The Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, which includes Gordon Square and Edgewater Park, is located on Cleveland’s northwest side. The neighborhood is bordered by Ohio City to the east, Lake Erie to the north, and the Cudell neighborhood to the west. Gordon Square, the neighborhood’s anchor intersection at West 65th St. and Detroit Ave. was named for William J. Gordon. Gordon was a wealthy landowner who also donated his lakefront estate, Gordon Park, in the Glenville neighborhood.
Need additional assistance? For more information, please contact our Center for Local and Global History
Phone: 216-623-2864 Email: clgh@cpl.org
Books
Detroit Shoreway : a plan for commercial revitalization
Detroit Shoreway community study: Cleveland, Ohio, 1975
These titles are also available on microfilm in the Center for Local and Global History.
Maps
For more information about neighborhood maps, please contact the Map Collection.
Detroit Shoreway Community assessed value
Call number: G4084.C5:2D4G47 1974.K4x
Microfilm/Microfiche
Microfilm resources may include newspaper clippings, city reports, and other historical documents. Depending on the scope of the work, these items may be available in several departments, including History, the Microform Center, or Public Administration Library.
Center for Local and Global History:
Newspaper Clipping File-Neighborhoods-Detroit Shoreway
Newspaper Clipping File-Neighborhoods-Gordon Square
Online Resources
Detroit-Shoreway Neighborhood Map from Detroit-Shoreway CDC
Photographs
For more information about the neighborhood photos, please contact the Photograph Collection.
The Photograph Collection has 1.3 million items, including a large collection of historical images for Cleveland and northeast Ohio. A small portion of them are available in our digital collection.
For specific photo requests, please think about important streets, intersections, institutions like schools, businesses, churches, and other important landmarks. This will help aid in our research.
School Periodicals & Yearbooks
For more information about yearbooks at the library, please contact the Social Sciences Department.