University Circle
University Circle is a district in the neighborhood of University on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio.

University Circle is a district in the neighborhood of University on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is home to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Cinematheque, Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, historic Lake View Cemetery, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
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Worth seeing in and around University Circle
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Located in the Wade Park District of University Circle, the museum is internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art and houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 61,000 works of art from around the world.
500 m · art museum in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 02Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was federated in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 by the Presbyterian Church, and the Case Institute of Technology, founded in 1880.
600 m · private university in Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 03James A. Garfield Memorial
The James A. Garfield Memorial is the final resting place of assassinated President James A. Garfield, located in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The memorial, which began construction in October 1885 and was dedicated on May 30, 1890, exhibits a combination of Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque Revival architectural styles.
1.2 km · building · Wikipedia - 04League Park
League Park was a baseball park located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was situated at the northeast corner of Dunham Street and Lexington Avenue in the Hough neighborhood.
3.3 km · baseball park located in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 05Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in University Circle, a district of educational, cultural and medical institutions approximately five miles east of Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The museum was established in 1920 by Cyrus S. Eaton to perform research, education and development of collections in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geology, paleontology, wildlife biology, and zoology.
1.1 km · natural history museum in Cleveland, Ohio, USA · Wikipedia - 06Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery is a privately owned, nonprofit garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio. Founded in 1869, the cemetery was favored by wealthy families during the Gilded Age, and today the cemetery is known for its numerous lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums.
1.2 km · cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio · Wikipedia - 07Allen Memorial Medical Library
Allen Memorial Medical Library is located along Euclid Avenue on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Completed in 1926, the building was named in honor of Dudley P. Allen.
400 m · library · Wikipedia - 08Severance Hall
Severance Hall, also known as Severance Music Center, is a concert hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, home to the Cleveland Orchestra. Opened in 1931 to give the orchestra a permanent home, the building is named for patrons John L. Severance and his wife, Elisabeth Huntingdon DeWitt Severance.
400 m · concert hall in Cleveland, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 09St. Vitus's Church, Cleveland
St. Vitus is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in the Diocese of Cleveland.
4 km · church in Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 10Maltz Performing Arts Center
The Maltz Performing Arts Center, officially the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center, is a 1200-seat historic arts and religious venue on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, located at 1855 Ansel Road, in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The center is contained within the Temple–Tifereth Israel synagogue building, located at Silver Park, on the border between the neighborhoods of Hough and University Circle.
900 m · historic arts center and synagogue building in Cleveland, Ohio, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to University Circle
- Airports
- Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 23 km · Windsor (YQG), 141 km · Pittsburgh (PIT), 161 km
- Stations
- East 79th, 3.9 km
- Pittsburgh → University Circle180 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · $16–23
- Detroit → University Circle150 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · $22–31
- Columbus → University Circle104 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · $9–13
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- Go nextLocated west of Cleveland, a group of picturesque and festive islands in Lake Erie are accessible via ferry.
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Next door to University Circle
University Circle is 8 km from Cleveland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Fairmount Boulevard Districthistoric district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio2.6 km