Comments on: Before the “Great Lakes”, there was “Clairemont Park”

By: Chris Billingsley

Chris Billingsley — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:54:16 +0000

Very Interesting. Notice the street on the north side of the Clairemont school property, leading from the Clairemont school street down to Church Street. The street was never built but I remember an alley that you could use as a short cut to Glenlake pool. Any trace of the alley disappeared when Church Street was widened in the mid 1980s.

By: karass

karass — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:09:45 +0000

I love it! Lake Seneca! A Finger Lake, right? So it’s really the Great and Finger Lakes neighborhood. I kind of wish there was a Skaneatales Lake or street in the neighborhood. It’s one of my favorite Upstate New York names, along with Onandaga and Ticonderoga.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:36:38 +0000

Oh. And it’s dated 1913.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:15:45 +0000

This is a map used for the purpose of selling lots in a new subdivision. The actual plat of Clairemont Park is recorded in plat book 2 page 58 in the clerk’s office at the courthouse. The numbers are block numbers. The “blank area” in block 3 is apparently a hunk of THIS map which is missing. The missing info is lots 7, 8, 9, 18, and 19 of block 3. The lake in the center is called Lake Seneca. It is in the park called Closeburn Park. Can you tell I don’t want to be working right now ?

By: Keith F

Keith F — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:40:07 +0000

A 30-minute trip was a 30 minuter so throughout the day you could catch any of the 30 Minuters. That’s my guess.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:19:26 +0000

Karass – When Waddell Park was ‘created’ several years ago, after neighbors joined to purchase the land instead of a developer who wanted to build some houses there, I seem to recall someone saying there was a spring there that had been capped. As you may know, the neighborhood deeded the land to the City eventually.

By: karass

karass — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:23:28 +0000

I love this map. Was there really a lake in the middle where Waddell Park now is? I can read “Lake…” I think but not the name of the lake. What’s the white spot in Zone 3–reflection? Hole in map? Dead zone? And look how different zones represented very different size lots and probably architecture. With all the renovation, it’s hard to tell anymore but I do remember vaguely when there were a lot more tiny craftsman style cottages in the Great Lakes vs large renovations. Anyone know why the developers decided to name all the streets after Great Lakes?

By: UDog

UDog — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:31:03 +0000

I think I read 1913 or 1918 on the map. Clairemont was built 1923 or 1925.