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Forest Hill Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Looking west from the site of the Rockefeller home down Toboggan Hill
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Location	East Cleveland, Ohio & Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Coordinates	41°31′20″N 81°34′37″W / 41.52222°N 81.57694°W / 41.52222; -81.57694
Built	1938
Architect	Albert Davis Taylor
NRHP reference No.	98000072
Added to NRHP	February 27, 1998

Forest Hill Park is an historic urban park that was a portion of John D. Rockefeller's estate, located in East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Two-thirds of the park lie in East Cleveland, and the remaining third is in Cleveland Heights. The 248-acre (1.00 km) park has six baseball diamonds (four lit), six lit tennis courts and walking trails that have retained the natural green space as intended by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who deeded the park to the two cities in 1936. Albert Davis Taylor was the park's landscape architect. It is the largest single body of green space between two large metroparks on the far east and west sides of Cleveland.

History

The park was bought by Rockefeller in 1873 as a summer estate, which was used by Rockefeller's family until 1915. A fire destroyed the estate house in 1917. In 1939 Rockefeller transferred 1/3 (one-third) of the property to Cleveland Heights and 2/3 (two-thirds) to East Cleveland.

On February 27, 1998, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

See also

• Forest Hill, Ohio

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "Forest Hill Park". Cleveland Heights Historical Society. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
3. Cleveland Heights Patch, Community Resources, Parks & Gardens: Forest Hill Park Archived 2013-05-14 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 15 May 2013)
4. "Forest Hill Park". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. July 16, 1997. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
5. ^ "Welcome to the City of East Cleveland". City of East Cleveland. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2006.
6. ^ "FOREST HILL PARK". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. May 11, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2023.

External links

• Community Resources, Parks & Gardens: Forest Hill Park

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