This is a list of historic country estates in Lake County, Ohio built between the years 1895 and 1930. Around 1885 the city of Cleveland, Ohio was home to an estimated 70 millionaires.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] While, at the same time, within three mile radius of the city of Willoughby in neighboring Lake Co. there were none, however, by 1918 there were then over 30 millionaires using large estates as their summer homes.[6] [7] [8]
This wave of wealthy families migrating out to Lake County had many causes. As James Borchert wrote in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Electrified streetcar development in the late 1880s transformed the metropolis. Three times faster than horse-drawn streetcars (15 vs. 5 mph), they permitted radial suburban development up to 10(–20) miles from the city center. The new technology arrived as Cleveland confronted a series of challenges: huge migrations from Southern and Eastern Europe; industrial and business expansion into residential neighborhoods; pollution from new industries; and corrupt government. Urbanites looked to the suburbs as both rural haven and escape from urban disorder. Unlike previous suburban developments, streetcar suburbs deliberately distanced themselves from the city. Privately owned, franchised electric streetcar companies (often controlled by land developers) laid out tracks on EUCLID AVE.[9]
This resulted in bringing major changes to the county's westernmost villages and townships.[10] [11]
On the front page of the Painesville Telegraph dated Thursday, April 16, 1903, under the heading "Mentor Real Estate" was the following.[12]
Demand For Good Residence property has put up the price.Few people are aware that real estate in Mentor is worth several times as much as in Painesville. The demand, by prominent Cleveland people, for residence property along the C. P. & E. railway is what has put prices up on Mentor real estate, and now $1,000 an acre is considered cheap in many instances.The improvements, which Clevelander people have made and are making on the lands which they have purchased, has also had much to do with advance in price.
In 1892 real estate in Mentor was no higher than here, but since the construction of the electric railway, prices have gone steadlly upward.
The country estates were so densely packed into the western portion of Lake County that you could walk from the ReedHurst Estate on the Panesville-Mentor Line to Hillandale on the Wickliffe-Euclid line, a distance of some 12 miles, staying entirely on estate's property with only the need to occasionally cross a country dirt road.
| Estate | Image | Owner | Occupations | Year Build | Sq. Ft. - Rooms | Status | Architect | Acreage | City | Location | Maps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawgood's Summer Estate | No available image | Hawgood, Captain Arthur Harrison.[13] (1865-1945)[14] and(M-1892) Belle L. (Dibley)(1869-1941)[15] Owners(1903-1916) Hawgood, Harry Bourn(1887-1939) and Nellie Doan (Shepard)(1888-1971)[16] Owners(1916-1971) | Owner of several Great Lakes Ships.[17] Manager of the Minerva Steamship Company[18] [19] and Later with brothers owner of The Commonwealth Steamship company[20] Belle was a painter,[21] also made important contributions to regional botany by collecting specimens. Donated Collection to Cleveland Museum of Natural History | @1900 | 00000-00 | Demolished, Now a shopping Center | Architect Unknown | 64 | Painesville Township | 1555 Mentor Ave.[22] Winter Residence: 1942 E. 107th street | 1915 Atlas Painesville Twp. Tract-4, Lot-45 | |
| Cherry Farms[23] | Hart, Frank W. (1853-1910) and (M-1877) Jennie (Griswold)(1856-1942) Owners(1897-) | owner of a wholesale millinery business Cattle Breeder[24] | 1841 Updated:1900 | 00000 | Hellriegel's Inn[25] | Architect unknown | 112 | Painesville Township | 1040 Mentor Ave[26] | 1898 Atlas Painesville Twp T-4,L-38,39[27] | ||
| Old Orchard Farm[28] [29] [30] [31] | SILVERTHORN, William H.(1850-1910) and Fannie White(1853-1916) | President and a member of the executive committee of the Railway Steel-Spring Co. | 1900 | 00000 | Demolished 1983 | Architect Unknown | 200 | Painesville Township | Mentor Ave. C, P & E interurban stop 71[32] Winter Residence: 127 Ingleside Ave.[33] | 1915 Atlas Painesville Twp T-4,L-32,38,43[34] | ||
