Named For Lakewood

Lakewood, Ohio

Mathews Avenue

VerifiedLandowners and developers

Named for Herbert W. Mathews, a realty man who married Arthur Hall's sister Laura and helped allot John Curtis Hall's farm.

As partner in Mathews & Gilbert Realty at the turn of the century he helped subdivide much of the Hall farm and could name some streets. He died long before Laura, who travelled abroad and returned to the Victorian mansion on Detroit; she died September 12, 1953, the last of her family.

Named for

Herbert W. Mathews. Realty man and investment counselor; partner in Mathews & Gilbert.

Homestead: Victorian mansion on Detroit Avenue

Sources

Romance in Lakewood Streets
Margaret Manor Butler · 1962 · p. 17

Community notes

See Mathews Avenue on the map →