Lake View Park Allotment Ad – April 19, 1919

Ninety-nine years ago today, the above full-page ad advertising the availability of lots in the Lake View Park Allotment ran in the Lorain Times-Herald.

At that time, Lakeview Park was still in its early stages. The first bath house was still in the planning stage, and wouldn’t open until the following year. The fountain wouldn’t appear until 1936.

Nevertheless, the Lake View Park Allotment was being positioned as an elite address. As the ad noted, “Lorain’s best and most representative citizens have purchased lots in Lake View Park and are either building or planning to build this year.”

This group of citizens included Capt. Richard Thew, founder of the Thew Shovel Company, who lived at 1422 West Erie. (A house built in the early 1950s is located at that address today.)

A. H. Babcock is listed in the ad as one of the sellers of lots. He must have liked that area too, because he owned this well-known house at West Erie and South Lakeview Boulevard.

Here’s an aerial view of the Lake View Park allotment today.