131murms. The more prominent buildings of the city include the City Hall, County C'ourt House, Chamber of Commerce. New Central Armory, Cleveland Grays' Armory, Public Li brary, Adelbert College, Medical College of West ern Reserve University, Case School of Applied Science, Northern Ohio Insane Asylum, Union Depot, Young Men's Christian Association, and the New Sheriff Street Market, 400 feet long by 120 feet wide. The Arcade, 400 by 180 feet, built in 1889, at a cost of $850,000, has a fine interior; arranged on both sides of a central court are the several tiers of stores and offices fronted by bal conies. On Euclid Avenue, opposite Bond Street, and extending through to Prospect Street, is the Colonial Arcade Building, at the Prospect Street end of which is the Colonial Hotel. Other struc tures worthy of note are the Williamson, New England, Society for Savings, Citizens. American Trust, Schofield, Rose, Perry-Payne, Garfield, Cuyahoga, and Caxton buildings. The Plymouth and Pilgrim (Congregational), the First Metho dist Episcopal and Epworth Memorial, First Presbyterian ("Old Stone Church"), Euclid Av enue Baptist, and Saint Paul's (Protestant Epis copal) churches, and the Roman Catholic cathe dral. are among the finest ecclesiakical edifices.
Recently a plan has been projected systematic ally to beautify the city by grouping the public buildings that are to replace the present edifices. some of which are rented, and which on the whole are architecturally indifferent—an un dertaking, to which $20,000,000 will ultimately be devoted. The public buildings will be ar ranged in a quadrangle inelosing a mall, the whole occupying a plot of land in the heart of the city one-eighth of a mile wide by one-half of a mile long. The scheme of the "'group plan" consists in placing the new Post-Office, now under construetion. and the proposed Public Library at the south end of the Mall; at the north end of the Mall and on its axis a monumen tal union railroad station will be placed, flanked on either side by the County Court-House and the City Hall An imposing Court of Honor will join these two groups of buildings.
l'ARKs AND CEMETERIES. Among the many fine parks belonging to the city, the largest is Rockefeller Park. of 200 acres, a part of which 'A a :4 given by the millionaire whose name it bears. It includes the Valley of Doan Brook, with several smaller parks and parkways. and is con nected with Gordon and Wade Parks by the boulevard which extends also between these two. Gordon Park. on the lake-front, comprises 112 acres, and. with Wade Park (83 acres) to the southeast, is noted for its gardens. The latter contains the statue of Commodore Perry, for merly in Monumental Park. and a zoitlogical garden. Edgewater Park (120 acres) has well kept lawns, walks, and a beach with facilities for boating and bathing. Brookside Park (149 arms): Garfield Park 1103 acres) ; Woodland Hills Park (102 acres) ; Shake•-Heights Park. just outside the city limits, and named from the community which once occupied the land: Lakeview Park, on the lake shore; Lincoln Park; and the Circle on the west side of the river, are also worthy of mention. Besides Euclid Avenue. the more attractive drives are the boulevard system of 33 miles. connecting the parks. and Lake Avenue and Clifton Boulevard.
Cleveland has a number of cemeteries, the largest of which are Woodland, Riverside, and Lakeview. The last, one of the most beautiful in the country, contains more than 300 acres, with great natural advantages skillfully im proved- Here, on an eminence 250 feet above the level of the lake, stands the Garfield Memorial, completed in 1890 at a cost of $225,000—the bal cony near the top, 105 feet high, affording a fine view of the city and its suburbs. It is built principally of Ohio sandstone, and contains a chapel with symbolical panels and reliefs of scenes from the President's career, and his statue. His remains lie in a crypt beneath.
In Lakeview Cemetery is situated the Wade Memorial Chapel, which cost more than $350.000.