{"nrhp_refnum":"74001444","name":"Miles Park Historic District","other_names":["Newburgh Public Square"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Miles Park Ave. around Miles Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.44692069400003,"lon":-81.62247353899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 5.8 acres in Cleveland, Ohio, centered on Miles Park (the former Newburgh Public Square) and including two churches, eight houses and a public library, with buildings dating from 1872 to 1906.","why_significant":"The park and its surrounding buildings tell much of the history of Newburgh Village, which was annexed to Cleveland in 1873. The park remains an intact small open space in a heavily urbanized area. Together with the churches and library, it forms a significant historical and visual unity.","narrative":"Miles Park is a small green in Cleveland's former village of Newburgh, surrounded by two churches, a Carnegie-funded library and eight modest houses. The district covers about 5.8 acres. When Newburgh was platted in 1850, space was reserved for a public square, and the land was given by pioneer Theodore Miles. The green took the name Miles Park in 1877. The Presbyterian church, built in 1872, is a late Romanesque Revival design in brick and stone. The Methodist church, a red brick High Victorian Gothic building, had its hall begun in 1872 and its sanctuary finished in 1883. Newburgh was annexed to Cleveland in 1873. The library, built between 1904 and 1906 with a $44,000 Carnegie grant, replaced the old town hall and is neo-Classic Revival with an octagonal domed reading room. The houses are typical working-class dwellings of the 1890s. The park remains remarkably intact, and with its buildings it reflects Newburgh's growth as a steel center.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1850; 1872; 1883; 1906)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-Classic Revival (library); Romanesque Revival (Presbyterian church); High Victorian Gothic (Methodist church)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered; present uses include park, private residence, educational and religious.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.414753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001444.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001444/31b1522a57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001444/31b1522a57-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Tim Evanson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign_-_Union-Miles_Park_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Evanson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign_-_Union-Miles_Park_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987755","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49526246"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/miles-park-historic-district-74001444/"}