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Halle Brothers Shaker Square department store

department store in Cleveland, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5642821 ↗
Source-derived summary

Halle Brothers building at Shaker Square is a former department store building constructed in 1948 for the Halle Brothers Co. in the Shaker Square section of Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by architect Robert A. Little, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Halle Brothers Shaker Square department store” as department store in Cleveland, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Halle, Brothers and Shaker can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as department store in Cleveland, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5642821. Authority coordinates are 41.483, -81.592. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Halle Brothers Shaker Square department store” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.