The Toledo Zoo - Celebrating A Century of Adventure

The Toledo Zoo - Celebrating A Century of Adventure. . , Aviary , Completion/Dedication Date: May 31, 1937 , Architect: Paul S. Robinette/Michael O'Shea , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Total Cost: $217,000 (approximate) , Local Share: $65,570 , Labor count: 188,842 hours , Original use: Bind exhibits, bird infirmary, offices , Renovated: 1998 , Current use: Bind exhibits , Unique Features: architectural details, first building to utilize natural glass block., Subway Station , Completion/Dedication Date: 1936 , Architect: Paul S. Robinette/Michael O'Shea , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Original use: Underground pedestrian crossing of Canal Boulevard , Unique Features: architectural details, utilizes structural glass block. , Current use: Northern building demolished to make room for new pedestrian bridge, remaining building and tunnel used for storage., Aquarium/Trout Stream , Completion/Dedication Date: May 31, 1939 , Architect: Paul S. Robinette/Michael O'Shea , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Total Cost: $312,015 , Local Share: $75,088 , Labor cost: 306,567 hours , Original use: Aquatic exhibits, meting room , Current use: Aquatic exhibits, offices, meeting room , Unique Features: Largest freshwater aquarium in the world at the time; originally deigned to serve an Amphitheater back wall, Elephant House (Proboscedia) , Completion/Dedication Date: 1923 , Architect: Stophlet and Staplet , Style: Spanish colonial revival , Total Cost: $75,000 , Original use: elephant rhino, and hippo Exhibits , Unique Features: second floor clerestory in the design caused the public to referred to it as, "a cathedral for elephants", Antler Hall, first reptile display at the zoo , Renovated 1998- renamed African Lodge , Current use: Conference center and catering facility, Reptile House , Completion/Dedication Date: September 15, 1934 , Architect: Paul S. Robinette and Roger Conant , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Total Cost: $150,000 in Federal funds , Labor cost: $80,000 , Original uses: Reptile exhibits , Current use: Reptile exhibits, breeding (off exhibit), research, holding areas, and offices , Unique Features: Hand-made stone carvings, hand-painted murals First zoo building built under the C.W.A. (Civil Works Program), Carnivora Building/Cafe , Completion/Dedication Date: December 25, 1927 , Architect: Stophlet and Stophlet , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Total Cost: $? , Original use: home for lions, tigers and other cats, bakery and first vet hospital , Unique Features: architectural details, clerestory similar to pachyderm house, quatrefoil windows similar to museum of science , Renovated: 1993 , Current use: Cafeteria where public can sit in old animal cages, Wonder Valley , Completion/Dedication Date: May 1953 , Architect: Bellman, Gillette and Richards , Local builder: Stanford E. Thal Company , Major Funding: Elizabeth Mau - long-time zoo supporter and first zoo "Life Member" , Original use: Come face to face with domestic animals, both familiar and foreign , Unique Features: By the cow, Solde the St. Bernard, Galopy the tortoise, Amphitheater/Indoor Theater/Museum , Completion/Dedication Date: , Amphitheater: July 16, 1936 , Indoor Theater: October, 1936 , Museum: May 29-30, 1935 , Architect: Paul S. Robinette/Michael O'Shea , Style: Spanish influences , Total Cost: $600,000 , Local Cost: $196,000 , Original use: Museum exhibits, Performances, restaurant, offices library , Current use: Administrative offices, library, insect exhibits, educational and volunteer servings, revolving exhibits, performances , Unique Features: Hand created from salvaged materials; stone carvings; outdoor amphitheater and an indoor theater, Monkey Mountain , Completion/Dedication Date: 1933 , Design: Zookeeper Roy Collins , Style: in the Hagenbeck Zoo in Germany , Total Cont: $1200 plus donations from local businesses , Original use: Monkey exhibits, natural Environment, first of the relief built projects at the zoo, Herbivore/Giraffe House , Completion/Dedication Date: 1928 , Architect: Stophlet and Stophles , Style: Moorish and Spanish influences , Total Cost: $? , Original use: Giraffes exhibit , Unique Features:? , Demolished: 1984, to make room for the new African Savanna exhibit, copper and glass skylight was saved and turned into the free standing shelter you see here