| Parmelee Farm[35] | Parmelee, James C. (1855-1931)[36] and (M-1900)[37] Alice Woolfolk Maury (1863-1940)[38] [39] Owners(1901-1940)[40] [41] | Helped start the National Carbon Company,[42] [43] Fourth president of the Cleveland General Electric Company,[44] First President of the Cleveland Stock Exchange[45] He and his wife Alice were benefactors of the Washington National Cathedral, and Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. | 1826 / @1930[46] | 00000 / 4,270. | First House demolished 1930's, Care Takes House enlarged and remodeled. From 1940 to 1960 it was part of Cole's Nursery, Now a Private Residence. | Architect Unknown | 200 | Mentor | 9573 Jackson St. | Mentor Twp. Track-6, Lot-5,8[47] [48] | ||
| Gilchrist Estate | Images from 1903[49] | GILCHRIST, Captain Joseph Clough(1850-1919)[50] and (M2 -1890) Emille Martin(1863-1964) | Owned Gilchrist Transportation Co.[51] Second largest shipping fleet on Great lakes.[52] [53] President Coal & Iron National Bank[54] | @1840 | 00000 | Demolished @1970. Now Lake Health and Mentor Surgery Center. | Architect unknown | 26 Painesville Twp. 50 Mentor Twp.[55] | Painesville Township, &<br />Mentor | 9500 Mentor Ave. C. P. and E. Between stop 67 & 68 | 1915 Atlas Painesville TWP T-4 L-37,[56] 1915 Atlas Page 53-Mentor Twp. T-6 L-3 | |
| Reedhurst | Reed, Frederick Nicholas(1853-1905)[57] and Jennie F.(1856-1928) | Reed Brothers & Co. Director Gentlemen's Driving Park Co. | 1900[58] | 7,500 | Demolished 1974 | Frank D. Skell[59] | 125 | 1/2 mile South of Mentor Ave., East of Chillicothe Rd. [60] Winter Residence: 735 Genesee Ave.[61] | 1915 Atlas Page 53-Mentor Twp. Russell Lot[62] | |||
| Twin Maples | Luther, L. Cook(1853-1905) and Clara B. Sylvester(1853-1915) Owners (1883-1903) Hawgood William Alfred(1863-1916) and Bessie Flower(1868-1951) Owners (1903-1918)[63] Luetkemeyer, Edmund Henry(1862-1934)[64] and(M-1908) Mathilde(1871-1941) Owners (1918-1941)[65] | Owner L. L. Cook & Brothers[66] Hawgood was Partners with his brothers in several Lake Eire Shipping Companies[67] [68] Vice-President Luetkemeyer Company, president of the Country Auto Club, a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic Club, and Cleveland Yacht Club. Later Lockwood-Luetkemeyer-Henry Company[69] | 1825[70] | 3,700 | Saved in 1961 by being relocated. Now Private Residence. | Jonathan Goldsmith[71] [72] | 47 25 | Mentor | S.W Corner Mentor Ave. and Chillocathe Rd. C. P. and E. stop 66[73] Relocated .5 mile to 9364 Forstyhe lane[74] Hawgood Winter Residence: E. 89th street Cleveland, Luetkemyer Winter Residence: 1899 E. 93rd Cleveland. | 1915 Atlas Mentor Twp. Russel Lot | ||
| Corning Estate 1912 Andrews Estate 1919 | [75] | Corning, Henry Wick(1869-1946)[76] [77] [78] and Edith Warren(-1953)[79] Andrews, Earl John(-1938)[80] [81] and Clar B. | President of Standard Sewing Machine, director of First National Bank, the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, the Union Trust Company, and the Adams-Bagnall Electric Company.[82] Architech/Builder[83] | 1912[84] | 00000 | Demolished 1990 | Architect Unknown | 30 | Mentor | 9232 Mentor Ave. | 1915 Atlas Mentor Twp. Russell Lot | |
| Dellhurst | Images from 1903 | Van Cleve, Herman B. (1860-1930) and(m. 1892) Adele Livingston (Battershall)(1866-)[85] Owners(1895-1910) Brown, Harvey Huntington Sr.(1848-1923) and(M-) Elizabeth Freeman (Hickox)(1851-1912) [86] Owners(1910-1923)[87] [88] | Owner Building Supply, Major Glass Distributor Owner: Harvey H. Brown & Co. | 1895 | 00000 | Demolished 1974 Functioned as Dellhurst Hospital in the 1930s[89] [90] | Arthur N. Oviatt[91] [92] | 77 45 | Mentor | Mentor Ave C. P. & E. Stop 62[93] Brown's Winter Residence: 2727 Euclid Ave. | 16A-18TWP_2[94] | |
| Clover Farm | No available image | Osborne, Francis Marion (1854-1911)[95] and Dollie Philpot Morris(1858-1928) (Owners -1918) Osborne, Francis Marion Jr (1893-1963) and(M-1915) Florence T.(1894-1973) Owners(1918-1940) | President Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company, President Gilchrist Transportation Co.[96] [97] Built Lost Nation Golf Course[98] The Osborne Dairy Store | 1864[99] | 00000 | Osborne Park , Lost Nation Golf Course Lost Nation Airport[100] | Architect Unknown | 25-337[101] | Willoughby | 38883 HODGSON RD, Lost Nation Golf Course[102] and 38575 Lakeshore Boulevard[103] | 1898 Atlas Douglas Tract Lot-3[104] 1915 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Douglas Tract Lot-3,6,9,10,13[105] | |
