SE facade - Hitchcock Center for Women
Southeast facade of the Hitchcock Center for Women, an addiction treatment facility located at 1227 Ansel Road in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
This is the former Our Lady of the Lake Seminary, known informally as St. Mary's Seminary. The building sits on an 11-acre site adjacent to the Cleveland Cultural Gardens and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Ground was broken in 1924 and a portion of the seminary opened for students and staff on November 7, 1924. The remainder of the seminary was completed on September 14, 1925. The chapel was finished on October 1, 1925.
The 95,000 square foot facility was designed by local architects Franz C. Warner and W.R. McCornack, and built by the Schirmer-O'Hara Co. (It is unclear who did the exterior artwork.) It is in the Mission Revival architectural style and the exterior is buff colored tapestry brick.
The seminary had more than 200 rooms, which included 150 single-occupancy bedrooms for instructors and students, classrooms, two refectories (dining rooms), a kitchen, several lounges, library, gymnasium, and chapel.
The building faces southwest, and is in the form of a rectangle bisected by a central wing. This central wing contains the chapel, which features walls lined with travertine marble, an open-timbered ceiling, bronze Stations of the Cross cast in Germany, 24 stained glass windows by Zettler of Munich, and an apse decorated with a mosaic of hand-laid colored glass.
The library on the second floor above the former main entrance. It is domed and features shelves for 40,000 volumes. It is decorated in the Mission Revival style with stained glass, marble, wrought-iron grill work, carved oak moldings, and frescoes.
The rear wing houses two refectories, one for students and a smaller one for faculty. Both are in the Mission Revival style, with unfinished plaster walls and open-beam ceilings. Numerous paintings hang the walls. In the basement below this wing is the kitchen, with dumbwaiters connecting the kitchen to the refectories above.
The two interior courtyards framed by the building were originally landscaped in the style of a Spanish garden.
The seminary provided both undergraduate and graduate programs until 1954, when an undergraduate program was established at Borromeo College Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio (the site of the former Marycrest School). Our Lady of the Lake Seminary closed in September 1990. The graduate program moved to Borromeo College, while the undergraduate program was moved to John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
Hitchcock Center for Women is an addiction treatment center for women founded in 1971. It purchased the former seminary in 1992.
SE facade - Hitchcock Center for Women
Southeast facade of the Hitchcock Center for Women, an addiction treatment facility located at 1227 Ansel Road in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
This is the former Our Lady of the Lake Seminary, known informally as St. Mary's Seminary. The building sits on an 11-acre site adjacent to the Cleveland Cultural Gardens and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Ground was broken in 1924 and a portion of the seminary opened for students and staff on November 7, 1924. The remainder of the seminary was completed on September 14, 1925. The chapel was finished on October 1, 1925.
The 95,000 square foot facility was designed by local architects Franz C. Warner and W.R. McCornack, and built by the Schirmer-O'Hara Co. (It is unclear who did the exterior artwork.) It is in the Mission Revival architectural style and the exterior is buff colored tapestry brick.
The seminary had more than 200 rooms, which included 150 single-occupancy bedrooms for instructors and students, classrooms, two refectories (dining rooms), a kitchen, several lounges, library, gymnasium, and chapel.
The building faces southwest, and is in the form of a rectangle bisected by a central wing. This central wing contains the chapel, which features walls lined with travertine marble, an open-timbered ceiling, bronze Stations of the Cross cast in Germany, 24 stained glass windows by Zettler of Munich, and an apse decorated with a mosaic of hand-laid colored glass.
The library on the second floor above the former main entrance. It is domed and features shelves for 40,000 volumes. It is decorated in the Mission Revival style with stained glass, marble, wrought-iron grill work, carved oak moldings, and frescoes.
The rear wing houses two refectories, one for students and a smaller one for faculty. Both are in the Mission Revival style, with unfinished plaster walls and open-beam ceilings. Numerous paintings hang the walls. In the basement below this wing is the kitchen, with dumbwaiters connecting the kitchen to the refectories above.
The two interior courtyards framed by the building were originally landscaped in the style of a Spanish garden.
The seminary provided both undergraduate and graduate programs until 1954, when an undergraduate program was established at Borromeo College Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio (the site of the former Marycrest School). Our Lady of the Lake Seminary closed in September 1990. The graduate program moved to Borromeo College, while the undergraduate program was moved to John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
Hitchcock Center for Women is an addiction treatment center for women founded in 1971. It purchased the former seminary in 1992.