These are the three neighborhoods which are south of Mt. Pleasant and Buckeye, starting at the Cleveland border and moving up.

It's a long post especially since I added the abandoned urban relic at the end.

 

 

Mill Creek Falls (Broadway-Warner-Turney)

 

Some of the older commercial district and homes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are pics from the 1990s Mill Creek development which was built on the grounds of a closed state hospital off Turney Rd. Evidently, it is the largest housing development in the city since WW2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The namesake of this neighborhood...the actual Mill Creek Falls area

 

 

 

 

This historical marker pretty much says it all about the origins of the area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely has the vibe of an old Western Reserve town. In the background is the town square area of old Newburgh

 

 

 

 

Corlett

 

 

 

 

 

 

The former Avalon Theater on E. 131st, c. 1937

 

 

 

The former Corlett Theater on Miles Rd, c. 1924

 

 

 

 

This is one of the Walker and Weeks-designed libraries that are still around town. Constructed in 1928 it has been in continuous service since 1929. The style is listed as Art Deco but it has some Byzantine qualities to it, JMO. Seems pretty unique. It's on E. 131st St

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the streets have really tidy homes and are intact. Other residential streets are not quite as nice

 

 

 

 

 

Union - Miles Park

 

The Miles Park/Miles Rd section

 

 

 

Former Masonic Temple, c.1911

 

 

 

The Miles Park Carnegie Library sits on the remanants of the Newburgh town square

 

 

 

Also on the square is this closed late 1800s church

 

 

 

Across the square is the Miles Park United Methodist Church

 

 

 

Just off the square is this 1875 Fire Station

 

 

 

 

 

Now the Triumph Church... James A. Garfield was a minister here several years before he became president. It's located on Miles Rd.

 

 

 

Just behind the structures above, this is the Caine Homestead (took pic last Fall)

 

 

 

Driving down Miles Rd.

 

 

 

 

 

Miles School, which is slated for demolition

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always get a kick out of this bus line. Fargo!

 

 

 

Also off Miles Rd. is Calvary Cemetery

 

 

 

On the hill in the background is the Mill Creek development

 

 

 

 

 

Headed back down Miles Rd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heading into more of the Union area (of Union - Miles Pk)

 

 

 

 

Cleveland high school, John Adams. Rebuilt and opened in 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A former Polish church, St. Mary of the Nativity

 

 

 

 

Major intersection of E.93rd and Union. This old Cermak's Pharmacy building seems to be one of the two original buildings still standing at the intersection

 

 

 

 

This old bank building is the other

 

 

 

 

The MLK area before heading into Mt Pleasant

 

 

 

In the mid-1900s this was Congregation N'Vai Tzedek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abandoned Greek Byzantine Church found in Union - Miles Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great tour!

Amazing!  Thank you very much!!!

Thank you AGAIN - some gorgeous and well-kept gems, and one hell of a heartbreaker with the Byzantine church.

Superb photo tour of an area I haven't seen. The library by Walker and Weeks is a gem. What has happened to the Greek Byzantine Church is sad, but it's suprising that although it's going to ruin from neglect and age, it doesn't appear actively vandalized and tagged.

 

Excellent work!

The Byzantine church on Orleans east of E. 93rd is the former St. Joseph Byzantine Parish, erected in 1913 to serve the Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants of the east side.  The parish relocated to Brecksville in the late 1970's and the property was sold to a Baptist congregation.  I don't know how long it has been abandoned.

 

http://www.stjoebyz.com/?history

 

http://morethanabuilding.blogspot.com/2009/03/picture-is-worth-thousand-words_22.html

 

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The Polish church at E. 141st and Harvard is the former Our Lady of Czestochowa parish, founded in 1914 and named in honor of a Byzantine icon known as the Black Madonna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Cz%C4%99stochowa).  The church building was dedicated in 1954, and the parish shrank as the Polish community moved out of Corlett in the 70's and 80's.  The parish was suppressed in 1996, and the property sold to a Protestant congregation.

 

(Source: People of Faith, Parishes of the Diocese of Cleveland, Kaczynski, 1998, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Press)

Thanks for that Clueless.  Great thread.

 

Now... Chillly, my man... in Cleveland, there are a lot of things that you can get away with posting a sign outside your establishment saying "Best _____ in Town!"...  but 'corned beef' ain't one of them.

EXCELLENT PHOTOS!!!  It's heartbreaking to see so many beautiful structures fall into disrepair. 

Wow, excellent tour!  Depressing, of course, but great photos.  No new incite here,  but it's so amazing all the fixed investments that groups just walk away from as a result of population change, from hospitals to churches.

cool, my dad grew up about a block away from 106th and sandusky, on gay av, before white flighting to seven hills.

I guess that neighborhood wasn't worth fighting for, either by its previous residents or its current ones.

 

Blight is like a mean dog. If you run from it, it will chase you.

Its looks like Union Miles used to be a pretty prosperous neighborhood..

 

I am just now reading the comments to this post.

With all of this beautiful weather and just the fact that it's summer, I've been finding it very difficult to hang around internet/email, etc. Instead, I've been filling the coffers of local bars and restaurants. Damn it's cheaper to hang out on UO, lol.

For the record, I didn't take any pictures at E. 141st. & Harverd. The church in question is near E. 93rd  & Aetna (St. Mary of the Nativity). Of course, St. Joe's Byzantine is near E. 93rd & Orleans. And then there is a picture of a church... St. Catherine's (closed) at E. 93rd & St. Catherine Ave. These would all be more or less around the Union Ave. part of Union-MP.

Yes , Robert, it is unbelievable that a church like St. Joe's hasn't been tagged or anything. It truly is just there crumbling like a ruin. One might be hard-pressed to find anyhting like that un-tagged in the U.S., JMO.

C-Dawg, I would agree and call that a Great Lakes style of apts. I've always referred to them as Cleveland 4-suiters (or 8-suiters depending on how deep they are).

 

 

Clueless -

 

Sorry I was thrown by the reference to the Polish church and I thought Nativity had been demolished.  Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a Slovak parish founded in 1903 and shuttered in 1993. 

 

Buck

 

No problem. Your knowledge of Cleveland churches is amazing.