Fairmount Boulevard District

Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights is a 1.7-mile residential street climbing from Cedar Road to Wellington Road, with a 120-foot-wide roadbed, massive curbstones and a sixty-foot landscaped median that once carried streetcar tracks. About 101 houses and two churches line it, all following the same deed restrictions and setback lines. Styles range from Elizabethan and Jacobean to Georgian, Cotswold and Renaissance Revival. Land that was once Shaker farmland and part of a Rockefeller-owned golf club property was developed by the Shaker Heights Land Company, the Van Sweringens and the Deming Realty. Most building followed World War I. The district was listed as a notably cohesive example of controlled suburban planning in the early twentieth century. Its first residents were prominent Cleveland business and civic leaders, and architects such as Walker and Weeks, Mead and Hamilton, and Charles Schneider designed homes there, with gardens by firms including the Olmsted Brothers.