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Photograph of Nela Park
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Nela Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 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 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Entrance at 1901 Noble Rd., East Cleveland
  • When was it listed? May 1975
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 75001365 - 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

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 Nela Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Nela Park, surveyed 1901

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nela Park: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. 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
General Electric/ Euclid, OhioTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

Newspapers printed here

2 papers

2 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.

NewspaperPublished
East Cleveland Leader1942 to 1970
The East Clevelander1933 to 19??

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
First Church of Christ in Euclid0.5 miles1978
St. Paul's Episcopal Church of East Cleveland0.6 miles1984
Forest Hill Historic District1.1 miles1986
Inglewood Historic District1.3 miles2009
Forest Hill Park1.6 miles1998
Forest Hill Realty Sales Office1.7 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001365 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.