On Adams Street at Waverly Street, on the right when traveling south on Adams Street.
Known as the “village Cemetery,” this was Berea’s main burial
ground from 1834 to the 1880s. However, in 1886, the Cleveland
Stone Co. purchased quarries adjacent to the cemetery, where
Coe Lake is today. Quarrying had already . . . — — Map (db m134166) HM
On Front Street (Ohio Route 237) 0.2 miles north of Bagley Road (Ohio Route 237).
In 1845, Baldwin Institute, one of the first schools in the area open to all students regardless of gender, race, or creed, was chartered. The wealth generated by the sandstone and grindstone industries of Berea allowed John Baldwin to found the . . . — — Map (db m3536) HM
On East Bagley Road, 0.2 miles east of Eastland Road.
A find example of the district school building common to Ohio int he early years of the twentieth century. This two-room, red-brick schoolhouse was completed in 1913. Accommodating elementary school children in east Berea and adjacent areas of . . . — — Map (db m3532) HM
For more than ninety years, this area was the heart and soul of Berea's sandstone quarries. In the early 1830s, John Baldwin discovered that the area's sandstone deposits made superb grindstones and building stones. in the 1840s, thriving sandstone . . . — — Map (db m5516) HM
On Depot Street west of Front Street (Ohio Route 237), on the right when traveling west.
The Berea Union Depot, a significant hub in the railroad activities of northeast Ohio from the time of its construction in 1876 until its closing in 1958, is an unusual, but well-designed example of Victorian Gothic Architecture. With the . . . — — Map (db m997) HM
On Seminary Street at Church Street on Seminary Street.
Seven original members, who were staunch abolitionists, organized the First Congregational Church of Berea in the nearby Union School House on June 9, 1855. These members publicly articulated opposition to slavery and their desire for a church with . . . — — Map (db m3539) HM
On Seminary Street, 0.2 miles north of Church Street.
On this site the Lyceum Village and the Berea Seminary were established in 1837 by John Baldwin, Jame Giruth, Henry O. Sheldon, and Josiah Holbrook. Their vision was to create the first in a connected series of Lyceum Villages. The Villages were . . . — — Map (db m3538) HM
On East Bagley Road at Seminary Street, on the right when traveling east on East Bagley Road.
This “little gem of a stone church,” built and
dedicated in 1893, is constructed of locally quarried,
rusticated Berea sandstone blocks. A Celtic cross at
the top of the west wall represented the areas of
Great Britain from which . . . — — Map (db m134169) HM
The photograph looks north to the buildings on East Bridge Street, which constituted the northern boundary of Berea’s sandstone quarries around 1895. The photographer stood approximately where you are standing.
“Gradually the water came, . . . — — Map (db m3548) HM
On Karen Drive, 0.1 miles north of Rocky River Drive.
The ARK in Berea is the first structure in Cuyahoga County to incorporate sustainable building concepts from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Hand built in 1994 as a work of art by environmental artists David and Renate Jakupca, it is a . . . — — Map (db m23221) HM
The Triangle, one of the most historic places in Berea, has been the center of the city’s civic life since the mid-19th century. Just beneath lie the solid layers of the famous Berea Sandstone that brought prosperity to Berea durign its early years. . . . — — Map (db m53428) HM
