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This exhibit examines Olmsted Falls during the early 1900s. It examines Olmsted Falls  using census data, maps, and photographs. It takes a look at housing, jobs, transportaion, and churches within Olmsted Falls

It was during the New Deal that the government, for the first time, began to take a direct role in the design and construction of housing for its citizens.  The first three projects approved under this new policy were located in Cleveland, Ohio, with Lakeview Terrace being the last of the three original housing projects to be completed.  Lakeview Terrace became, for a time, a symbol of enlightened modernity and its influence on urban planning reached far beyond the borders of Cleveland.  The culmination of its influence may have been at the New York World's Fair that was held from 1939 until 1940.  It has been recognized that world's fairs, by involvement with local planning agencies have evolved into planning mechanisms for development of new land, new communities, and civic improvement.  It is very possible that this process was inverted at the 1939 New York World's Fair and that Lakeview Terrace had a strong influence on the planning of the Theme Center of the Fair.