The city removed the rather overgrown naturalistic elements, including a bridge and stream, from the southwest quadrant in time for the opening of the Cleveland Union Terminal, shown here. Mirroring rhetoric about the removal of hundreds of "dilapidated" buildings to erect the Terminal complex and presaging later arguments for the modernization of Public Square to keep pace with the times, civic leaders heralded this new minimalist design, which survived until about 1985. | Date: 1930 | Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital GalleryDownload Original File
Source
Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
Date
1930
"Redesigned Southwest Quadrant, 1930" appears in: Public Square
