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1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Waterman Service Building Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Statement of Significance The Waterman Service Building, located near the Broadway and East 55t Street node, in Cleveland, Cleveland Board of Education, in 1922 at the corner of E. 63d Street and Waterman Avenue, school board, which was a response to the growing number of students entering the school district Walter R. McCornack - architect The architect for the Waterman Service Building was Walter Roy McCornack. Walter MCCornak served as Architect for the Cleveland School Board from 1914-1925. McCornack was born in Illinois and attended Knox College and MIT. He later worked in the office of Edmund M. Wheelwright, a successful architect in Boston, before moving to Cleveland.
Wheelwright studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked for Peabody and Stearns, and McKim, Mead, and White before architecture" and his training in the beaux-arts is highly reflected in McCornack's work. Board between 1915 and 1929.2His more prominent school buildings include Almira school, located Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970. p.649 (8-86) Page1 loading dock. Bear's design employed the same scale, proportion and details utilized by McCornack.
The building illustrates the development of McCornack's principles of design for modern school dust and dirt collection.McCornack's design incorporates these theories and in 1938,Arthur Bear buildings.The structure was entirely fire-resistant and was designed using a"unit" type of at 3380 West 98th Street built in 1916, Empire School of 1917 at 3113 Parmelee Avenue main building and a disconnected loading dock, was designed by Walter R. McCornack for the employed for off-site storage. The building was built during a substantial building campaign by the The open plan had no corridors. This minimized wasted space and maximized the amount of useable area. The building also lacks adornment such as moldings, trim work, and door surrounds, to prevent establishing his own firm in 1885.
In 1891, Wheelwright was appointed Boston's City Architect and (demolished), the addition to Collinwood Memorial School in 1917,410 East 152nd Street and the City Directories 1925-1939, See list of School buildings by Walter McCornack. by Walter McCornack for the Cleveland City School District. The facility, which consists of a four story designed a number of public schools, fire houses, police stations, and hospitals while maintaining a 1915 Addison School (demolished) at Hough Avenue and 79t Street. After 1925, McCornack went 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 Waterman Service Building Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page into private practice, designing suburban school buildings and become known as a leading advocator was the 1935-37 Cedar-Central apartments. In 1939, he returned to Boston and became Dean of the detail. Fluted stone pilasters, that support a stone entablature, inscribed with "Board of Edvcation" surrounded by stone molding, ancons and dentils support a cornice. The rest of the building is similar to the school buildings McCornack designed. Stone is used to accentuate and divide the building into three parts horizontally. The details are limited to the entries, with the most important entry emphasized by the highest level of detail.
During McCornack's tenure as School Architect he encountered a need to reduce the cost of school State Building Code included requirements on ventilation, the number of toilet fixtures, load bearing and limb, rather than a protection in case of fire or panic." He studied absentee statistics of 20 schools to argue that "all types of ventilation which presents reasonable and sound mechanical percent of these fixtures could be reduced by 50%. In addition he found that the structural load on the floors were in excess. Since1914,the Architect's office of the Board of Education had diligently been trying to reduce the available area and the minimum number of cubic feet, through the reduction of corridors. McCornack (8-86) Doric half-columns, supporting an entablature and balustrade, framed the main entrance of the McCornack, W.R. Cost Saving In School Construction.Realty Record. June 1924.
P.7-8. accents and courses, especially to emphasize entrances, distinguish McCornack's work. Pairs of construction in Ohio.He felt that there were two major causes for costly school buildings:the State features should be admitted for use in school houses". He studied 17 schools in Cleveland to School of Architecture and Regional Planning at MIT. He retired in 1945. Beaux-Arts characteristic are prevalent in McCornack's work, although they are used sparingly. Stone construction, and the fire doors separating stairways from the rest of the building as a "menace to life amount of wasted space in school buildings, in order to produce the maximum percentage of frame a pair of paneled doors. A decorative metal grill fills the transom above. The entry is then Building Code and wasteful planning." He found that following the Collinwood Fire in 1908, the public 6 Ibid.
Addison school.The windows above were framed with scrolls.The Almira School entrances employ a 5Ibid. indicate that the only period compromising the toilet facilities to be morning recess and that 50 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Waterman Service Building Section number Page and suggested a "unit" type construction. In previous years, McCornack studied the construction design of office buildings, feeling it to be an appropriate comparison. His new plan for schoolhouses eliminated ventilation ducts and solid walls of the interior, similar to an office building, while the construction cost while building a beautiful and durable construction that would last a 100 years. In addition, he felt that a beautiful landscape setting would aid to create a neighborhood center.
and design."The need for such a laboratory was "due to the resignation of several faithful and McCornack presented his idea which pertained to the "Set-up of Division of Architect" to the Board of percentage cost, and Exhibit B - Set up of re-organization of Division as recommended by Architect. the open market, and that capable and efficient men could not be obtained by lower salary rates. those salaries be charged to the Building Fund as an Architectural Cost, and the cost of the Division house design and construction. construction during the twelve years hewas employed by the Cleveland Board of Education. He developed the corridor-less building, with a large number of classrooms built around open huge principles, instead of the blind following of precedent".º The Waterman building engages these Press. 1996.p. 293 Cleveland Board of Education Proceedings, Monday November 24, 1919.
