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Hough, Cleveland

Hough is a neighborhood situated on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. Roughly two square miles, the neighborhood is bounded to Superior and Euclid Avenue between East 55th and East 105th streets. Placed between Downtown Cleveland and University Circle, Hough borders Fairfax and Cedar–Central to the South and Glenville and St. Clair–Superior to the North. The neighborhood became a target for revitalization during the mid-20th century, after the 1966 Hough Riots.

History
Early history Hough is one of Cleveland's oldest neighborhoods, named after Oliver and Eliza Hough, who first settled in the area in 1799. At the start of the twentieth century, Hough was a community for primarily affluent white residents. Business sprung up around this period, including the Warner & Swasey Company in 1881. After the First World War, this population dwindled, leaving an ethnic European working-class majority. The Great Depression exacerbated Hough's neighborhood deterioration, including a lack of dwelling space amidst population growth, conversion of single-family homes into multi-family homes, and a decrease in home ownership. Transition to an African American community main campus By 1960, multiple factors ultimately coalesced into Hough becoming a poor, majority African American community. The Second Great Migration and slum clearance in Cedar-Central created a mass influx of black people into Hough. From 1957 to 1962, the city's University-Euclid urban renewal project demolished houses in Eastern Hough without creating enough new homes to compensate. Blockbusting as a result of the increase in African Americans led to panic selling and white flight to the suburbs. The latter was a controversial practice that led to racial violence against Black students from Hough and Glenville. This included Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, which was a mixed-use building that included housing and retail. This includes the 2014 preservation of League Park, a $6.3 million effort that renovated the original diamond into an AstroTurf field and turned its ticket office into a Baseball Heritage Museum. Today, Hough forms part of the city's 7th Ward and is represented by Councilwoman Stephanie Howse. == Notable landmarks ==
Notable landmarks
Hough is home to some historical places, which include: • Crawford-Tilden Apartments on East 84th Street and Crawford, on the southwest corner. Built in 1908, the apartments are in the National Register of Historic Places and are a Cleveland Designated Landmark. • League Park on East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue, the original ballpark of the Cleveland Spiders/Indians and the Negro League's Cleveland Buckeyes. While much of the stadium was demolished in the 1950s, the diamond is now a part of a public park. • The Charles F. Schweinfurth Residence close to the corner of Chester and East 75th Street was the home of the prominent Cleveland architect. After Schweinfurth's death, the house became a funeral home from 1930 to 1970, where it was then bought out and preserved in a larger 1970s attempt to revitalize the area. ==References==
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