Cleveland Arcade | |
.jpg) Looking down the length of The Arcade | |
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| Location | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°30′0″N81°41′25″W / 41.50000°N 81.69028°W /41.50000; -81.69028 |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architect | Eisenmann & Smith; Detroit Bridge Co. |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001408[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 20, 1973 |
| Designated NHL | May 15, 1975 |
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The Arcade indowntownCleveland, Ohio, is aVictorian-era structure of two nine-story buildings, joined by a five-storyarcade with a glass skylight spanning over 300 feet (91 m), along the fourbalconies.[2] Erected in 1890, at a cost of $867,000 ($30,300,000 in 2024 dollars), the Arcade opened onMemorial Day (May 30, 1890),[2] and is identified as one of the earliest indoorshopping arcades in the United States.[3] The Arcade was modified in 1939, remodeling theEuclid Avenue entrance and adding some structural support. It was designated aNational Historic Landmark in 1975.
The Arcade was built in 1890 by Detroit Bridge Co., run byStephen V. Harkness.[2] Designed byJohn Eisenmann and George H. Smith,[4] the Arcade is one of the few remaining arcades of its kind in the United States. Modeled after theGalleria Vittorio Emanuele II located inMilan,[2] the Arcade comprises two nine-story towers with askylight, 100 feet (30 m) high, made of 1,800 panes of glass spanning over 300 feet (91 m). The construction was financed byJohn D. Rockefeller,Stephen V. Harkness,Marcus Hanna,Charles F. Brush and several other wealthy Clevelanders of the day.[2]The Arcade is a cross between a lighted court and a commercial shopping street. The building is a complex of three structures: two nine-story office buildings facing out to Euclid and Superior Avenues, connected via the five-story iron-and-glass-enclosed arcade.[2] TheRichardsonian arched entrance of Hummelstown brownstone[5][6][not specific enough to verify] along Superior Avenue is original, but the Euclid Avenue front was remodeled in 1939[2] by the firm ofWalker and Weeks. The level of the Superior Avenue entrance is about 12 feet (3.7 m) lower than the Euclid entrance, so that there are two bottom arcade floors, joined by staircases at each end. Since Euclid and Superior avenues are not parallel, a passage leads, at a 23-degree angle, off the Euclid entrance to a rotunda at the southern end of the Arcade.[2] The arcade itself is a 300-foot (91 m)-long coveredlight court, ringed by four levels of balconies, which step back above the Euclid Avenue level. The vertical lines of the columns, rising nearly 100 feet (33 m) to the glass roof, create a spacious domed interior.[2]
The Arcade's design inspired a similar shopping arcade inAtlanta called thePeachtree Arcade, which was constructed in the 1910s.[7]
In 2001, theHyatt corporation redeveloped the Arcade into Cleveland's first Hyatt Regency hotel. The Hyatt Regency occupies the two towers and the top three floors of the atrium area. The two lower floors of the atrium area remain open to the public with retail merchants and afood court. In addition, the Hyatt's lobby and offices are located near the Superior Avenue entrance. That same year, the skylight was also replaced.[8]
in 2024, DC Studios filmed a scene in the Cleveland Arcade for Superman [2025] the scene is Superman and Lois kissing while flying in the Cleveland Arcade.[9]
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