The Wade Park District is an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

, located in the University Circle

University Circle

University Circle, is a neighborhood located on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is best known for its world-class cultural, educational and medical institutions, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Museum of Art, Lakeview Cemetery, and University...

 neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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. The district, which covers roughly 650 acres, is bounded by Chester Avenue and Euclid Avenue (which converge in a triangle) on the south, East Boulevard to the east and E. 105th Street to the west. The district, which includes seven separate buildings, features several of the city's cultural institutions, as well as the park of the same name.

History

Jeptha Wade

Jeptha Wade

Jeptha Homer Wade was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph....

 arrived in Cleveland in the 1850's, already having amassed part of his fortune in the telegraph industry, and proceeded to become one of the city's wealthiest residents by expanding his holdings into the industries of steel

Steelmaking

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 and banking. Like Marcus Hanna

Mark Hanna

Marcus Alonzo "Mark" Hanna was a United States Senator from Ohio and the friend and political manager of President William McKinley...

, John D Rockefeller and John Severance, his contemporaries along Euclid Avenue's 'Millionaire's Row', Wade used his industrial wealth to endow cultural and educational institutions. In 1882, he donated 63 acres (254,952.2 m²) of land east of the city for the purpose of creating a park, which was named in his honor. Today, the bequeathed Wade property serves as the campus for some of Cleveland's best-known tourist attractions.

Wade Park

While not part of the NHRP listing, Wade Park was constructed from land donated by Jeptha Wade, who expressly intended part of it as as the location for an an art museum. Today, the most prominent features of Wade Park are the Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000...

 and the adjacent Wade Park Lagoon, both of which sit at the park's main entrance at southern tip of the historic district.

Attractions

• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Cleveland Botanical Gardens
• Cleveland Institute of Art
  Cleveland Institute of Art
  The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. From 1891 until 1948 it was named Cleveland School of Art. During the Great Depression the school...
  
  
• Cleveland Institute of Music
  Cleveland Institute of Music
  The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Adrian Daly, dean....
  
  
• Severance Hall
  Severance Hall
  Severance Hall is a concert hall located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The hall has been the home of the Cleveland Orchestra since its opening on February 5, 1931...
  
  
• Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located approximately five miles east of downtown Cleveland, Ohio in University Circle, a 550-acre concentration of educational, cultural and medical institutions...
  
  
• Western Reserve Historical Society
  Western Reserve Historical Society
  The Western Reserve Historical Society was founded in 1867, making it the oldest cultural institution in Northeast Ohio. WRHS is located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.-About:...
  
  
• Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
  Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
  The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, is a museum in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Part of the Western Reserve Historical Society, it was founded by industrialist, Frederick C. Crawford, of TRW and opened in 1965...
  
  
• Epworth Euclid Church