You are here
Western Reserve Historical Society
The Western Reserve Historical Society, founded in 1867, was one of the earliest institutions to move to the Wade Park area in 1898 under the leadership of art museum benefactor Henry C. Ranney. The Society relocated in 1938–1941 to its current location in the Hay-McKinney and Hanna houses on East Boulevard to the north of Wade Park Oval. The Italian Renaissance-style Hay-McKinney House by architect Abram Garfield was completed in 1911. The house was the home of Clara Stone Hay, daughter of Cleveland industrialist Amasa Stone, and later owned by Price McKinney of McKinney Steel Company who sold the house to the historical society in 1938. Completed in 1919, the Bingham-Hanna House was designed in the same style by architects Walker and Gillette with landscape by the Olmsted Brothers. Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. gave the house to the historical society in 1940, and the two houses were connected in 1959. The Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Wing was completed in 1965 and the Euclid Beach Carousel glass pavilion addition in 2014.
References
Johannesen, Eric. Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1979.
Writing Credits
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.