Roaring+Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
 * From the Ursuline College Archives **

The “Roaring Twenties” was a period of immense growth for Cleveland and Ursuline College. Having let the charter lapse in 1902 in order to focus on preparing sisters to teach at nearby parochial schools, Ursuline College officially reopened to the public in 1922.

Come take a look the new archives display on the college during Cleveland’s boom years, featuring photographs, yearbooks, and other artifacts from the era.


 * 1920s Timeline:**

1920 1921 1922 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
 * Cleveland Population: 796,841 (5th largest city in the US)
 * Cleveland Indians win the World Series over the Brooklyn Robins.
 * Cleveland Museum of Natural History established.
 * The //Cleveland Call, // forerunner of the //Call & Post, // established.
 * League of Women Voters of Cleveland founded.
 * Cleveland Clinic established.
 * Ursuline College reopens at 11105 Euclid Avenue. (Now Thwing Center at Case Western.)
 * WHK, first radio station in Ohio, begins broadcasting in Cleveland.
 * Pepper Pike incorporated as a village.
 * Republican National Convention held in Cleveland; nominates Calvin Coolidge as its presidential candidate.
 * Tuition for a semester at Ursuline College is $75.
 * Cleveland Public Library building opens on Superior Avenue.
 * Cleveland airport (now Hopkins International) opens.
 * Ursuline College announces the move to 2234 and 2244 Overlook Road, Cleveland Heights.
 * Construction on Terminal Tower begins. At the time, it was the second-largest excavation project in the world after the Panama Canal.
 * First class to have completed four years graduates from Ursuline College.
 * Ohio Bell Telephone Building (AT&T Huron Road Building) completed at the cost of $5 million.
 * Ursuline College buys 50 acres in Pepper Pike.

Cleveland Memory Photos 1920-1929 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
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