The Wade Memorial Chapel is a historic chapel

Chapel

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 in Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

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. The Neoclassical

Neoclassical architecture

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 chapel was built in 1901 in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery

Lake View Cemetery

Lake View Cemetery is located on the east side of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, along the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights borders. There are over 104,000 people buried at Lake View, with more than 700 burials each year. There are remaining for future development. Known locally as "Cleveland's...

, which is the location of over 104,000 burials. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1973. The chapel is located at the intersection of Lake and Chapel Roads, near the cemetery offices and north of the Garfield Memorial.

The chapel was constructed in honor of Jeptha Wade

Jeptha Wade

Jeptha Homer Wade was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph....

, a Cleveland industrialist

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 who was the president of the cemetery association that founded Lake View Cemetery. Its interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany

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