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Title
Forest
Hill
Park
overlook
shelter
Subject
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937
Parks -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County
Parks
Landscape architects
Environment
Time Period
1930s
Place
Cleveland Heights (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
Photograph
of
wooded
area
and
sketch
of the
planned
overlook
shelter
to be
built
in that
area
from the
original
manuscript
of "
Forest
Hill
Park
: A
Report
on the
Proposed
Landscape
Development
"
1938
.
Forest
Hill
Park
,
designed
by
Cleveland
landscape
architect
Albert
Davis
Taylor
, was
formerly
the
estate
of
industrialist
J
.
D
.
Rockefeller
.
John
Davison
Rockefeller
,
born
in
Richford
,
New
York
, was an
oil
industry
businessman
who
came
to be
known
as
one
of the
richest
men
in
history
,
having
owned
, at
one
time
,
ninety
percent
of the
United
States
oil
refining
industry
. In his
youth
, he
moved
to
Cleveland
,
Ohio
,
where
he
became
a
bookkeeper
at
16
. In
1862
he
went
into
business
with
entrepreneur
Henry
Flagler
and
Samuel
Andrews
, a
firm
which
later
changed
its
name
to the
Standard
Oil
Company
.
John
D
.
Rockefeller
,
Jr
.
joined
his
father
in
1897
but
focused
his
efforts
on
philanthropy
rather
than the
family
business
. He
bought
the
land
of
Forest
Hill
from his
father
in
1923
,
selling
and
donating
portions
of the
estate
for
various
public
uses
. In
1938
he
gave
over
200
acres
to
East
Cleveland
and
Cleveland
Heights
,
land
which
became
the
Forest
Hill
Park
.
Caption
reads
: "The
photograph
at the
top
shows
the
existing
woods
on the
site
of the
Overlook
Shelter
at the
extreme
southwest
end
of the
Meadow
Vista
. The
sketch
at the
bottom
shows
the
suggested
shelter
which
commands
an
interesting
view
looking
to the
west
and
southwest
toward
the
lake
and to the
northeast
across
the
Meadow
Vista.
"
Date of Original
1938
Collection
Albert
D
.
Taylor
Collection
Source
MSS
171
;
Box
6
Format
Picture
;
Photographic
Print
(Black
and
White)
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL05088.tif
Image Height
1788
Image Width
1788
File Size
13778856 Bytes
Notes
Not
online
,
copyright
concerns
.
Finding
aid
says
that
copyright
has been
dedicated
to the
public
domain
, but
can
not
locate
DOG
.
Scanned
for
Bill
Mahon
for the
garden
exhibit.
;
Cataloged
:
Yes
;
Portrait
:
Yes
Date created
2011-08-04
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