NEW Coventry PEACE Park

We are creating a vibrant space that welcomes everyone in our diverse community. The neighborhood has grown since John D. Rockefeller, Jr. sold the land to Grant Deming who deeded six acres to the Cleveland Heights Board of Education in 1917. Coventry School opened in 1920 and the Cleveland Heights Library, now the Coventry Branch, opened in 1926. The intersection of Euclid Heights Boulevard, Coventry Road, and Washington Boulevard has been a community gathering place for generations.

In 1992/93, Coventry School parents, teachers, staff, students, and the community came together on a rainy October weekend to construct the beloved Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Playground. This neighborhood gem was a regional attraction for thirty years, active year round. By 2023, despite regular maintenance and repair, the wooden playground structures, becoming unsafe, had reached the end of their useful lives. 

We asked and you answered in seven community meetings and 700+ survey responses! Working closely with landscape architect Drew Sargeant, we designed the NEW Coventry PEACE Park for everyone in our diverse community.

Photo by: Keith Berr

“Everyone deserves good design, not just people who can pay top dollar for it. The folks who need it the most live in underserved, divested areas." – Andrew Sargeant

The Coventry PEACE Park is an extension of the Coventry Branch Library

Branch Manager Maggie Kinney & Library staff welcome you!

• Outdoor reading programs

• Garden gatherings

• Author visits

• Tai Chi

• Open Mic Poetry

• Mobile food pantries

• Play and sports equipment

• Other community programs- CHGT Eco Fest, Summer Reading Kick-off

Other organizations have programs in the PEACE Park, too!

• Lake Erie Ink

• Drum Circle

• Cleveland Shakespeare Festival

• Coventry SID Movies

• Cleveland Heights Green Team

• Heights Tree People

• University Heights Orchestra

• Mac’s Backs

Strategic Partnerships

Thank you to our partners and donors that are helping to improve what the Coventry PEACE Park has to offer our community:

• Holden Forest & Gardens

• Heights Tree People

• City of Cleveland Heights

• Cleveland Heights Green Team

• Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

• The Hershey Foundation

• Western Reserve Land Conservancy