Nomination for Shore High School

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OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior IAN | | 2000 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in.How to.Bomplete the 1. Name of Property historic name other names/site number 2. Location street & number _ city or town - N/E vicinity - code 035 zip code 44123 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this [X nomination L request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Xmeets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant Dept.

Head Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OH SHPO State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification entered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. I determined eligible for the L removed from the National - other, (explain:) comments.) Date Register. state Registration Form Euclid National Register National Park Service Shore High School NZAnot for publication National Register of Historic Places Ohio RECEIVED 291 East 222nd Street NPS Form 10-900 code OH _ county Cuyahoga In my opinion, the property - meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. (L See continuation sheet for additional I hereby certify that the property is: Shore Cultural Centre (CUY-1655-22) Date of Action Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property 5.

Classification Ownership of Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) X building(s) * public-local - public-State . sites _ structures - objects Number of contributing resources previously listed 6. Function or Use EDUCATION/ school 7.

Description foundation BRICK walls _ CONCRETE BRICK Noncontributing roof Historic Functions private Architectural Classification Narrative Description COMMERCE/TRADE public-Federal other Materials Current Functions Collegiate Gothic SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Total RECREATION AND CULTURE Classical Revival/Jacobean Revival/ in the National Register EDUCATION (Enter categories from instructions) Number of Resources within Property Shore High School district Category of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) Name of related multiple property listing (Check only one box) County and State TERRA COTTA (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS/ NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number - Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Shore High School is a large two-story-and-basement brick-and-terra-cotta building in the Classical Revival style (main block), with later additions in the Collegiate Gothic/Jacobean Revival style. Located at the heart of the downtown Euclid commercial district, it occupies a prominent triangular site at the junction of two busy thoroughfares, East 222nd Street and Babbitt Road (see Site Plan, Photo #1). The building faces north, toward a building, are modest single-family homes. Across Babbitt Road, to the east, is a 1950s-vintage commercial office, and Shore Haven Lutheran Church; single-family houses occupy the balance of the street.

The sprawling school building, of fireproof construction with concrete floors and roof and brick walls, of 1913 (Photo #2), at the center, additions of various sizes were made in 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1929-30, 1947, and 1954. In its final form, the school building comprised some 60 classrooms, cafeteria, gymnasium, combined auditorium/gymnasium seating 1,200, library, band and orchestra room, boiler room, lavatories, necessitated by Euclid's then rapidly expanding population - the building enjoys a notable unity of design and E-shaped in plan, with a high basement, the building is approximately 350 feet long and 250 feet deep. The brown tapestry brick walls, laid in common bond, contrast with the extensive use of white architectural terra cotta. Terra-cotta surrounds boldly frame ranks of large double-hung 6/6 sash, and there is a terra-cotta water table and cornice (Photos #4,5).

The flat roof features a brick parapet with terra-cotta coping, with battlements in the east and west wings. A large square brick stack with chamfered corners dominates the rear elevations, which are more plainly articulated (Photos #6, 7). A notable exception is the auditorium wing, where the rear elevation is distinguished by recessed vertical ranks of paired double-hung windows with brick surrounds. In proportion and detailing-they are tall and narrow, and capped by a Gothic arch - they mirror the tall, Gothic- arch windows of the auditorium's west elevation (compare Photos #7 and #10). two other important entrances in the façade.

To the west of the central entrance is a projecting round arch entry Page Description with terra-cotta quoins.East of the central entrance, there is a round arch entrance with a terra-cotta pediment Continuation Sheet locker rooms, and administrative and counseling offices.Yet despite so many periods of expansion and engaged pyramidal turrets (Photo #8);"Shore High School"appears in Gothic letters above the door. appearance (Photo #3). represents eight different periods of construction (see Dates of Construction plan).To the original main block segmental pediment.

On the lintel is incised, in Roman block letters,"SHORE HIGH SCHOOL." There are Reached by a tall flight of steps, the central entrance features a pair of engaged Roman Doric columns with a (8-86) OMB ApprovalNo 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Inside, the former school building is largely unadorned, with painted plaster walls with picture moulds (the 1947 classrooms have concrete-block walls), linoleum-tile and terrazzo floors, acoustic ceilings, locker-lined corridors, steel stairs, and painted woodwork. One of the building's outstanding features is a 1,200-seat combined auditorium/gymnasium, recessed from the façade on the west side of the school, added in 1929-30 (Photos #9, 10).

