Interesting facts

1. Cleveland Heights was incorporated as a village in 1903 and became a city in 1921. 2. The city was originally home to John D. Rockefeller's sprawling summer estate, which is now Forest Hill Park. 3. NFL superstars Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce were born and raised in Cleveland Heights and graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. 4. Coventry Village, a historic neighborhood in the city, was known as the center of Northeast Ohio's counterculture movement in the 1960s. 5. Cleveland Heights was the first municipality in the State of Ohio to enact a domestic partner registry (in 2003). 6. The city is famous for its strict overnight parking ban; parking on city streets between 3 AM and 6 AM is prohibited without a special exemption. 7. Cain Park is a municipally owned and operated arts park featuring an outdoor amphitheater and an indoor theater, hosting major concerts and an annual arts festival. 8. Legendary comic book writer Harvey Pekar (*American Splendor*) was a long-time resident and a frequent fixture in the Coventry neighborhood. 9. Tommy's Restaurant on Coventry has been serving legendary milkshakes and pioneering vegetarian/vegan food since 1972. 10. Severance Town Center, opened in 1963 in Cleveland Heights, was the first enclosed shopping mall in the state of Ohio. 11. The Cedar Lee Theater is one of the oldest independent movie theaters in the region, known for screening indie, foreign, and cult films. 12. Cleveland Heights sits on the Appalachian Plateau, giving it a noticeably higher elevation and different weather patterns than downtown Cleveland. 13. Lake View Cemetery, the resting place of President James A. Garfield and John D. Rockefeller, straddles the borders of Cleveland, East Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights. 14. For decades, the city operated under a Council-Manager form of government, but citizens voted in 2019 to transition to an elected Strong Mayor system. 15. The city is renowned for its stunning, well-preserved early 20th-century residential architecture, including Tudor Revival, Craftsman, and Colonial homes. 16. Fairmount Boulevard is a designated historic district, famous for its grand mansions built by Cleveland's early industrial elite. 17. Dobama Theater, a prominent off-Broadway style professional theater company, is headquartered at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights library. 18. The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library system is consistently ranked among the top library systems in the United States for its size. 19. Gelson's, a historic farm stand on the city's east side, used to be surrounded by active vineyards before the area was fully suburbanized. 20. "Heights" in the city's name refers to the escarpment that separates the Lake Erie plain from the higher inland terrain.