KAMM'S is a neighborhood and STATISTICAL PLANNING AREA (SPA) on Cleveland’s far west side.
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KARLIN was a Czech settlement established ca. 1890 near E. 55th St. and Fleet Ave. Named after a Prague suburb, Karlin reflected a common pattern of Bohemian settlement: a move to the outskirts of the city to form a new neighborhood rather than occupy an area abandoned by other groups.
KINSMAN is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). It is bordered by Woodland Ave. on the north, E. 93rd St. and Woodhill Ave. on the east, Aetna Rd. on the south and an irregular line on the west that includes E. 55th St. and the Norfolk Southern tracks.
LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, located between Mayfield and Euclid Ave. at Cleveland's eastern boundary, is known for its hilly, manicured landscape graced by monuments of famous Clevelanders and overlooked by Pres. Jas. A. Garfield's tomb. In July 1869 the Lake View Cemetery Assn. was formed with JEPTHA H. WADE as president. Several sites near E.
LARCHMERE is a neighborhood in the Buckeye-Shaker planning district of Cleveland known for its restaurants, art, and antique stores. The neighborhood is bounded by E. 116th Street/MLK on the west, Kemper Road and North Moreland Boulevard on the on the east, Shaker Boulevard on the south and Fairhill Road on the north.
LEE-HARVARD is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on the city’s southeast side. It is roughly bounded by Miles Ave. on the south, Scottsdale Blvd. on the north, E. 154th St. on the west, and E. 190th St. and Shadywood and Larkspur Lns. on the east.
LEE-SEVILLE is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on the city’s southeast side. It is bounded roughly by Miles Ave.
LIBERTY ROW was dedicated on Memorial Day 1919 to honor Cleveland-area soldiers who had died during WORLD WAR I. The memorial consisted of a series of oak trees planted from Gordon Park on Lake Erie into SHAKER HTS. The trees stretched along the then newly renamed Liberty Blvd.
LITTLE ITALY, one of 5 major Italian settlements in Cleveland (see ITALIANS), is located from E. 119th to E. 125th streets on Murray Hill and Mayfield roads.
The MONROE ST. CEMETERY has remained public under 3 jurisdictions: Brooklyn Twp., OHIO CITY, and Cleveland. Brooklyn Twp. acquired its cemetery when JOSIAH BARBER and his brother-in-law, RICHARD LORD, sold part of lot no. 69 in Jan.
The MOSES CLEAVELAND TREES were chosen from throughout Cuyahoga County in 1946 as part of the sesquicentennial of Moses Cleaveland and his party's landing at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on 22 July 1796. Each tree was of such an age as to have been part of the area's forests at the time of the landing.
MOUNT PLEASANT is a southeast Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) bounded roughly by Parkview, Imperial and Abell Aves. on the north; Farringdon, Svec and Glendale Aves. on the south; Martin Luther King Dr. and East Blvd. on the west; and E. 155th St. on the east. Kinsman Rd. is the main thoroughfare running through Mt. Pleasant.
MUNICIPAL SYMBOLS. Cleveland’s official municipal symbols include the city’s flag, motto, and ceremonial seal. Until 1895, Cleveland did not possess any of these symbols. Prominent New York journalist Julian Ralph first proposed the idea of a municipal flag. Ralph was visiting Cleveland to report on the city’s 1892 Federal Plan for Harper’s Weekly.
NAVY PARK, at Ridge and Clinton roads, was one of 5 housing developments opened in 1946 for WORLD WAR II veterans and itinerant war-industry workers. The developments were under the authority of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (later the CUYAHOGA METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY).
NEWBURGH, a township south of Cleveland, was an early population and economic center for the area.
NINE MILE CREEK has its headwaters just south of Cedar Rd. between Green and Richmond roads, runs through EAST CLEVELAND, and empties into Lake Erie some 9 mi. from PUBLIC SQUARE.
NORTH BROADWAY is a southeast Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Previously (and still periodically) referred to as Kinsman, its borders are, roughly, I-77 on the west, Union Ave. on the south, E. 79th St. on the east and an irregular line on the north that runs south of, but parallel to, Kinsman Ave.
NOTTINGHAM was a small village that once rivaled Euclid Village; both were carved out of old EUCLID TWP. Centered around the last mile of Euclid Creek, the area was bounded by Lake Erie on the north, E. 185th and E. 200th Sts. on the east, the New York Central and New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad on the southeast, and E. 170th St. on the south. Its main street was St.
OHIO CITY (CITY OF OHIO) was founded in 1818. Originally part of Brooklyn Twp., it is one of Cleveland's oldest neighborhoods. Its historic borders were Lake Erie on the north, the CUYAHOGA RIVER on the east, Walworth Ave. and W. 44th St.
The PARMA RESERVOIR. An uncommon structure in PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio, on the westside of Cleveland is the 1933-37 Parma Reservoir. A 326 x 306-ft. earth-covered concrete tank, technically referred to as a basin, with a Gothic-style facade resembling a 14th-century English castle hold the 23-million gallon reservoir.
PAYER, ERNST (1904-April 1981) was a prominent Cleveland modernist architect. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and received his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1927 before going to study with Josef Hoffmann and Walter Gropius to receive his master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1938. Payer worked in New York until the end of World War II as an architect.
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE is a district at Euclid Avenue and East 14th Street comprising five theaters as well as office buildings, stores, and restaurants. The possibility of making the portion of Euclid east to 17th Street into a stretch of fine shops and vaudeville, movie, and legitimate theaters was envisioned by Joseph Laronge after World War I.
PUBLIC SQUARE marks the center of the City of Cleveland. The "Original Plan of the Town and Village of Cleaveland," prepared in 1796 by the CONNECTICUT LAND CO., called for a 9.5-acre public square bisected by 2 wide streets, Superior and Ontario.
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY, a private association organized in Nov. 1875, fulfilled a need for cemeteries on the west side. Until the late 1890s, the MONROE ST. CEMETERY was the only Cleveland municipal cemetery there. The Riverside Cemetery Assn. purchased Brainard Farm's 102.5 acres, landscape architect E. O. Schwaegerl prepared a plan, and ground was broken in Apr. 1876.