Grays Armory offers free tours to the public to mark 120 year anniversary:
Saturday, June 8, 2013
1234 Boliver Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
1-4pm
I haven't been to the Grays Armory Museum since I finished a Winking Lizard Beer Tour in 2003 or 2004 (as that where the celebratory party was held). I remember it fondly as an imposing structure, tucked away South of Prospect downtown filled with history and forever foreboding looking standing guard over our past.
From the Grays Armory Website:
Our Brief History
Since 1837 when 118 brave men adopted the motto, "Semper Paratus," (Always Prepared) and where chartered in as an independent militia the Cleveland Grays and their friends have made history. From 1792 to 1903 state and federal law authorized independent militias, private volunteer groups that supplemented the official state militia, and served the community in all the ways that the National Guard does today. The Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style Armory was built in 1893. Within its imposing walls the armory has also made history by hosting Cleveland's finest events and its people. Including the first concert by John Phillip Sousa and Cleveland's first Auto Show.
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