Mayfield Road's strip malls thin as you
enter Lyndhurst. In this serene, very
comfortable town one feels secluded from
the '90s rat race.
That has recently changed with the opening of
Legacy Village. While conveniences are easily accessible in
neighboring South Euclid and Beachwood, developers decided it
was time to convert the former TRW site into a thriving outdoor
"lifestyle center" complete with many stores making their first
foray into the Cleveland area. Shoppers and diners from all over
Northeast Ohio now travel to destinations such as Cheesecake Factory,
Crate and Barrell, and The Melting Pot.
Lyndhurst's other shopping center, the
Greens, is built on the grounds of a former golf course. But this
attractive outdoor mall, with its small-shop flavor and
handsome colonial architecture, was designed to blend in
rather than stand out.
The neighborhoods here are lovely without being flashy.
Three Village-whose towering condos run a half million and
up-nestles beside the Acacia Country Club golf course. Just
down the road from Three Village is Lyndhurst Park
Estates, a pastoral cluster of sprawling ranches, slate-roof
Cape Cods and winding, tree-lined streets. The
neighborhood is also home to two excellent schools, the Julie
Billiart School, an elementary school for special-needs
students owned and staffed by the Sisters of Notre Dame,
and the elegant Hawken School (middle and lower campus),
a private co-ed school built on land donated by
Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton. (Bolton also donated
funds to establish the Case Western Reserve Frances P.
Bolton School of Nursing-the first nursing school in America
to be associated with a university rather than a hospital.)
Hawken School borders the former Bolton estate,
Franchester, now the home of TRW's world headquarters.
The huge, copper-glass TRW building sits squarely in the
middle of the bucolic property with its acres of rolling hills,
ivy-covered stone embankments, meandering fitness trail,
stone bridges and the stately mansion in which Frances and
her husband, Chester Castle Bolton, formerly resided. But
all this beauty is discreetly hidden from view by the woods
surrounding the grounds.
With all that quiet charm and unassuming beauty, Lyndhurst
doesn't need to be showy to attract.
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