(8-86) His intention was not to produce a box-like or factory-like appearance, but rather to reduce the Some of the items that McCornack's proposal included were:an increase in salaries by 15%, that Cuyahoga County, Ohio principles of the corridor-less building and repetitive elements and details. NPS Form 10-900-a 7Van Tassel,David D.and John J. Grabowski.The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography.Bloomington:Indiana University McCornack established "a school ideal,"and what would result as a new wave of school building was unsatisfied with this solution due to the changing needs of any school district and their buildings McCornack addressed that salaries and compensation fixed by the School Board were far beneath United States Department Of The Interior exterior walls would be load bearing. The interior construction would consist of steel I-beam columns.
In 1915 he established a "comprehensive research laboratory to assist the board in school planning of Architect also include the expense which attaches a continuous study and development of school situation and report with his recommendations on whether the Division of Architect should be central recreation court.In theory McCornack holds to the "sensible application of fundamental Education.Two aspects of the division were approached:Exhibit A -Expenses of Division reduced to NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Register of Historic Places Waterman Service Building Section number Page Arthur F. Baer - architect Arthur F. Bear, a native of Cleveland, was born in 1894. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1923 and in 1930 became chief architect.
Arthur Bear was an architect for Cleveland City Schools Max Hayes High School on Detroit Avenue, Louisa M. Alcott Elementary on Baltic Avenue and John national attention".! In addition, he served as assistant business manager of the school board for American Public Schools like buildings, which were poorly lit and badly ventilated rooms, evolved into the modern school complex, equipped to facilitate education, health and safety. The one-room schoolhouse was the be "drilled" the lessons, and would then be responsible for supervising the recitations and drills of ten school developed around 1840 to 1850. A system of promotion from one grade to the next was such as history, grammar, composition, and even bookkeeping. 1971. (8-86) Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga County, Ohio American Public School buildings have evolved significantly over the past 150 years.
The small box- National Park Service Marshall, James Ford Rhodes and Carl F. Shuler high schools.His work as a school architect gained from 1923 to1959.During his career he designed millions of dollars worth of school buildings and learning and lessons of the time. As of 1900 there were still 729 one-teacher public schools in several years after 1949.After retiring in 1959,he moved to Florida.He died in St.Petersburg in 15 Ibid. p. 24. pupils. This group instruction paved the way for free, public, tax supported schools." The urban The graded elementary school of present day began roughly in 1848.The first fully graded public four-story building with a basement and an attic, designed to house 660 pupils. The first three floors operation in the United States. School architecture evolved along with trends of teaching. In 1806, the Lancastrian School system, a 10 "Arthur F.
Baer Dies; Was School Architect, " Plain Dealer", Nov. 6, 1971. school in the United Sates was Boston's Quincy Grammar School built in 1848.15 The building was a before entering an architectural career.He began working for the Board of Education as a draftsman 13 Ibid. 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 Waterman Service Building Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page students. Each classroom had an attached closet, and seven rows of eight desks bolted to the floor. assembly hall with benches to seat the entire student body made-up the fourth floor. In 1962 the School Construction Systems Development, SCSD, was introduced in California.It fabricated assembly of structure, partitions, lighting, and ceilings. Cleveland City Schools about 30' X 24'.
Cleveland's public education dates to the development of the state initiative to was passedin1821andby1825 taxation provided the necessary funding to control and support of common schools. The first public school in Cleveland opened in 1836 and the first two schoolhouses built by the Board of Education were constructed in 1839-40. By 1918 the schools enrolled over Early concerns for school building policies include education, economy, safety, health, and Lakeview School in Collinwood. Powerful winds, wood floors and stairs, strong draughts, an awkward Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1996.p.376 Foundation, 1921. (8-86) student census. enhanced the pupil experience by accommodating the child perspective.Architectural trends of the 100,000 students. had a series of four classrooms opening onto a common corridor.Each31 x 26' classroom housed 55 active participation.
