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Western Reserve Historical Society Cultural Affiliation Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Dates A owned by a religious institution or used for B Property is associated with the lives of persons information important in prehistory or history. for National Register listing.) (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Period of Significance Narrative Statement of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Name of repository: significant in our past. CFR 67) has been requested A Property is associated with events that have made Record # County and State (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Lerner Building NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Lerner Building Cleveland, Ohio Statement of Significance edifice and is being nominated under criterion C. When it was built in 1936, the Lerner Building was prevalent along Euclid Avenue, that previously had been comprised of an impressive collection of Neo-Classical, Victorian, Richardsonian-Romanesque, Sullivanesque and other more classical architectural styles popular during Cleveland's and Euclid Avenue's building boom between 1910 - When it was built, the Lerner Building received the 1936 Chamber of Commerce Award as the best small commercial building erected that year.
This simple yet clearly distinctive and unique structure HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE: The site of the Lerner building has an interesting history that is related to the economic fortunes of the time. From 1905 to 1935,the 13 (sometimes given as 14story) Guardian Savings & Trust Company Savings occupied this building until 1914 when it moved to a new location, the New England Building, farther east on Euclid Avenue. After this time, other banks, including the State Banking and Trust, Garfield Savings, and Central National Bank occupied this building. In 1933 Guardian Savings was forced closed and liquidated, a not too uncommon fate of banking According to building permit #D18852, the Guardian Savings Building was removed down to the first (8-86) Page CuyahogaCounty Continuation Sheet movement in America.
wall of the Rust and Backus Building were employed as curtain walls.Two new steel joist and virtually unaltered, and is a good and increasingly rare example in Cleveland of the Art Deco revised structure to occupy this site. Section number 8 one of the firsts of the Art Deco style buildings along Euclid Avenue; Cleveland's most important and construction and styles that were to be realized along Euclid Avenue. The Lerner Building's façade is Building stood on the site. Though 177' tall, the building was only 30' wide, and when viewed from a straight on vantage point, had the appearance of a column with exaggerated, Neo-Classical style institutions during the great Depression and the "bank holiday" of 1933. The lot and building were floor structure. The basement and first floor were retained.
The adjacent west building and the east The Lerner Building was built despite the economic gridlock created by the Great Depression. sold to 322 Euclid Avenue, a trust managed by the Cleveland Trust Bank and a beneficiary of the Guardian Savings and Trust liquidation. Cleveland Trust architect Alfred G. Hall designed the new or prestigious commercial street.It represents a marked departure from the architectural styles NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Lerner Building Cleveland, Ohio Section number along Euclid Avenue. The Lerner Shops of Ohio who signed a twenty-year lease for the building initially occupied the block.
Lerner is a well-known and established women's clothing and furnishings company based out of New Clothing Store occupied the building until 1995-96, a nearly 45 year stay in the building. Petrie's occupied all floors of the building and during its stay remodeled several times. In recent years the store expanded into the adjacent building to the east, the Rust and Backus Building. A connection the curvilinear plaster ceiling and walls with neon accents. The second and third floor levels display a setup common for downtown retail establishments. The Lerner Building was built in 1935-36, during one of the city's unproductive construction periods.
Sosparse was the new construction that the Chamber of Commerce Award given for the Lerner Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Cleveland Engineering Society, Builder's Exchange, Women's City Club, Retail Merchants and Industrial Development Committee. Juries were appointed Lerner building received the medal of merit, which was awarded to the best small commercial The architect for the Lerner Building, Alfred G. Hall, was the architect for The Cleveland Trust Bank (which later became known as Ameritrust). During the 1930s through the 40s, the bank became known as Cleveland's largest bank and the 6th largest bank in the nation. Cleveland Trust was the first bank in the Cleveland area to introduce the branch bank system, ultimately having 53 branches in Greater Cleveland. Hall designed a number of these branches.
