Icabod Flewellen *1916, 2001† started his African-American history collection in his home in West Virginia. It was firebombed in 1949. He moved to Cleveland, and started his museum in his home in 1953. In 1968 the museum moved to a classroom at St. Marian's, then it went to the former Cuyahoga Telephone Exchange. In 1984 it came here on Crawford, was closed in 2005, opened again in 2009. It is currently closed, but is used for some events. On October 16th, a debate of the two Cleveland mayoral candidates was held here. There has been sporadic work, and fundraising to rehabilitate the building. The large main room will be used as the Africa room.
Nicholas Hawksmoor. The Orangery at Kensington Palace. 1704.
foto: His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.
Cleveland has many fine buildings that are copied, in at least a part, from important European buildings. The first Hough Branch of the Cleveland Public Library was opened in 1907. It was built on a grant from Andrew Carnegie, it was closed in 1984. Some of the elements copied from the Orangery were the columns, alcoves, keystones, and brick work around a large end window. Orangeries were winter greenhouses of palaces, and very wealthy estates in Europe. The first were in Renaissance Italy.
This mural represents the Hough Riots of July 1966.
Perhaps, referring Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
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