This allowed space manipulation year after year to accommodate changes in The history of Cleveland school buildings began in 1816 when the city's inhabitants erected a wooden school building in a grove of oak trees on St. Clair Street. This building, built at a cost of $198.70 was 1 Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski eds. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition. 18Ayres, Leonard P. and May Ayres. School Building and Equipment. Cleveland: The Survey Committee of the Cleveland open plan, and wing attachments were a response to a broader based education concept of learning 16 Graves, Ben. School Ways: The Planning and Design of America's Schools. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1993. p. 24. citizenship and economic power and to provide suitable moral training"17.
The first state education act science were introduced.Desks were unbolted and more space was granted to accommodate more During the twentieth century,school building design improved health and safety factors and focused on two primary needs of school buildings:built-in flexibility to keep pace with rapid and OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Waterman Service Building Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page exit and the rush of panic stricken children combined to produce a loss of 178 children and two for fire safety transpired into the need for a sanitary environment for the student body. Restroom facilities, ventilation, daylight, and cleaning maintenance concerns became a priority. Gymnasiums, system.
In the 1850s, Cleveland public school buildings were designed for class participation, paying little attention to other necessities such as toilets, storerooms, and corridors. By 1860, architectural elements were introduced, especially those of the Gothic style. Cloakrooms were introduced in the school with a great-expanded hall had been introduced as early as 1865. It was refined by the 1880s in the Giddings School, which was considered a triumph of school architecture and school featured flat roofs, unilateral lighting, fire-resistant stairways at either end of the hall, and the auditorium was located on the first floor rather than the upper-most floor. The Empire School, designedby McCornack in 1915, represented the most modern type of school a minimum amount of daylight. The Auditorium had slanted floors, and was suspended without the 19Ayres, Leonard P. and May Ayres.
Cleveland Education Survey: School Buildings and Equipment. Cleveland: Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1921. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1996.p.559. (8-86) Cleveland most substantial influx of immigrants occurred from 1870-1914.20 McCornack and the 1900-1910,school architects had developed an entirely different school building. The buildings commissioners from all over the country came to see it.19 It was not until the 1890s that either fire- NPS Form 10-900-a swimming pools and lunchrooms also increased in numbers, both for the contribution for comfort and 1870s, which were considered to be a necessary feature of school buildings. The sixteen-room storage space beyond cloak closets. Cleveland public schools suffered from this lack of proportional buildings constructed from the "baby boomer" era. This allowed for in house storage spaces. future extensions.
The windows were banked in sets of five and the masonry was shaped as to cut off 2 Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski eds. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition. and a Fire Drill program performed frequently and regularly, to ensure a rapid and safe exit. The need teachers in a building equipped with an expanded central hall, doors swinging outwards and fire escapes. The response to this disaster was school buildings designed with fire-resistant construction, building for its period.lt was entirely fire-resistant and designed so new wings could be added for changed again during the 1970s when many school districts suffered from a surplus of school OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Waterman Service Building Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page a swimming pool, playrooms, toilets, shower room, library, shops and domestic science rooms could community activities. Interior adornment such as moldings, trim work, and door surrounds were non- existing to prevent dust and dirt collection. Piping for vacuum cleaning, and a ventilating and heating system were installed. The Board of Education Warehouse, Waterman, was constructed using these same 'modern' school construction techniques. In 1920, Cleveland passed a bond issue that allowed $18,000,000 for school building construction. By increased after World War II. In the late 1970s, Cleveland schools suffered school closings due to students was launched.
The Waterman Service Building was closed, along with those schools closed has been vacant for over twenty years. Waterman's fireproof construction has aided in its survival of (8-86) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places contributed to the building's dominating presence in the East55th Street neighborhood. 1921,Cleveland had 109 elementary and high school buildings. The growth of city school buildings multiple interior fires. The simple classic design elements employed by Walter McCornack has space provided in new school building design.lt had become an obsolete school fixture.Waterman NPS Form 10-900-a during the 197os.The major factor that effected the closing of Waterman was the abundant storage use of vertical supporting members, avoiding obstructed views. A gymnasium for both boys and girls, the Reed vs.Rhodes desegregation case.
By June of 1978,36 schools were closed and bussing of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Ayres, Leonard P.and May Ayres. Cleveland Education Survey: School Buildings and Equipment. Cleveland: Cleveland Foundation, 1916. Donovan, John J. School Architecture Principles and Practice. New York: MacMillan Company, 1921. Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski. The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. Bloomington: Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski eds. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1996. (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970. Newspapers and Journal Sources "Arthur Baer Dies; Was School Architect," Plain Dealer, November 6, 1971. "Head and Shoulders, Destroyer of Slums, Walter R. McComack," Cleveland Mid Week. November 23, 1932. McCornack, W.R.