Here, the stage, which is 85 feet wide, 70 feet deep, and 60 feet high, is actually a regulation basketball court and doubles as a gymnasium (Photo #11). The auditorium has its original contoured wooden seats, wainscoting with simple stenciled ornament, beamed ceiling, and balcony with projection room. Above the proscenium, in raised Gothic letters, is the warm-hued terrazzo floor, natural oak doors and woodwork, combined coat check/ticket office, and men's and women's toilets. The building is little altered (compare Photo #3, taken in 1999, and Photo #14, taken about 1930). In 1954, three new classrooms were inserted in each of two wells formed by the recessed corridors connecting the east glass transoms remain intact. In recent years, the building's parapets have been encased in dark brown aluminum, obscuring its battlements.

At the outside entrance to the auditorium, the original broad sandstone staircase has been replaced by a concrete handicapped ramp with pipe railing. Intricate metal-filigree lanterns flanking the entry have been vandalized and no longer function. In the west elevation, the auditorium's original In the auditorium lobby, flush-mounted ceiling lights of modern design have replaced the original ornate front of the 1925 elementary school annex. At the rear of the building was a gravel parking lot. Adjacent to the boiler room, a series of manholes led to a subterranean concrete coal room. The school's athletic fields were located off site. In recent years, an asphalt parking lot was added immediately in front of the building, with an entrance off Babbitt Road.

Occupying the triangle is a landscaped park built in 1993 to the design of Kampe and Smiltars, with landscape designer Vince Apanius (see Photo #3). Featuring an artificially undulating terrain, banked formal plantings, and a shallow concrete pool with concrete walkway; it is considered a non- contributing site for the purpose of this nomination. The rear yard of the school today is entirely paved with asphalt and serves as a parking lot; paved drives provide access from both Babbitt and East 222nd Street. There Page hanging lamps. Historic photographs show that the school grounds were landscaped very simply, with a broad front lawn, and west wings with the central block.The building's original doors have been replaced, although their leaded- rolled steel windows have been covered over, and a tall Gothic-arched niche intended for statuary stands empty.

Shore High School specimen deciduous trees, and a curved stone walk Photo #14). There was a small gravel-surfaced play yard in is one non-contributing building, a small gas meter house erected behind the school in 1958 (see Photo #6). handsome lobby features a vaulted ceiling with medieval-style gargoyles at the spring lines (Photos #12,13),a NPS Form 10-900-a inscription: "Dedicated to the Youth of This City for the Development of Mind and Body." A small but Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Areas of Significance for National Register listing.) - A Property is associated with events that have made B Property is associated with the lives of persons XXC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and individual distinction. information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) 1913, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1929-1930, 1947 -A owned by a religious institution or used for - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. within the past 50 years. Warner, Franz C. Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark XX Other - recordedby Historic American Engineering Property is: 1913-1949 Register Continued. Bibilography ARCHITECTURE Architect/Builder Significant Dates Criteria Considerations Significant Person our history. Euclid Public Schools Alumni Assn. religious purposes. significant in our past.

Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation Name of repository: Period of Significance distinguishable entity whose components lack a significant contribution to the broad patterns of (Enter categories from instructions) Shore High School County and State recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey G less than50 yearsof age or achieved significance Nicklas, William H. of a type,period,or method of construction or Cuyahoga, Ohio (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Record # (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Architect/Builder, continued: Glick and Burgett Prominently sited at the junction of two major streets in the heart of the downtown Euclid business district, Shore High School is significant under Criterion C because it embodies the distinctive characteristics of the urban public high school of the early twentieth century. A fine example of period eclecticism interpreted in brick and architectural terra cotta, it is also significant as the product of three notable Cleveland architects, two of whom specialized in the design of schools.

Erected in 1913 to serve students living in the northern section of the Euclid Village School District, the building was repeatedly enlarged in response to Euclid's rapid industrial and population growth after World War I. The original main block of the large two-story-and-basement school building was built to the design of Franz C. Warner, who also planned the Euclid Arcade (1911), the Cuyahoga County Criminal Courts building (1930), and other important projects in northeast Ohio, including numerous schools. The building was successively expanded with later additions: in 1918, 1920, and 1922 to the plans of William H. Nicklas; and in 1925, 1929-30, and 1947 to the plans of Fulton and Taylor, school specialists who Harry A. Fulton alone) served as architects to the Euclid Board of Education for over three decades.