| Murray Homestead[106] [107] | Images from 1903, Images from 2019[108] | Murry, William Parmelee(1854-1918)[109] and(M-1877) Jeanie L. Castle(1854-1949) | Director of Pickands Mather Group Coal Department, One of the founders of the Cleveland Athletic Club[110] | 1847 | 00000 | Demolished 1985 | Architect Unknown | 600 | Mentor | Home Stead 8501 Mentor Ave C.P.& E. stop 58. Stock Farm C.P.& E. stop 56.[111] | 1915 Atlas Mentor Village Huntington, Goodell, Simmons and Church Lots[112] | |
| Miller Estate[113] | Images from 1903 | Miller, Leonard B.(1861 -1936)[114] and Mary A. (Denison)[115] | Manager Oglebay Norton & Co.,[116] Charter Member Kirtland and Mayfield Country Clubs | @1903 | 00000 | Demolished 1975. Replaced by the Mentor Medical Park.[117] | Architect Unknown | 80 | Mentor | 8224 Mentor Ave. C.P.& E. stop 55 | Mentor Village Bacon Lot | |
| Indian Hill[118] | Newell,John Edmund(1861-1949) and(M-1891) Amie Sikes Carpenter(1865-1938)[119] | President Jefferson Coal Company, trustee for the Society Savings[120] Ami was executive vice-president of the national Garden Club[121] and Founder of the Women's Protective Association[122] | 1899 | 00000 | House Demolished 1958, Eleanor B Garfield Park[123] | Arthur N. Oviatt | 60 | Mentor | 7967 Mentor Ave. C.P.& E. stop 54. | 1915 Atlas Mentor Village Ward Lot | ||
| WELLCOMFIELD[124] Good Hold Farm | Images from 1903[125] | Wellman, Samual T. (1847-1919) and (M-1868) Julia A. Ballard Owners(1899-1906) Holden, Liberty Emery(1833-1913)[126] [127] and Delia Elizabeth Bulkley (1838-1932) Owners(1906-1913)[128] | American Steel industry pioneer,[129] Founded the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering Company, prolific inventor Owner Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hollenden Hotel, Responsible for Construction of Cleveland Museum of Art, Mining and Real estate Investor, Founder of Bratenahal | 1850[130] | 00000 | Burned down 1929 | Architect Unknown | 1,200 | Mentor | 7767 Mentor Ave.[131] C.P.& E. stop 52. | Mentor T-5 Huntington and Blake Lots[132] | |
| Mooreland[133] [134] [135] NRHP #88000209 | Exterior Video 2016[136] [137] | Moore,Edward William (1864-1928)[138] and (M-1891) Louise Chamberlin(1870-1956) Owners(1898-1956) | Vice-president of the Western Reserve Trust Co., Partner Everett-Moore syndicate that managed CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.[139] CLEVELAND, PAINESVILLE & EASTERN 1895,[140] Detroit United Railway, Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad | 1898 | 20,000[141] | Educational Business Event Center[142] | Arthur N. Oviatt 1898 J. Milton Dyer1906 | 1,100 | Mentor | 7960 Garfield Rd[143] | 1915 Mooreland Estate[144] | |
| Kingwood Farm[145] [146] [147] | King, Harry Wheelock(1863-1928) and Margery Gundry(1866-1950)[148] Owners(1904-1944) Monroe, Logan Sr(1897 -1987)[149] and(M-1918) Kathleen(1899 - 1987) Owners(1944-1975) | President King Bridge Company Vice-President Eaton Corp and Co-Owner Kingwood Nurseries' | 1903[150] | 0000 | Demolished @1980 | Abram Garfield | 775 100 | Kirtland Hills &<br />Mentor | Center Street[151] | 1915 Kirtland TWP[152] | ||
| Primrose Hill[153] Nortonwood[154] | Andrews Horace Elisworth (1863-1918)[155] [156] and Antoinette Huntington Devereux (1863-1955) Owners(1898-1910)[157] Norton, David Z.(1851-1928)[158] and [Mary Castle(m-1871)(1854-1928)] Owners(1910-1928) | Vice-President Standard Oil / President of The Big Con[159] Partner Oglebay Norton & Cohttps://case.edu/ech/articles/o/oglebay-norton-co[160] President ofthe Citizens Savings and Trust Company. | 1898 | 0000 | Primrose Hill Demolished 1966-67Nortonwood Demolished 2019 | Arthur N. Oviatt | 157 300 | Mentor | Garfield Rd.[161] | |||
| Kenridge | Bolton, Charles Chester(1855-1930)[162] and(M-1880) Julie Castle(1857-1929) Owners(1914-1930) Bolton, Chester Castle and(M-1907) Frances Payne(1885-1977) | Partner in M. A. Hanna Company Business Industrialist,United States Republican Congressman from Ohio 22d District 1929-1937 United States Congresswoman from Ohio 22d District 1940-1969, Funded a school of nursing at Western Reserve University | 1848(Family Home moved from Euclid Ave, Cleveland to Center St. Mentor 1915) | 00000 | Demolished | Architect unknown | 80 | Mentor | 8020 CENTER ST[163] | Mentor Village T-2,L-9 | ||
