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We would like to provide the residents of  University Heights  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the University Heights Home page. The University Heights Home page provides as much information as possible on University Heights. Knowing University Heights’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within University Heights’s Home page, you will also find University Heights’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

University Heights has a population of 1332. 48% of University Heights’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 50% of University Heights is married and 58.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $348,115, and the average rent is $1,398. Household median income in University Heights is $90,331, and the individual median income is $48,500. University Heights’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.4%), Black(5.8%), Hispanic(3.8%), Multiple(3.8%), Asian(3.7%), Native(1.2%), Other(0.2%).


At the turn of the 20th century, the area of present-day University Heights was known as West Lucas Township and consisted of several small farms and properties. At that time, the University of Iowa and Iowa City at large had not yet expanded westward past the Iowa River. In the early 1920s, brothers Lee and George Koser began purchasing and developing the land that became the city of University Heights, anticipating the westward expansion of the University and the city.


With the construction of the University's General Hospital in 1928 and Kinnick Stadium in 1929, those predictions came true. By 1933, the City of Iowa City began annexing land on the west side of the river and in 1935, the city of University Heights was incorporated. By the 1960s, most of the remaining lots west of Sunset St.


were developed and the land surrounding University Heights had been annexed by Iowa City, limiting future growth.All 241 lots in the original subdivisions of University Heights were set up with restrictive covenants stating that the lots were "for the sole use and benefit of the Caucasian Race and no lot or parcel shall be sold, owned, or used or occupied by the people of any other race, except when used in the capacity of a servant or helper".


For 218 of the lots, Lee, Reka, George, and Tessie Koser were responsible for the language, while for the remaining 23, L.R. and Elizabeth Leamer were responsible. These racially restrictive covenants were legally enforceable until the Shelley vs. Kraemer US Supreme Court decision in 1948.


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