The Arcade Cleveland 1890~

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Built in 1890 at a cost of $875,000, The Arcade Cleveland opened to much fanfare as the very first indoor shopping center in America. Designers John M. Eisenmann and George H. Smith designed it as an urban mercantile center and modeled it after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy. The project was financed by Cleveland’s most esteemed businessmen of the late 19th century, including John D. Rockefeller, Steven V. Harkness, Louis Severance, Charles Brush and Marcus Hanna.

“Cleveland’s Crystal Palace,” as it was known then, is the city’s first building to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photo Credit Gabe Wasylko