CUYAHOGA COUNTY SOLDIERS & SAILORS MONUMENT. See SOLDIERS & SAILORS MONUMENT.
Category: Neighborhoods and Landmarks
The CUYAHOGA VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD is a Cleveland Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Comprised largely of the northernmost 8-10 mi.
DETROIT-SHOREWAY is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) located on the city’s west side. Centered around Gordon Square (W. 65th St.
DIKE 14, a manmade peninsula on Lake Erie, is located four miles east of downtown Cleveland next to GORDON PARK.
DOAN'S CORNERS “definitely and accurately were the corners of EUCLID AVE.
DOWNTOWN is the central business district and principal employment center of Cleveland and has been an anomalous pocket of significant population growth in a city that has lost population for decades.
EDGEWATER is a neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on Cleveland’s west side. Edgewater is bounded by Lake Erie on the north, W. 85th St on the east, the CSX railroad tracks on the south, and W. 117th St. on the west.
ERIE ST. CEMETERY, preserving E. 9th St.'s original name, has been a municipal cemetery of controversy since 1826. Cleveland village trustees, desperate to replace the informal community burial ground south of PUBLIC SQUARE with a permanent site, purchased the location for $1 from LEONARD CASE, SR.
EUCLID AVE. follows the historic Lake Shore Trail once plied by Native Americans. It was laid out by Cleveland village trustees in 1815 and surveyed the following year.
The EUCLID HEIGHTS ALLOTMENT is a 365 acre real estate subdivision in CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, formed at the summit of Cedar Hill in the 1890s by Patrick Calhoun for an elite clientele.
EUCLID GREEN is a small (1.1 sq. mi.) east-side Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Shaped somewhat like an isosceles triangle, it is bordered roughly by Roseland Rd. on the northwest, Upper Valley Dr. near Green Rd. on the northeast, and Ivanhoe and Hillsborough Rds. on the south.
FAIRFAX is a neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on Cleveland's east side. It is bounded roughly by Chester Ave. on the north, E. 71st St. on the west, E. 105th St. and Woodhill Ave. on the east, and Woodland Ave. on the south.
FIVE POINTS is where St. Clair Ave., E. 152nd St. (originally Collamer St.) and Ivanhoe Rd. (originally East Collamer St.) come together to form a star.
The FLATS are located along the CUYAHOGA RIVER within the City of Cleveland where the river pursues a sinuous course through a valley about one-half mi. wide.
FOREST HILL, now a residential neighborhood in E. CLEVELAND and CLEVELAND HTS., formerly was the summer home of the JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER family. In 1873 Rockefeller purchased a large tract of land bordering Euclid Ave. in E. Cleveland. He sold it to the Euclid Ave. Forest Hill Assn.
FRANKLIN CIRCLE, on the near west side, is one of the few examples of radial planning in Cleveland. Franklin Place, as it was originally known, was surveyed in 1836 and dedicated to public use by early landowners JOSIAH BARBER and RICHARD LORD. It had a radius of 140' and until 1857 was used as an open-air farmers' market.
Cleveland has gone through many economic shifts over the last two centuries which has led to razing of residential neighborhoods, reassessment of properties and initiatives to improve neighborhoods. The issue of gentrification is closely tied to these issues and while it has been a source of economic improvements, it has also led to residential anxiety.
GLENVILLE is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on Cleveland's east side. Its oddly configured borders are roughly delineated by Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. on the west, Lake Erie on the north and Wade Park Ave. on the south. Its eastern border was pushed out to East 125th St. and the Norfolk Southern rail tracks when Glenville absorbed the former city neighborhood of Forest Hills in the mid 2010s.
GOODRICH-KIRTLAND PARK is a neighborhood and statistical planning area located on Cleveland's East Side. As of 2013, it is bounded by I-90 to the west, East 55th to the east, Euclid Avenue to the south, and Lake Erie to the north. It is home to landmarks such as St. Nicholas's Byzantine church and the Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center .
The HAYMARKET was an area of downtown Cleveland that lay to the south and west of PUBLIC SQUARE near the east end of the HOPE MEMORIAL (Lorain-Carnegie) BRIDGE. Beginning as a marketplace, it evolved into a residential and commercial district, and then degenerated into the city's first slum.
The HESSLER RD. AND HESSLER COURT HISTORIC DISTRICT was dedicated by Cleveland's Landmarks Commission on 1 Nov. 1975. Hessler Court, the only remaining Cleveland street to have wood block paving, had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places 7 months earlier. The Court's distinctive paving was installed by Emery Hessler for his private use ca. 1916.
HOPKINS (previously, and occasionally, referred to as Riverside) is a southwest Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). It is bounded roughly by Rt. 237 (the Berea Freeway) on the east, Aerospace Pkwy.
HOUGH is a 2 sq. mi. neighborhood and Cleveland Statistical Planning Area bounded by Euclid and Superior Avenues and E. 55th and E. 105th Streets. Originally part of E. Cleveland Twp., it takes its name from one of the area’s major streets, Hough Ave., dedicated in 1873 and named for early landowners Oliver and Eliza Hough.
IRISHTOWN BEND is the area along the CUYAHOGA RIVER—east of W. 25th St., and south and slightly north of Detroit Ave.—where Irish immigrants once lived.
JEFFERSON is a southwest Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). It is bounded on the north by Berea and Triskett Rds., on the east by W. 117th and W. 140th Sts., on the south by Worthington and West Aves., and on the west by Triskett Rd.