Although Cleveland and Cuyahoga County did not follow the primary recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce in 1923 that all municipal and Common Pleas criminal cases in Cleveland in the future be held in a single shared building, their respective criminal courts became located close to one another, and they began to work closer together, in 1931 when the Criminal Division of Common Pleas Court moved into this beautiful new nine-story Art Deco courthouse and jail on East 21st Street, right next to the Central Police Station. In 1977, the county court and jail vacated the building, which fell into neglect and was razed in the 1990s. | Source: Ohio History Connection, Ohio Memories, Digital GalleryDownload Original File
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"County Criminal Courthouse and Jail - circa 1935" appears in: The Justice Center
