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A house history book · Garfield Heights, Ohio

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Line drawing of a gable-front house with three dated museum-style tags: 1926 built, 1940 census, 1978 sold 1926built 1940census 1978sold

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The Census Window

Census records name the people living in each house, and they open to the public 72 years after the count. Enter the year your house was built to see which censuses could have counted its households and which you can read today.

For a house built in 1926

3 censuses open today

1930, 1940, 1950. Next to open: 1960, on April 1, 2032.

The three marks

A story you can trust, line by line.

House stories mix papers, memories and guesses. Gablebook never lets them blur: every entry says which kind it is and where it came from, so whoever reads the book next knows what is proven and what is still a hunch.

RECORD
Written down at the time: a deed, a census line, a permit, a dated photo or letter.
TOLD
Someone told you: a former owner, a neighbor, a relative, a story passed down.
GUESS
Your best reading of the clues, until a record turns up.

What a book looks like

The sample bungalow

Sample only: a made-up house, made-up people and made-up papers, shown in the same layout a real book uses.

  1. 1926about 1926

    Built GUESS

    A frame bungalow goes up on a new street

    Source County property record (an estimate for older houses)

  2. 1931

    Moved in TOLD

    The first family we can name moves in

    Source The seller's aunt, who grew up two doors down

  3. 1940

    Other RECORD

    Five people listed at this house in the census

    Source 1940 census, City of Garfield Heights

  4. 1956June 1956

    Changed the house RECORD

    Back bedroom added over the porch

    Source Date written on the back of a framing photo

  5. 1978

    Sold or bought RECORD

    Sold out of the first family after 47 years

    Source Deed, county recorded documents

  6. 2026

    Family moment RECORD

    We started this book

    Source Us

Know where to look

This ground has gone by four names.

Records file a house under the name its place had at the time. For a house inside today’s Garfield Heights, look under these. The 1930 census still files the town as Garfield Heights Village.

Follow the research trail

  1. to 1907Newburgh Township
  2. 1907Village of South Newburgh
  3. 1919Village of Garfield Heights
  4. after 1930 censusCity of Garfield Heights

Sources: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, “Garfield Heights” (case.edu/ech); Wikipedia, “Garfield Heights, Ohio”.

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