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TERMINAL COLLECTION |
 | Gerald Adams, donor of the original Cleveland Union Terminal Collection here at Cleveland State, passed away the weekend before Thanksgiving, 2001, of a heart attack at home. No single gift has built Special Collections as a local railroad history repository like Jerry's gift of hundreds of boxes of CUT office files, thousands of rolled drawings and hundreds of black & white photographs, chronicling the construction of the Terminal Tower project in the 1920s. He continued to be a avid supporter up to his death and was always available to share his extensive knowledge of the CUT in particular and railroading in general. He will be greatly missed for all that and for being a good friend! |
The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and the infrastructure of tracks, bridges, signals, electrical catenary structures and yard facility buildings necessary to switch passenger coaches over from steam to electric and bring them in to the downtown area. This was a massive urban redevelopment project that foreshadowed the Rockefeller Center, in New York; gave Clevaland the second-tallest building in the world in 1930; and forever changed the face of Public Square and wide swaths of adjoining neighborhoods.
DIRECTORY:
ACCESS to the C.U.T. Collection
EXHIBITIONS of C.U.T. Collection materials on-line
HISTORY of the Cleveland Union Terminal, in general, and the C.U.T. Collection, in particular.
HOLDINGS of the C.U.T. Collection, including digitized Construction Photos
MODELS of the Cleveland Union Terminal
When the Cleveland Union Terminal was formally opened in 1930 a souvenir DEDICATION BOOK was issued, explaining the new project and showing beautiful drawings of the facility.
See the Art Education Department's "HOMAGE" exhibit about the Terminal Tower. It is currently on display outside the Law Library.
Special Collections, CSU Library
Last updated November 12, 2002
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