Everything about Public Square totally explained
Public Square is the central plaza in
downtown Cleveland,
Ohio,
United States. It takes up four city blocks; Superior Avenue and Ontario Street cross through it. Cleveland's three tallest buildings,
Key Tower, the
BP Tower and the
Terminal Tower, face the square. Other Public Square landmarks include the 1855
Old Stone Church and the former
Higbee's department store made famous in the 1983 film
A Christmas Story.
A 125-foot
monument to Civil War soldiers and sailors occupies the southeast quadrant of the square. City founder
Moses Cleaveland and reformist mayor
Tom L. Johnson each have statues on the square.
Public Square was part of the
Connecticut Land Company's original plan for the city, which were overseen by
Moses Cleaveland in the 1790s. The square is signature of the layout for early New England towns, which Cleveland was modeled after. While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later Public Square was the height of modernity, when in 1879 it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric
street lights,
arc lamps designed by Cleveland native
Charles F. Brush. The square was added to the
National Register of Historic Places on
December 18,
1975.
A parking lot now faces the northwest quadrant of the square. A 12-story building, which was built on the spot in 1913, was demolished in 1990 to make way for the new Ameritrust Center, an 1,197-foot
skyscraper designed by New York's
Kohn Pedersen Fox. Before construction began, Ameritrust was acquired by
Society Bank, which was also planning to construct and subsequently relocate to a new building on Public Square — the Key Tower (formerly known as the Society Center). Because Society didn't need two skyscrapers, plans for the Ameritrust building across the square were scrapped.
U.S. routes
42,
322, and
422 and several Ohio state highways begin at Public Square.
U.S. Route 6 passes through the square on Superior, and
U.S. Route 20 enters from the west on Superior and leaves via
Euclid Avenue.
Public Square is often the site of political rallies and civic functions, including a free annual
Independence Day concert by the
Cleveland Orchestra.
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