A Look Back in Cleveland Heights

1897 Photo Shows Grandview Avenue House

Stark difference exists between neighborhood now and three years after home was built

Check out this then-and-now look at a Grandview Avenue home. The photo is from the Cleveland Memory Project, an online database of historical photos from the Cleveland area. The caption reads: Photo which is part of a collection of A.S. Ludlow of Vermillion. The accompanying letter, dated 2/10/1957, describing the early history of the Bellfield/Grandview area is at 2000.004.25. This photo is labeled on the back, "This house [2200 Grandview Avenue] is on the west side of Grandview about the 5th or 6th house north of yours--Mr. Thurston owned it in 1896. The porch was later closed in buy you will easily recognise [sic] it today--was built in 1895 or '6. HSL. Photo-1897." Shows isolated house with rocking chair on front porch. According to …

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Proposed Euclid Heights Historic District Moves One Step Closer to National Designation

State board recommends that the Cleveland Heights neighborhood be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The proposed Euclid Heights Historic District is one step closer to being recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board voted July 20 to recommend that the Euclid Heights Historic District application be sent to the keeper of the National Register of Historic Places. If the keeper approves the application, the neighborhood will receive the designation. It normally takes about 90 days to review the applications, according to a press release from the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board. The board nominated nine other Ohio neighborhoods, three in Cleveland and one in Cleveland Heights. Cedar Road to the south, Mayfield Road to the north, Overlook Road to the west and …

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Cleveland Heights Featured in 'American Bungalow'

The national magazine argues that Cleveland and inner-ring suburbs like Cleveland Heights are symbols of hope as the neighborhoods have started to recover from tough economic conditions

Residents know the economy and housing market in Cleveland have been hit hard these past few years. But the city and inner-ring suburbs like Cleveland Heights have began to bounce back despite the tough economic circumstances and are symbols of hope and recovery, according to an article in the latest issue of American Bungalow magazine, which came out today. Douglas J. Forsyth, historian at Bowling Green State University, wrote the article, "Progressive Architecture, Friendly Relations: Making It Work in Cleveland," for the spring issue of the national magazine. “Since mid-2010, employment in the Cleveland area has come roaring back from devastating losses, driven by what the New York Times has called ‘the new urban market trends of the …

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90 Years in 90 Days: The Fisher Bros. Company

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. Today's photo recalls the prominence of Fisher Foods, a major grocery chain that lasted more than 50 years. The company, originally called Fisher Bros., was started in 1907 by three New Yorkers: brothers Manning F. and Charles Fisher and Joseph Salmon. The trio opened the first store on 47th and Lorain. The company was incorporated in 1908. By 1928, it was a chain of more than 300 stores across northern Ohio and pulled in $18 million. The company, which adopted the name Fisher Foods, Inc., was Cleveland…

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Michelle Simakis

11:52 am on Monday, October 24, 2011

Thanks for sharing, Richard, and for contributing information and your memories to this project.   more ›

90 Years in 90 Days: Higbee's at Severance Town Center

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. The idea for today's feature came from a Twitter request from Phillip Germany II, who asked for pictures of Severance Town Center in its heyday.  Severance Center, Ohio's first indoor shopping mall, opened on Oct. 17, 1963, to much fanfare. In fewer than six months, it contained 52 stores and was doing $1 million in business a week. This photograph shows the mall in 1970, when Higbee's (pictured) and Halle's were the anchors. After falling on hard times in the 1980s and 1990s, the shopping center was …

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90 Years in 90 Days: Gail Bash and Recycling in Cleveland Heights

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. Today 's photo was contributed by Parker Zabell. It's a clip from an article that ran on May 28, 1992 in The Sun Press about Gail Kirschenbaum Bash, who was a dedicated recycler. Zabell sent this email: "Growing up, my late mother used to collect all our recycling (trash to almost everyone else) and bring it down the city of Cleveland because there was no recycling in Cleveland Heights. People thought we were strange but to me, it has just been a part of life since I can remember.  "We used to collect …

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90 Years in 90 days: Arts On the Rise

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. Cleveland Heights is known as a place where creativity and art ferment. So it's fitting that the window of On The Rise Artisan Breads and Pastries doubles as a bulletin board with posters promoting exhibits, conferences and performances. The bakery is marking its 10th year at 3471 Fairmount Road, in the city's South Taylor-Fairmount shopping district.

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90 Years in 90 Days: Glen Allen Mansion

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. The idea for today's entry comes from Twitter user @pgerm. He asked for photos of Severance Town Center in its heyday. We're still searching for those photos. In the meantime, Cleveland Heights Patch is running photos from the area before the mall was built in 1962. The property around Mayfield and Taylor roads was home to the Severance family, a clan of financiers, industrialists and philanthropists. The patriarach, Louis Henry Severance, was treasurer of Standard Oil. The photo posted today is of Glen…

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90 Years in 90 Days: Heights Center Building Mural West

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. Today's entry captures Jean Sims and Louis Valsi sharing conversation and a coffee on a waning fall day. The couple is seated in front of the Heights Center Building Mural West, which was painted by Jesse Rinehart in 2004. Rinehart created a companion piece on the east side of the building in 2008.

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90 Years in 90 Days: The 1921-1922 Staff of the 'Black & Gold'

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Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. Today's entry is a picture of the 1921-1922 staff of the Black & Gold, the newspaper for Cleveland Heights High School. That school year marked a big change for the newspaper: The school paper started the year 1921-1922 with a worthy history of six years, during which time the publication came out every two weeks. But the new staff was not even satisfied with a bi-weekly, and so a weekly was established, the paper circulating every Monday morning. Through the kindness of the Board of Education, a …

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