page_title: Broadway Avenue Historic District (Cleveland, Ohio)
section_title: About the historic district
hierarchical_section_title: Broadway Avenue Historic District (Cleveland, Ohio) / About the historic district
caption_attribution_description: English: The Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood
context_page_description: The Broadway Avenue Historic District is a historic commercial district in the North Broadway neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The commercial district is the historic center of Cleveland's Czech community, and is an excellent example of a district that grew along a streetcar line. The historic district includes 43 buildings constructed between 1888 and 1930, including the Hruby Conservatory of Music and Our Lady of Lourdes Church and School. The commercial district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1988.
context_section_description: The Broadway Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1988. It consists of two primary streets:  Broadway Avenue between Cable Avenue and Barkwill Avenue, and E. 55th Street between Lufkin Avenue and Broadway Avenue.
  The historic district contains 43 commercial buildings constructed between 1888 and 1930, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, and Our Lady of Lourdes School.  Architectural styles represented include Early Commercial, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, and Jacobean Revival. Buildings range in height from one to six stories, and all of them front directly onto the sidewalk with no setback. Among the buildings included in the historic district are:
  Broadway Branch, Cleveland Public Library (1902; Neoclassical; Charles Morris, architect)
  Federman Building (1907; style not known; Joseph Linck, architect)
  Hruby Conservatory of Music (1912; Jacobean Revival; Steffens & Steffens, architects)
  Melzer Building (1909; style not known; J.W. Hradek, architect)
  Olympia Theatre (1912; style not known; George Allen Grieble, architect)
  Our Lady of Lourdes Church (1891; Gothic Revival; Emile Ulrich and Bernard Van De Velde, architects)
  Our Lady of Lourdes School (1906; Renaissance Revival; Emile Ulrich and William Jansen, architects)
  Zverina Block (1889; Eastlake Movement of the Queen Anne Style; Andrew Mitermiler, architect)
  The Broadway Historic District was named a Cleveland Landmark in November 1990. The district is part of Cleveland's Broadway-Slavic Village Statistical Planning Area. Broadway Avenue forms the center of this planning area.
caption: Hruby Conservatory of Music
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