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The Euclid Heights Allotment: a Palimpsest of the Nineteenth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End

Barrow, William C
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-8354
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1458127770

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1997, Master of Arts in History, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
The Euclid Heights Allotment was a late nineteenth century predecessor to the Van Sweringen brothers' Shaker Heights development, anticipating many of the themes of its more famous successor. Located on the heights overlooking Case Western Reserve University, Euclid Heights was the first elite subdivision to marry new electric streetcar technology with the romantic appeal of Cleveland's heights and provide a sheltered, restricted residential community for the wealthy citizens gradually moving out Euclid Avenue to the University Circle area. This allotment, in its various phases, was not the first use of the site, either for land speculation or allotments. Borrowing the notion of a "palimpsest," this paper examines the various attempts to create real estate value, ending with the Euclid Heights Allotment, and their relationship to the wider economy of Cleveland and Doan's Corners and to the spreading urban infrastructure of utilities, parks and transportation.
Walter Leedy, Jr. , Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
History
Euclid Heights Allotment; Cleveland Heights; Patric Calhoun; streetcar suburbs; real estate development; Cleveland, Ohio; electric streetcars

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  • Barrow, W. C. (1997). The Euclid Heights Allotment: a Palimpsest of the Nineteenth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1458127770

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barrow, William. The Euclid Heights Allotment: a Palimpsest of the Nineteenth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End. 1997. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1458127770.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barrow, William. "The Euclid Heights Allotment: a Palimpsest of the Nineteenth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1458127770

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