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To The Citizens of Ravenna:

On behalf of the people who participated in this design investigation of Ravenna's Historic Center, I am pleased to transmit to you this report which was prepared by the Urban Design Center of Northeastern Ohio with grants secured from the Ravenna Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Board of Regents' Urban University Program.

The School of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University endeavors to provide both a theoretical and practical basis for the study and research of design and planning problems. One of the purposes of the Urban Design Center of Northeastern Ohio is to facilitate such investigation, supporting students with opportunities to relate theory and practice while maintaining a public service to the region's neighborhoods and communities. Members of the third year architectural design studio and several graduate students who participated in this project gained much, I believe, through their association with the leaders in the Ravenna community. I am particularly grateful to the members of the Ravenna Chamber of Commerce, the Ravenna Development Corporation, the Ravenna Heritage Association, the Ravenna Design Review Committee, and Ravenna citizens who supported and contributed to this effort.

It is our hope that Ravenna's public officials, property owners, businessmen, citizens and community leaders will continue to work together to improve your future actions.

  Foster D. Armstrong
Project Director

  THIS REPORT IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

GRANT CARLIN
1927 - 1987

  EDUCATOR AND CIVIC SERVANT

  City Administration and Council
Ravenna Heritage Association
Property Owners such as Riddle-Frank Properties

  Study sponsored by:
Ravenna Chamber of Commerce
and
Ravenna Development Corporation

The Ravenna Development Corporation would like to thank the Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier for their coverage and publicity of this study.

Thomas Moore
Vice President for Academic
and Student Affairs

Richard E. Dunn
Vice President for Business Affairs
and Treasurer

William E. Shelton
Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Thomas J. Barber
Dean, Fine and Professional Arts

Robert Powell,
Dean, Graduate College

Eugene Wenninger
Dean, Research and Sponsored Programs

James E. Dalton,
Director, School of Architeture and
Environmental Design

Foster D. Armstrong
Director, Urban Design Center of Northeastern
Ohio

RAVENNA PROJECT TEAM
Professor Foster Armstrong
Project Director

Ann Bryner Hedington
Report Preparation

Third Year Students:

David James Beatty Kenny Kulak William J. Berger Robert Anthony Maschke Dave A. Brennan Joseph Matava Louis W. Brink Lynn M. Marchak B. Allison combs John Reyes Daniel DeAnelo Michael L. Tome Dave M. Fredrickson William T. Willoughby

  Graduate Students:
Karen Clinc J. Peter Shannon
Somshekar Marappa K. K. Tan

The Urban Design Center would like to thank the Portage County Historical Society for allowing the reproduction of the historical photographs used in this publication.

The Urban Design Center is supported by the Ohio General Assembly and the Ohio Board of Regents through the Urban University Program. Partial funding for this project was provided by the Ohio Department of Development, Office of Local Government Services.