Blossom, Elizabeth B., Subdivision Historic District

This 57-acre planned neighborhood in Beachwood, Ohio, sits at Cedar and Richmond Roads on former flat, open farmland. Elizabeth Bingham Blossom and landscape architect Ethylwyn Harrison began planning it around 1930, and houses went up from 1932. Twenty-seven homes and the Blossom Hangar, a recreation building designed by Abram Garfield, surround an 11-acre park planted with an arboretum-like variety of trees. The houses are Colonial Revival in style, designed by architects including George Teare, George Mayer, Gilbert Schaefer and R. Franklin Outcalt. Sixteen houses built under Blossom's supervision between 1932 and 1941, plus Harrison's landscape design and the hangar, are counted as contributing. Eleven later houses, built from 1948 to 1986, are not. The subdivision was listed because it shows a cohesive landscaped community shaped by two women during the Depression. It has kept its woodland character amid dense surrounding development, protected by deed restrictions and community association bylaws.