Crandall Park-Fifth Avenue Historic District

Crandall Park and Fifth Avenue form a residential district on Youngstown's north side, built mostly between 1910 and 1930, a period locals call the city's Golden Age. It includes 129 contributing resources: about 92 houses, 32 outbuildings, two park buildings, two concrete arch bridges and the roughly 50-acre wooded ravine park. Homes are typically two or two and a half stories on large landscaped lots with generous setbacks, many with slate or tile roofs. English Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival predominate, alongside Craftsman, Spanish Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival and Chateauesque examples. Local architects such as Charles F. Owsley, Barton E. Brooke, Fred C. Medicus, Cook and Canfield and Morris Scheibel designed some of the houses. Original residents included prosperous businessmen, many of them immigrants drawn to the north side's Jewish community. The district was listed for its architectural quality, its cohesive character and its reflection of early 20th century affluence and suburban planning in Youngstown.