| Courtyard[164] | No available image | Bolton, Newell Castle(1888 - 1947) and(M-) Frances Bray Todd (1896-1983) Owners(1929-1950) Bolton, Oliver (1917 -1972) and(M-) Adelide Brownlee (-)Owners(1950-1978) Bolton, Charles P.(1942 -) and(M-) Julia(-)(m-1976)[165] Owners(1978 - Present) | Army Brigadier General, Executive at Republic steel Director at several large Cleveland Companies[166] United States representatives from Ohio's 11th district 1952-1956 Manager of the Office of International Trade for Ohio. | 1929 | 00000 | Private Resident[167] [168] | Carl Rowley[169] | 100 238 | Mentor | 8021 Center Street[170] | Mentor Village | |
| Low Ridge Farm | | Perkins, Jacob Bishop (1854-1936)[171] [172] and Sallie Moore (Wilshire) (1856-1931) Owners(1900-1936) | Attorney, Manager and builder for the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad, Founder HILL ACME CO. 1886 Honorary Vice President Western Reserve Historical Society[173] | 1900 | 5,334 | Private residents | unknown | 201 | Mentor | 8916 Perkins Dr.[174] Winter Residence:490 Euclid Ave.[175] and Edgewater Park[176] | 1915 Atlas mentor Twp. T- L- | |
| Wildwood NRHP #81000444 | Oliver,John G. (-1939) and May Lockwood(-1941)[177] | Engineer for Warner & Swasey Company later co-founder of Bardons & Oliver | 1908[178] | 00000 | Wildwood Cultural Center & Park[179] | Abram Garfield | 34 | Mentor | 7645 Little Mountain Rd[180] | 1915 Atlas Mentor Twp. Tract 2 Lot-5 16A-017OLD.pdf (1942)[181] | ||
| Chesterfield Greystone Manor | Image from 1960[182] [183] | Scott, Frank Augustus (1873-1949)[184] [185] and(M-1911) Faith Alice Fraser(-1936) Girdler, Tom Mercer(1877-1965) and(M.-1924) Lillian Snowden(M. 1924-1942)[186] | Chairman of the Munitions Standards Board of the Council of National Defense and first chairman of the War Industries Board during World War I, chairman of the board of Warner & Swasey Company President and Chairman of the Board Republic Steel | 1919 | 00000-25 Rooms | Currently Unoccupied. For 34 years it was home to the East Shore Unitarian Church. Around 1996 the House and 100+ acres were merged with the old Newell C. Bolton Estate | Hubbell & Benes | 477 | Kirtland Hills, &<br />Mentor | 7960 Center Street[187] | Mentor Village | |
| Hoyt Estate [188] | No available image | Hoyt[189] [190] Elton James 2nd(1850-1917)[191] [192] and(M-1914)[193] Cornelia Hickox (Brown)(1890 - 1968) | Sr. Managing Partner Pickards Mather & Co. | 1920 | 00000 | Private residents | Architect unknown | 110 | Kirtland Hills | Track 2 Bloss Lot south side of Chilliothe Rd. Kirtland hills[194] 41.644256, -81.329406 | Maps[195] | |
| Hilo Farms NRHP #79001870 | Hanna, Leonard C. Jr. (1889-1957)[196] Owner(1925-1957) | Executive M. A. Hanna Company, philanthropist, Director Cleveland Museum of Art | 1925 | 7,600 | Private residents | unknown | 330 | Kirtland Hills | 9058 Little Mountain Rd.[197] | |||
| ShadyBrook[198] | No available image | Baldwin, Arthur Douglas(1876-1955) and(M-1902) Reba Williams(-1941)[199] | Partner Garfield, Baldwin, Jamison, Hope, & Ulrich. | 1926[200] | 1,684 | Purchased by Holden Arboretum 1956, Used for The Laymen's Retreat Project, Then as Headquarters of The Lake County Historical Society and currently HISTORIC SHADYBROOK HOUSE LLC | Abram Garfield | 556 | Kirtland Hills | 9400 BALDWIN RD 41.637464, -81.29767 | 1915 Atlas Kirtland TWP T-1 L-13,25,26,39[201] | |
| Stump Hollow Farm | No available image | Hanna, Howard Melville Jr.(1877–1945)[202] and Jean Claire(1882-1973) Owners(1927 -1948)[203] | President & Chairman of M. A. Hanna Company | 1927 | 6055-23 | Private Residence | Walker and Weeks[204] | 100 | Kirtland Hills | 9011 Booth Road[205] | Tract-1 Lot-37[206] | |
| Manor House Farm[207] | Morley, Charles Rockwell(1863-1952)[208] and(M-1923)[209] Hedwig (Hotopf)(1865-1955)[210] Was also his Mothers summer home until her death in 1923 Morley,Helen Marshall (Rockwell)(1834-1923)[211] and(M-1858) Deceased Husband Jesse Healy(1820-1903)[212] | Director Kelly Island Lime & Transport Co., Real Estate operator, Trustee of Lake Erie College, President of The Stark Electric and Cleveland Alliance and Mahoning Valley railroad lines.[213] | C. 1874 Extensively Remodel:C. 1903 | 00000-23[214] | Lake Erie College's President's house. and George M Humphrey Equestrian Center. | Architect Unknown | 335[215] 550 | Mentor | 8031 Morley Rd Winter Residences: 2914 prospect Ave. S. E. Later Pasadena, Ca.[216] | 1915 Altas Concord Twp. Joint Sub District Lots 2,3,8,9,10 | ||
