there is one wood block street left in Cleveland, (300 ft long, it's also the shortest in Cleveland) but if the city won't repair it with wood, it's soon going to be a brick road of no interest at all.... Hessler Ct in the campus of Case Western, in University City

When the streets were built, there wasn’t such thing as heavy trucks, the street were designed for horse drawn wagons, curved dash Olds, and Model Ts... and the city didn't plan, or budget for, more maintenance on the wood block streets

Dedicated by Cleveland's Landmarks Commission in Nov 1975, Hessler Court, the only remaining Cleveland street to have wood block paving, had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places 7 months earlier. The Court's distinctive paving was installed by Emery Hessler for his private use ca. 1916.

Cleveland city records reveal that, in the late 19th Century, the two streets were part of a large tract owned by Emery M. Hessler, a medical supplies salesman. It was he who installed the distinctive wood paving on what was originally a private drive before being deeded to the city as a public street in 1908.

 

https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/08/10/city-patches-clevelands-wood-street-with-red-brick-after-19-troubleshooter-shows-rotting-potholes/
https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hessler-rd-and-hessler-court-historic-district
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/829