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- Title, side A
- Glendale Steps
- Text, side A
- Built over a two-year period, from 1936-1937, by the Federal Works Progress Administration, the Glendale Steps survive as a monument to the work of stone craftsmen during the Great Depression. Spanning a 200-foot slope, the purpose of the Glendale Steps was to enable Akron residents to descend from South Walnut Street to a city park along Glendale Avenue. The 242 sandstone steps were dressed on site and hand laid by WPA laborers at a cost of $22,000. Depression-era budget problems prevented the City of Akron from completing planned improvements to the park.
- Sponsors
- Progress Through Preservation and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- Glendale Avenue
Akron, OH 44302 - Location
- On the N side of Glendale Avenue, SE from S Maple Street
- Coordinates
- Latitude: 41.0855850, Longitude: -81.5230990.
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