{"nrhp_refnum":"87000428","name":"Archwood Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Archwood Ave. roughly bounded by W. Thirty-first Pl. and W. Thirty-seventh St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.452739423000054,"lon":-81.70669132445579,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-03-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district centered on Archwood Avenue between West 31st Place and West 37th Street in the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It covers about 13 acres and contains 57 contributing buildings, mostly late 19th and early 20th century houses and apartment buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be architecturally significant as a collection of Italianate, Queen Anne, Neocolonial and Neoclassical buildings that compare favorably with the best surviving examples in other Cleveland neighborhoods. Archwood was the prime residential street of the former village of Brooklyn and stayed strictly residential, with few losses. Two of the last mayors of Brooklyn Village lived in houses here.","narrative":"Archwood Avenue is a broad, tree-lined residential street in Cleveland's Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, and the historic district along it holds 57 contributing buildings on about 13 acres. The earliest buildings, including the circa 1870 Italianate Adam Poe House, are at the eastern end, and the houses grow newer toward the west. Queen Anne houses with corner towers, Neocolonial homes with unusual third-floor gables, and large Neoclassical apartment buildings at West 33rd Street give the street variety. The William R. Coates House is perhaps the largest house in the area. The street was first laid out as Greenwood and was renamed Archwood in 1894, the year Brooklyn Village was annexed to Cleveland. Its width and generous lots made it the site of the neighborhood's finest homes, and it stayed residential while nearby streets lost landmarks to commercial use. The district was recognized for its architecture and for its role in the area's development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Neocolonial/Colonial Revival and Neoclassical","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as strictly residential with few losses, no postwar buildings or serious intrusions within the boundaries, and only minor alterations to some houses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.491752-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87000428.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000428/62fbbadd41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000428/62fbbadd41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cricchetti","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Kroehle_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Cricchetti</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Kroehle_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000238","name":"Brooklyn Centre Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/brooklyn-centre-historic-district-99000238/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984636","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archwood_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4787373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/archwood-avenue-historic-district-87000428/"}