Inglewood Historic District
Why it's listed
Inglewood is a wooded residential neighborhood in Cleveland Heights, north of Mayfield Road between Taylor and Warrensville Roads. The Shaker Heights Improvement Company, led by the Van Sweringen brothers, bought the land from Charles Pack in 1920 and developed it as Subdivision #4. F.A. Pease Engineering Company platted it in a horseshoe shape with curving streets and lots of varied size, some over two acres. Eighty-one lots were first laid out, and eight more were added along Quilliams Road in 1923. The same deed covenants used in Shaker Heights applied: single-family houses only, each designed by an architect, with no two exactly alike. Cleveland firms and architects such as Howell and Thomas, Walker and Weeks, Bloodgood Tuttle and Best and Hoefler designed homes in Shingle, Colonial Revival, Georgian, Tudor, French and Italian Renaissance styles. Most houses have attached garages that are generally hidden from the street. The district includes 78 contributing and 8 noncontributing buildings, and the neighborhood remains in residential use.
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| Styles | Late Victorian/Shingle Style; Late 19th Century Revival including Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Italian Renaissance, French Renaissance |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Community Planning and Development, Social History |
| Acreage | 41 |
| Boundary source | NPS cultural-resource GIS polygon |
| Full listing page | Inglewood Historic District (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.