Wade Memorial Chapel

Wade Memorial Chapel
Location: 12316 Euclid Ave., inside Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
Area: 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built: 1901
Architect: Hubbell & Benes
Architectural style: Classical Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 73001422[1]
Added to NRHP: June 18, 1973

The Wade Memorial Chapel is a historic chapel in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Neoclassical chapel was built in 1901 in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery,[1] which is the location of over 104,000 burials.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] The chapel is located at the intersection of Lake and Chapel Roads, near the cemetery offices and north of the Garfield Memorial.[3]

The chapel was constructed in honor of Jeptha Wade,[4] a Cleveland industrialist who was the president of the cemetery association that founded Lake View Cemetery.[5] Its interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Vigil, Vicki Blum (2007). Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio: Stones, Symbols & Stories. Cleveland, OH: Gray & Company. ISBN 978-1-59851-025-6. 
  3. ^ Plan of Lake View Cemetery, Lake View Cemetery. Accessed 2009-09-08.
  4. ^ a b "Lake View Cemetery". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=LVC. Retrieved 2009-09-08. 
  5. ^ "Wade, Jeptha Homer I". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WJHI. Retrieved 2009-09-08.