| The Pinery [217] Pinery Farms[218] | images of Woods home from an online source.[219] | King, Ralph Thrall(1855-1926)[220] [221] [222] and(M-1897) Fanny Tewksbury(1860-1949)[223] [224] Owners:(1901-1949)[225] Two Children later built homes on the Estate:Woods, Frances (Schafer) | President of the Realty Investment Company,[226] [227] Major Donner and vice president of the Cleveland Museum of Art,[228] a trustee of Western Reserve University and the Western Reserve Historical Society, Blish Rd. renamed King Memorial Highway for him.[229] | Ralph & Fanny: 1st 1901,[230] 2ad 1916[231] Woods: 1928 | Ralph & Fanny: 1st:0000-00, 2ad:1,939-6 Wood's: 4,931- | Private Residence's | Architect's Unknown | 100 250 321[232] | Ralph & Fanny King: 10059 Little Mnt. Rd. Woods King:10095 Little Mnt. Rd. Winter Residence: 2648 Prospect Ave. S. E.[233] | 1915 Atlas Mentor Twp. Track-4 Lot-2, 1900 Chardon Township Tax Map Track-4, Lot-2[234] 1927 Chardon Township Tax Map [235] | ||
| Roberta Holden Bole's Estate[236] | No available image | BOLE, Benjamin Patterson(1873-1941) and(M-1907) Roberta Holden(1876-1950)[237] | Benjamin:Major U.S. Army,Managed the Liberty Holden Trust(Managed the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hollenden Hotel Company and was a director of several other corporations.) Reberta:Was the moving spirit behind the founding of the Holden Arboretum in Kirtland. Co-founded the Hawken School for boys in 1915 and was a benefactor of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. | 1925 | 00000 | Private residence and First 100 acres of Holden Arboretum | Architect Unknown | 180 | Kirtland | 9446 Sperry Rd 41.619654, -81.301963 | Track-1 Lots-51,52 24A-010OLD.pdf (1930-1990)[238] | |
| Lantern Court | More Images[239] | Corning, Warren H. II(1902-1975)[240] and (M-1928) Maud Eells Stager(1909-1991)[241] | investment banking, Executive administrator Holden Arboretum | 1929 | 00000-17 Rooms | In 2022 the House and 29 acres were sold by Holden Arboretum to Red Oak Camp.[242] | Edward John Maier[243] | 99 | Kirtland | 9203 Kirtland Chardon Rd.[244] | Kirtland Tract-2 Lot-26,27[245] | |
| Playmore Estate[246] | Images from 2015 | Hubell, Benjamin(S. 1857–1935) and(M-1895) Bertha M. Tarbell(1872-1957)[247] | Architect: Played a role in designing the West Side Market and the Cleveland Museum of Art. | 1929 Enlarged 2003 | 7,000 / 13,247 | Private residence | Hubbell & Benes | 65 / 13 | Kirtland | 8900 Eagle Road Kirtland. On top of Pierce's Knob (Second highest point in Lake Co.) 41.604093, -81.321296 | Kirtland Track-2 Lot-23[248] | |
| Halle Farm[249] | Random Images | Halle,Samuel Horatio(1868-1954)[250] and (M-1901)[251] Blanche Marguerite (Murphy) (1874-1951)[252] [253] | Founder of Halle Brothers Co.[254] Philanthropist Blanche was the author of Art of Entertaining Managed The Eugene and Blanche Halle Foundation | 1912 | 00000 | Penitentiary Glen Nature Center[255] | Architect Unknown | 424 | Kirtland | 8668 Kirtland Chardon Rd[256] Winter Residence: 2163 Harcourt Dr. Cleveland Heights[257] | Kirtland Twp Tract-13 Lot-18 | |
| Augustus Estate | No available image | Augustus,Ellsworth Hunt(1897-1964)[258] [259] and(M-1920) Frances Elizabeth Good(1889-1981[260]) | Partner in the Kilroy Drilling Company and a director of the National City Bank of Cleveland. President of the National Boy scout Council He won the district golf championship of Greater Cleveland seven times.[261] [262] | 1930 | 1,820 | Private Residence | Architect Unknown | 200 | Waite Hill | 9441 HOBART RD | Kirtland Twp Track 1,2 Lots 1,40[263] | |
| LEO-DORO FARMS[264] [265] | Kirtland Country Club 1910's[266] | Everett, Henry A. (1856-1917)[267] [268] and(M -1886) Josephine Pettengill[269] (1866 - 1938)[270] | President of Big Consolidated and Lake Shore Electric Railroad Co.[271] [272] | 1901 | 00000 | The original wood mansion burned in 1906.[273] The 1910 stone mansion burned in 1975[274] 1910 purchased 309 addition but separated acres. | Architects Unknown | 709 1901:400 1910 added 309 | Kirtland &<br />Mentor | Kirtland Country Club,[275] Lake County MetroPark's Chapin Forest Reservation[276] Gildersleeve Mountain | 1915 Map of Everett Estate lands[277] 1915 Atlas Kirtland TWP Lots-15,16,28 and separated Lots-5,83,84-, 1915 Mentor Twp Track-4, Lots 2,7 | |
