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before- and after-camp care.
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Shaker Heights, Ohio
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Retired neurobiologist Professor
Christina Moffett originally volunteered
as one of two dozen Shaker residents who
worked on the Library’s and City’s grantfunded
project to digitize the building
index cards.
“Being part of a group that was doing
something positive for the City was very
appealing,” says Moffett. “In addition, our
1927 house had been pretty neglected, so
when we began renovating it we tried to
retrieve past blueprints and permits for
our house. I was chagrined to find there
were none.” (The City did not microfilm
plans for houses built before 1945.) “I
enjoyed meeting and working with people
who were previously unknown to me. We
were all detail-oriented perfectionists
regarding our work, but there was time to
banter and trade Shaker stories.”
When that project was completed,
Moffett stayed on to finish photocopying
the title pages from all 130 rolls of film, a
project that Arian and Petznick had begun.
Moffett and Hays also made a remarkable
discovery: Many sets of blueprints had
been hidden in the microfilm. Renovations
and additions between 1945 and 1995 for
which the City had required the homeowner
to submit plans had been microfilmed, but
their existence had never been noted on
the building cards. It soon became clear
that the microfilm contained a wealth of
previously undiscovered information about
Shaker homes.
As a parting gift, before she moved to
Portland, Oregon to be near her children
and grandchildren, Moffett completed
indexing all the sets of microfilm into the
database.
Shaker resident and architect Richard
Cissell of Cissell Architecture & Design
learned of the need to help scan microfilm
drawings when he visited the Local
History Room looking for the construction
drawings of a client’s home built in 1950.
“I have the flexibility in my schedule
to be able to block out time for it and I
am happy to volunteer,” he says. “One
interesting discovery I made was learning
that the Shaker Police Station was blown
up.” (On February 1, 1970, the Shaker
Heights Police Station was demolished
when an individual blew up the building
with a homemade bomb.)
Local History volunteers have
uncovered both big and small events,
shocking and mundane details, and have
helped to document and preserve Shaker’s
rich architectural history. Their efforts have
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