Hungarian Cultural Garden Gate
June 23, 2024

The Hungarian Cultural Garden is one of over 35 ethnic gardens in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Each year the Hungarian Cultural Garden puts on a free performance featuring the music of Franz Liszt and others for the community. In 2024 they also celebrated the refurbishment of the beautiful Gate in the Garden. The Gate was created by local Hungarian artisans and dedicated in 1938

Cleveland Historical says, "From East Boulevard, visitors enter the Hungarian Cultural Garden through a patterned wrought-iron gateway gifted by the Verhovay Insurance Association. Crafted by Handcraft Metal, whose crafts people trained at the renowned Rose Iron Works, the gate is like the traditional type of archway leading to country estates in the Szekely region of Hungary. The Szekely Kapus is decorated with two small, delightful peasant figures in bronze; it also bears the year 1938, signaling the Gardens' formal dedication. Though "rehabilitated" in recent years, the gate remains a remarkable tribute to the delicate artistry of early twentieth century ironworkers in Cleveland."

Watch a video of Hungarian Cultural Garden president Carolyn Balogh talking about the Gate.

Gate in the Hungarian Cultural Garden

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Bench detail on the Gate in the Hungarian Cultural Garden

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Andrea Lazar by the refurbished Hungarian Garden gate

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Singer Emoke Armington by the refurbished gate