Two known to still be in use are in the Collinwood neighborhood at East 152°°and Pepper on the east side of Cleveland, and one at Kamm's Corners on the west side of Cleveland, at Lorain and Rocky River (St. Rt. 237). These (8-86) Page building. Cuyahoga County well composed, proportioned and scaled building, in contrast to the previous building of exaggerated scale and dominating presence, reflecting an unprecedented architectural style on a retail edifice York City that still exists today, as a subdivision of The Limited Company. In 1951 Petrie's Women's was made through the first floor east wall near the storefronts.
Despite the remodelings, the building's exterior still retains its Art Deco appearance and the first floor interior details as exhibited in Building evaluated buildings built in 1935 and 1936(biannually), when normally this award was given to inspect buildings of various classes: apartment houses, factory buildings, commercial buildings of three or less stories, and altered facades. Awards were not issued for every category every year, only those projects and categories deemed by the juries to be of sufficient merit received awards. The examples clearly show that Hall favored the neo-classical style, with the Lerner Building being a clear filled metal deck constructed floors were added and a similarly constructed roof. Hall's design is a all newer interior finish construction. It is not known if all floors were originally occupied by the Lerner NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cleveland, Ohio Section number departure from his typical stylistic preference. The interior of the Cleveland Trust branch inside the Midland Building(then Medical Arts Building) which is part ofthe Landmark Office Tower Complex, also showed Hall's creativity. With the Midland Building, Hall veered from the usual austere decking to allow for decorative English oak paneling to give the room an appearance of a castle banquet hall. In addition to the designs for the Cleveland Trust Company, Hall became involved in collaboration with architect Max Weis. These apartments, more in the Colonial Revival style, were Moreland, and East 132nd streets, now a part of the Shaker Square National Register Historic District (NR: 1983).
rare as demolition has claimed several good examples of this architectural style. Other notable, clearly Art Deco style exhibited in Cleveland's downtown include, the Criminal Courts Building Company Building, the Greyhound Bus Station (NROHP, 1999), Cleveland Institute of Electronics, 1776 East 17* Street, the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge Pylons (now known as the Hope Memorial Bridge, NROHP, 1976), the Fenn Building at Cleveland State University and to a lesser, more conservative level the Kendall Building re-facing. In a short time the style adopted angular and curvilinear forms, unrelated to historical styles.
The curvilinear walls, circular windows and tubular metal handrails were inspired from the nautical details lobbies, elevator areas, or rooftop crenellations.) The design placed vertical emphasis on the façade early twentieth century but other small commercial buildings, like the Lerner Building, adopted the Architect A. G. Hall wrote in an article in the Cleveland Trust Monthly, that air conditioning could take conditioning allowed for blank masonry walls, departing from the building department's codes on style. (8-86) Page Cuyahoga County Lerner Building Continuation Sheet constructed in the upscale Shaker Square neighborhood of Cleveland, on North Moreland, South Art Deco style buildings in Cleveland have always been few in numbers and have grown increasingly a derivative of modernity, inherent from the machine aesthetic and progressive European designers. from the luxury liners.
(Also used were the zigzag and dense floral motifs, ornamentally displayed in and stepped arrangement for tall buildings. Skyscrapers were the most befitting for the style in the the credit for the revolutionary design found in the modern movement, Art Deco. The invention of air The Art Deco style, named for the 1925 Paris Fair, the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels, is projects financed by the bank.An example of this was a group of fourteen apartment buildings in under threat of demolition),the Landmark Office Tower Complex (associated with the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cleveland, Ohio Section number tenant accepted the Lerner Building's design.
Though compact, the Lerner building clearly displays at a glance, the key design features which typify floor display window, a smooth marble facade material with streamlined reveals to create a rectilinear and rare example of the Art Deco style expressed in the small retail category and is unique along one of Cleveland's few examples of the Art Deco period remaining. It stands not only as an example of the style but also as a spirited expression of the years between the two world wars when the city and the country were emerging from the Great Depression, the transition of the age of jazz into the age of swing, and hope for future economic opportunity. Page (8-86) Cuyahoga County Lerner Building percentage of room and window size.He went on to say that his commission for the Lerner Building floor; air conditioning eliminates the need for a third floor window.
