The landmark Preyer House at 14299 Superior Road was built about 1825. It is the oldest standing structure in Cleveland Heights and among the oldest in the Western Reserve. John Peter Preyer and his family, immigrants from Germany, purchased the stone cottage in 1864. According to one description of the Preyer grounds, "walls of lilacs and snow- balls" lined a tree-shaded pebble path leading to the road, and "carefully trimmed beds of low evergreens and old fashioned hundred-leaf roses bordered with fragrant pinks and stars-of-Bethlehem" added to the home's picturesque setting. Much of M. M. Brown's Mayfield Heights was built on Preyer's Lake View Wine Farm on the west side of Superior Road | Creator: Charles OwenDownload Original File
