For more than a decade, the Rotunda Building at the corner of East 9th and Euclid has been shut up tight as the bank vault it houses. Without a tenant to bring it to life, the best that could be done was to just preserve it.
But for the month of December, it will be filled nearly every day with light, sound, curious passers-by and ardent admirers. Cleveland Public Art has coordinated a schedule of events designed to both entertain and educate, as well as to help draw people downtown to see something they’ve never seen before.
To begin with, there’s the exterior. For the past century, anyone who has ever wandered east of Public Square along Euclid Avenue has probably spent at least a few minutes admiring the building’s graceful columns and allegorical pediment.