| Winden | Sherwin, Henry A.(1842- 1916) and (M-1865) Frances Mary Smith(1843-1920) | Partner, Sherwin, Williams, & Co.[278] | 1898 | 00000 | Demolished 1968 | Architect unknown | 184 | Willoughby | 4420 Sherwin Rd.[279] | |||
| Elgercon[280] [281] [282] | Images from 1903 Image from 2015[283] Images from 2017 Fire[284] | Chandler, Harrison Tyler.(1840-1912)[285] and (M-1865) Ellen Frances (Foster)(1842-1912) Tucker, Stanly Wightman(1870-1943) and(M-1895) Gertrude Lee (Chandler)(1873-1953) | Served in The Grand Army during the Civil War, Founded Chandler & Price printing press company President Foulton Foundery Company, President S. W. Tucker Company | 1900-1913 | 00000-20 | Destroyed by fire 2017, Land used for the Willoughby-Eastlake school district, Lake County YMCA, Willoughby Fire station, Willoughby Police Station and Lake Metroparks' (Gully Brook Park). | Architect Unknown | 125 | Willoughby | 37000 Ridge Road(Rt 84) and Shankland Road | 1915 Atlas, Willoughby Twp. Track-10 Lot-4[286] and P. 127[287] | |
| Harkness Estate | No available image | Harkness, Stephen Vanderburgh(1818-1888)[288] and(M-1854) Anna Maria (Richardson)(1837-1926)[289] | He organized The Euclid Avenue National Bank and was president of Belt Mining Company.[290] In 1867 he made substantial investments in Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler joining with his half brother Henry Flagler. This company was the forerunner to Standard Oil.[291] Ann founded the Commonwealth Fund On her Husband's death Ann inherited 1/3 of his 150 Million dollar estate and gave away 40 Million before she died. | @1883[292] | 00000-24[293] | Demolished @1948, From 1919 to 1948 it was a summer camp called Camp Harkness,[294] [295] Currently its FirstEnergy's Eastlake Generating Station' | Architect Unknown | 222[296] | Eastlake | Erie St. @Eastlake Generating Station, 41.672801, -81.440066 Winter Residence: 6508 Euclid Ave[297] | 1898 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Card Track, Lot-22 1915 Atlas Willoughby Twp. | |
| Cozy Bank[298] [299] | No available image | Weber, Dr Gustave E. Carl(1828-1912)[300] [301] and (M-1854) Ruth Elizabeth Chaney(-1917) | Founder of ST. VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL, Trustee and dean of the Medical Dept. at Western Reserve university U.S. consul in Nurnberg, Germany. | C.1897 | 00000-00 | Demolished | Architect Unknown | 110 | Eastlake, Ohio | 1898 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Card Track, Lot-22 1915 Atlas Willoughby Twp. | ||
| Van Gorder Manor[302] | [303] | Boyce, Joseph H.(1823-1894)[304] and(M-1856) Julia E. (French)(1837-1903)[305] [306] Owner(1902-1903) Van Gorder , Albert Hapgood(1852-1941) and(M-) Nancy Boyce(1871-1959) Owners(1903-1959)[307] | Proprietor of the Willoughby Flour Mills Julia E. French was the twin sister of Julius E. French Founder Hall-Van Gorder Co., The Cleveland Fruit Juice Co.[308] | 1902 | 16,365-00 | Van Gorder Manor Apartments | Architect Unknown | 15 | 37819 Euclid Avenue | 1915 Willoughby Atlas Tract-13 Lot-2[309] | ||
| Belle Vernon Farm[310] | [Jacob A. Beidler |'''Beidler''', Jacob Atlee(1852-1912)<ref name="Case_western_biedler">{{cite web |last1=Barrow |first1=Jack |title=beidler-jacob |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/beidler-jacob |website=case.edu |date=May 11, 2018 |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref><br />and(M-1885)<br />Hannah M.(Rhoads)(1854-1940)
