Slavic Village
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Slavic Village is a predominantly Eastern European neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. It encompasses two ethnic sub neighborhoods, the largely Czech Karlin and the old Polish Warszawa.
Warszawa was the primary area of settlement for the city’s Polish immigrants who arrived in the 1880s. The lives of these immigrants were around their parish, St. Stanislaus Church at E. 65th St. and Forman Ave. and the thriving Polish commercial center along Fleet Ave. and E. 71st St. The population of Poles and other ethnically Eastern Europeans in the neighborhood peaked from about 1920 to 1940 and began to decline during the mass suburbanization the city suffered during the 1950s and 1960s.
An attempt to revitalize the neighborhood was undertaken with the organization of Neighborhood Ventures, Inc., in 1977. With Teddy and Donna Sliwinski, along with architect Kaszimier Wieclaw, the center began to come alive once again. In order to attract other groups the region was subsequently changed to “Slavic Village”.