The title of "World's Largest Parking Garage" today seems almost
inconsequential, but in the early decades of motoring, parking garages
offered more than just a place to park your car, with washing and
maintenance services available, along with a place to park your
chauffeur.
Garages were often elaborate buildings seen as the pinnacle
of architectural modernity in accordance with the vehicles housed and
maintained inside them, and were more often than not welcomed in the
hearts of major cities rather than ignored, as they are today.
We've already seen one claim to the largest garage in the world, circa 1908, from the 20,000-square-foot Mammoth Garage of White Plains, New York. A successive claim came a few years later from the Euclid Square Garage right in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Incorporated in January 1913 with a capital of $25,000, the garage
occupied the second floor of the Wigmore Coliseum, built the year
before on East 13th Street between Euclid and Chester avenues.
When the garage first opened, it encompassed 65,000 square feet, and
boasted an excellent location amid theaters, shops, clubs, hotels and
businesses.
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