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 »
On display at the Shaker Historical Society December 26, 27 and 28, 2012.
Mrs. Yusko and Miss Ellis’s third grade students from Laurel School, who recently participated in the “How to create your own exhibit” Program at the Shaker Historical Society will have their work on display throughout the museum for the public to Read more »
Sunday December 9th 2:00 – 5:00pm
Free to the Public!
Join us in celebrating the holiday season! The SHS will be decorated in its holiday best and will offer refreshments and revelry as well as A Capella music by Nightingale.
Friday, November 9th Reception at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Local food author, Laura Taxel, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the West Side Market with her new book. Get a snapshot of the vibrant history of the market, the vendors and the ethnic food offerings. Laura gives audiences a “taste” Read more »
Sunday, November 4th at 4:00 p.m.
Can you imagine Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights without natural parklands and lakes? An eight lane freeway was proposed in 1960 that would have completely destroyed much of the green space in Shaker Heights. Sabine Kretzschmar, historian and former Executive Director of the SHS talks about the Read more »
Friday, September 14, 2012 5:30-7:30pm
Free to the Public!
Celebrate the opening of our new exhibit! Shaker Heights residents joined the national voice in the turbulent times of the 60s to support civil rights, integration and social activism, and to participate in the counterculture trends that were sweeping the country. Citizens mobilized on Read more »
Sunday, October 14th at 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Laura Davis, professor of English and faculty coordinator for May 4 Initiatives at Kent State University and a witness to the shooting of students at Kent State during an antiwar protest will share her experience and present a multimedia slide show about the place of the shootings Read more »
The Shakers lived in communal, self-sufficient farm communities working the land and tending to animals. Although they preached equality of the sexes, their day to day labor activities were segregated; women partook in domestic jobs such as weaving, cooking, and cleaning while men did manual labor, such as carpentry, farming, and other Read more »
While I was cataloging some of the interesting artifacts here at The Shaker Historical Society, I came across something labeled as a bookmark. The description was simple, and the item seemed functional. I thought the advertisement for Shaker Cloaks on the bookmark was interesting, but I moved on to the next item. But, Read more »
One of the oddest appearing artifacts at The Shaker Historical Society sits in the middle of the Collections Room. Multiple visitors inquire about the object, however, the only information I had known, or rather inferred, was that it was somehow used by the Shaker women for spinning. I was determined to find Read more »