The firm's auditoriums in Greater Cleveland." Notwithstanding its many periods of construction, Shore High School ring suburb. When it opened in September 1913, its four classrooms were occupied by 22 fifth through twelfth high school, Shore was home to over 1,800 students in grades K-12. ' Robert Finn, "Euclid Shore Auditorium Comes to Life Again," Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 18, 1985, p. 9E. Page presents a consistent, almost seamless appearance. Post-1947 alterations have been few, and the building Continuation Sheet Historical Background Statement of Significance planned dozens of school buildings throughout Cuyahoga and adjoining counties. Fulton and Taylor (later, Fulton and Taylor graders; there was just one student in its first graduating class of 1914.

By 1948-49, its last year of service as a 1,200-seat combination auditorium/gymnasium, once lauded as"one of the biggest and handsomest high school 1929-30 addition to Shore High School is especially notable for its rich terra-cotta exterior detailing and for its enjoys a high degree of integrity in location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. Section number - Shore High School illustrates Euclid's transformation from a largely agricultural village to a populous inner- (3-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio the proper accommodation of the schools of said district to purchase sites, to erect thereon school houses and to issuance of bonds in the amount of $100,000 for school construction purposes.

In August 1911, the board By September, when the board of education heard presentations by six architects, village schools were so buildings built and being built by the architects under consideration, the board voted to contract with Franz C. Warner for the design of two new high school buildings: one to be located on the south side of the village, the other on the north. On February 29, 1912, the board voted to name the northern building, located one-half mile from the shores of Lake Erie, "Shore High School" and, a week later, to accept and approve Warner's plans for Central high schools. Both schools were erected at a final cost of $91,540.56 and opened in September 1913. Franz Childs Warner (1876-1947) received his bachelor's degree from Case School of Applied Science in 1900, following which he studied architecture in the office of Owsley and Boucherle in Youngstown.

He was subsequently associated with Columbus architect Frank L. Packard. In 1905 he settled in Cleveland, where he opened his own office. Early in his career, he designed several public buildings, including the high school in his native Painesville, Ohio. The commission to plan Shore High School helped establish Warner's reputation as a designer of educational and institutional buildings. According to one biography, between 1914 and 1918 Warner designed 30 building (1930, since demolished). As a member of Warner, Mitchell and McCornack, Warner designed Coventry and Roxboro schools in Cleveland Heights (1922) and Kirk Middle School in East Cleveland (1930). By 1933, he had designed more than a hundred school buildings in Ohio and nearby states, including multiple buildings for the University of Kentucky at Lexington and Ohio Wesleyan University.

He also designed the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Warner was elected to the Cleveland chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1919. When he died in 1947, the Cleveland Press praised his "creative (8-86) purchased seven acres at Bliss (later East 222nd Street) and Babbitt roads from Adam Stein at a cost of $3,850. The original Shore High School consisted of four classrooms, a gymnasium, and, in the basement, rooms for Continuation Sheet 2Although denominated "Shore High School,"'the building housed elementary and junior and senior high school students until 1949.

furnish the same."The following month, a majority of the 228 Euclid voters who cast ballots approved the School (1915,1929),and (as senior partner of Warner and Mitchell) the Cuyahoga County Criminal Courts United States Department of the Interior manual training and domestic science classes.2 crowded that an"emergency room"in a local hotel had to be pressed into service.After looking over school schoolhouses in northern Ohio.Among his important projects are the Euclid Arcade(19i1),Willoughby High NPS Form 10-900-a In March 1911, the Board of Education of the Euclid Village School District resolved "...that it is necessary for the new building. In April, Glick and Burgett of Lorain, Ohio, won the contract to erect both Shore and Euclid- Page Section number OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number - Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio imagination and technical skill," crediting him for leaving "many monuments in the form of school and church buildings which exhibit his characteristic touch." Within three years of the completion of Shore High School, the board of education was discussing the need to enlarge it. In 1917 and again in 1919, school board clerk Louis Harms advertised for proposals for the erection of brick fireproof additions in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by Cleveland architect William H. Nicklas (1867-1960). In partnership with the noted church architect Sidney R. Badgley between 1903 and Nicklas and Rodrick from 1926 until 1936.

