The Cleveland Health Museum opened in 1940 in the former home of Dr. Dudley P. Allen at 8811 Euclid Avenue. The house was designed by prominent Cleveland architect Charles Schweinfurth and built in 1900. Dr. Allen was one of Cleveland's most prominent surgeons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1915. Dr. Allen's widow, Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, donated the mansion—which had also served as home to Huron Road Hospital from 1924 to 1935— to the Health Museum. It was the home of the museum until 1946, when it moved several doors east on Euclid Avenue to the Treadway mansion. | Date: 1946 | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
