Nela Park is the headquarters of GE Lighting

General Electric

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, and is located in East Cleveland

East Cleveland, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

United States

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. Today, GE Lighting is a part of GE's Consumer and Industrial business headquartered in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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. Nela Park still serves as the operating headquarters of the lighting division.

Development of the site was started in 1911, when the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) was dissolved and absorbed into General Electric. It was the first industrial park

Industrial park

An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...

 in the world,http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/education_resources/conferences/institute/history.htm and was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1975. The campus emulates a university setting, and the dominant architectural style is Georgian Revival

Georgian architecture

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. The 92 acres (372,311.1 m²) campus is home to GE's Lighting & Electrical Institute, which was founded in 1933. Each December, Nela Park features a world-famous Christmas lighting display, which culminates in a miniature version of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, designed by GE Lighting.

External links

• Lighting & Electrical Institute