Among his known solo works are the Lakewood Congregational Church (1913) and the Broadway United Methodist Church (1918). Victory Park School (1921) in South Euclid and his additions to Shore are the only school projects that have been attributed to Nicklas. To Nicklas's plans, in 1918 three classrooms - Room 29, 129, and 229 - stacked one atop the other, were added to the size, and Rooms 31, 33, 131, 133, 231, and 233 were added. And in 1922, Rooms 17, 19, 115, 117, 119, 215, 217, and 219 were added, and the library, occupying a first-floor classroom in the original main block, was lengthened (see floor plans included with this nomination). Between 1920 and 1930, more than a dozen companies - including such large, nationally known firms as General Electric, Chase Brass and Copper, and Addressograph-Multigraph-erected factories in Euclid.

meanwhile, grew from 1,959 in 1925 to 3,430 a decade later. The city's steady growth required the construction of new school buildings in other sections of the city. In 1919 both Roosevelt and Noble elementary schools were built, and in 1925 Upson School was built, as was a large elementary school annex to Shore High School (the school building's west wing, fronting on Babbitt Road). The Cleveland architectural firm of Fulton and Taylor planned all of these projects, as well as the 1929-30 auditorium addition to Shore High School, which Cleveland Plain Dealer music critic Robert Finn would later call "one of the biggest and handsomest high school auditoriums in Greater Cleveland" (December 18, 1985). Harry Aldus Fulton (1884-1961), a native of Belle Center (Logan County), Ohio, joined the office of Cleveland architect J.

Milton Dyer following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania. William Reed Taylor (1884-1964), a lifelong Clevelander, earned an engineering degree from the Case School of Applied Science. 3 The board of education's decision to hire Nicklas instead of Warner cannot be documented. 4 According to records of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, Badgley and Nicklas are credited with the designs of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (1908), Fourth Reformed Church (1909), and Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church (1910). Page (8-86) Continuation Sheet building's west elevation.In 1920,what would later become the"old"gymnasium was enlarged to its present NPS Form 10-900-a Industrial development spurred population growth. From a village of 3,365 in 1920, Euclid grew to a city of 12,751 in 1930, making it one of the fastest growing communities in Ohio.

Public-school enrollment, 1913, Nicklas designed several Cleveland churches.He practiced alone from 1913 until 1926 and as part of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Both men worked for the George A. Grieble Company, architects and engineers, before forming the partnership of Fulton and Taylor in 1912. The firm had a general practice until the advent of the First World War, when the federal government restricted many kinds of construction work. The fact that schools in some cases were exempted led the partners to specialize in these kinds of projects, and the firm became widely known as school County, as well as other schools in Lorain and Lake Counties.

During the Depression, Harry Fulton was architect for Cleveland's $4.5 million P.W.A. school building program. Elected to the American Institute of Architects in 1922, he was senior partner in the firm of Fulton, DelaMotte, Larson, Nassau and Associates at the time of his death, in 1961. A resident of Euclid, Fulton was "known as the dean of school architects in the The March 1929 issue of Building Industry, a publication of the Builders Exchange of Cleveland, featured the school buildings of Fulton and Taylor. Among the buildings featured were: Berea High School, Berea; Gilles- Sweet School and Fairview Village High School, Fairview Village; Maple Leaf School and Garfield Heights High School, Garfield Heights; Mayfield Central High School, Mayfield Village; and Thoreau Park School and Henry J. Schaaf Junior High School, Parma.

Like the firm's contemporaneous work at Shore High School, these school buildings featured exterior walls of brick, with cut stone or terra-cotta trim. Architectural styles modernistic. Among the firm's Euclid school buildings, only Shore employed the Collegiate Gothic style, introduced at Bryn Mawr College in the early 1890s by Cope and Stewardson, who then carried it to the campus of Princeton University, where it flourished under supervising architect Ralph Adams Cram. The style subsequently spread to other institutions of higher learning, especially Yale and Duke universities. Unlike their designs for Shore, Fulton and Taylor chose the Classical Revival style for Noble, Roosevelt, and Upson schools in Euclid, a common idiom for schools of the period. Industrialization fed by World War II prompted another wave of population growth.

