Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers ~ SOLD OUT!!

Name: Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers ~ SOLD OUT!!
Start: 2024-10-23T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Music Box Supper Club

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Music Box Supper Club | Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties
Venue: Supper Club
Showtime: 7:00 pm
Doors open: 5:00 pm
Free Admission, Table Reservations Required
**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.**
Storyteller: Lauren Pacini
Rise and Fall of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen Brothers
Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, two brothers born near Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries amassed a vast fortune in real estate and railroad developments. Their breakthrough came with establishing Shaker Heights, an affluent garden suburb, soon to be 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, while simultaneously building the third-largest railroad network in the country. However, in 1929, the nation’s economy came crashing down after the stock market collapse, and with it, their empire crumbled but did not die.