Beachwood is a city in eastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census the city’s population was 14,040.

The land that eventually became Beachwood was originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Before becoming an independent municipality, Beachwood was allocation of Warrensville Township. In 1915, it seceded from Warrensville after the Township voted to close a nearby area school. A petition was organized, and upon June 26, 1915, Beachwood was incorporated into an independent village. In 1960, Beachwood had reached the number of residents to attain city status below the Ohio Revised Code.

Beachwood was named for the numerous Beech trees that grew throughout the village. The lineage of the spelling of the city is disputed. Upon incorporation, the city’s declare was originally spelled, “Beechwood”. One popular theory is that an to the fore village hall clerk misspelled the name upon some recognized documents, giving rise to the current spelling.

In 1948, a village broad debate was sparked after the proposal of the construction of the Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple once the purchase of 32 acres of land upon which the temple currently stands. The debate started due to the growing trend of families touching to the suburbs due to the flourishing post WWII economy. Considering that Beachwood at the time was a small community when few Jews, the brusque proposal of the large synagogue of 1,800 families sparked anti-Semitic worries accompanied by the village’s community due to the imminent demographics fiddle with that the launch of a large synagogue would bring. The village council, no advocate of which was Jewish, cited in 1952 that the establishment of Anshe Chesed “would be detrimental to the public safety, welfare, and user-friendliness of the village”. One morning in May 1952, following Anshe Chesed’s threat to sue the village of Beachwood, residents opened their mailboxes and found a white supremacist newspaper called The Plain Truth, with the message: