Fairview Greenhouse history

At Christmas time in 1909, so the story goes, Frank took his daughter Mildred to shop for a Christmas tree.

The barn was finished in 1912, and the Hetz family moved to Fairview to live, in the barn, until they could finish their house the following year.

The fire station was built, at 15637 Lorain Avenue, in 1917, as the headquarters of the West Park Fire Department.

Trustees changed the name to Fairview Park Hospital in 1918.

Engine Company 39 was established in 1923 following the annexation.

A new building was erected on this site in 1928, at 3805 West 157 Street, to be a branch library of the Cleveland Public Library.

WEST PARK Y.M.C.A. - 1936

1948 – First migrant workers hired from Puerto Rico

In 1953, there was the groundbreaking for a new building in the triangle of land between Lorain Avenue, Groveland and the bluffs overlooking the Rocky River valley.

The hospital moved into its new building one week following its dedication on 23 April 1955.

In 1957, the "Y" moved into its own new building at 15501 Lorain Avenue.

My grandparents, Tom and Jo Ann Dewar, purchased the 18 acres that the business now sits on in 1960.

Sometime along in 1966-67 Jo Ann decided to start a business for extra income for the family.

Tom built Jo Ann the first greenhouse in 1973.

The greenhouse was expanded in 1974, ’76, and ’78.

The Center for Family Medicine was built on the site in 1976.

The Lorain Avenue Greenhouse, owned by the Colbrunn and Kamm families, was located approximately where, in 1997, the Lorain Square Apartments building stands at 16321 Lorain Avenue.