Forest Hill Park (Ohio)

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.[2] The 248-acre (1.00 km2) park has six baseball diamonds (four lit), six lit tennis courts and walking trails[3] that have retained the natural green space as intended by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who deeded the park to the two cities in 1936.[4] A fire destroyed the estate house in 1917. 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.[5]

Forest Hill Park
Looking northeast from the site of the Rockefeller home down Toboggan Hill
LocationEast Cleveland, Ohio & Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Coordinates41°31′20″N 81°34′37″W
Built1938
ArchitectAlbert Davis Taylor
NRHP reference No.98000072[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 27, 1998

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

See also

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 2008-06-15.
  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 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2006-05-23.


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