This is a list of historic country estates in Lake County, Ohio built between the years 1895 and 1930. Around 1885 the city of Cleveland, Ohio was home to an estimated 70 millionaires. While, at the same time, within three mile radius of the city of Willoughby in neighboring Lake Co. there were none, however, by 1918 there were then over 30 millionaires using large estates as their summer homes.
This wave of wealthy families migrating out to Lake County had many causes. As James Borchert wrote in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Electrified streetcar development in the late 1880s transformed the metropolis. Three times faster than horse-drawn streetcars (15 vs. 5 mph), they permitted radial suburban development up to 10(–20) miles from the city center. The new technology arrived as Cleveland confronted a series of challenges: huge migrations from Southern and Eastern Europe; industrial and business expansion into residential neighborhoods; pollution from new industries; and corrupt government. Urbanites looked to the suburbs as both rural haven and escape from urban disorder. Unlike previous suburban developments, streetcar suburbs deliberately distanced themselves from the city. Privately owned, franchised electric streetcar companies (often controlled by land developers) laid out tracks on EUCLID AVE.
This resulted in bringing major changes to the county's westernmost villages and townships.
On the front page of the Painesville Telegraph dated Thursday, April 16, 1903, under the heading "Mentor Real Estate" was the following.
Demand For Good Residence property has put up the price. Few people are aware that real estate in Mentor is worth several times as much as in Painesville. The demand, by prominent Cleveland people, for residence property along the C. P. & E. railway is what has put prices up on Mentor real estate, and now $1,000 an acre is considered cheap in many instances. The improvements, which Clevelander people have made and are making on the lands which they have purchased, has also had much to do with advance in price. In 1892 real estate in Mentor was no higher than here, but since the construction of the electric railway, prices have gone steadlly upward.
Map of estates' locations The country estates were so densely packed into the western portion of Lake County that you could walk from the ReedHurst Estate on the Panesville-Mentor Line to Hillandale on the Wickliffe-Euclid line, a distance of some 12 miles, staying entirely on estate's property with only the need to occasionally cross a country dirt road.
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