East 89th Street Historic District

East 89th Street, running between Chester and Hough Avenues on Cleveland's east side, holds thirty-two buildings, mostly large frame houses of two and a half stories set back about fifteen feet on generous lots. The earliest, an Italianate house of about 1875, was the first built on the street, and construction continued into 1912. Its proximity to Euclid Avenue made it a desirable address, and several business leaders lived here, including the president of the National Refining Company and a Chamber of Commerce president. The street displays Queen Anne turrets and wraparound porches, Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival designs, a Richardsonian Romanesque brick house, and two apartment buildings, one Neoclassical and one with Tudor Revival elements. Architects included Coburn and Barnum and Rogers, MacFarlane of Detroit. Later decades brought boarding houses and population decline in the Hough area, yet this street remains the most intact of the neighborhood's once-wealthy streets, which is the basis for its listing for architecture.