Chagrin Falls Triangle Park Commercial District

Chagrin Falls Triangle Park Commercial District covers about ten acres around a small triangular green at the center of the village. The park was created by village ordinance in 1873 after a carriage works was removed, and a rustic bandstand was added in 1877. Around it stand commercial blocks built between 1873 and 1929, including the McClentic Block of 1882, the Chagrin Falls Banking Company building of 1891, the IOOF Hall of 1883, and the Neo-classic Masonic Temple and Central National Bank of 1923. To the south is the Gothic revival Methodist Church, and to the north a two-arch sandstone bridge built in 1857 by the county, with Smith and Kimball as contractors, leads to the Township Hall. The district was listed because it shows a thriving late nineteenth and early twentieth century village center in miniature. Its mill, church, hall, bank, stores and newspaper office reflect the needs of a self-contained community, and it remains coherent despite later alterations.