Historic Map - Cleveland, OH - 1877

Birds eye view of Cleveland, Ohio 1877. A. Ruger artist. Lith. by Shober & Carqueville.

Reproduction bird's-eye view map of Cleveland, OH, drawn by Prussian born Albert Ruger, and published by J. J. Stoner in 1877. Cleveland was founded in the late 1700s near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. With the addition of several canals and effective railroad lines, Cleveland quickly became an important manufacturing location and was incorporated as a city in 1836. It was now connected with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Erie Canal and later by the St. Lawrence Seaway, and down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. The city was an important halfway point for Minnesota iron ore and other raw materials being transported across the Great Lakes. In 1854, Cleveland annexed Ohio City that was just across the river. Standard Oil was founded here in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.

The panorama drawing features clearly labeled street names with scenes of shipping, railroad, carriage and pedestrian traffic. Complete reference list below.

Features numbered references to the following locations:

CHURCHES.

1. First M. E. Church, Methodist
2. First M. E. Church, German, Methodist
3. First Wesleyan M. E. Church, Methodist
4. Bible Christian M. E. Church, Methodist
5. Christ's Church, Methodist
6. Scovill Ave. Church, Methodist
7. Broadway M. E. Church, Methodist
8. Christ's Church, Methodist
9. Free Methodist Church
10. Franklin Street Church, Methodist
11. German M. E. Church, Methodist
12. Pelton Ave. Church, Methodist
13. Bethel Church, colored, Methodist
14. St. John's Cathedral, Roman Catholic
15. St. Joseph's Church, German, Roman Catholic
16. St. Malachi's Church, Roman Catholic
17. St. Mary's of the Assumption, R. C. (German)
18. St. Patrick's Church, Roman Catholic
19. St. Mary's Church, Polish, Roman Catholic
20. St. Peter's Church, German, R. C.
21. St. Stephen's Church, Roman Catholic
22. First Baptist Church
23. First Baptist Church, German
24. Second Baptist Church
25. Shiloh Baptist Church, Colored
26. Tabernacle Baptist Church
27. Third Baptist Church
28. Scranton Ave. Baptist Church
29. Euclid Street Presbyterian
30. First Church, Presbyterian
31. Second Church, Presbyterian
32. First Church, Presbyterian, Newburgh
33. South Park Church, Presbyterian
34. First United Church, Presbyterian
35. Woodland Ave Church, Presbyterian
36. Memorial Church, Presbyterian
37. First Congregational Church
38. Hight's Congregational Church
39. Plymouth Congregational Church
40. All Saints' Church, Protestant Episcopal
41. Christ's Church, German, Protestant Episcopal
42. Grace Church, Protestant Episcopal
43. S. John's Church, Protestant Episcopal
44. St. Luke's Church, Protestant Episcopal
45. St. Mary's Church, Protestant Episcopal
46. Franklin's Street Church of Christ
47. Salem Church, German, Evangelical Association
48. Calvary Church, Evangelical Association
49. Emanuel Church, Evangelical Association
50. St. Paul's Church, Evangelical Lutheran
51. Trinity Church, Evangelical Lutheran
52. Zion, Evangelical Lutheran
53. United German Church, Evangelical Protestant
54. First German Church, Evangelical Protestant
55. Schifflein Christ Church, Evangelical United
56. Zion's Church, Evangelical United
57. German Evangelical, Sec. Ref. Church
58. Anshe Chesed, Congregational Church
59. Tefereth Israel Congregational Church
60. First U. B. Church
61. First Universalist Church
62. Trinity Church
63. French Church

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.

64. Female Seminary
65. Cleveland High School
66. Central High School
67. West High School
68. Outhwait School
69. Sterling Av. School
70. Brooks School
71. May Flower School
72. Brownell School
73. Rockwell School
74. Hicks School
75. Kentucky School
76. Orchard School
77. Tremont School
78. Malachi School
79. Normal School
80. Cleveland Academy
81. Medical Department of Wooster University
82. Cleveland Medical College
83. Academy of Med. and Surgery-Homeopathic
84. Cleveland Water Cure

ASYLUMS.

85. Cleveland Hospital for the Insane
86. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum
87. Jewish Orphan Asylum
88. St. Vincent Orphan Asylum
89. St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
90. Catholic Orphan Asylum

HOSPITALS AND CHARITY INSTITUTIONS.

91. Cleveland City Hospital
92. Charity Hospital
93. Homeopathic Hospital
94. Good Shepherds Convent
95. Home for the Aged Poor
96. Home for the Aged Women
97. Home for Working Women
98. City Infirmary
99. Bethel Union

CITY BUILDINGS.

100. County Court House
101. City Hall
102. Post Office
103. City Court House
104. Police Head Quarters
105. Water Works
106. Reservoir
107. Viaduct, or High Level Bridge