In the first decades of the twentieth century, the first generation of Central City millionaires bulldozed the bluffs, redirected the flow of water, laid foundations, and hauled in soil for manicured lawns. By the crash of ’29, multiple quiet, country roads zig-zagged through a high ground that looked nothing like the watershed ignored by homesteaders throughout the previous century. After annexation into the city and the end of the economic depression that gripped the country, the neighborhood’s appeal rose to new heights. By the 1980’s, many of the multi-acre lots were broken up for McMansions, and The Heights obtained a decidedly suburban feel, a series of cul-de-sacs, dead end streets, and cookie cutter constructions that diluted the neighborhood’s affluence, which, like much of the city’s wealth, migrated to the northern suburbs
