Editing Akron, Ohio (section)

===Architecture===
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio}}
[[File:Jablonski Sculpture.jpg|thumb|right|Jablonski Sculpture, a gift of the Zimmite Corporation in tribute to Nola M. Guzzetta's humanitarian interest in providing for the blind a vision of artistic and architectural design through touch<ref name="Nolan N. Guzzetta Miniature Sculpture, (sculpture)"/>]]
[[File:Quaker Oats factory, Akron.jpg|thumb|[[Quaker Square]], 1979]]
As a result of multiple towns merging, and industry boom, Akron's architecture is diverse.

Originally a canal town, the city is divided into two parts by the [[Ohio and Erie Canal]], with downtown being centered on it. Along the locks, the city has a path paved with rubber.

Akron was awarded with the [[World's most livable cities|City Livability Award]] in 2008 for its efforts to co-purpose new school buildings as community learning centers. In 2009, the [[National Arbor Day Foundation]] designated Akron as a [[Tree City USA]] for the 14th time.<ref name="Ci.akron.oh.us">{{cite press release|title=Akron Named Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation|date=April 17, 2009|publisher=City of Akron|url=http://ci.akron.oh.us/News_Releases/2009/0417.htm|access-date=June 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927151804/http://ci.akron.oh.us/News_Releases/2009/0417.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref>

Many of the city's government and civic buildings, including City Hall and the [[Summit County Courthouse (Ohio)|Summit County Courthouse]] are from pre-World War Two, but the [[Akron-Summit County Public Library]], and [[John S. Knight Center]] are considerably newer. The library originally opened in 1969, but reopened as a greatly expanded facility in 2004. The Knight Center opened in 1994.

The First Methodist Episcopal Church first used the [[Akron Plan]] in 1872. The plan later gained popularity, being used in many [[Congregational church|Congregationalist]], [[Baptists|Baptist]], and [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] church buildings.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eYNjS56yx-0C&pg=PA269 ''When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102221215/https://books.google.com/books?id=eYNjS56yx-0C&pg=PA269&dq=John+Fletcher+Hurst+- |date=January 2, 2016 }}. Jeanne Halgren Kilde. [[Oxford University Press]], 2005. {{ISBN|0-19-517972-2}}. p.185</ref>

[[File:Akron Civic Theatre and Knight Stage.jpg|thumb|The facade of the [[Akron Civic Theatre]] and Knight Stage.]]
The city is home to a historic 1920s atmospheric [[movie palace]], the [[Akron Civic Theatre]]. One of the building's features is a starry sky with clouds that drift over it when the lights are dimmed.

Completed in 1931, Akron's tallest building, the [[Huntington Tower]], features the [[art deco]] style and is covered in [[glazed architectural terra-cotta]].<ref name="FirstMerit Restoration">FirstMerit Restoration, {{cite web|url=http://www.westerngroup.com/servicesAndProjects/structures/officeCommercial.jspx?fileName%3D1120493926173-106-04-01.jpg%26id%3D245 |title=FirstMerit Tower |access-date=September 6, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060311053532/http://www.westerngroup.com/servicesAndProjects/structures/officeCommercial.jspx?fileName=1120493926173-106-04-01.jpg&id=245 |archive-date=March 11, 2006 }}</ref> Standing {{convert|330|ft|m}} tall, it is built on top of the Hamilton Building, completed in 1900 in the [[neo-Gothic]] style.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} Near the turn of the millennium the tower was given a $2.5 million facelift, including a $1.8 million restoration of the tower's terra-cotta, brick, and limestone.<ref name="FirstMerit Restoration"/> The top of the building has a television broadcast tower formerly used by WAKR-TV (now [[WVPX-TV]]) and [[WAKR-AM]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Scraping the Sky|work=[[Beacon Journal]]|publisher=[[Knight-Ridder]]|page=Beacon Magazine 13|date=March 14, 1999}}</ref> The antenna reaches {{convert|134.7|m|ft}}.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} Located on the [[University of Akron]] campus, the [[Goodyear Polymer Center]] consists of glass twin towers connected by walkways. The university also formerly used the old [[Quaker Oats]] factory as a dormitory, including using it as a quarantine center during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. For many years it had been a shopping center called [[Quaker Square]]. There had also been a hotel there.

The [[Akron Art Museum]] commissioned [[Coop Himmelblau]] to design an expansion in 2007. The new building connects to the old building and is divided into three parts known as the "Crystal",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=511 |title=Akron Art Museum – Building the Akron Art Museum |publisher=Akronartmuseum.org |access-date=September 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120085430/http://akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=511 |archive-date=January 20, 2013  }}</ref> the "Gallery Box",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=502 |title=Akron Art Museum – Building the Akron Art Museum |publisher=Akronartmuseum.org |access-date=September 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120085436/http://akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=502 |archive-date=January 20, 2013  }}</ref> and the "Roof Cloud".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=526 |title=Akron Art Museum – Building the Akron Art Museum |publisher=Akronartmuseum.org |access-date=September 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120085423/http://akronartmuseum.org/photos/details.php?catid=40&unid=526 |archive-date=January 20, 2013  }}</ref>

The contrasting neighborhoods of Goodyear Heights and Firestone Park were built during the rubber industry to house workers and their families. Both are communities filled with houses based on mail-order plans.