Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways
Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway | |
 Looking eastward along McKinley Memorial Parkway | |
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| Location | Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway, Fremont, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°20′24″N 83°7′59″W / 41.34000°N 83.13306°W |
| Area | 3.6 acres (1.5 ha) |
| Built | 1918 |
| Architectural style | City Beautiful movement |
| NRHP reference No. | 90002212[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 25, 1991 |
The Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways are a pair of historic brick streets in Fremont, Ohio, United States. Designed as small parkways, they were constructed in honor of Sandusky County's eighty-five soldiers who were killed in action during World War I. Unlike many similar streets in other cities, they were not built as centerpieces for grand city plans; instead, they were constructed to provide access to a subdivision that had recently been started.[2]
Laid out in the form of a cross, the parkways run for four blocks with vegetation between the lanes for the two directions; they were completed in 1920 after a year of construction. Historic research has identified both streets as fine examples of the implementation of City Beautiful ideas in an extant city. Today, the parkways continue to provide access to a residential neighborhood; most of the houses that line the parkways are newer than the streets themselves, having been built primarily between 1930 and 1959.[2]
In 1991, the two parkways were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places,[1] qualifying both because of their importance in community planning and in landscape architecture.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1233.
- ^ Soldiers Memorial Parkway and McKinley Memorial Parkway, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2012-01-23.
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1920
- Buildings and structures in Fremont, Ohio
- National Register of Historic Places in Sandusky County, Ohio
- Parkways in the United States
- Streets in Ohio
- Transportation in Sandusky County, Ohio
- World War I memorials in the United States
- Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio