Jones Home Subdivisions Historic District

This inner-city residential district on Cleveland's west side occupies the former Jones farm, about three miles southwest of downtown. Streets run on a regular grid, with uniform lots forty feet wide and 145 feet deep, sixty-foot streets and narrow rear alleys. The Jones Home for Children, a large Colonial Revival brick building topped by an octagonal cupola, sits at the eastern end and is separately listed. Around it stand mostly wood frame single-family houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Colonial Revival is the dominant style, including the hipped-roof Foursquare, and Queen Anne houses, some with octagonal corner towers, are also prominent. Italianate, Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts, Stick Style and Bungalow examples appear in smaller numbers. Front-gabled two-story houses are the most common type. Apartment buildings, terrace rows, carriage barns, rear houses and a Late Gothic Revival church add variety. Interstate 71, built in the 1960s, removed part of Library Avenue, and a few modern intrusions stand near West 25th Street, but the streets otherwise keep a high degree of integrity.