Shaker Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This 417-acre residential area in the southern part of Shaker Heights, Ohio, extends an existing historic district southward to the Cleveland border. It holds 2,607 buildings, of which 2,003 are counted as contributing. Most are single-family houses, with a smaller share of two-family homes and many garages. Development ran mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s on small, narrow, deep lots. Every house had to follow the Van Sweringen Company's Shaker Village Standards, which required Colonial, English or French Revival designs, authentic materials such as slate, brick, stone, stucco and wood shingles, and a standard two-story height. Uniform setbacks and mature street trees gave the neighborhood a wooded, cohesive look despite its dense lots. Tudor Revival, French Chateau, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial and Georgian Revival houses are all represented. The area was listed for its role in community planning and for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of an early twentieth-century planned garden suburb.