Hey all, can someone provide a history or nice historical pics of the intersection of Euclid Heights and Cedar Glen Parkway (AKA Cedar Rd.)? I believe that corner used to be full of apartments back in the day, maybe even a 6 or 7 story war hospital if I'm not mistaken. I often wonder what the land is zoned for and who owns it. I could swear that I read once that it was going to be developed but then again, Pearls of Coventry (Coventry at Cedar) was too. I am curious why everything got torn down - a plan that fell thru? more green space? dilapidated buildings? But more importantly, why nothing has ever been built there since. It's a major intersection, the gateway to both Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, but also the entrance to Case and University Circle. IMO, this corner is the most under-developed on the entire east side. By golly, there is so much foot traffic from students everyday that any retail would be just as successful as the extremely busy (probably busiest) Starbucks in NE Ohio one block over. One larger apartment complex still graces the corner, just a hundred feet into Euclid Heights. Opposite the corner is Ambler Heights Historic District, one block over is Cedar-Fairmount, and to the north is the old historic Mews.

I suppose I have found some answers by using Google. I hope we can still post a few pics of the area when it was built up.

 

Euclid Heights

 

Euclid Heights Boulevard has lost quite a few other structures. Beginning at Cedar the boulevard (which begins with an old stone wall at Overlook) is now missing a double at 2360-2 (between two existing doubles). Three houses between Lennox Road and the Excel Apartments were removed to make room for a parking lot. Several small structures were also removed in the 1990s.

 

The north side of the boulevard was always more open, but there was a small frame house about where the former Margaret Wagner House's auxiliary building now stands. Historical documentation of this enclave is problematic because the structures on what is presently called "Herrick Mews" had addresses on three different streets in old directories.

 

 

Lost to Parking

 

Further up Cedar Road was once a small apartment house just past Grandview. Built about 1912, it was one of Cleveland Heights' earlier multiple dwellings and was still quite new when the Tudor Revival Heights-Grandview Building replaced it around 1931.

 

Several houses and small apartment houses on Grandview Avenue have been sacrificed for parking. East of Delaware on the south side were a small business block and two houses that were replaced (along with houses on Bellfield) with new structures or parking lots. A wonderful, ornate, Spanish-style parking garage behind the impressive Germanic-style Heights Center Building was replaced in the 1980s by a contemporary concrete garage.

 

Former Greeting

 

For over 40 years, everyone entering the Heights via Cedar Glen Parkway was greeted by the ornate four-floor, brick, stucco and half-timber Heights Overlook Apartments. Its facade faced Cedar, and its walls had battlements. Part of that wide walk remains. To its right at 12349 Cedar was the still more elaborate, eight-story Edgehill Apartments which had a beautiful, crisscross pattern in its brickwork. Both buildings were gradually converted into Doctors Hospital from 1946 on. By the 1960s, the larger building was the hospital itself, the smaller a clinic and staff residence. On-site expansion plans were considered, but instead the institution moved eastward and became Hillcrest Hospital in 1968. The following year both Cedar Hill structures were demolished for a never-built municipal lot and fire station.

 

Overlook Road was originally conceived in the 1890s as the most prestigious street of the Euclid Heights development. It was lined by 1920 with 17 mansions from Cedar to just past Edgehill, only a few of which remain. This is reflected in the fact that all of the mansions that corresponded to the "carriage houses" on Herrick Mews are gone. Actually, all but five Overlook mansions were in Cleveland.

 

Anyone have a pic of the Spanish garage? God, do I hate the current one.