A Victorian-era shopping arcade in Cleveland

The Arcade in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is a Victorian-era structure of two nine-story buildings joined by a five-story arcade with a glass skylight spanning over 300 feet. Opened on Memorial Day, May 30, 1890, the structure was built by the Detroit Bridge Co. under Stephen V. Harkness. Designed by John Eisenmann and George H. Smith, the Arcade was financed by John D. Rockefeller, Stephen V. Harkness, Marcus Hanna, Charles F. Brush, and several other wealthy Clevelanders.

Modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the Arcade is one of the few remaining arcades of its kind in the United States. The building is a complex of three structures: two nine-story office buildings facing Euclid and Superior Avenues, connected via a 300-foot-long covered light court. The vertical lines of the columns rise nearly 100 feet to the glass roof, which consists of 1,800 panes of glass. The design was so influential that it inspired a similar shopping arcade in Atlanta during the 1910s.

While the Euclid Avenue front was remodeled in 1939, the original Richardsonian arched entrance of Hummelstown brownstone on Superior Avenue remains. In 2001, the Hyatt corporation redeveloped the Arcade into Cleveland's first Hyatt Regency hotel. The hotel occupies the two towers and the top three floors of the atrium area, while the two lower floors of the atrium remain open to the public for retail merchants and a food court. The Arcade was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

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