The Ford Auditorium
This auditorium honors the Ford Family, original owners of the land on which the Allen Library sits. Horatio Cyrus Ford, the patriarch of a noted family of Cleveland bankers, lawyers, civic leaders, and entrepreneurs, came to Cleveland from Massachusetts, settling on this land in 1837. Western Reserve University acquired the Ford House and land in the later 19th century and the house served as the home of Flora Stone Mather College (1888), the Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law (1892) and the School of Applied Social Science (1916). The house was razed to make room for the Allen Memorial Medical Library, which opened in 1926.
Today the auditorium is used by various departments of CWRU and is home to the Jason Project in Northeast Ohio. The seating capacity of the Ford is 420.

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