Cleveland Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  Right on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rises in front of you. This building is a museum and hall of fame that documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other personnel who influenced its development.

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  Terminal Tower

  Feel the scale of this 52-story landmark rising from Public Square in Cleveland's downtown core, completed in 1927. Built during the skyscraper boom of the 1920s and 1930s and completed in 1927, it was the second-tallest building in the world when finished.

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  Cleveland Arcade

  Two nine‑story buildings joined by a five‑story covered passage: that is the Arcade, the Victorian‑era spectacle in front of you in downtown Cleveland. Built in 1890 and opened on Memorial Day, May 30, 1890, it was one of the earliest indoor shopping arcades in the United States.

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  USS Cod

  USS Cod, hull number SS/AGSS/IXSS-224, is the Gato-class submarine in front of you, the only vessel in the United States Navy ever named for the cod, that important and very popular food fish of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. She was launched here in the story of her life on 21 March 1943 and commissioned a few months later on 21 June 1943.

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  Public Auditorium

  Dedicated on April 15, 1922, Public Auditorium rises in front of you, the multi‑purpose performing arts, entertainment, sports, and exposition facility at the heart of downtown Cleveland's civic center district. Planned and funded before World War I, construction did not begin until 1920; the cornerstone was laid October 20, 1920, and the completed building was dedicated April 15, 1922.

All 30 stops

• Public Square (Downtown Cleveland)

  Look up: Cleveland's four tallest towers frame this historic downtown plaza.

• Perry Monument (Public Square)

  Notice the bronze figure of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry rising here in Cleveland's Public Square.

• Old Stone Church (Public Square)

  Imagine fifteen Clevelanders gathering here in September 1820 to sign the charter of this, the oldest building on Public Square.

• Terminal Tower (Public Square)

  Feel the scale of this 52-story landmark rising from Public Square in Cleveland's downtown core, completed in 1927.

• Tower City Center (Public Square)

  Picture the Van Sweringen brothers' 1929 vision here: a train terminal modeled after New York's Grand Central.

• Cleveland Arcade (Downtown Cleveland)

  Two nine‑story buildings joined by a five‑story covered passage: that is the Arcade, the Victorian‑era spectacle in front of you in downtown Cleveland.

• Cleveland Public Library (Downtown Cleveland)

  Picture sixteen of Cleveland's sixty-four residents subscribing to a first library here back in 1811.

• Playhouse Square (downtown Cleveland)

  Playhouse Square, the theater district of downtown Cleveland, opens in front of you.

• Ohio Theatre (Playhouse Square)

  On Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, you face the Mimi Ohio Theatre, part of Playhouse Square.

• Allen Theatre (Playhouse Square)

  Feel the daylight-sky ceiling above you, painted for this 1921 movie palace on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland.

• Keith Building (Playhouse Square)

  Picture the multi-story electric sign that once topped this 272-foot tower, claimed the largest of its kind in the world.

• Hanna Building (Theater District)

  At the corner of East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, the Hanna Building rises in front of you, a historically renovated high-rise in downtown Cleveland's…

• Willard Park (Cleveland Mall historic district)

  Willard Park lies in front of you at the northwest corner of East 9th Street and Lakeside Avenue, a downtown public park beside Cleveland City…

• Public Auditorium (civic center district of downtown Cleveland)

  Dedicated on April 15, 1922, Public Auditorium rises in front of you, the multi‑purpose performing arts, entertainment, sports, and exposition facility at the heart of…

• Cleveland Mall (Downtown Cleveland)

  Daniel Burnham helped conceive the 1903 Group Plan that gave downtown Cleveland, Ohio, this landscaped park, the Cleveland Mall.

• Cuyahoga County Courthouse (Cleveland Mall)

  Along Lakeside Avenue at the north end of the Cleveland Mall, the Cuyahoga County Courthouse stretches in front of you, a Beaux Arts building in…

• Great Lakes Science Center (Downtown Cleveland)

  Ahead of you in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the Great Lakes Science Center.

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (downtown Cleveland)

  Right on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rises in front of you.

• Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum (Cleveland)

  They called her The Ship That Built Cleveland, and the SS William G. Mather, a retired Great Lakes bulk freighter, is the museum ship in…

• USS Cod (Cleveland)

  USS Cod, hull number SS/AGSS/IXSS-224, is the Gato-class submarine in front of you, the only vessel in the United States Navy ever named for the…

• Cleveland West Pierhead Light (Cleveland)

  Out on the shore of Cleveland, Ohio, you face the Cleveland West Pierhead Light, sometimes called Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light.

• Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport (Downtown Cleveland)

  Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport (IATA: BKL, ICAO: KBKL, FAA LID: BKL) spreads along the shore of Lake Erie in front of you, a city-owned airfield…

• Settlers Landing (The Flats)

  Back in 1796 Moses Cleaveland's survey team came ashore near this spot, and Settlers Landing station, inside Settlers Landing Park, now carries the name.

• Detroit–Superior Bridge (Public Square)

  Spanning the Cuyahoga River in front of you is the Detroit–Superior Bridge, officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge, a 3,112-foot-long (949 m) through arch bridge in…

• The Flats (Cuyahoga Valley)

  Feel the humid summers and harsh winters that once made these low Cuyahoga River banks inhospitable to early settlers.

• Center Street Bridge (The Flats)

  Listen for the bell that signals this swing bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, part of the Cleveland Centre Historic District.

• Columbus Road Bridge (The Flats)

  Over the Cuyahoga River here in Cleveland rises the Columbus Road Bridge, the vertical lift bridge in front of you.

• Cuyahoga River Bridge 1 (The Flats)

  Cuyahoga River Bridge 1 is the railroad lift bridge also known as the Iron Curtain Bridge and once called the First Flats Rail Bridge.

• Cleveland station (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) (The Flats)

  Trains ran from the former Cleveland station in front of you here in The Flats from 1898.

• Whiskey Island (Cuyahoga Valley)

  Whiskey Island, the long peninsula under your feet, sits at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where it meets Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio.

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