{"nrhp_refnum":"98000565","name":"Forest Glen Estates Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Homestead Dr., Glenwood Ave., Alburn Dr., and Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boardman Township","county":"Mahoning County","state":"OH","lat":41.05464359600006,"lon":-80.66890340499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned early twentieth century residential subdivision of about 130 acres in Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, between Market Street and Mill Creek Park. It was platted between 1923 and 1929 by the Kreider-Rotzel Real Estate Company, with landscape design by Pitkin and Mott.","why_significant":"The district is a cohesive, auto-oriented suburb of revival-style single-family houses, with a distinctive designed landscape of curving streets, tree lawns, landscaped islands and buried rear-lot utilities. Its siting reflects Warren Manning's 1922 plan for Mill Creek Park. It also illustrates restrictive covenants and the upper middle class suburban development of Youngstown's steel-era economy.","narrative":"Forest Glen Estates is a planned residential neighborhood of roughly 130 acres in Boardman Township, south of Youngstown, Ohio. Platted between 1923 and 1929 by the Kreider-Rotzel Real Estate Company, it was laid out by the Cleveland landscape architects Pitkin and Mott. Gently curving streets, wide tree lawns, concrete sidewalks, cast-iron street lights and landscaped islands set it apart from Youngstown's usual street grid, and utility lines were kept to the rear lot lines so street trees could grow tall. Its siting followed Warren Manning's 1922 plan for Mill Creek Park. The district has 106 contributing buildings, mostly one-and-a-half or two-story wood-frame houses in Colonial, Georgian, Tudor, Dutch Colonial and related revival styles, many designed by Cleveland architect Munroe Copper. It was the first Youngstown-area neighborhood designed around the automobile, with a garage for nearly every house. Deed covenants limited lots to single-family homes and controlled design and landscaping.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Munroe Copper (principal architect of record); Pitkin and Mott, landscape architects; Kreider-Rotzel Real Estate Company, developer","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial, French Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions remain single dwellings, secondary structures and landscape parks; much of the early landscape detailing survives, and many houses are unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.953293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/98000565.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990108","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/mahoning-county/forest-glen-estates-historic-district-98000565/"}