By 1945, enrollment at Shore had climbed to 1,572 students. (Of these, 670 were enrolled in the elementary grades K-6.) In response, the school adopted a staggered schedule, with junior-high grades beginning the school day one class period later in 1947 the Euclid Board of Education authorized construction of a 10-classroom addition. The new classrooms, built to the plans of Harry A. Fulton - by this date, the partnership of Fulton and Taylor had been dissolved - were appended to Fulton and Taylor's auditorium wing of 1929-30, the plans for which had provided for future expansion. In 1948-49, its last year as a high school, Shore was home to over 1,800 students, according to the school yearbook, The Shore Log. than the high school grades. Corridors were even pressed into service as classrooms.

To relieve overcrowding, Continuation Sheet architects.By1929,the partnership had designed 38schools for14 different school districtsin Cuyahoga Section number _ ran the gamut, from freely interpreted revivals-Elizabethan-Gothic, Romanesque, and Classical Revival - to Page OMS Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Shore High School Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio In September 1949, the new S4 million Euclid High School, designed by Harry A. Fulton, opened at East 222nd Euclid-Central High School was torn down in 1966. The former Shore High School became Shore Junior High building reopened as a civic and cultural center, a function that continues today.

Now known as the Shore Cultural Centre, the former school building is home to a variety of nonprofit organizations, including the Euclid Chamber of Commerce and the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame. It also serves as a site for classes sponsored by Euclid Parks and Recreation, which operates the building. The auditorium hosts concerts by the Euclid Civic Orchestra, community theater productions, and other cultural events. Alburn, Wilfred Henry, and Miriam Russell Alburn. This Cleveland of Ours. 4 vols. Chicago, Cleveland, and Indianapolis: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1933. Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut. 3 vols. Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918. Bruce, William C., comp. High School Buildings. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1919. Junior High School" clipping files. Euclid, O.

Euclid City School District, Board of Education Records. Treasurer's Office, W. G. Fordyce .Parks and Recreation Department, Euclid City Hall. Blueprints, Shore High School (incomplete). Euclid Post 343, American Legion. Euclid, "The Fastest Growing City in Ohio": Official Directory and History. Euclid, O., 1942. Finn, Robert. "Euclid Shore Auditorium Comes to Life Again," Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 18, 1985. Bibliography Continuation Sheet Administration Building. Cleveland, O. Cleveland Public Library."Euclid" clipping file, History Department. School and served in that capacity until 1982,when it was closed due to declining enrollment.In1985,the National Register of Historic Places Street and Tracy Avenue.The new school consolidated the rival Euclid-Central and Shore high schools. Cleveland State University Library. Cleveland Press Collection.

"Shore High School," "Shore Page OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service "Fulton & Taylor, Architects, Make Reputation as School Specialists," Building Industry 11 (March 1929): 76- Holy, T. C. Survey of the Schools of Euclid, Ohio. Ohio State University Studies, Bureau of Educational Research Monographs, No. 22. Columbus, O.: Ohio State University, 1936. Insurance Maps of Cleveland, Ohio. Vol. 13B, comprising Euclid and Village of Wickliffe. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1952, revised to 1966. Mayer, Joe (Shore'47), Director, Euclid Public Schools Alumni Association, and Principal, Shore Junior High School, 1976-79. Interview with author, 1999. Euclid, Ohio, August 26. The Porthole (later Shore Log), Shore High School yearbook (various issues). Progress in Euclid - City Directory. Cleveland, 1935.

Shore Breeze, Shore High School newspaper (various issues). Voorhees, Leonard B. Euclid,Ohio, 1797-1947: A Record of the Birth and Growth of an Industrial Community. Euclid, O.: Euclid Historical Society and Euclid Public Schools, 1947. Withey, Henry F., and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles, Calif.: New Age Publishing, 1956. Continuation Sheet Shore High School National Register of Historic Places Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a Page (8-86) Section number 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property - - See continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title Carol Poh Miller/Historical Consultant organization under contract with Shore Up!

street & number 17903 Rosecliff Road _ telephone 216-692-0747 city ortown - state Ohio _ zip code 44119-1347 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) street & number 585 East 222nd Street - telephone - Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).

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216-289-2700 Zone name Northing Easting Euclid Photographs Maps UTM References Additional items Property Owner Boundary Justification Shore High School Additional Documentation Verbal Boundary Description City of Euclid Continuation Sheets County and State Name of Property (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) Cuyahoga, Ohio date October 25, 1999 A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. . zip code 44123 properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings.