| 1901-1907 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 20th district.,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barrow |first1=Jack |title=You withdraw and I'll Follow |url=https://0-infoweb-newsbank-com.sciron.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us/resources/doc/nb/image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-NB-125B45D9993527F0%402415131-125AD9C52740C502%401-1380A20E44DEFFE9%40%2522You%2BWithdraw%2Band%2BI%2527ll%2BFollow.%2522%2BJames%2BR.%2BGarfield%2527s%2BProposition%2Bto%2BCandidate%2BJ.%2BA.%2BBeidler.%2BSuggests?p=EANX-NB&hlterms=%22Jacob%20A.%20Beidler%22 |access-date=7 June 2021 |page=2 |work=[[The Cleveland Plain Dealer]] |url-access=limited |date=1900-04-21 }} president of the Belle Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co.,[311] [312] [313] Vice president of the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railroad Co., He served as president of the Rhodes & Beidler Coal Co. and as member of the State board of agriculture.| @1881| 00000-00| Demolished Now Willoughby Firestation #3 and Lake Co YMCA[314] | Architect Unknown| 300| Willoughby| 37000 Euclid Ave. C,P & E Stop 34 | 1898 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Track-14,Lots-1,2 1916 Map[315] |- 34- Willow Hall Farm 1898 Willoughby Hall 1903 -Thomas and Mary Jopling|Willow Hall Farm 1898 Willoughby Hall 1903[316] | [317] | Jopling, Thomas(1841-1894)[318] and(m-) Mary Clayton(1841-1917) Reginald Furness(1867-1942)[319] and(M-1894)(D-1910)[320] Anna (Marshell)(Schweinfurth)(1870-1928)[321] | Treasure Otis Iron and Steel Company[322] [323] President American Wire Company[324] Vice-President American Wire Company| @1898| 00000| Demolished| Architect Unknown| 225| Willoughby| 36857 Ridge Road| 1898 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Track-10, Lots-2-3-4[325] |- N41 - As You like it - Joseph Haworth—George B. Harris(1935)?[326] | As You like it[327] [328] [329] | No available image | Haworth, Joseph S.(1855-1903),and William Joseph(1864-1921)([330] and(M-1901)Sarah Amelia Graham((1880-1960)) Harris, George B.(1881-1970)[331] [332] [333] and(M-) Fannie (Davis)(C.1888-1886)[334] [335] Owners(1920-C.1957)[336] [337] | Haworth's were nationally Known Actors and Playwright[338] Harris was a Lawyer, Common Pleas Court Judge, GOP Chairman for Cuyahoga County Fannie helped found the Cleveland Orchestra| C. 1898 C. 1930| 1057-5 2322-10| Private Residences| Architect Unknown| 27| Willoughby | Willoughby RidgeE Rd. Additional Residence(1930): Willoughby Ridge Rd. Harris Winter Residence" E. 97th| Haworth:1915 Atlas Track-10, Lot-10 Harris:27A_004[339] |- 35 Drury Lane Farm|Drury Lane Farm[340] | Images from 1903|Drury, Francis Edson(1850-1932)[341] and(M-1884) Julia Robinson(1859-1943)| Partner Cleveland Foundry Co[342] | 1925| 7,946| Private residence| Walker and Weeks| 65| Waite Hill|6750 WAITE HILL[343] | Tract-9 Lots-1,3|- 36 Tannenbum Farm| Tannenbaum Farm[344] [345] | Images from 1903[346] | Otis,Charles A. Jr.[347] (1868-1953) and(M-1894) Lucia Edwards(1869-1949)| Stock Broker, President Otis & Co, Owner Cleveland News| <1910| 00000| Private Residence| Architect Unknown| 480| Waite Hill|6725 Waite Hill Rd.[348] |1915 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Page 81,|- 37 South Farm| South Farm[349] [350] | Images from 2017[351] | Sherwin, 1. John(-) and (M-) Frances McIntosh(-) 2.Francis McIntosh(1906-1969)[352] and(M-1931) Margaret Halle| Banking| 1920[353] | 11,000| Private Residents| Bryant Fleming[354] | 390| Waite Hill| 9550 Smith Rd.[355] |1915 Altas Willoughby Twp. Page 81 |- 38 Treadway Farm| Treadway Farms[356] | No available image | Treadway,Lyman Hambright(1862-1919) |- N49 Wickliffe-On-The-Bluff—D. Edward Dangler| Wickliffe-On-The-Bluff| Images from 1903[432] | Dangler, David Edward(1858-1939)[433] | |||||||||||
| Elmhurst | Images from 1903[457] | Talmage, William Clinton(1855-1929)[458] and(m-1886) Leona (Boyce)(1860-1939)[459] Owners (1897-1909) | Standard Sewing Machine Co.,[460] Director Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,[461] Owner Talmage Manufacturing Co.[462] | 1897[463] [464] | 00000-00 | Demolished Now part of Rabbinical College of Telshe. | Architect Unknown | 1 | Wickliffe | 28580 NUTWOOD LN Winter Residence: 10917 Magnilia Dr. N. E.[465] | 1898 Atlas Willoughby TWP Tract-8 Lots-2 | |
| Ridgemere Farm[466] [467] | No available image | Cady, George Washington(-1912)[468] and(M-1964) Amanda L. (Feusier)(-1924) [469] McKinney, Price (1862-1928) and(M1-1888) Julia Parthenia (Linnell)(1864-1902) and(M2-1906)[470] Lucy (Dwyer) Sullivan(1884-1951)[471] | Owner G. W. Cady & Co.[472] and later President Cady-Ivison Co.[473] Receiver for the Corrigan, Ives & Co.,[474] [475] Owner CORRIGAN-MCKINNEY STEEL CO. (which later became Republic Steel and then LTV Steel) | C. 1897[476] | 00000-00 | Demolished. Now part of Rabbinical College of Telshe. and Borromeo Seminary Cleveland[477] | Architect Unknown | 28 40[478] | Wickliffe | Nutwood lane Cady Winter Residence: 1402 Euclid Ave. McKinney Winter Residence: 10825 East Blvd.(WRHS's Hay-McKinney House) | 1898 Atlas Willoughby TWP Tract-8 Lot-2 | |
