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Photograph of Rockefeller Park
Photograph by Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 426 National Register listings published here for Cuyahoga County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District, surveyed 1901

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District: 6 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zirconium, Halite, Salt, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amax Rolling Mill/ Cleveland, OhioZirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, MolybdenumUnknown
Cleveland MineHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cleveland MineSaltProducer
Cuyahoga Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Ohio Carbon Cleveland PlantGraphiteUnknown
Harshaw Chemicals/ Cleveland, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Lincoln Electric/ Cleveland, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Sherwood Refract.,Cleveland PlantZirconiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

16 papers

16 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
East Boulevard Historic District0.1 miles1995
Rockefeller Park Bridges0.2 miles1977
Notre Dame Academy0.3 miles1988
Cleveland Jewish Center-Cory United Methodist Church0.4 miles2023
Doan School0.5 miles1984
Dr. James Bell House0.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 426 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.