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Title	Wade Park Photographs
Subject	Plants and Animals Arts and Entertainment Zoos Parks Deer
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	Five 10.5 by 13.5-inch (26.67 by 34.29 cm) photographs taken in 1894 document Wade Park, the predecessor of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. One photograph taken from the deer house shows the deer paddock. The second and third are of Centaur Lake and fountain. A centaur is a creature from Greek mythology that is half man and half horse. The fowl pond appears in the fourth photograph. The final image is of Canada geese near the deer house, a two-story Victorian Gothic building. The lower floor was the deer barn and the upper floor was used for storage and the keeper's quarters. It was moved to the zoo's current location and is now called Wade Hall. In 1882, Cleveland industrialist Jeptha Wade (1811-1890), a founder of Western Union Telegraph Company, donated seventy acres of land (now known as Wade Oval) in University Circle along Doan Brook to the city of Cleveland for use as a public park. The city purchased additional adjacent land to create Wade Park, the city's first zoological park. Wade contributed some of the zoo's first animals, white tailed deer. Construction of an art museum in 1905 prompted the city to find a new home for the zoo, Brookside Park near W. 25th Street. The move from Wade Park to Brookside Park was a gradual one that took nearly a decade. In 1970, the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District assumed responsibility for operating the zoo. In 1975 the name of the zoo was changed from Cleveland Zoological Park to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.
Date of Original	1894
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om528_923420_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om528_923420_001.tif
Image Height	3824
Image Width	5977
File Size	5155.616 KB

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