Category: Neighborhoods and Landmarks

The SHAKER LAKES in Shaker and CLEVELAND HTS. are part of the Doan Brook Watershed. The 2 lakes were created in the mid-19th century by the NORTH UNION SHAKER COMMUNITY.

SHAKER SQUARE is an early suburban shopping center in Cleveland built in 1927-29 in conjunction with the development of neighboring SHAKER HTS. Originally laid out as a traffic circle, the intersection of Shaker Blvd. and Moreland Blvd. was also the junction of the 2 branches of the SHAKER RAPID TRANSIT, the Green Rd.

SHORT VINCENT, a street 1 block in length between E. 9th and E. 6th streets NE, was once a colorful center of downtown Cleveland nightlife. Ofificially named Vincent Ave. NE, the street crossed farmland once held by John Vincent, and early Cleveland settler.

SOCIAL PLANNING AREAS, geographic units of about 3,500 persons designed to coincide with accepted geopolitical boundaries, played an important role in Cleveland social-welfare programs for nearly 30 years. First utilized in 1951 by the Cleveland Welfare Fed.

The SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, situated on the southeast quadrant of Cleveland's PUBLIC SQUARE, is the city's major CIVIL WAR memorial. Designed by LEVI T. SCOFIELD, the monument was dedicated on 4 July 1894 after nearly 15 years of planning.

SOUTH BROADWAY is a southeast Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). An exceptionally irregular shape, it extends nearly to I-490 on the north and as far south as Grand Division Ave. It is bounded on the west by I-77 and on the east by E. 79th St. and Broadway Ave.

SQUIRE'S CASTLE is a picturesque castellated and turreted ruin on Chagrin River Rd. in the N. Chagrin Reservation of the CLEVELAND METROPARKS. The irregular stone structure was originally built as part of the estate of Feargus B. Squire (1850-1932), vice-president and general manager of the STANDARD OIL CO. until 1909.

The ST. CLAIR SUPERIOR COALITION, founded in 1976 at the GOODRICH-GANNETT NEIGHBORHOOD CTR., spearheaded rehabilitation and revitalization in the area encompassing old Near Town (E. 40-E. 55th streets), the Slovenian-Croatian settlement (E. 55th-E. 79th streets) and the old Sowinski neighborhood (E. 79th St.-Liberty Blvd.).

ST. CLAIR-SUPERIOR is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) east of downtown. It is bounded by Lake Erie on the north, Superior Ave. on the south, E. 55th St. on the west and E. 72nd, E. 78th and E. 99th Sts. on the east.

STOCKYARDS is a neighborhood and statistical planning area on Cleveland's West Side. It is located between I-71 to the south, roughly Ridge Road to the west, West 44th Street to the east, and just south of I-90 to the north.

TINKER'S CREEK, a powerful stream that bisected old Bedford Twp., was responsible for early economic development in the area, and remains a beautiful link in the CLEVELAND METROPARKS system. Named for Capt.

TREMONT is an industrial/residential neighborhood on Cleveland's near west side. Its boundaries include the CUYAHOGA RIVER to the east and north, Valentine Ave. and Steelyard Commons to the south, and West 25th St. to the west.

TREMONT WEST DEVELOPMENT CORP. (TWDC), a nonprofit citizens' group founded in 1979 by MERRICK HOUSE, helped stabilize and revitalize the TREMONT area, a transitional neighborhood. In its community organizing, the corporation emphasized housing renovation, crime prevention, and neighborhood economic development.

UNION-MILES NEIGHBORHOOD. Union-Miles is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Roughly 5 mi. southeast of downtown, Union-Miles is bounded by Miles Ave. on the south, Union Ave. on the north, Broadway Ave. and the Norfolk Southern rail tracks on the west, and an irregular line that stretches as far as E. 154th St. on the east.

UNIVERSITY CIRCLE is a Cleveland neighborhood whose formal and colloquial boundaries are quite different. As a Statistical Planning Area (SPA) identified by the Cleveland Planning Commission, “University” (not University Circle) is bounded by Wade Park and Ashbury Aves. on the north, E. 105th St. on the west, Overlook Rd. and E. 123rd St. on the east, and Quincy and Mt. Overlook Aves. on the south.

UNIVERSITY CIRCLE, INC. (UCI) is the outgrowth of its predecessor, the Univ. Circle Development Foundation. The UCDF was created in 1957 as the result of a planning study funded by Mrs. Wm. G. Mather (ELIZABETH RING IRELAND MATHER), who was concerned about the need for future collective planning by the Circle's institutions.

VINEGAR HILL was the name for the riverside bluff located immediately south of Huron Rd., between Ontario St. and the Cuyahoga River.

The WAR MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, also known as the "Fountain of Eternal Life," located on Mall A and bounded on the west by SOCIETY CENTER, on the south by the CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, and on the east by the Cleveland Board of Education Bldg., is Cleveland's major memorial to those citizens who served in WORLD WAR II.

The WAREHOUSE DISTRICT is an area north and west of Superior Ave. and W. 3rd St. which is the remnant of the late 19th century Victorian wholesale commercial area. Before 1850 the 8-block district was part of the original residential area of the city, but by the mid-1850s rows of commercial blocks began to dominate it.

WEST BOULEVARD is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Its approximate borders are I-90 on the north, Memphis Ave. on the south, W. 117th St. on the west and Clinton Ave. and W. 73rd St. on the east. The neighborhood, which is effectively sandwiched between I-90 and I-71, takes its name from the West Blvd. thoroughfare which runs north-south through the district’s center.

WEST PARK, is a section of Cleveland’s west side that comprises four distinct neighborhoods (Statistical Planning Areas) as delineated by the Cleveland Planning Commission: RIVERSIDE,

The WESTERN RESERVE (aka New Connecticut, or the Connecticut Western Reserve) encompassed approximately 3.3 million acres of land in what is now northeastern Ohio. Bounded on the north by Lake Erie and on the east by Pennsylvania, it extended 120 miles westward to Sandusky Bay.

WHISKEY ISLAND is a triangular piece of land 1 mi. long and one-third mi. at its widest. On the near west side of Cleveland, the peninsula is bounded by Lake Erie to the north, (approx.) W. 54th St. on the west, and the CUYAHOGA RIVER to the south and east. The first piece of solid land amid the swamps lining the river, it was located nearly one-quarter mi.

WILLEYVILLE was the southeast section of OHIO CITY, the location of the famed "Bridge War" between Cleveland and Ohio City. Willeyville was laid out by Jas. S. Clark, adjacent to an allotment owned by Barber & Sons and named for the developer's partner, Cleveland mayor JOHN W. WILLEY.