Along DeMenil Place and Cherokee Street, forty-three buildings preserve the history of this neighborhood through the stories of its early settlers, the craftsmen who built its homes, the people who lived and shopped there during World War I and the Great Depression, and the children who played there during the 1950s. DeMenil Place was the site of grand houses that witnessed an elegant social life during the nineteenth century. The old, castle-like Lemp Brewery and the Victorian storefronts and townhouses on Cherokee Street between DeMenil Place and Jefferson Avenue, built by immigrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, also reflect this two-hundred-year history.