| Woodbine Croft[479] | No available image | Perkins, Edwin Ruthven(1832-1915)[480] [481] and(M-1858) Harriet (Pelton)(1837-1919)[482] | President of the Board of Education.,[483] President Merchant's National Bank,[484] Chairman Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling Railway Co.[485] Vice-President Cleveland Mining Co.[486] Vice-President of the Cleveland Trust Co.[487] The Western Reserve University's Harriet Pelton Perkins Scholarship named for her. | C.1896 | 00000-00 | Demolished. Now the west bound ramp at Interstate 90 and Euclid Ave.[488] | Architect Unknown | 25 | Euclid Ave. C, P & E interurban stop 20. Winter Residence: 8011 Euclid Ave. | 1898 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Tract 8, Lot 1 | ||
| Nutwood Farms | Images from 1903[489] | French, Julius E.(1837-1910)[490] [491] and (M-1860) Ezerine B. (Sharp)(1837-1865) Owners(1888-1910) Devereux,Henry Kelsey (1860-1932)[492] and(M-1885) Mildred Abeel French(1862-1945)[493] Owners(1910-1937)[494] Also built Hollywood Plantation Winslow, Lawrence Lanier(1885-1929) and(M-1914)[495] Aileen (Devereux)(1893-1951)[496] owners(1939-1951)[497] | Pennsylvania Oil Prospector,[498] President Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Co., President Railway Steel Spring Co. Director on several Mfg. Co. Boards[499] [500] Henry organized the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland, Managed the Chicago-Cleveland Roofing Co., Director Railway Steel Spring Co.[501] Mildred Inherited a Million Dollar trust and Nutwood farms. Lawrence was a career U.S. Diplomat. In 1913 he became Secretary to the U.S. ambassador to Germany[502] | @1888[503] [504] | 00000-00 | Demolished @1957, Now Rabbinical College of Telshe. | Landscaped 1912 by Townsend & Fleming[505] (Buffalo,NY) | 210 (111 and 99) | Wickliffe &<br />Willoughby Hills | 28400 Euclid Ave., C,P & E. Stop 20 French Winter Residence: Euclid Ave later Plaza Hotel New York City Devereux Winter Residence: 2527 Euclid Ave.[506] | 1898 Atlas Tract-8, Lots-2,3 and Track-7 Lot-3 31A-013OLD2[507] | |
| Hillandale[508] [509] | Images From 1917 | Outhwaite, Joseph Husband(1851-1902)[510] [511] and(M-1887-1902) Annette (Boyce)(Outhwaite,Jennings)(1864-1935) Owners(1898-1904) BROWN, Arthur W.(-)[512] and(M1??-1898)[513] (M2-C. 1902) Mrs.(-) owner(1904-1909) Tremaine, Burton Gad[514] (1860-1948) and(M-1891) Maude Edith (Draper)(1869-1910) owner(1909-1925) | Owner J. H. Outhwaite & Co. Brown was President of Cambridge Iron and Steel Co., Belle Valley Coal Company Tremaine founded National Electric Lamp Association, Nela Park | 1898 Cost:15-20 Thousand | 00000-15 | Demolished | Jarvis Hunt | 80 | Euclid &<br />Wickliffe | 27560 Tremaine Dr Winter Residence: Outhwaite: Brown: 1885 Euclid Ave.[515] [516] Tremaine: E. 77th | 1898 and 1915 Atlas Willoughby Twp. Tract-8, Lot-2,3 | |
| Estate | No available image | Owner | Occupations | Year Build | Sq. Ft. | Status | Architect | Acreage | City | Location | Maps |
See main article: History of Cleveland.
By 1959 some estates were already past their prime when the planners of Interstate 90 working in the ODOT District 12[520] headquarters would decide to follow the same natural ridge Line that the wealthy owners and their architects had themselves once coveted to gain a panoramic view over the valley of east branch of the Chagrin River. It was this combination of open fields and horse pastures that skirted just north of Chagrin River watershed, the higher peak of Little Mountain and the cities of Wait Hill, Kirtland, Kirtland Hills but was still south enough of the nearby dense properties in the cities of Wickliffe, Willoughby, and Mentor that made this route so attractive to those freeway planners. In some cases estates like Mooreland, Justamere Farm, Nutwood Farm were sliced in half while Mansion's like Tannenbum, Greystone Manor or Hoyt's Estate were so close you could now wave to passing motorist from their bedroom windows[521] and still others even less fortunate like Hillandale, Winden and Kingwood were eventually demolished.