Brick storefronts with apartments above line Mayfield Road, with awnings over the sidewalk.
What Little Italy looks like
Commercial buildings along Mayfield Road and tend to be built to the parcel line, with shopfronts and awnings at street level. Residential units sit on the floors above the shops.
Brick is the primary material, and most buildings other than single-family houses are brick or stone. Murray Hill Road keeps its original red brick surface, one of the few streets in Cleveland maintained that way.
The neighborhood is built on a hillside, and its streets turn at angles that follow the slope. Single-family, duplex and triplex houses are mostly wood frame with lap siding on sandstone bases.
On Fairview Avenue, a three-story apartment block is laid in a diamond pattern of tan brick on red. Multifamily buildings like it usually have porches or balconies on the upper floors.
The Feast of the Assumption is held every August. Food vendors and entertainment line Mayfield Road for it.
on Mayfield Road is a brick church with stone trim. Statues stand along the top of its front, and its tower rises above the street.
The former Alta branch library is a brick building with arched window bays and a corbelled cornice. It now serves as a community center and a Montessori school.
Shot in Little Italy
Cherry, the 2021 feature directed by the Russo brothers, filmed at in Little Italy. The brothers shot most of the film in their hometown.
Cherry, 2021
La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita is an Italian restaurant on Mayfield Road, on the ground floor of a century-old building. Cleveland Magazine names the restaurant among the film's locations.
Federal Hill sits on a hill, with narrow one-way streets, a few of them still cobblestone. Atwells Avenue runs through a dense row of restaurants, the same kind of street-level use Mayfield Road holds. The gateway arch over Atwells Avenue is the landmark a viewer would know, so keep it out of the frame. Try searching cobblestone streets now.
The North End is built from four- and five-story brick apartment blocks, most of which still stand. Mayfield Road's brick fronts are one to three stories, so the North End runs taller at the same brick. Its taller walls and waterfront setting give the North End away in wide shots, so keep to tight street frames. Try searching brick apartment blocks now.
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