Yesterday was a fine day for a trip to University Circle!  Recognizing this, YSOH and yours truly set out around noon to visit some of the amazing institutions that were offering free admission in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Here's a bit of what we saw:

 

Setting out from Ohio City, we walked down West 25th to find Howard Hannah/Smythe Cramer's office looking complete, Phnom Penh's new awning up and work being done on the Market Square building, which caught fire last fall.

Across the street, the new Bier Markt:

The West Side Market's produce row, bustling with Monday shoppers:

We've made it to the West 25th Street Red Line station, just across the bridge from Downtown:

A few minutes later, here's our train...and it's packed!

Walking from the University Circle Station through University Hospitals...

Coming up on Euclid Avenue and Wade Lagoon:

And our first destination, Severance Hall!

The house was packed and the music and dance were wonderful:

We then walked through CWRU's campus (below) towards Ford & Euclid:

At Ford & Euclid, the Triangle, where MOCA will soon relocate to:

After lunch at the House of Falafel, We cut through Hessler Road towards Magnolia:

The wooden-bricked Hessler Court:

On our way to our next destination, we passed the new CWRU housing:

Our next stop was the Western Reserve Historical Society:

On our way out, we passed the site of the Cleveland Institute of Music's expansion:

We also passed the Botanical Garden, which had just closed for the evening:

After a lovely walk across CMA's steps above Wade Lagoon, we headed up to Grandma's house, the Judson Manor:

And after it all, we returned to our little burg for some live Irish music and a couple Great Lakes pints:

 

What a day!

 

GREAT photos, MGD! What a classic "Day in Cleveland."

Especially loved the Hessler shot -- I haven't been down there in ages.

Ah, that brings back memories.  ;)  It was a beautiful day for walking.  And, the live Irish music at Great Lakes was wonderful - they have it every Monday from 6-9.  Good stuff.

Everything's looking good!

Excellent shots.  I don't live in town these days but I love walking around University Circle when I visit even though it is sooooo underdeveloped.

 

Did you guys check out the Millionaire's Row exhibit at WRHS when down there?  Not sure how much new stuff I learned but a side-room contained some awesome late 19th/early 20th century panoramas - including one of the old 'hood along the inner-most stretch of broadway demolished by the highway interchange in the 1950s.  Just another depressing reminder how dense the city once was.

 

Hessler really is a special street: no landmark buildings, but intimate, tree-shaded, architecturally varied and the perfect scale.  To me it is the attainable ideal of Cleveland urban streetscape.  I am going to be so bummed when UH finally knocks down East 115th Street b/w Mayfield and Cornell which has some of the same qualities.  Newton Avenue is pretty awesome too even though some of the supporting apartment buildings were bulldozed a few years ago I think.  I can never resist driving down it when driving by on Chester.

 

 

excelent pictures....case western looks like a really cool campus....what is the silver modern building, that kinda looks like the LA symphony concert hall???

^it should, it's a gehry building too!

yeah, we hit the WRHS exhibit and saw the room of old panoramas.  Several of them, including the one you mentioned, Straphanger, are in the excellent book Cleveland Then and Now (Grabowski).  You should check it out!

 

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