Lakewood, Ohio
Maile Avenue
Named for William R. Maile, an English brickmaker who started a brickyard in Lakewood and invested in land including this street.
He and his father had a Cleveland brickyard near Public Square washed out by rain; he moved to Lakewood, built a brick house at Detroit and Brockley, and was one of three trustees of the new Hamlet of Lakewood in 1889. The romance of son Christopher and Mary Kidd appears in The Lakewood Story.
Named for
William R. Maile (1889 trustee). English brickmaker and early Lakewood hamlet trustee.
Homestead: Brick house at Detroit and Brockley
Sources
Romance in Lakewood Streets
Margaret Manor Butler · 1962 · p. 33