In 1892, Patrick Calhoun came to the Cleveland area and developed the” Euclid Heights Allotment”, bordered by Mayfield, Coventry, and Cedar Roads to the city line…It was supposed to appeal to Cleveland's elite (by avoiding Italian immigrants living in Little Italy)
- The Coventry Village Business District, constructed between 1919 and 1922, = first fully developed commercial area in Euclid Heights…it was supported by the Heights Theatre at Coventry and Euclid Heights Boulevard.
- Before Patrick Calhoun developed the area, Coventry was little more than a dirt road.
- Coventry served it population, catering to different groups overtime. In the 1920s and 1930s, businesses included those targeting specific services including automobile, banking and dining. In the 1940s and 1950s, the business district catered to the immigrant Jewish community who frequented delicatessens and tailor shops. In the 1960s, Coventry became the home for the hippie generation. In the fall of 1967, local merchants began to cater to this population bringing this counterculture to Cleveland Heights.
- In 1919, the Heights Theatre, a 26,000 square foot, 1200 seat movie theater was one of the first commercial structures to be constructed within the Euclid Heights Allotment. The brick structure, designed by Cleveland architect Albert F. Janowitz, boasted a grand marquee marked with the beginning of what would become the first commercial district in Cleveland Heights.
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