Temple on the Heights

Description of the property

and it is three blocks away from the historic center of Cleveland Heights, now the site of 7. Description development planned by John D.Rockefeller, Jr. on the former Rockefeller estate, Forest Hill; at the second story level.

a small chapel (now a theatre),classrooms, offices and two kitchens in its 110,0o0 square -fair X altered - good date Each segment of the main dome features a pair of arched windows with Above the arcaded loggia is a pedimented gable with circles and tablet enrichment.A band The front portico features an arcaded two and a half story entry loggia with five arched arcaded windows in ribbon courses, and features single-arched windows with polychrone surrounds an arcaded stone cornice.At the center of the pediment is a round window featuring the The building is situated on Mayfield Road, historically the main artery of the heights way of providing the city with a privately owned and maintained civic center, and of preserv- facades are unenriched for the most part, and feature simple fenestration and utilitarian The pedimented element is flanked by front-facing gabled blocks with small Once a synagogue, the structure houses a main sanctuary with a domed rotunda 4 and 5) The street facade of the original structure (1925-27) is asymmetrical.The east wing This marketing concept has been encouraged by the City of Cleveland Heights as a feet of space.It was sold in 1980 by its original owners, the B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, or concrete courses.

west wing has some of the same features, modified, including a two-story, twelve- to a limited partnership of 40 investors who have begun to market it as The Civic, a multi- Star of David. - landscape architecture_X religion - archeology-historic - agriculture .sculpture .

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Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) 1900,42.9%were either foreign born or had one foreign born parent) forestalled Sampliner, Lerner and Weil. Criteria A and C science -art - archeology-prehistoric - community planning Specific dates 1924-27; 1956-59 pered.

radical religious and liturgical movement from Orthodoxy to Reformism by 19th century consecutively by Cleveland Jews as their neighborhoods moved eastward over a period of 100 The congregations hired the hood of 25th Street and Scovill.By the time B'nai Jeshurun was itself prepared to build The structure is the third synagogue of the Conservative Congregation B'nai Jeshurun--and in that the evolution of Cleveland's Jewish congregations took two tacks.T Cleveland Jews' continued movement eastward and out of the city occurred not because of itself into two Orthodox congregations, Anshe Chesed and Tefereth Israel.In 1866 the congregation represented, on the one hand, the only available haven for later Orthodox Eagle Street Temple) from Anshe Chesed, who built another in the new Jewish neighbor- then Tefereth Israel had also decided to build a new temple.

cided with two developments. By then, Cleveland Heights had a Jewish population of 5000 "gang of ward healers in a fashion typical of immigrant neighborhoods everywhere. The first two (out of 15,ooo), and had become the second largest Jewish section in the area.And by 9.