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Case Western Reserve University Archives

The University Downtown, 1843-1954

Did you know?

For 111 years of its history, at least one of Case Western Reserve University's schools was located in downtown Cleveland.
The University's shortest-lived school, the School of Art, affiliated with Western Reserve University from 1888-1891, was located in (old) City Hall on Superior Avenue.
In 1888, the first year of its affiliation with Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Conservatory of Music, offered 5 courses to 254 students in the Clarence Building on Euclid Avenue.

[This site provides images of classroom, laboratory, and staff work spaces, exterior and aerial photographs of buildings, a timeline of the University's downtown presence, and a simplified map of building locations. For 5 of the 7 schools that began downtown (Cleveland College, Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and the Case School of Applied Science) correspondence, snapshots of enrollment and tuition statistics, illustrations from yearbooks and student publications, and university brochures help convey the atmosphere of university life downtown as well as the sentiments and experience of the students and staff that learned and worked in these locations from 1843-1954. ]

[There is no compilation statement for this page on ITS site, note: copyright listed as 2005]

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