100 Years in 100 Days: Shaker Heights Police and Fire Departments

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 photographs show members of the Shaker Heights police and fire departments from the mid-to-late 1920s. Here's the text from "Shakers and Kirtland," a scrapbook by photographer Louis Baus.

The pioneer town hall of Shaker Hgts. stood on Lee Rd. north of Shaker Blvd. on the site of the old Shaker Meeting house. It also housed the police dpt., while the fire dpt. occupied a building in the rear. View shows the n.w. sides and Chief John Irvin (right) with three of his finest..."

Baus notes the building was demolished a year after the present city hall was constructed in 1930.

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