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Featured TopicsThis page highlights some of the special and unique people, places and events that best represent the German-American contribution to Cleveland's diverse ethnic identity. For a general overview of German-Americans in Cleveland, we suggest: Charles Frederick Schweinfurth Sylvestor Everett Mansion One of the most influential architects of German descent in Cleveland, Charles Frederick Schweinfurth designed numerous bridges, churches, educational buildings and other structures. Some of his most well known designs were:
Schweinfurth completed at least 15 residential designs for prominent Clevelanders on Euclid Avenue's "Millionaires Row". Iin addition to his own home, he designed homes for William Chisholm, Sylvester T. Everett, Harry K. Hatch, J. Walter McClymond, Amos B. McNairy, George W. Peck, John L. Severance, and Albert L. Withington.  The Perry-Payne Building Frank E. CudellAnother well known and important German American architect was Frank E. Cudell of the architectural firm, Cudell and Richardson. Frank E. Cudell and John N. Richardson are best known for their design work of churches and commercial buildings. The firm designed a series of scared landmarks in the Victorian Gothic style which include the Franklin Circle Christian Church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, and St. Stephan Catholic Church. Their designs for commercial structures included the George Worthington Building, the Perry-Payne Building and the Root & McBride-Bradley Building. Berea Children's Home Baseball at the Berea Children's Home In 1864 the original founding name of the Berea Children's Home and Family Services was the German Methodist Orphan Asylum and was later referred to as the Berea Children's Home. The Home's aim is to preserve family relationships and to create for the child a sense of continuity and security whenever possible. Over the years the Home has continued to respond to the community's needs through a variety of programs addressing the individual mental health and developmental health needs of infants, children, youth, adults, and families and remains a strong and vital organization. German Cultural Garden Statue of Goethe and Schiller The German Cultural Garden is one of 23 culturally-themed gardens located along East Blvd. & Martin Luther King Blvd. in University Circle. Planned by the German Cultural Garden Association, designed by Architect Herman Dercum, and dedicated on June 2, 1929, the German Cultural Garden was the third of the 23 gardens to be constructed. The garden features a twin-figured bronze statue of poet/philosophers Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) and Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), bronze busts of dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), and poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), as well as a marble fountain dedicated to the memory of Friedrich Froebel, founder of the kindergarten system. |
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