Brooklyn Centre Historic District

This district occupies the western portion of Cleveland's Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, between Pearl Road, Interstate 71, the Big Creek valley and Fulton Road. It began as a township center settled around 1818 and grew through several stages into an inner ring suburb and later an inner city neighborhood. Its street grid reflects old country roads and filled-in stream valleys. The buildings show a broad range of American styles, including Greek Revival farmhouses, brick and frame Italianate residences, Queen Anne houses with corner towers, Swiss Chalet cottages, Colonial Revival apartments and large Neoclassical and Gothic Revival churches. Notable examples include the Adam Poe House, the Coates House, the Brooklyn Branch Library and the Brooklyn Savings & Trust Building. Several properties are already listed as part of an earlier multiple resource area. The district was listed for its architectural variety, mostly from the post-Civil War years to the Great Depression, and for its record of changing community types.