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Empire Builders

An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
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286 Seiten
Englisch
Indiana University Presserschienen am04.06.2024
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.mehr
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KlappentextEmpire 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-253-06982-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum04.06.2024
Seiten286 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 279 mm, Höhe 218 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht1270 g
Artikel-Nr.61078695
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GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Online ImagesForewordAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1. Building a City2. The Emergence of Eastern Suburbs3. Building Shake Heights4. Creating an Empire5. Building a Railroad Empire6. The Dominoes Fall7. AfterwordAppendix A: Population of the Western ReserveAppendix B: Genealogy of the Van Sweringen FamilyAppendix C: Real Estate StandardsAppendix D: Deed RestrictionsAppendix E: Van Sweringen Demonstration and Master Model HomesNotesIndexmehr