wide and long) neared completion at the end of 1898. In 1903, construction began on the Ambler Heights development. Located adjacent to and west of Cedar Heights, the development was named for Dr. Nathan Hardy Ambler (who owned most of the land). Ambler Heights was laid out and promoted by Daniel O. Caswell and Ambler's nephew, William Eglin Ambler, Sales never took off, and the site was replatted in 1900. In 1906, the Cleveland and Eastern Railway Company gained trackage rights to run its interurban railway through Cedar Glen. The line, which had fully opened in 1899, followed Cedar Glen Parkway to Euclid Heights Blvd. and then to Chardon, Ohio. The following year, the Cleveland Railway Company created a branch line which began at the top of Cedar Glen and ran down Cedar Road and to Fairmount Blvd. to Lee Road. By 1920, Cedar Glen Parkway was clogged with automobile traffic. In 1925, the Cleveland Railway Company created a third branch line at the top of Cedar Glen, building it along Cedar Road to Coventry Road. The parkway and extensive streetcar service made Cedar Glen a major gateway between Cleveland and Cleveland Heights. Cedar Glen Apartments Construction of the building Despite the extensive development on the east (Cleveland Heights) side of Ambleside Drive, by 1910 no development had occurred in the area west of it (within the city of Cleveland). The first development here, Ambleside Apartments (now the University Manor skilled nursing facility), began construction in 1913 and was completed in 1914. It was an inexpensive, $50,000 ($ in dollars), four-story, 16-unit apartment building designed by local architect Theodore Conner. In 1925, planning began on the Cedar Glen Apartments at 11424-11432 Cedar Glen Parkway. Owned and designed by prominent local architect Samuel E. Weis ( Samuel E. White), it was one of the first apartment buildings to be erected in Cleveland in several years. Located just inside the Cleveland city limits at the corner of Ambleside Drive and Cedar Glen Parkway and facing the parkway, the structure was to above the road. With a then-unobstructed view of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology, Severance Hall, and University Circle, It was only a short distance south of Cleveland's Little Italy. The Plain Dealer newspaper called it one of the "most unusual sites" in the city. The building had a frontage on Cedar Glen Parkway,