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Ridgewood is a coherent architectural statement announcing Canton's industrial coming-of-age. Its establishment accompanied the event; its buildings embellished it. The architectural significance of the
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styles favored by a number of architects working in this period. Nor is there skimping in the use of materials and craftsmanship. Windows of beveled and leaded glass, multifaceted roof lines featuring slate in various shapes and hues, hand-cut stone, tapestry brick, gazebos, battlements, and turrets
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Ridgewood allotment was platted in several stages between 1918 and 1927 and developed by the Leonard Agency, a subsidiary of which, the Canton Home Site Company, was established to manage the development. The largest portion to the west of Market was once farm land held until 1918 by members of
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popular in the early 20th century. It is significant, too, in that, through its visual amenities – its locally produced lighting standards and paving materials, and in the fact that many of its buildings were designed by local architectural talent – the
District highlights home-produced features of
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Colonial and Tudor Revival styles, but the richness of their surface quality is expressed to a lesser degree. These buildings, when viewed in the context of the district, maintain the continuity of Ridgewood architecture
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approximately 20 blocks from the center of town. A series of three contiguous allotments, the
District was developed by George A. (Jake) Leonard and the Leonard Agency between 1918 and 1940, with the majority of its significant buildings having been erected in the decade 1920 to 1930. The name of
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Ridgewood, including two top Timkens, Robert and Henry. A number of the managers of other Canton industries, from stamping and enameling companies to water softener companies, provisioners and rubber companies, were Ridgewood residents as were professionals of all sorts—doctors, lawyers,
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style homes, built in the same year at 145 19th Street NW, was designed by Herman
Albrecht. Over the next decade Albrecht designed more than a dozen homes in the District, as did Charles E. Firestone. J. Kelly, working with his brother-in-law Arthur Brothers, was responsible for nearly two dozen
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built in the early 20th century with amenities such as original brick streets and locally produced street lighting standards. The District features homes designed by several distinguished architects, including Charles Firestone, Herman Albrecht, and Louis Hoicowitz. Due to its historic
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tunnels and on the Indianapolis speedway. Ridgewood's street lights were manufactured by another Canton firm, Union Metal Manufacturing Company, who built ornamental street lighting standards for first class suburban developments and other uses nation-wide.
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spec house to entice investment in the new allotment. Its rolled roof, suggesting thatch, and its rows of paned casements give its eclecticism a "modern" feeling belying the revival remnants of its Doric-columned entry, arched window moldings suggesting
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Louis Hoicowitz, a Russian immigrant who made good in home construction and another of Ridgewood's prolific local builders, designed 13 of what were considered to be the most impressive buildings in the District by virtue of his propensity for
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style houses dating from 1920–1930. This quality is to such a high degree that the 1930–1940 houses are considered a contributing part of the district . They clearly convey the continuity of architecture present in Ridgewood.
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the Martin family, though the parcel had been annexed to the city in 1905-6. The east portion, originally called the Bellwood addition and farmed by residents of the Stark County Poor House, was annexed to the city in 1911.
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Canton's development and preserves them for the future.
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