Whether you are young and starting out, ready to buy your first home, raising a family, or a senior looking to downsize and age-in place, Jefferson-Puritas is the neighborhood that will fit your needs! The Jefferson and Bellaire-Puritas neighborhoods in West Park are diverse, vibrant, urban neighborhoods situated 10 minutes from downtown Cleveland. West Park is a resilient and thriving community in which to live, work or visit.

Jefferson-Puritas prides itself on having a variety of stable and affordable housing in a community brimming over with amenities. Homeowners make up 60% of our housing market with the average neighborhood home value at $137,500. No matter what you’re looking for—a beautiful 1930’s colonial or a quaint post-WWII bungalow, vinyl-sided or brick, one or two family, two-story or single-story—the Jefferson-Puritas neighborhood has an affordable, move-in ready home for you.

There are also rental options available throughout the neighborhood, including single or two-family homes, small 4- to 8-unit apartment buildings, and larger apartment buildings, with both market-rate and affordable, subsidized options. The neighborhood is especially excited about Sustainable Community Associates’ new market-rate apartment building coming to the historic former Nathaniel Hawthorne school, located at Lorain Avenue and W 130th St. Construction began in November 2023 and is expected to be completed this year.

Get everything you need, right in your neighborhood! Our retail corridors are full of locally-owned hardware stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, and more. From spacious plazas to main street storefronts, and small local businesses to large national chains, Jefferson-Puritas truly has something for everyone.

Take a walk down historic Lorain Avenue, one of our main commercial areas, and discover businesses that have been around for more than 50 years standing side by side with up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Businesses of all types have located here not only for the convenient location, but for the people who live here! Our residents value and support local businesses, and many small business owners choose to live here, as well. Next time you’re out shopping, consider stopping by a new business—you just might meet a new neighbor!

If you’re into good food, you’re in luck. No one does it better than West Park.

Where else can you find classic American breakfast, hearty South Asian curries, delicious Mediterranean platters, and mouth-watering tacos, all within a 10-minute drive from your home?

With 10+ bars and 30+ restaurants to choose from, our residents are spoiled for choice when it comes to good food. Be sure to try out some of the local offerings, and we guarantee you’ll find a new favorite in no time!

West Park is full of nature-based amenities—in fact, parks are right there in the neighborhood’s name! Jefferson-Puritas is home to plenty of tree-lined residential streets, four community gardens, and seven city parks:

• Crossburn (Crossburn Ave between W 130th & W 134th St)
• Emery (Guardian Blvd & W 130th St)
• Gilmore (Puritas Ave & W 134th St)
• Jefferson (Lorain Ave between W 132nd & W 133rd St)
• McGowan (McGowan Ave & W 121st St)
• Mohican (Triskett Rd between Berea Rd & W 139th St)
• Terminal (St. James Ave & W 146th St)

West Park has a place of worship to serve any religion.

• Apostolic Christian Church Nazarean (12002 Geraldine Ave)
• Blessed Trinity Catholic Church (14040 Puritas Ave)
• Christ United Methodist Church (3625 W 138th St)
• Christ Lutheran Church (13812 Bellaire Rd)
• Church of the Nazarene (12530 Lorain Ave)
• El Shaddai Church (4583 W 130th St)
• Hungarian Reformed Church (15300 Puritas Ave)
• Iglesia la Nueva Jerusalen (4525 W 160th St)
• Iglesia Pentecostal Camino de Santidad (3834 W 140th St)
• In His Image Church of Cleveland (4855 W 130th St)
• Lorain Ave Church of Christ (13501 Lorain Ave)
• Masjid al-Faroq (12740 Lorain Ave)
• Samdan Church (12826 Lorain Ave)
• St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church (4118 Brookside Blvd)
• St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (13400 Lorain Ave)
• Vien Quang Buddhist Temple (4724 W 130th St)
• West Park Baptist Church (4600 W 150th St)
• West Park Friends Evangelical Church (3952 W 140th St)

With a wide variety of schools, West Park is the perfect place to raise a family.

(Pre) K through 8

• ARTEMUS WARD | Public | 4315 W 140th St

• BIRCHWOOD SCHOOL OF HAWKEN | Private | 4400 W 140th St

• GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE ACADEMY | Public Charter | 13442 Lorain Ave

• GARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | Public | 3800 W 140th St

• ICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | Private | 15200 Puritas Ave

• INNOVATION ACADEMY WEST | Community School | 13111 Crossburn Ave

• ROBINSON G. (R.G.) JONES | Public| 4550 W 150th St

• WEST PARK ACADEMY | Community School | 12913 Bennington Ave

High School

• BARD HIGH SCHOOL EARLY COLLEGE | Public | 13501 Terminal Ave, Cleveland, OH 44111

• JOHN MARSHALL SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | Public | 3592 W 140th St, Cleveland, OH 44111

West Park was a village in Rockport Township in the 19th century before (briefly) becoming its own city boasting 8,500 residents in 1921. At this time, the City of Cleveland was the fifth largest City in the United States and continuing to grow, partially through annexation of the smaller surrounding cities like Newburgh, South Brooklyn, and Collinwood. The residents of West Park voted in favor of annexation to Cleveland in November of 1922, and it officially became the last independent city annexed by Cleveland on January 1, 1923.

Though West Park makes up the far west side of Cleveland, geography actually has nothing to do with how it got its name! The neighborhood’s name comes from an early settler of Rockport Township, John M. West, who often invited neighbors to join him and his family on their 600-acre farm and its manmade lake. Thus, “West’s Park,” or just West Park as we know it today, came to be. The home still stands today at 3684 W 138th St in the Jefferson neighborhood, and was designated as a Cleveland historical landmark in 2017.