Jones Home Subdivisions Historic District
Why it's listed
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.
Significance in brief: The excerpt shows the district as a largely intact middle-class streetcar-era neighborhood of wood frame houses in a range of late 19th and early 20th century styles, laid out on a uniform grid around the Jones Home for Children. The Section 8 statement is not in the provided text, so the stated reasons rest on the architectural and planning description in Section 7. The form reports a very high degree of integrity along the main avenues.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 12000031, listed February 17, 2012. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | Woodbridge, Marvin, Daisy, & Library Aves., & W. 25th St., Cleveland |
|---|---|
| County | Cuyahoga County |
| Listed | February 17, 2012 |
| Reference number | 12000031 |
| Resource type | District |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Italianate); Late 19th/20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival) |
| Areas of significance | Architecture, Community Planning and Development |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Most buildings are described as contributing and well preserved, some recently restored. Others have modern siding or altered porches. The area is still residential and the Jones Home for Children remains in use. |
| Acreage | 65 |
| Coordinates | 41.45962, -81.70569 (NPS GIS) |
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.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 12000031.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- This listing as JSON
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