A century ago, Cleveland Public Library’s Lorain Branch, a 1912 Carnegie building located in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, was surrounded by natural wonders. According to a document in the Library’s Archives, the exterior of this neighborhood library once featured flowering cherry trees, ivy, lilacs, and a mulberry tree laden with berries. “Birds flocked to the berries and sang as they built…
Cleveland Public Library marks a new beginning in the Central neighborhood of Cleveland. Woodland Branch of Cleveland Public Library5806 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44104Saturday, June 26 | 10:30 a.m. Library leadership, city and community leaders, and other dignitaries will break ground on the new Woodland Branch at its current site at East 55th Street and Woodland Avenue. The Woodland Branch groundbreaking ceremony is the second of four…
The future of Cleveland Public Library is taking shape. Starting in June, the library will celebrate the beginning of construction on its neighborhood branches. It’s part of the Library’s 10-year plan to build or renovate branch libraries to improve the visitor experience. “We’re happy to fulfill our promise to the community,” said John Lang, Chief Operations Officer at Cleveland Public…
If we could travel back in time to visit the Tremont neighborhood of 100 years ago, we’d find bustling streets filled with steel mill workers, other laborers, and a growing immigrant population. Within this vibrant community stood Cleveland Public Library’s Jefferson Branch, which opened in 1918 in a Carnegie conversion building—a space designed with the possibility of one day being…
Cleveland Public Library will temporarily close three neighborhood branches, West Park, Woodland, and Jefferson to prepare for a revitalization project at end of day, Friday, April 2nd at 6 p.m. Fulfilling our promise to the community, it is the first phase of a 10-year plan to renovate or rebuild branch libraries to improve the user experience. The work reimagines the…
Cleveland Public Library’s promise to the community is coming to fruition. This year, we will renovate or rebuild our branches to improve the Library user experience in each neighborhood. Construction will begin this Spring. To prepare for the building projects, West Park, Woodland, and Jefferson branches will not reopen for browsing on February 22 with the rest of the Library…