Shaker Square

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The Shaker Mill Stone, which lies in Shaker Square

Shaker Square is a neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio which is centered around a shopping center and a station on the rapid transit train line to downtown Cleveland at the intersection of Shaker and Moreland Boulevards. The shopping center was built between 1927 and 1929 by the Van Sweringen brothers, who also developed much of adjoining Shaker Heights. On either side of the train tracks are two lawn areas. A short distance east of the Shaker Square stop, the track splits into the Blue (Van Aken) and Green (Shaker Boulevard) Lines.

In an arrangement crafted in 1912—the year Shaker Heights was founded—roughly one square mile near the square, though in the City of Cleveland, was added to the Shaker Heights school district.

Four large buildings around the perimeter of the grass lawns make up the second planned shopping center in the United States, after Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. They were designed in an Neo-Georgian style by Phillip Small and Charles Bacon Rowley, and together form an octagonal area similar to the Amalienborg Square in Copenhagen, Denmark. The center is currently owned by the Coral Company of University Heights.