| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | League Park Center |
| Title: | League Park Center Records |
| Dates: | 1952-1970 |
| Extent: | 2.0 linear feet (2 containers) |
| Abstract: | League Park Center, Inc. (f. 1949), located in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was started by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland with two social workers in the old business office of League Park (6601 Lexington Ave.), with additional facilities at nearby Dunham Church of Christ. The Center has always had close ties with the Neighborhood Settlement Association, the Center focusing on the "development of Cleveland's inner city youth," with such programs as Headstart and athletic activities. The Center's other interests included improvement of the neighborhood and encouragement of street clubs, which worked for block and street preservation and sometimes promoted youth activities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, a code of regulations, minutes, annual reports, correspondence, legal and financial papers, project reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets and posters published by the corporation. |
| MS Number | MS 4238 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
League Park Center, Inc. (f. 1949), located in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was started by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland with two social workers in the old business office of League Park (6601 Lexington Avenue) and with additional facilities at nearby Dunham Church of Christ. At the time of the center's founding, Hough was a white middle class neighborhood, but by 1960 had become a predominantly African American neighborhood. Aged housing stock, increased renters, and the splitting of large single family homes into multi-family units contributed to the area's decline. The Center has always had close ties with the Neighborhood Settlement Association, with the center focusing on the "development of Cleveland's inner city youth," with such programs as Headstart and athletic activities. The center's other interests included neighborhood improvement and encouragement of street clubs, which worked for block and street preservation and sometimes promoted youth activities. Also, the center's directors maintained a close relationship with the Hough Community Council, a community based citizens' group that led campaigns to end decay of the neighborhood, fought for better street lighting and police protection, and discouraged block busting.
The League Park Center, Inc., Records, ca. 1952-1970 and undated, consist of articles of incorporation, a code of regulations, minutes, annual reports, correspondence, legal and financial papers, project reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets and posters published by the corporation.
The collection is useful for understanding the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s, and the activities of a neighborhood center during the time of Hough's decline. Materials relating to the Hough Community Council are ubiquitous.
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Separated MaterialAll photographs have been removed to the photograph and print collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4238 League Park Center Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
League Park Center, 1982.
Processed by Daniel J. Linke in 1988.
Series I: Administrative Files 1954-1970 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Articles of Incorporation 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Code of Regulations 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | History of League Park and other historical materials 1964-1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2-4 | Board of Managers minutes and related papers 1957-1958 1964-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5-9 | Staff Meeting minutes 1958-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Miscellaneous minutes of committees and organizations of which League Park Center was a member 1956-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Annual Reports 1964-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12-15 | Reports on projects, studies, etc. 1957-1967 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Legal papers 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Financial papers 1958-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17-19 | Correspondence 1956-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 20-21 | Memoranda 1957-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Agendas 1958-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Pamphlets 1959-1963 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Posters 1957-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Publications of League Park Center 1958-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Job Application Clinic 1960-1962 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 26-27 | Survey of needs and assets 1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 28 | Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous 1954-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 29 | Miscellaneous, including results of research done by Western Reserve University sociology students, certificates of appreciation, and report 1965-1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 30-31 | Miscellaneous undated | |||||||||
Series II: Subject Files ca. 1952-1969 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 32 | Buford, Ligon, Project Worker 1958-1963 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 33 | Citizen Participation Project 1958-1959 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | Elementary Exchange 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | Economic Opportunity Adult Program applications 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Center Association 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 35 | Hear Hough, (newspaper) 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 35 | Hough Area Council 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 36-37 | Hough Community Council 1965-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 38 | Hough Fair 1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 38 | Housing Project Committee 1958-1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Human Renewal 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Lawnview 1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Neighborhood Improvement Committee 1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Periodic Review 1961-1967 | |||||||||
| 2 | 40 | Police Bureau and Complaint Forms 1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 40 | Street Clubs, East 17th Street 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 40 | Street clubs, East 70th Street Club 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 41 | Street clubs, Lawnview, East 75th Place 1957-1965 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 41 | Street clubs, Linwood Improvement club 1959-1964 | |||||||||
| 2 | 42 | Street clubs, Linwood East 71-79 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 42 | Street clubs, Quimby Improvement Club 1958 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 42 | Street clubs, Tween Teen Girls 1967-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 42 | Street clubs, Utica club 1957-1958 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 43 | Street clubs, Whittier 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| 2 | 44 | Street clubs, miscellaneous 1958-1967 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 45 | Summer Cooperative Opportunities Program 1966-1968 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 46 | Summer Program 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 2 | 47 | Traffic Safety Committee 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 2 | 47 | University Euclid Urban Renewal 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| 2 | 47 | Youth Employment Training Service 1962 | |||||||||
| 2 | 48-49 | Miscellaneous forms relating to the Children Temporarily Excluded From School Program (alphabetically arranged by students' last names) ca. 1952-1965 | |||||||||