Response to this request is required to obtain (Describe the boundariesof the property ona continuation sheet.) NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description This boundary comprises the original seven acres purchased in 1911 by the Board of Education, Euclid Village School District, for the construction of Shore High School, together with the small triangular parcel (less than long. Continuation Sheet Page Boundary Justification one acre) at the junction of East 222nd Street and Babbitt Road, purchased by the school board in 1948. Geographical Data Shore High School Section number 10 National Register of Historic Places OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 The nominated property consists of an irregular lot identified by Cuyahoga County permanent parcels #643-01- 001 and 643-01-002.

It has a frontage, on East 222* Street, of approximately 1,024 feet; and, on Babbitt Road, of approximately 778 feet. The rear property line, between East 222nd and Babbitt, is approximately 625 feet (8-85) ROOM 200 - BOOK STORE 221 223 GHOSFAC. ROOM 139 - COUNSELING OFFICE ROOM 14 - STUDENT LOUNGE VARS GROUND FLOOR 243 204 233 254 206 239 207 203 103 255 153 245 100 158 235 253 ORCH. BALCONY 257 SECOND FLOOR 152 205 COUN. TRACK CAFETERIA LOUNGE FIRST FLOOR 106 105 OFFICE 115 200 SHORE JR. HIGH SCHOOL 214 219 119 STAGE 155 Boys 215 209 135 GIALSI LOCKER GYM ROOM 1 33 CUSTODIAN 139 104 227 229 109 127 242 157 211 Auo.

LIBRARY Bars GIRLS SITE PLAN A - Landscaped Park B - Gas Meter House 158 Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Non-contributing site) (Non-contributing building) Shore High School Shoré High: School 1920 1954 1930 1918 1913 1922 1925 194.7 Euclid,Cuyahoga County, Ohio SHORE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL E.

222 NC 22420 22531 DATES OF CONSTRUCTION 222ND NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NAME : N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./ CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE TELEPHONE 2/09/00 DISCIPLINE RETURN REJECT MULTIPLE 1/11/00 2/25/00 REVIEWER EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF 16TH DAY: N SLR DRAFT: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga PROPERTY NATIONAL: Shore High School Au6usT1999 SHORE HIGH SCHOOL CAROL POH MILLER PHOTOSRAPH AUGUST 1999 17903 ROSECLIFF RD, CLEVOLAND, OH Au6ust1999 SHORE HOH SCHOOL SHORE HITH SCHOOL CAROL POH MILLER PHOTOGRAPH AUGUST 1999 CAROL POH MILLER PHOTOGRAPH AUGUST 1999 AUGUST 1999 AUGUST 1999 ENTRANCE DETAIL, EAST WINE.

SHORE HIFH SCHOOL CAROL POH MILLOR PHOTOGRAPH AUGUST 1999 AUDITORIUm WING, LOOKING SOUTHEAST, #9 0F14 HUGUST 1999 SHORE HIGH SCHOOL AUGUST 1999 AUGUST 1999 CAROL POH MILLER PHOTOGRAPH SHORE HIGH SCHOOL AUGUST 1999 #130F14 PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN CA. 1930 #14 0F 14 OHIO_CUYAHOGA CO COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE (216) 771-3995 Cleveland. Ohio 1994 UNITED STATES State Route Light-duty road, hard or DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 614/ 297-2470 Fax: 614/ 297-2496 Visit us at www.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/ SINCE 1885 January 4, 2000 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Park Service National Register, History & Education Programs Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C. Street, NW Washington, D. C.

20240 Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission. NEW SUBMISSION Port Clinton City Hall If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. Amos J. Loveday, Jr. State Historic Preservation Officer COUNTY Sincerely, Cuyahoga SOCIETY enclosures HISTORICAL Dear Ms. Shull: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Shore High School Ottawa OHIO Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 614/297-2470 Fax: 614/ 297-2496 Visit us at www.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/ SINCE 1885 Carol Shull, Chief of Registration Nathalie Wright, National Register Coordinator January 10, 2000 RE: Shore High School Last week we forwarded a new nomination for Shore High School, Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

letters of support that we received for the school. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have JAN I 4 2000 NATION caused. SOCIETY HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM OHIO DATE: FROM: Ioverlooked the letters of support when submitting the nomination to you.Enclosed are the four REGISTER, HISTORY PARK SERVICE PAGE 02 Euclid City Councilwoman, Ward 1 55 E. 202 Street Euclid, Ohio 44123 (216) 531-1509 Dec. 1, 1999 FAX: 614-297-2496 To me, one of the most important factors in the discussions regarding both the Henn Mansion and Shore Cultural Centre is the grassroots support, involvement, and dedication by community community. Shore Up, a group of residents committed to preserving Shore Cultural Centre, has They have come up with many good ideas and I have no doubt they will continue working As an inner-ring suburb, Euclid is facing many challenges.

