Ridgewood Historic District

Ridgewood is a planned residential neighborhood in Canton, Ohio, spread along Market Avenue North about twenty blocks from the city center. Platted in stages between 1918 and 1924, it filled with roughly 190 buildings, most built from 1920 to 1930. Large houses sit back from tree-lined, brick-paved streets and are mostly designed by architects, many of them local. Tudor, French Norman, Georgian and Colonial Revival styles dominate, with leaded glass, slate roofs, hand-cut stone and tapestry brick. Charles Firestone, Herman Albrect, John S. Kelly and Louis Hoicowitz designed dozens of the homes. The district matters because it is Canton's only residential development of its period with this concentration of architect-designed Revival houses. Its paving brick came from the Metropolitan Paving Brick Company and its street lights from Union Metal Manufacturing, both Canton firms. Early residents included executives of Timken and Republic Steel, so the neighborhood also reflects the city's industrial rise.