick, limestone and...
Fluted Corinthian style columns are in the circulating room. Plaster Caproni frieze is in entrance corridor, with full length portrait of Andrew Carnegie.
Notable features of the room were built in glass-fronted book cases, window seats and a flood of natural light from floor to ceiling windows and sky lights.
Features of the branch are the Arts and Crafts inspired wooden paneled inglenook with Rookwood tile mural over fireplace, and Caproni plaster friezes of the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon above.
Quiet room for adult reading and study. Replaced by community meeting room and staff work rooms in 1979. Woman at right is sitting on built in window seat.
The plaster bas relief panels were cast by Caproni from molds taken from the Thorwaldsen's originals: Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon and parts of the Parthenon frieze. This detail depicts Iris, Hera and Zeus. The panel received...
In 2001, the Library repainted Carnegie West Branch in Sherwin Williamscolors equivalent to the original colors. The ceiling coffers were painted in Willow, the walls were painted in Golden Majesty and the columns and ceiling beams in Classic...
In 2001, the Library repainted Carnegie West Branch in Sherwin Williams colors equivalent to the original colors. The ceiling coffers were painted in Willow, the walls were painted in Golden Majesty and the columns and ceiling beams in Classic...
In 2001, the Library repainted Carnegie West Branch in Sherwin Williams colors equivalent to the original colors. The ceiling coffers were painted in Willow, the walls were painted in Golden Majesty and the columns and ceiling beams in Classic...
Includes alphabetical listing of names of city residents, as well as a classified directory of businesses, and a miscellaneous directory of government offices. Because the streets of Cleveland were renamed in 1906, this directory lists both the...
This item is a multi-faceted resource that was originally published as a promotional guide to the city. It includes a brief history of Cleveland (up to the book's publication in 1893) as well as features on the city's "growth, resources, commerce,...
