Shaker Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
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Shaker Heights is an inner-ring streetcar suburb of Cleveland, abutting the eastern edge of the city's limits.
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Shaker Heights was a planned community developed by the Van Sweringen brothers, railroad moguls who envisioned the community as a suburban retreat from the industrial inner city of Cleveland.
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Shaker Heights is roughly 1,050 feet above sea level, and is located about 6 miles inland from Lake Erie.
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Shaker Heights is drained by the Doan Brook watershed, and has several small artificial lakes: Horseshoe Lake, Green Lake, Lower Shaker Lake, and Marshall Lake.
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Horseshoe Lake and Lower Shaker Lake had been dammed by the Shakers, while developers added Green Lake and Marshall Lake, the latter named after drugstore chain owner W A Marshall, at a later point.
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Shaker Heights is a member of the Northeast Ohio First Suburbs Consortium.
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Educationally, Shaker Heights is above the national, state, and local averages for residents who have attained a bachelor's, master's, or above a master's degree.
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Shaker Heights was established in 1909, and incorporated as a village in 1912.
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Shaker Heights is home to the oldest house in Cuyahoga County, built in 1817 by Moses Warren.
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Shaker Heights is known for its stringent building codes and zoning laws, which have helped to maintain the community's housing stock and identity throughout the years.
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Approximately seventy-five percent of the city of Shaker Heights is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Shaker Village Historic District.
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In 1986, the city began a Fund for the Future of Shaker Heights, offering loans for down payments for residents buying homes in segregated neighborhoods, creating multi-ethnic neighborhoods.
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Shaker Heights was a finalist for the All-America City Award in 1989.
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Shaker Heights is entirely within the Eleventh Congressional District, a seat in the House of Representatives, represented by Shontel Brown .
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Publicly, Shaker Heights is served by the Shaker Heights City School District, a K-12 district with an enrollment of about 5,600 students in eight total schools.
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Additionally, Shaker Heights is in proximity to University Circle, which is home to Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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The city of Shaker Heights directly owned and operated these Shaker Heights Rapid Transit services between 1944 and 1975.
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Shaker Heights news appears in the Cleveland daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer, as well as The Shakerite, the Shaker Heights High School student newspaper.
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