Center Family Girls' Home (East View), 1900

Baus caption: Girls home. Lee Rd. in 1900

Baus caption: Girls home. Lee Rd. in 1900

Name/Title

Center Family Girls' Home (East View), 1900

Entry/Object ID

082.1931 Bau.28

Tags

North Union Shakers, Warrensville Township, 1900s, Boulevard Neighborhood, Shaker Heights, 19th Century, Architecture

Description

Plate 28 from from Shakers & Kirtland by Louis Baus showing an east view of the Center Family girls' house along Lee Road. Baus description: "On the west side of Lee Rd., and a little south of the Middle family house stood the girls house, almost across the street from the meeting house. This was the home of the girls, where they were taught all kinds of handy work and all had their various tasks to do. They attended school at the brick school house, south of the meeting house. The boys had a home south of the office. Views from Lee Rd. showing east side. (front). At first the children were kept at the East family, and later removed to the Middle family village, where each sex was under an immediate charge of a keeper. No child under ten was taken in unless accompanied by its father or mother or both. The building was torn down between 1905 and 1908, when all remaining buildings were razed."

Photograph Details

Subject Place

Township

Warrensville Township

County

Cuyahoga County

State/Province

Ohio

Country

United States

Category

Photographs
Archives

Acquisition

Notes

Gift of Eugene L. Baus, 1974

Made/Created

Date made

1900

Location

Location

Room

Elizabeth Nord Library & Archives

Building

Shaker Historical Society

Date

September 20, 2025

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

North Union Shaker Village, Louis Baus

Related Publications

Publication

Shakers of Ohio, Shakers & Kirtland

Notes

Image used on page 179 of MacLean's Shakers of Ohio