{"nrhp_refnum":"95001366","name":"East Boulevard Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by East Blvd., St. Clair Ave., East 99th St. and University Cir.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.51852324750004,"lon":-81.61763558656861,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear residential historic district on Cleveland's east side, about 4 miles from downtown, running roughly 2.5 miles along East Boulevard from University Circle to St. Clair Avenue. It is made up of apartment houses, single-family homes, doubles and a few institutional buildings, mostly built between 1900 and the mid-1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a remarkably cohesive early 20th century residential area, unified by its community design, landscape setting beside Rockefeller Park, period of construction and consistent scale and setbacks. The buildings show a wide range of period styles, and few non-conforming buildings or vacant lots interrupt the character of the district. The significance statement itself is not included in the text provided, so this reading rests mainly on the description.","narrative":"This linear district on Cleveland's east side follows the curve of East Boulevard for about two and a half miles, from University Circle in the south to St. Clair Avenue in the north. Rockefeller Park lies just outside the boundary but ties the area together visually. Annexed to Cleveland in 1898 and 1902, the area grew as a residential neighborhood, and nearly all buildings date from 1900 to the mid-1930s. The southern end has three- and four-story brick apartment houses, anchored by the nine-story Hotel Sovereign of 1921, now University Tower. Farther north are brick and frame single-family homes and doubles in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial and Four-Square forms. Institutions include St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, the Amasa Stone Home for the Aged and Miles Standish Elementary School. The district counts 401 contributing buildings and 20 noncontributing ones, chiefly the 1971 Wade Park Apartments and newer garages. Consistent setbacks, scale and period character give the area its cohesion.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Includes Arther (A. R.) Stine, carpenter/contractor who built ten four-square houses on Herrick Road; architect R. M. Hullett; Walter R. McCormack (Miles Standish School); many other builders are listed in the inventory.","architectural_style":"20th Century Revivals, 20th Century American Movements (including Neo-Classical, Georgian, Colonial, Tudor and Late Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Craftsman, Bungalow, Four-Square)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely intact residential neighborhood with current uses matching historic ones; six vacant lots where buildings were demolished, and some houses have artificial siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.264413-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/95001366.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000382","name":"Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/rockefeller-park-and-cleveland-cultural-gardens-historic-district-05000382/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987847","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/east-boulevard-historic-district-additional-documentation-95001366/"}