Cleveland History Center wth Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

44106 Cleveland, OH, United States of America (USA) (Ohio)

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Cleveland History Center

The Society's headquarters in University Circle, styled "the History Center", houses several facilities:

The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum houses over 150 vintage and antique automobiles and airplanes.

The Euclid Beach Park Grand Carousel, fully restored 45 years after the park closed, opened November 23, 2014.

The History Museum also has changing exhibits that showcase local history.

The History Museum also includes:
The Hay-McKinney Mansion, a 1911 home with luxurious turn-of-the-century parlors and living areas designed by Abram Garfield, the son of James A. Garfield.

The Bingham-Hanna House, built between 1916 and 1919 on the land neighboring the Hay-McKinney property, Harry Payne Bingham built a 35-room house designed by Walker & Gillette, with a landscape by Olmsted Brothers and featuring ironwork by Samuel Yellin.

The Chisholm Halle Costume Wing, houses over 30,000 garments from the late 18th century to the present.

The Library and Archives feature over 20 million archives and manuscripts for genealogical research or any aspect of Northeast Ohio history. The institutions significant collections includes the World's largest and most comprehensive collection of Shaker Materials. Other substantial collections include the Civil War and the automotive industry

Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum
The collection began as the Thompson Products Auto Album, which was also founded by Crawford.

Its collection of classic vehicles include
a replica of 1890s Cleveland main street,
antique carriages,
early Harley Davidson motorcycles,
a Willys Custom Sedan,
and a P-51 Mustang racing plane used in the National Air Races.
The oldest car in the collection is a 1895 Panhard et Levassor,
while the most modern is the robotic car named "DEXTER", which was team Team Case's entry in 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge 2007, in which it placed in the top 20 entries.

As of 2011, the museum has 37 cars that are more than 100 years old, the largest such collection in the world. One of the rarest cars in the collection is an aluminum bodied 1932 prototype Peerless designed by Frank Hershey, which was never put into production and was the last passenger vehicle made in Cleveland.

Crawford explained that when he started collecting the cars, it was simply because it seemed a shame to let them be scrapped, which was the typical fate of almost all antique machinery at the time. He saw value in saving a few historically significant examples.

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