Empire Builders
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Empire Builders

An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers

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Empire Builders

An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers

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Empire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Although they were born into abject poverty, Oris was an extraordinary visionary who, with the help of his devoted younger brother, amassed a vast fortune in real estate and railroad developments. Their major breakthrough came in 1913 with the establishment of Shaker Heights, an affluent garden suburb connected by a brand-new interurban railroad to the booming midwestern metropolis of Cleveland. The Van Sweringens' ascension after Shaker Heights was meteoric, and it culminated with the construction of the 52-story Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland in 1927. However, the country's economy came crashing down after the 1929 stock market collapse, and their empire crumbled around them.

Empire Builders is the first new biography of the Van Sweringen brothers in more than twenty years. In it, architectural photographer and local history author Lauren R. Pacini tells the remarkable story of the Van Sweringen brothers through words and images. This richly illustrated volume features more than 150 new photographs of the still-fabulous historic homes the brothers built throughout greater Cleveland.

The foreword is written by John J. Grabowski.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780253069849
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction
  10. One | Building a City
  11. Two | The Emergence of Eastern Suburbs
  12. Three | Building Shaker Heights
  13. Four | Creating an Empire
  14. Five | Building a Railroad Empire
  15. Six | The Dominoes Fall
  16. Seven | After the Van Sweringens
  17. Eight | Afterword
  18. Appendix A: Population of the Western Reserve
  19. Appendix B: Genealogy of the Van Sweringen Family
  20. Appendix C: Real Estate Standards
  21. Appendix D: Deed Restrictions
  22. Appendix E: Van Sweringen Demonstration and Master Model Homes
  23. Index
  24. About the Author