Browse Exhibits (9 total)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church has played a central role in the development of Cleveland's Lower Buckeye Road area since the founding of the Church's parish in 1892.  While the neighborhood surrounding the Church has seen dramatic change over the course of the last 117 years, St. Elizabeth has stood at the corner of East 90th Street and Buckeye Road as a beacon of constancy and a symbol of the contributions of Cleveland's Hungarian-American community to the growth and industrialization of Cleveland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Located thirty miles west of Cleveland and situated on the intersection of Lake Erie and the Black River, the growth of Lorain, Ohio as an industrial city has in many ways mirrored that of Cleveland.   Lorain is literally titled the "international city" because of its ethnic diversity, ranging from Russian to Hungarian, to Mexican and Puerto Rican groups.  Most ethnic groups traveled to Lorain to take advantage of the abundance of work during the early twentieth century. 

Specifically, the growth of the hispanic population in Lorain is directly related to the steel industry.   This exhibit begins to explore that relationship.  First Mexicans arrived in the 1920s to work at the National Tube Company, then Puerto Ricans came to work in the late 1940s. 

Compare and contrast the Mexican experience and the Puerto Rican experience of arriving and adapting to the community in Lorain. 

During the Industrial Age, improved living conditions caused the populations of metropolitian areas to boom as never before.  This rapid growth prompted newspaper editor Horace Greeley to comment that, "We cannot all live in cities, yet nearly all seem determined to do so."  Cleveland, Ohio is a shining example of how industry sparked a development of society and culture from 1870-1940.

This exhibit will develop three important parts of the Cuyahoga River:  the early years, the industrial boom years, and the clean-up.

This exhibit reflects the man and the mural. 

Entitled: EPIC OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

This mural is a 120 ft. and located in Collinwood High School, in Cleveland, Ohio, part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District located specifically in 5 points.  The mural was painted on the Ivanhoe side, one of the five points of the Collinwood area.  It was commissioned by the WPA, and covers an entire hallway.  The artist was named John Csosz.