100 Years in 100 Days: Hough Bakery at Marshalls Drugs on Shaker Square

Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights.

Today's photograph spotlights two local retail institutions: Hough Bakeries and Marshall Drugs.

Hough Bakeries was known for its fine foods. It's been 20 years since the company abruptly closed its stores and headquarters, but the mention of a Hough cake still makes mouths water. Lionel Pile founded the company as Hough Home Bakery in 1903 with four employees. At its height in the 1980s, it had 28 branches in the Greater Cleveland area. 

The branch pictured was located in the Marshall Drugs store in Shaker Square. The company started as a partnership between Wentworth Marshall and Arthur May. Marshall bought May out and became the sole proprietor. By 1949, around the time this photograph was taken, Marshall owned 46 stores.

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Source: "Marshall,Wentworth Goodson" - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, and "Hough Bakeries, Inc." - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History