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Photograph of Lower Prospect-Huron Historic District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lower Prospect-Huron Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

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 listing

  • Listed as. Lower Prospect--Huron Historic District (Boundary Increase) - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 727, 737, 1020-1060, 1124 Bolivar Rd., 2217 E. 9th St., and 1303 Prospect Ave., Cleveland
  • When was it listed? June 2005
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Lower Prospect-Huron District MPS
  • National Register reference number. 05000580 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Lower Prospect-Huron Historic District (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Lower Prospect-Huron Historic District (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1903

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lower Prospect-Huron Historic District (Boundary Increase): 10 unknowns, 6 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Silica, Halite. 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
(Facility) Hanna Nickel Smelter/ Cleveland, OhNickelPlant
Brush Wellman/ Cleveland, OhioBerylliumProducer
Cleveland MineHalitePast ProducerHalite
Cleveland MineSaltProducer
Cuyahoga Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Dock Number 1, Whiskey Island MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Great Lakes-St Lawrence/ ClevelandFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Metallurgical Inc/ Cleveland, OhioIron, AluminumUnknown
N. L. IndustriesLeadUnknown

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

8 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
Caxton Buildingunder 500 feet1973
Lower Prospect-Huron Historic Districtunder 500 feet1995
Cleveland Trust Company0.1 miles1973
Medical Centre Building0.1 miles1984
Euclid Avenue Historic District0.1 miles2002
Cleveland Grays Armory0.2 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000580 in Record Group 79.
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.