Archwood Avenue Historic District

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.