Editing Cleveland Public Library (section)

==Main Library==
[[File:Stokes wing.jpg|thumb|Louis Stokes Wing at the corner of Superior Avenue and East 6th Street in downtown Cleveland.]]

The Main Library consists of two buildings. The older wing, completed on May 6, 1925, and renovated between 1997 and 1999, has five stories, each as high as two stories in most buildings. The renovations included the restoration of Dominance of the City<ref>Cleveland Public Library, Digital Gallery [https://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll10/id/22/rec/1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514162425/https://cdm16014.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll10/id/22/rec/1|date=2019-05-14}}.Accessed 2007-05-14.</ref> a large mural painted by [[Ora Coltman]] in 1934 for the [[Federal Arts Project]]. The painting was restored by the [[Intermuseum Conservation Association]].<ref>Cleveland Public Library, [http://www.cpl.org/dominance.asp Dominance of the City] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004304/http://www.cpl.org/dominance.asp |date=2007-09-28 }}. Accessed 2007-07-25.</ref>

In 1957, the library purchased the six-story Plain Dealer Building at 710 Superior Avenue (now the site of the Louis Stokes Wing).<ref>{{cite news|title=Library Will Seek Funds to Buy Old Plain Dealer Building|work=The Plain Dealer|date=March 21, 1957|page=8}}</ref> The library won passage in November 1957 of a $3 million bond levy to pay for the purchase of the building.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kane|first=Russell W.|title=Library Issue and School Levy Pass|work=The Plain Dealer|date=November 6, 1957|pages=1, 15}}</ref> The structure was purchased on December 22, 1957,<ref>{{cite news|title=Library to Open Annex in 1958|work=The Plain Dealer|date=December 22, 1957|page=9}}</ref> and the new Business and Social Sciences Annex opened on August 24, 1959.<ref>{{cite news|title=Library-School Board Finance Feud Flares|work=The Plain Dealer|date=August 26, 1959|page=4}}</ref>

The annex was demolished in 1994 to make way for a second building, named after [[United States House of Representatives|Representative]] [[Louis Stokes]], was dedicated on April 12, 1997.  Stokes commented, "This is the most beautiful that I have ever seen."<ref>{{Cite report |title=Annual Report of the Cleveland Public Library for 1997 |page=5 |jstor=community.32532065}}</ref>  The $65 million structure of fritted glass panels and Georgia marble housed eight million items and two million titles on its grand opening.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mason|first1=Marilyn Gell|title=Annual report of the Cleveland Public Library for 1997|url=http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4014coll13/id/795|publisher=Cleveland Public Library|access-date=June 20, 2018}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  The two buildings are connected by an underground corridor below the Eastman Reading Garden, which was designed by [[landscape architecture]] firm [[OLIN]], and includes sculptures by [[Maya Lin]] and [[Tom Otterness]].