After twenty to thirty sketches, the the Art Deco style in a retail application through exaggerated vertical flutes and rounded ribbons that geometric pattern with bas-relief ornamentation on the stone field, in addition to the first floor interior treatment dominated by curvilinear, stepped planes. The Lerner Building stands today as a good NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Lerner Building Cleveland, Ohio Duncan, Alastair. Art Deco. London; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Striner, Richard. Art Deco. Washington D.C.:US Capitol Historical Society, 1994. Johannson, Eric. Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976. Cleveland : Western Reserve Historical Society, Wilson, Ella Grant. Famous Old Euclid Avenue of Cleveland.
Cleveland: The Evangelical Press, Van Tassel, David and John Grabowski, editors. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Bloomington: Indian Univerdsity Presss and Western Reserve Historical Society, 1996. "Chamber Awards Harris Calorific, Telling, and Lerner Merit Medals", Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 24, 1937. "For a Greater Lorain", Cleveland Trust Monthly,. October, 1926. 1979. 1937. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1950. Page (8-86) JOURNALS Cuyahoga County BOOKS Section number Continuation Sheet Rose,William Ganson.Cleveland:The Making of a City.Cleveland:World Publication Company, "The Terminal Bank of Cleveland Trust Company", Bystander, November 30, 1929. "Lerner Building on Euclid Sells for $600,000", Cleveland Press, October 2, 1935. "New Monumental Building for Lorain Bank", Cleveland Trust Monthly, August 1925. "Lerner Stores Rents Building", Cleveland Press, December 30, 1935.
"Marble Block to Replace Old Block", Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 18, 1936. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cleveland, Ohio Hall, Alfred G. "Bring the Old Homestead Up to Date", Cleveland Trust Monthly, Vol.11 No.3, March Hall, Alfred G. "Commercial Architecture in Evolution", Cleveland Trust Monthly, Vol.18 No.11 and 12, November/December 1937. Cleveland City Directories, various dates. Hopkins Plat Books, various dates. Ohio Historic Inventory Form, Petrie's, 322-24 Euclid Avenue, 1987 (Keiser/Frantz). OTHER 1930. Continuation Sheet Page (8-86) Section number Cuyahoga County property maps, current. Lerner Building Cuyahoga County Cuyahoga, Ohio 10.
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The building travels west along Euclid Avenue from the Rust and Backus building for 30.00', then the building heads south for 88.00', then east 25.00' then runs along the Rust and Backus Building for 88.00'. The boundary of the building is based on the current tax map and reflects the property historically associated with the building. Page (8-86) building is adjacent to the East 4th Street Historic District. The building shares the east wall with the Cuyahoga County Continuation Sheet Boundary Justification Lerner Building Section number Verbal Boundary Description National Register of Historic Places The Lerner Building is located on Euclid Avenue between East 4th Street and East 3rd Street.The SUPERIOR AVE Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 322-4 EUCLID AVENUE 100 HISTORIC SITE DISTRICT MAY CO EUCLID AVE. CLEVELAND, OHIO SITE CONTEXT MAP THE LERNER BUILDING EAST 6th ST.
THE ARCADE ARE THE LERNER BUILDING Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio F.W. WOOLWORTH'S CLEVELAND, OHIO - DISTRICT BOUNDARY LINE E. 4TH STREET E. 4TH ENTRY 2050 PROSPECT AVENUE SCALE= 1" = 50' 406 2056 2035 2063 2082 2038 2036 2068 2020 2073 2041-2051 12075 401-411 307-331 328-334 BOUNDARY MAP EUCLID AVENUE EAST FOURTH STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT 2044: 340 Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cleveland The Lerner Shops, designed by Architect architectural award. Lerner Building LERNER SHOPS LER Hall, winner of a Chamber of Commerce Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio CPL Lerner Building FURS CLEVELAND 63.1 Lerner Building, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ILJ.FOX Two Realt!
