Some of our Cleveland Heights streets take their names from thoroughfares they are near. Hence we have Cedarbrook, which is off Cedar, and Nobleshire, off Noble. Shaker Road is a mere block from Shaker Heights, and near the famed Shaker Lakes. Nelaview Road takes its name from the nearby and famed corporate campus.

You may well know this twist: Elbon is Noble (its main neighbor and thoroughfare) spelled backwards. At least one of our developers around 1920 had a sense of wit if not necessarily of poetry. Two of our “country” Lanes, too, are named for the wider streets they run into – Overlook and Kenilworth – and our semi-private Wilmar Court is near Wilmar Road. Minor Park Lane, indeed, shyly seems to emulate its dignified neighbor, Hyde Park Avenue (which, some say, used to have a gate of some sort at the Lee Road end). That street, by the way, is older than our esteemed park it adjoins, but very young compared to the dignified urban park of London or the village on the Hudson with which it shares its name.