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• 1 2020-03-24T10:45:48+00:00 Case School of Applied Science 86 Did you know? In 1881, Case School of Applied Science opened its doors to 16 students. It's downtown location, 7 Rockwell Street, is now occupied by Mall A. image_header 2021-03-02T15:28:43+00:00 1881 1881-1886 Allen Smith Jr. Painting of Leonard Case Jr.

   

   

  Portrait of Leonard Case, Jr., founder and namesake of Case School of Applied Science.

   

   

  The first four years of the School's existence was in the Case family's home on Rockwell Street in downtown Cleveland - often referred to as the Case homestead.

   

   

  
  Case Homestead Exterior 1

   

  Classes were held in the family house, while the chemistry and physics laboratories were on the second floor of the barn.

  Astronomical observations were made in the back yard where a transit was set up.

  Case Homestead Barn Exterior 1  

   

   

   

  Because Amasa Stone's gift to move Western Reserve College from Hudson to Cleveland in 1882 also included a provision for the purchase of land in the University Circle area for Case, it was only a matter of time before Case constructed a new college building on its new land and moved in 1885.

   

   

  An October 1886 letter from George C. S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks, urges the School's trustees to move Case back downtown after the devastating Case Main fire.

  Media/Letter from George C.S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks

   

   

   

   

  
  Media/Letter from George C.S. Southworth to J. Twing Brooks