Congratulations to Kingsnu & FireDan for the FTF. You may want to look at the log entry for Kingsnu. It has some interesting information about Acacia Country Club.
You are on the grounds of the former Acacia Country Club. The Acacia Country Club, located on the northeast corner of Cedar and Richmond roads in Lyndhurst, opened on 31 May 1921, although only 9 holes of its golf course were completed and it had no official clubhouse. Originally limited to Masons, it was later opened to non-Masons. The club covered 300 acres and offered some of the finest golfing in the area. Its course was designed by Donald Ross, a Boston golf expert, and Henry A. Tremaine was the first president. There were approx. 400 members during the club's initial years.
Initially a golf club, Acacia steadily developed into a leading country club. On 4 July 1922, a $200,000 clubhouse was opened. In the summer of 1954 a $75,000 pool was added, complete with dressing rooms and a snack bar. Major additions to the clubhouse began in May 1963 and were finished by 1964. A new portico and stone front were added to the exterior. A new powder room was built by the main entranceway, and a large building to the west of the clubhouse was built to house a mixed grill, men's card room and bar, and a new men's lockerroom. The interior decorators for the additions were Holzheimer's Interiors. In 1993 the Acacia Country Club owned 176 acres and had 440 members.
In September of 2012 the golf course was sold to The Conservation Fund out of Arlington, Virginia for $14.75 million dollars. In December of 2012 The Conservation Fund deeded the former Country Club to the Cleveland Metroparks. There were other offers from developers to turn it into more retail space like the near by Beachwood Mall or Legacy Village. The remaining shareholders voted not to use it for retail delelopement, and keep the counrty club as green space. Then it became the 17 park in the Metroparks network. The deed came with 2 conditions: it never be used as a golf course, and it be returned to a natural state. At that time the meroparks officials estimated it would take 40 years to reach maturity.The former club house remains. It can be rented for events and functions.