When John D. Rockefeller Jr. commissioned Andrew J. Thomas to plan his model village in the late 1920's, President Herbert Hoover promised the American people "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." What soon followed was the crash of the stock market in October 1929 and The Great Depression. Undeterred, Rockefeller broke ground.
Built in 1930 by Rockefeller Jr., The Heights Rockefeller Building is significant for it's association with an unusual chapter in the development of suburban Cleveland and because it represents one periods vision of advanced standards of community planning. The Heights Rockefeller Building was intended to serve as the commercial heart of Rockefeller's Forest Hill real estate development, located on the site of his family's longtime summer estate. Designed by New York architect Thomas, Forest Hill was conceived as a model village of 600
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