$3 million Mandel Foundation gift will support Western Reserve Historical Society library renovation
The library of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
WRHS in a news release on Wednesday, Jan. 13, said the gift will enable the organization to continue the physical and cultural transformation of the Cleveland History Center, which is its main campus and headquarters. The library, a 64,000-square-foot, four-story building completed in 1983, houses an expansive collection of published materials, including 250,000 books, 25,000 newspapers, and numerous maps, sheet music, broadsides and printed ephemera, WRHS said in the release. The organization s unpublished manuscript collections of personal papers and records, photographs, and audio and video recordings are available for research to students, scholars and the general public.