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Cleveland Heights over the last century.
In the early 1800s, settlers began building log cabins in what is now known as Cleveland Heights.
Streetcar lines spurred large-scale residential development at the beginning of the 20th century. The population grew rapidly enough to earn the once-small hamlet the status of a city on August 9, 1921.
The 1920s, by far, saw the most construction in this community. The construction of large mansions had diminished, but modest bungalows, apartment houses, gracious Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival homes, and commercial districts were rapidly expanding the city.
Cleveland Heights became home to a diverse mixture of immigrants and people of different ethnic backgrounds, all living in a community of unique, tree-lined streets, dotted with beautiful neighborhood parks and with homes and businesses with beautifully crafted architecture.
Today, Cleveland Heights retains the charm and character established in the early part of the twentieth century, and the architecture very much stands as it did in those early days. Cleveland Heights is a place where diversity is highly valued and openness, inclusivity, and tolerance are cherished traits. All are welcome.
All are welcome
throughout the years
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Books about
Cleveland Heights
Cleveland Heights: The Making of an Urban Suburb
Cain Park Theatre: The Halcyon Years
The Severances
The Overlook of Cleveland and Cleveland Heights
The Proud Heritage of Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America’s Public Schools
In Our Day: Cleveland Heights, Its People, Its Places, Its Past
Cleveland Heights Landmarks Pride of Past, Pride of Place
Rockefeller's Cleveland
In My Day: Cleveland Heights, the Asking, the Telling, the Listening
Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue Architecture & Community
Resisting Segregation: Cleveland Heights Activists Shape Their Community 1964-1976
Books are available at Appletree Books, Heights Library, and Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry.