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and displa -ment furniahing -last yoar,-a:considerable.part of Uir The-Helghta 1 wei,-Inc.,chalrman-of-the-board-of. mectinx.of_the.committee.to_be.held HOMESI ation MAKE PROGRESS Wednesday.eve --year negotiatlon. At3p.m.on man-nf-the-natfonal-assoclation's given hima record as anafter dinner CoorgaA.Green, soredzby-the-Sh minutos:at the AG.Hell,arch! Was..Ior._nrw.conxtruction_under wood-West-Side Falagrawll.bor Acttlona: TON. ELECTRICAL SHOW: CLETELAIOS * DOORS INSULATE LOWEST PRICE MINUTE LUMBER in your new Colonial Home LEAD MORTGAGE YOUR INSPECTION $5.45 NOW MORE DAYLIGHT Nalional Electric Code -by using Fenestra Casements GENUINE CERAMIC TILE at Hotel Hollenden COMBINATION cl the Cuyahoga our contract ful. URGES SAFETY IN Pleads - for - Adherence to SECOND FEDERAL movo in lust as arallable. Slled - and that Cleraland-Standard C.OF C.ANNOUNCES AWARDS FOR '35-36 STORM SASH ROCK.
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Tytallations, under it it t dry NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: OTHER : N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : TELEPHONE REJECT 7/16/00 RETURN MULTIPLE 6/29/00 6/01/00 DATE REVIEWER ACCEPT DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N N SLR DRAFT: * STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga PROPERTY NATIONAL: Lerner Building City b'ue PHOTOSHOP <No. 2 >004 209 9925 N N N-6 09 2(022) LERNER BLDG 209 9925 N N N-5 21 2(022) 322.4 EUCLIDAVE, CLEVELAND DIANA KULKA 6.20.99 LERNER BUILDING PHOTOSHOP <No.
3 )007 CUYAHOGA, OHLO SANDVLCL ARCHTEUTS LERNER BUILDING 322.4 EUCLID AVE CLEVELND 209 9925 NN N-4 13 2(022) SANDVILK ARCHITECTS LERNER BUILDING EXIT LFRNER BUILDING LERNER BUILDINL PIANA KULKA 6-20-99 CUYAHOGA.OHO EXIT LERNER BUILDING CUYAHOGA, OHLO LERNER BUILDING - N N NHO2VAN'S PHOTO CUYAHOGA, OHRO LERNER BUILDING 9. Tupieal unit, camera directim s. DIANA KULKA 6.20.99 LERNER BUILDING 322.4 EUCLID AVE, CLEVELANO LERHER BUILDING 322.4 EUCLID AVE, CLEVELANO GUYAHDGA, O thO 900K LERNER BUILDINGO CUVAHOGA, OHLO Lerner Building 322.4 Euelid Are Clevebnd Sandvick Architects Cuyahoge,ohio LERNEL BUILDING 14. Penthase, camera direction N. 15. Penthouse, camera di rection S.
LERHER BUILDING 322.4 EUCLID AVE, CLEVELANTO CUYAHOGAIOHLO N N32VAN'S PHOTO SANDVECL ARCHITECTS LERNER BUILDING LERNER BUILDING 322.4 EUCLIO AVE, CLEVELAND 086 9925 N N N-3-22 2(022) 322:4 EUCLIO ATE, CLEVELND LERNET BUILDINg 322 LERNER BUILDING GANDVICK ARCHITELTS 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE (216) 771-3995 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO UNITED STATES OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO CLEVELAND CUJAHORA CO Cleveland, cuyáhoga 17 442240 4599340 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO. Seven Hills 4594340 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 614/ 298-2000 Fax: 614/ 298-2037 Visit us at www.ohiohistory.org/resource/histpres/ SINCE 1885 May 23, 2000 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Park Service National Register, History & Education Programs Mail Stop 2280, Suite 400 1849 C.
Street, NW NEW SUBMISSION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. Amos J. Loveday, Jr State Historic Preservation Officer COUNTY SOCIETY Cuyahoga Sincerely, enclosures HISTORICAL Clark Lerner Building Main Street Buildings Washington, D. C. 20240 Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations.All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission. Dear Ms. Shull: (Bushnell Building Amendment) OHIO