Cleveland Arcades
Maybe people outside of Cleveland have never heard of The Arcade. It's a five-story structure which opened in 1890 and is a cross between a lighted courtyard and a commercial shopping street. It looks like one big building but the Arcade is a complex of three structures: two nine-story office buildings facing out to Euclid and Superior Avenues, connected via the five-story iron-and-glass-enclosed arcade. Today a Hyatt Hotel, which redeveloped the Arcade into a Hyatt Regency hotel, occupies the two towers and the top three floors of the atrium area. The two lower floors of the atrium area remain open to the public.
Even people who know about “The Arcade” in Cleveland, might not know there are actually two more. The Euclid arcade, with its white marble floors, white terra cotta walls, and sky-lit white barrel-vaulted ceiling. One hundered feet away from the Euclid is the Colonial Arcade which offers a different feel, sporting an iron and glass ceiling fine detailing on its balcony-level walls and fixtures.
The arcades are a throwback to a different time.
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ReplyDeleteI stayed in the Hyatt once. I believe it used to be a rail station back in the day. All the rooms face out to the arcade and have glass in the doors and they're nice and big and the whole ambiance is very Gilded Age. It reminds me of the Hyatt in St. Louis - same kind of set-up. Props to the Hyatt folks for repurposing these classic buildings instead of tearing them down.
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