Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland's Oldest Electric Street Lamp
Charles F. Brush debuted the first electric street lights across the street 1879. This fancy art nouveau lamp, a tribute to Brush, was switched on in 1890.
- Address:
- 151 Ontario St., Cleveland, OH
- Directions:
- Downtown, across from Cleveland Public Square park, at the intersection of Rockwell Ave. and Ontario St.
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Invented by Charles F. Brush of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1879.
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Not exactly. The art nouveau lamp was designed in 1890 to commemorate Brush's Cleveland street lights, which were no-frills blinding arc lamps on outdoor towers erected just across the street. They'd been taken down by the time this lamp went up.