Collinwood is a historical area on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a village in Euclid Township, it was annexed by the city in 1910. Collinwood grew around the rail yards of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (now CSX) and is divided by these same tracks into the neighborhoods of North Shore Collinwood and Collinwood–Nottingham. Collinwood was identified as one of America’s Best Secret Neighborhoods by Travel + Leisure in 2008.
History
The neighborhood’s most infamous incident antedates its annexation by Cleveland, OH. On Ash Wednesday, March 4, 1908, Collinwood was the site of an event known as the Collinwood School Fire at Lakeview Elementary School. In one of the deadliest school fires in American history, 172 children, two young teachers, and one rescuer died in the fire after being trapped in stairwell vestibules. Initially, the students were thought to be trapped because doors to the school opened inward, but the coroner’s report indicated that the doors did indeed open outward. While some children died from burns and smoke inhalation, most were crushed or suffocated in the frantic attempt to escape the building. Those killed in the fire which could not be identified were buried in a mass grave in Cleveland‘s Lakeview Cemetery. National building standards requiring that doors in public buildings open outward were already in effect, and the fire did result in a trend toward municipalities nationwide adopting policies of school inspections and enforcing stricter building codes.
North Shore Collinwood
Begun mainly as the residential section, North Shore Collinwood, commonly known as North Collinwood, is bounded roughly between E. 133rd Street to the west and E. 185th Street to the northeast (E.200th street due east) and between Lake Erie to the north and the Collinwood Railroad Yards and tracks (currently operated by CSX to the south, Woodworth Avenue to the southwest, and roughly Roseland Avenue to the southeast. North Collinwood is the location of several parks, including Wildwood Park and Marina, East Shore Park, and Beachland Park, and was the site of historic Euclid Beach Park. The Roman Catholic Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School is located at E. 185th and Lakeshore Boulevard. Bed Bug Exterminator Cleveland
Collinwood-Nottingham
What was once the industry-heavy of the two sections, Collinwood–Nottingham, commonly known as South Collinwood, is roughly bounded between E. 134th Street on the west and Euclid Creek on the east, the Collinwood Railroad Yards and tracks to the north, Woodworth Avenue to the southwest, and roughly Roseland Avenue to the southeast. The location of the Five Points, where Ivanhoe Road, St. Clair Avenue, and E. 152nd Street intersect, is the neighborhood’s central business district and Collinwood High School’s location. The sports teams of the latter are aptly named the Railroaders. Although today it is largely African American, South Collinwood has historically been an enclave of European immigrants, as well as migrants from the Southern United States.
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