100 Years in 100 Days: Shaker Heights City Hall

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 photo shows the construction of Shaker Heights City Hall at 3400 Lee Road in 1930. Interestingly, the hall was built the year before Shaker became a city. Here's how the Cleveland Press captioned this photograph:

So confident were Shaker Heights Village officials that the 1930 census would place the suburb in the city class, that when construction was begun on the new civic center at Lee road and Clayton boulevard in October, they instructed contractors to carve in the stone facade the inscription, 'City Hall of Shaker Heights,' pictured above.

In 1930, the city's population was 17,000, well above the state's requirement of 5,000 residents. The building was designated a Shaker Heights landmark in 1993.

Source: clevelandhistorical.org

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