Cleveland Circle
Cleveland Circle is located at the intersection of Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue. During the late 19th century, Cleveland Circle-Englewood Area developed as an area of upscale Queen Anne, Shingle and Colonial Revival residences of well-to-do commuters. This area represents the south west corner of an area called Aberdeen by 19th century developers and homeowners.
An early owner of these houses was a Mr. Morton. Once one of the more remote sections of Brighton, this southwest corner of the town came to the attention of the general public beginning in 1865. In that year, work began on the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, just to the west of the Cleveland Circle area.
Many Jews left their neighborhoods in the North, South and West End to relocate to Brighton during the period of 1910-1930, attracted by easy access to down town jobs via the electric street car and plentiful modern rental housing. A second settlement of Orthodox Jews from Dorchester and Mattapan occurred during the late 1960s. This later wave of Jews, many of them Orthodox, settled in Brighton and Brookline. The area also has student rentals inhabited primarily by students from nearby Boston College, but nevertheless, student renters are the smallest segment of the area's population.
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