The platform extends northwest from the main station house with an alternate entrance from Madison Avenue near West 65th Street.

There are a limited number of parking spaces provided along West 61st Street between the station entrance and Lorain Avenue.

The station opened on August 14, 1955, when the west side portion of the CTS Rapid Transit began operation.

[7] The present station opened in 2004, was constructed as a result of the Cleveland EcoVillage project as a catalyst for neighborhood development and to promote the use of environmentally-friendly transportation.

The EcoVillage project, a partnership between the Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization and EcoCity Cleveland, promotes the development of homes and businesses that incorporate the latest environmental thinking and are expressly linked to transit—so EcoVillage residents can live, shop, and work within a compact neighborhood that gives people convenient access to transit options.