Don Hisaka, architect has designed buildings from Cleveland to Tokyo with a single focus: graceful and attractive no matter how commercial the setting or utilitarian the agenda. Beginning in 1960 when he opened his practice in Cleveland, he has designed buildings like Beachwood’s Signature Square office complex (1986-9), the glass atrium connecting Thwing and Read more »
Tuesday, August 21 – Sunday, December 30, 2012
Shaker Heights took a lead role in integration efforts by forming the Shaker Housing Office to assist black families in finding homes in predominately white areas of Shaker. In 1957, the Ludlow Community Association was formed in response to discriminatory real estate practices and began to Read more »
Wednesday, October 31– Sunday, December 30, 2012
Shaker Heights began to develop a different vision of the community, one of ethnic and religious diversity, working and living together in harmony as the North Union Shakers had done from 1822 ~ 1889. Population shifts resulted in school closings and mergers with other neighborhood schools. Economic Read more »
