Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Cleveland Cultural Gardens
The Hungarian Cultural Garden (1938) is one of 33 nationality gardens in Rockefeller Park National Historic District.
Cleveland Cultural Gardens is located in Ohio
Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Cleveland Cultural Gardens is located in the United States
Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Locationalong both sides of Doan Brook and on both East Blvd and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Mainly between Lake Erie and Wade Park Avenue. All but one within Rockefeller Park.
Coordinates41°31′30″N 81°37′22″W / 41.52500°N 81.62278°W / 41.52500; -81.62278
Built1916 through 2019 and still building
ArchitectErnest J. Bowditch, et al.
Architectural styleClassical Revival, Art Deco, Landscape Architecture
NRHP reference No.05000382[1]
Added to NRHP2005
The Croatian Cultural Garden is one of the many gardens found in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens and the baptismal font is located in the Croatian garden. The font represents Croatia's conversion to Christianity and is a replica of Prince Višeslav’s baptismal font. The font has six sides and is inscribed: “This font receives the weak to enlighten them. Here they are purged of their sins which they received from their first parents, to become Christians, salutary [sic] confessing the Eternal Trinity. This work was skillfully made by priest John at the time of Prince Višeslav, out of piety but to honor Saint John the Baptist, to mediate for him and his protégé.” [2]

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens are a collection of public gardens located in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1896, John D. Rockefeller donated the land the Cleveland Cultural Gardens occupies today.[3] The gardens are situated along East Boulevard & Martin Luther King Jr. Drive within the 276 acre of wooded parkland on the city's East Side.[4] In total, there are 35 distinct gardens, each commemorating a different ethnic group whose immigrants have contributed to the heritage of the United States over the centuries, as well as Cleveland.[5]

  1. ^ "National Register of Historical Places – Ohio(OH), Cuyahoga County". National Register of Historic Places. Nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  2. ^ White, Sarah (September 27, 2023). "Croatian Cultural Garden". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  3. ^ "History – The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation". Cleveland Cultural Gardens. 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  4. ^ Cultural Gardens in Cleveland's Rockefeller Park need - and deserve - TLC | cleveland.com
  5. ^ "Cleveland Cultural Gardens". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved August 21, 2019.