Downtown Euclid is one such Shore Cultural Centre is an important part of our community due to it's history, it's architecture forward to your decision. 2162892779 Sincerely, Dear Mr. Gordon, architectural styles. the awareness of both the Henn Mansion and Shore Cultural Centre as important parts of our Shore Cultural Centre has been the discussion of much debate over the last several years and challenge and Shore Cultural Centre is located in a prominent place in downtown Euclid.As we members.Community members and grassroots organizations are responsible for heightening Kirsten Holzheimer Gail I want to thank you for considering both the Henn Mansion and the Shore Cultural Centre for happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you again for your consideration, I look ideas and plans continue to be looked at for future use and possibilities.

Throughout this process, National Register of Historic Places. I plan to be in attendance for your meeting and would be nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.While I support the nomination of both Ohio Historic Preservation Office listed on the National Register, Shore Cultural Centre could provide us with the focal point of been working diligently to develop a long range plan for the building's restoration and future both as a school and a civic and cultural center. and it's key location in our downtown. I support the nomination of Shore Cultural Centre to the one thing has come through loud and clear-- the community has a strong attachment to Shore our downtown and also serve as a tool by which to measure other development plans and Cultural Centre. Shore Cultural Centre has served the community in many ways over the years, to preserve this important part of Euclid.

buildings, this letter will address the nomination of Shore Cultural Centre. plan for re-development in our downtown, Shore Cultural Centre will play a key part. By being CITY OF EUCLID Steve Gordon 12/02/1999 16:41 585 East 222nd Street, Euclid, OH 44123-2099 November 16, 1999 Mr. Stephen C. Gordon Survey & National Register Manager Ohio Historical Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Re: Shore Cultural Centre Designation My history with Shore goes back forty years when I first saw the Euclid Lyric Guild perform "Hit the designed auditorium that allowed me to hear every word - there were no microphones allowed by Director Vogelin as they distort the human voice. Since that time, Shore has continued to serve the community well and uplifts our human spirit in a myriad of ways.

From its distinctive architecture that adds nobility and stature to a focal point in our artistic endeavors, charitable works, non-profit endeavors - the list goes on and on as Shore adapts to the needs of the community it graces with its magnificent presence. inner-ring suburb, it needs to know that which is of value and worth preserving through hard work and investment. We have plenty of new development. We have nothing else like Shore. As I begin my third term as Ward II Councilwoman, on whose borders Shore sits, I pledge to do all in level, as well as the local, to raise awareness of this regional treasure and open the door to thousands of citizens, as is happening with the Henn Mansion. Meg McGarry downtown to the quality of life it sustains as human beings pursue education, culture, philanthropy, my power to raise the funds for necessary preservation.

We have been working at the federal and state Yours very truly, Councilwoman, Ward II, City of Euclid Our city is at a crucial juncture in its history. As Euclid struggles with changes and challenges as an Dear Mr. Gordon: Deck".I sat up in the balcony and didn't realize it was the wonderful acoustics in that superbly REC'D BY OHTS LAKEFRONT CIT OF SUPERIOR SERVICES November 26, 1999 RECDBYOHPO NOV3 0 1999 Mr. Steven C. Gordon 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Dear Mr. Gordon, It is with great pleasure I write you on the upcoming nomination of the Shore school building, which houses the cultural center of Euclid Two years ago, developers proposed to raze Shore to clear the way for a super market, which roots effort to debate the proposal, in support of preservation.

We called ourselves the Shore Up Society and began a petition drive, raised awareness by door to door literature drops, and held Would it demonstrate the building's importance. If in fact the buildings history is vital, and Shore is listed, this should bea factor in approaching the decisions for the future. We solicited opinions and advice from architects, contractors, tradesmen, and urban planners. Not only did we become more confident in preserving Shore, but it was recommended to hire Carol Poe Miller to prepare the I attended Shore as a school, and have many great memories. During my involvement with Shore Up, I have heard from hundreds of alumni and former Euclid residents, their support and gratitude of the work done by Shore Up is overwhelming. Too often our history is overlooked and not system and can tell the story like nothing else can.

