Journal Archives: View from the Overlook
Enjoy a collection of journals from over the years about Cleveland Heights’ history. Articles have been written by local scholars as well as members of the Cleveland Heights Historical Society.
| ISSUE | ARTICLE(S) |
|---|---|
| 1997 – Summer: | The Inaugural Issue:
Introducing the CHHS, by Charles Owen Superior School Day, by Charles Owen Rockefellers’ Forest Hill Legacy, by Anna Marie Meissner John Severance’s Longwood, by Kara Hamley O’Donnell |
| 2002 – Spring: | Euclid Golf Neighborhood to be Listed on the National Register, by Deanna Bremer and Hugh Fisher |
| 2004 – Spring: | Architect Who Fled Nazis Created a Masterpiece in Cleveland Heights (Eric Mendelsohn and Park Synagogue), by Ken Goldberg |
| 2004 – Summer: | Mr. Brown’s Neighborhood (Mayfield Heights Allotment), by Charles Owen |
| 2004 – Fall: | Sears Catalog Homes; The Cleveland Heights Connection, by Chris Roy |
| 2005 – Spring: | When Bad Ideas Happen to Good Suburbs; Massive Heights Redevelopment Proposed in 1969, by Charles Owen |
| 2005 – Summer: | A Brief History of Forest Hill (J. D. Rockefeller), by Chris Hubbert |
| 2005 – Fall: | Whatever became of Park School, by Robert Gaebler |
| 2006 – Winter: | National Art Treasures in Cleveland Heights (WPA’s Federal Art Project), by Mazie Adams |
| 2006 – Spring: | Firemen’s Clubhouses – Inspired Public Structures, by Sven H. Dubie
The Kelvin Home: A New and Better Way of Living, by Christopher J Hubbert |
| 2006 – Summer: | Before the JCC – A Pictorial Tour of “Glen Allen,” by Chris Roy |
| 2007 – Winter: | Local People and Local Memories: The Cleveland Heights History Project, by Sven Dubie and Kara Hamley O’Donnell |
| 2007 – Spring: | Drive by History: The Painter Estate, by Mazie Adams |
| 2007 – Summer: | Obscene History in the Heights; The Case for Jacobellis and Les Amants, by Sven H. Dubie |
| 2007 – Fall: | Cleveland Heights’ Liberty Row, by Ken Goldberg and Chris Roy |
| 2008 – Winter: | Discovering the 19th century in Northern Cleveland Heights, by Mazie Adams |
| 2008 – Summer: | The Struggle for Fair Housing in Cleveland Heights; The St. Ann Audit, by Sven H. Dubie |
| 2008 – Summer: | The Struggle for Fair Housing in Cleveland Heights; Responses to the St. Ann Audit, by Sven H. Dubie |
| 2008 – Fall: | Remnants of “Old Cleveland Heights,” by Ken Goldberg |
| 2009 – Winter: | Cumberland Park and bathhouse; Eight Decades of Keeping Us Cool, by Kara Hamley O’Donnell
Remembering Cumberland by Gary Stromberg |
| 2009 – Spring: | Discovering Change; Cleveland Heights Congregations, by Marian Morton |
| 2009 – Summer: | Household Names from the Heights, contributions from Sarah Wean, John Stark Bellamy, and Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |
| 2009 – Fall: | Introducing Cleveland Heights’ Latest Historic Neighborhood (Inglewood), by Diana Wellman |
| 2010 – Spring: | Grandeur from the Earliest Days of Cleveland Heights (Rice mansion) |
| 2010 – Summer: | Heights Houses Go Modern, by Ken Goldberg |
| 2010 – Fall: | Heights Schools Begin Their Second Century, by Eric Silverman |
| 2011 – Winter: | The Rich History of Lot 11 (Lower Shaker Lakes and North Union Shakers), by Korbi Roberts |
| 2011 – Spring: | Walker and Weeks; An Architectural Power in Cleveland Heights |
| 2011 – Summer: | The Alcazar Hotel; Cleveland Heights’ First (and Only) “Palace Hotel,” by Ann E. Donkin |
| 2011 – Fall: | Cedar-Lee Musings and Memories, by Andrew W. Grossman |
| 2012 – Winter: | Living Large in Cleveland Heights; The Rise, Life and Fall of the Briggs Estate, by Chris Roy |
| 2012 – Summer: | First and Second-hand Looks at Longwood (Severance Estate), by Mazie Adams |
| 2012 – Fall: | The Other Forest Hill; Grant Deming’s Garden Suburb Allotment, by J. Mark Souther |
| 2013 – Spring: | Raising Cain Park, by Kara Hamley O’Donnell |
| 2013 – Summer: | Viktor Schreckengost; How Cleveland Heights’ “Frightening Guest” Became a Legend, by Eileen Beal, MA |
| 2013 – Fall: | Cleveland Heights; Land of Surf and Sun? (developer Howard A. Stahl), by Korbi Roberts |
| 2014 – Spring: | CH–UH Libraries? Coventry Wrote the Book, by Sheryl Banks |
| 2014 – Summer: | Riding the Witches to Heathen Ridge (electrified streetcars), by William C. Barrow |
| 2015 – Spring: | Philip Johnson – On and Off the Overlook, by Laura Peskin |
| 2015 – Summer: | From Overlook Down Murray Hill, by Ken Goldberg |
| 2017 – Spring: | Local History at Heights Libraries, by Amia Wheatley |
| 2017 – Summer: | An Abundance of Exterior Color Ideas for Homes – from 1927, by Ken Goldberg |
| 2017 – Fall: | Cleveland Heights “Emerald Necklace”; Parks, Property and Politics, by Marian Morton |
| 2018 – Spring: | Some History of the Former East Cleveland Masonic Temple – Now the Living Truth Center (also includes Cleveland Heights Masonic Temple), by Korbi Roberts |
| 2018 – Fall: | Salesman & Sacred Spaces; Developers and Congregations in Cleveland Heights, 1901-1951, by Marian Morton |
| 2019 – Summer: | The Pentys, The Heckers, and “the Royals,” by Marian Morton |
| 2020 – Fall: | Curtis-Preyer Stone House; Leaving No Stone Unturned, by John Wheeler
Curtis-Preyer Stone House: The Time Traveler Through the Years of Dugway Settlement, Old Fairmount Village, and now Cleveland Heights, by Korbi Roberts |
| 2021 – Summer: | The First Bicknell Home in Cleveland Heights, by Wm. Hopkins
Bicknell Mansion, by Angelina M. Bair and Thomas G. Matowitz, Jr. The Bicknell Family, Compiled by Korbi Roberts The Story of the T-Locking Shingles in Cleveland Heights, by Steve Holowicki |
| 2022 – Summer: | Ambler Park to Ambler Heights, and the Cleveland and Newburgh Quarry Railroad, compiled by Korbi Roberts |
| 2023 – Winter: | The Electric Transit Era in Cleveland Heights, by Steve Kish |
| 2023 – Fall: | Potter Estates and the Neighboring Severance Mansions, compiled by Korbi Roberts |
| 2024 – Fall: | Double Vision: Cleveland Heights’ Two-Family Home Heritage, by Laura Peskin |