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Title	Cincinnati Zoo Architectural Drawings
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Plants and Animals Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Architecture Zoos Architectural drawings
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	This collection of architectural drawings documents the beginnings of the Cincinnati Zoo. Included here are drawings of the monkey house, entrance lodge, eagle and owl building, elk house, bear pits, carnivoria, club house, squirrel cage, and aviary. Each drawing measures 11 by 14 inches (27.9 by 35.56 cm). A variety of architectural elements were incorporated into the design of the zoo buildings, including Gothic, Middle Eastern, and rustic elements, to name only a few. These foreign elements were to represent the native buildings from the area in which the animal originated. A few of the buildings are still standing today. The Monkey House now serves as the Reptile House and is the oldest zoo building in North America. One of the zoo's seven original Japanese-inspired aviaries is now used as the Passenger Pigeon monument. In 1875, the Cincinnati Zoo opened for public display. The zoo began earlier in the decade through the efforts of Andrew Erkenbrecher, a German immigrant. Influenced by European zoos, Erkenbrecher and the other trustees planned to place their animals in naturalistic, more rural settings than the menageries of New York or Chicago. Building on the German tradition of music in the zoo, concerts were held near the restaurant. Architect James W. McLaughlin (1834-1923) was active in Cincinnati between 1857 and 1912. Among his other designs are the Art Museum and Art Academy, the former Public Library, and the Shillito Company building, which some architectural historians believe influenced the development of the Chicago "skyscraper."
Creator	McLaughlin, James, 1834-1923
Date of Original	1875
Source	Audiovisual material Acc. # 0111, Box # 108464229
Submitting Institution	Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1171_983780_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	Om1171_983780_001.tif
Image Height	4911
Image Width	3304
File Size	5252.611 KB

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