From its original four-room schoolhouse, to its many additions that were imperative in accommodating the population of a booming suburb. Now, even as the building exists as our community and cultural center, it is its current occupants and have come forward recently to occupy square footage at Shore. I feel the honor of the register's distinction make these groups future plans, that much more exciting. For many years now Shore has been considered Euclid's town square and am pleased and Columbus meeting of the Preservation Board. Patrick M. Delaney Survey and National Register manager Ohio Historical Preservation Manager nomination for the distinguished honor of the National Register. began to raise funds to hire a professional consultant. We believed only by nominating Shore, prompted a ground swell of opposition.

Along with several other people, helped organize a grass considered an important part of the future. The Euclid Public School system's 100 plus years, was various tenants that are most proud of its history. The people there prefer this building, to do their business and congregate, because of its history. Several new entities, including two museums, vital to the rise of the Western Reserve territory.The Shore school building grew with the school meetings every month.Throughout this campaign the many citizens of Euclid we came in contact grateful it is being considered for the National Register.l am looking forward to attending the with had a common suggestion,"Shore should be on the National Register.From very early on we Sincerely REC'D BY OHPO NOV 26 1999 291 East 222nd Street - Euclid, Ohio44123 - (216) 289-8578 of EUCLID 1999 November 24 Stephen C.

Gordon, Survey & National Register Manager 567 East Hudson Street Columbus OH 43211-1030 Dear Mr. Gordon: Preservation Advisory Board meeting at 10:00 AM on Friday, December 3, 1999. If you have any reason to contact me regarding this issue, you may use the address/phone number Joseph P. Mayer 26360 Park Lane Dr. Euclid OH 44132 Thank you for your consideration of this nomination. Joseph P. Mayer, President Shore Cultural Centre Board of Trustees 216-731-1004 Sincerely, the National Register of Historic Places. I plan on being in attendance at the Ohio Historic Site Ohio Historical Preservation Office CULTURAL CENTRE Enclosed is a brief personal statement in support of the nomination of the Shore High School to on this letterhead or you can reach me at my home: hore of EUCLID RE: Shore School Building Legacy father had been appointed as pastor of the East Shore (United) Methodist Church.

I was six years old. The church was founded in 1928 and held its services in Shore School until the members were able to build their own temporary building. However, on Easter, the rapidly growing congregation became too big for the church, so those services were held in the Shore auditorium. in the 5th grade, remaining at Shore until high school graduation in 1947. On the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the entire school population crowded into the auditorium to hear the radio broadcast of President Roosevelt's declaration of war. During World War II the Hollywood stars. The auditorium/gym was the site of area basketball tournaments for several Due to declining enrollment, the building was closed in 1983 and acquired by the City of Euclid in 1985.

During the 1980's I served on Mayor Anthony Guinta's ad hoc committee for a Civic/ Civic Orchestra, it has hosted at least two performances by the Cleveland Orchestra and has been In 1990 I was appointed as Shore Cultural Centre Trustee by Mayor David Lynch, and continue to serve on the nine-member board, currently as President. In 1998 current Mayor Paul Oyaski appointed me to a representative citizens committee to study the future of the Shore School building. The committee's conclusion was that the building should be preserved and renovated to Joseph P Mayer, President Shore Cultural Centre Board of Trustees Shore years. capacity until 1979. My professional career as a public school educator has been entirely with the Euclid City School continue its role as a"Cultural Centre".I wholeheartedly agree.

In the 1939-40 school year, we moved into the Shore School attendance area and I was enrolled Shore auditorium hosted many bond rallies featuring the United Sates Marine Band and The auditorium has exceptionally good acoustics.In addition to being the home of the Euclid My association with Shore School began in 1935when our family moved to Euclid because my Cultural Center.The Shore School building was selected as the site. 1999 November 23 District.In 1975 I was appointed as Principal of the Shore Junior High School and served in that 291 East 222nd Street Euclid, Ohio 44123 - (216) 289-8578 rented by professional music groups for recording purposes. CULTURAL CENTRE