Image: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (27420355137)

Description: Cleveland State University opened in 1965 at the former site of Fenn College, with several new buildings added to expand the campus since then. This picture shows the Rhodes Tower, constructed from 1968 to 1971, which is the tallest building on campus and is home to the university's library and offices, and the second tallest purpose-built educational building in the United States, after the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. The brutalist structure was built with a steel frame and clad in white concrete panels, and stands atop a podium that contains many classrooms, offices, and university functions, and forms a sort of enclosed wall that blocks the campus off from much of the surrounding city, which has been in the process of being broken up over the past few decades. Today, Cleveland State University has become much more rigorous in its academic programs, and appears to be on a good track for becoming yet another one of Ohio's great public universities.
Title: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (27420355137)
Credit: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Author: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States
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License: CC0
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