[2] German Orthodox members of the society left to form Cleveland's first congregation, Anshe Chesed, in 1841.

[3] The Israelitic Society merged into Anshe Chesed in 1845,[3] and a year later the congregation erected a synagogue on Eagle Street.

[2] Over the next 30 years Cleveland's Jewish community grew and moved steadily to the eastern parts of the rapidly growing city.

It was clear to the leaders of Tifereth Israel that the Willett Street Cemetery would not be able to accommodate burial needs for any length of time.

[4] It was laid out as a garden cemetery, with winding paths and roads and extensive landscape plantings.

[6] Construction on the $11,000 structure began about May 1892,[7] and it was expected to be dedicated on Thanksgiving Day in November 1892, about the same time that Rabbi Moses J. Gries took up his duties as the leader of Tifereth Israel.

[15] After the streetcar stopped running, the curbside waiting room and interior shelter platform were removed.

[20] The interior of the chapel was clad in Light Cherokee Georgia marble, with the same broad and narrow courses with differing finishes as the exterior.

[21] The staircase was also made of veined cream Alabama marble, with hand-carved and satin smooth curving walls and hermetically tight window soffits.

[23] The bronze temple menorah in the chapel were designed by Walter A. Sinz of the Herman N. Matzen Studio, and cast by the J. Harsh Company.

The shaft consisted of four pilasters, each resembling a Solomonic column, around a smooth, circular central piece.

[24] The mausoleum used a ventilation system, patented by Lovell, that provided fresh, dry air to each crypt to keep odor at a minimum and to prevent decomposition gases from building up and rupturing the vault.

[14] Originally, Mayfield Cemetery was open to any member of the Jewish faith who wished to be buried there.

But with both Anshe Chesed and Tifereth Israel rapidly growing after 1900, United Jewish Cemeteries of Cleveland decided in 1928 to restrict burials at Mayfield to members of these two congregations only.