In 1926, the City of Cleveland responded to the 1923 court reform recommendations of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce by failing to build a joint court facility with the county and instead building this new Central Police Station on the northwest corner of Payne Avenue and East 21st Street. Criminal cases in Cleveland Municipal Court were held in this central police station, as they had been on Champlain Avenue. Both the Central Police Station and the Municipal Court moved to the Justice Center complex in 1977, where Municipal Court finally shared a courts facility with Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The building on Payne Avenue afterwards continued to serve as the Third District police headquarters until 2015. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Digital GalleryDownload Original File
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"Central Police Station on Payne Avenue - 1937" appears in: The Justice Center