"Cost Saving In School Construction". Realty Record. June 1924. Sanborn Insurance Maps; various editions. City Directories, 1925-1939 BIBLIOGRAPHY Page Books Sources Waterman Service Building Section number Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places (8-86) Hopkins Plat Books; various editions. Cuyahoga County, Ohio Graves,Ben E.School Ways:The Planning and Design of America's Schools.New York:McGraw- Indiana University Press. 1996. United States Department Of The Interior Hill, Inc., 1993. Maps and Photo Sources Withey, Henry F. and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior Waterman Service Building Page Cleveland Board of Education Proceedings, Monday November 24, 1919.
Building Permit File "3034 East 63d Street", Cleveland City Hall permit numbers: NRN & OHI Forms Johannesen, Eric. Ohio Historic Inventory Form. The Waterman Service Building, 1976.
Cleveland School Buildings designed by Walter McCornack (this is not a complete list) Gilbert School addition - 3288West 58t* Street East Denison School addition - 1700 Denison Avenue Addison School - 79t and Hough Avenue (demolished) Almira School - 3380 West 58* Street Empire Junior High School Addition-3113 Parmelee Avenue (demolished) School - Fairmount and Frank (demolished) Collinwood Memorial School addition - 410 East 152nd Street Memphis School addition - 4103 Memphis Avenue Lafayette School - 12416 Signet (demolished) Andrew Rickoff School - 3500 East 147th Street Marion School - 3033 Central Avenue Wade Park School - 7600 Wade Park Avenue Miles Standish School - 9020 Parkgate Warner School addition - 4433 Warner John Adams High School - 3817 East 106th Street West Tech High School - 2201 West 93'd Street Board of Education Warehouse - 3030 East 63d Street Moses Cleveland School - 4092 East 146t Street Thomas Jefferson Junior High School -3145 West 45th Street Kentucky School - 3805 Terrett Avenue 1917 1915 1919 1929 1923 1924 1916 1925 1921 1920-21 1922-24 Other (8-86) Cuyahoga County, Ohio Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Gladstone School (demolished) Henry W.
Longfellow School - 605 East 140th Street Section number Chesterfield School third story addition - 1109 East 123d Street (demolished) East Clark School - 885 East 146th Street NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description Street and Waterman Avenue.The building faces south on Waterman Avenue. The property follows Boundary is based on Tax Map 125, pg. 837, 12/24/1990. Parcel #s 25-28, 34, 35. Page Waterman Service Building The Waterman Service Building is located on the southeast corner of the intersection of East 63rd Boundary Justification Continuation Sheet Section number National Register of Historic Places along Hyacinth Court for158.03', then southward for 580'along East 62^d Street.
(8-86) Boundary reflects extent of property historically associated with the Waterman Service Building. 63 RD Waterman Service Building, Clereland WATERMAN 62ND 3058 (BULT1923) 3059 RSHERID AN EDUCATION WAREHOUSE EVERGREE R BOARD OF 1932(-1942) ~ AVE Book ROLAND FIG. 573. - ADDISON SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Mr. W. R. McCornack, Archttect. Page 639 DIVISION IADDISON ARCHITECT FIG. 576. SCHOOL! FIG. 577. - ALMIRA SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, OHIO. CLEVELAND - -DOARD OEg EDUCATION ARCHITECT SCHOOL T ALMIRA SCHOOL - GIRLÉ PLAY LOOM Mr. W. R. MeCornack, Archsteci. DOARD BASEMENT PLAN ARCHITECT EDUCATION. DIVISION Page 642 FAN LOOM JTHIRD FLOOR PLANI Level CLEVELAND ARCHITECY : EDUCATION -- Mr. W. R. McCornack, Archtteat. Page 644 DOARD SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCHOOL I FIG. 580 WEST Cleveland, cuyahoga County FIG. 581. - EMPIRE SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Ohio Mr. W. R.
MeCornack, Arci TRAI NING GROUND FLOOR PLAN DIVISION OF ARCHITECT FIG. 583. MANUAL COAL AVENUE ROOM EMPIRE PLAYGROUND BOARD OF EDUCATION CLEVELAND PARMELEE BOI LER EXHAUST STORAGE MIN DIVISION OF ARCHITECT SCHOOL CLASS PARMELEE AVENUE EMPIRE FIRST FLOOR PLAN. ROOM AUDIT A VENUE SECOND FLOOR PLAN DIVISION OF ARCHITECT Page 648 Mr. WV. R. MeCornack, Archttect.
CLASS BOARD OF EDUCATION CLEVELAND ROOM DOMESTIC SCIENCE LONCH UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: OTHER : NPDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N REJECT TELEPHONE DATE RETURN DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 8/17/01 7/11/01 REVIEWER 8/26/01 RECOM./CRITERIA NAME: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: ENTERED AUG 17 2001 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: APPEAL: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga PROPERTY SAMPLE: Waterman Service Building 1. Watermen, Clereland, Ohio 2.Waterman , Clereand Ohio cuyahoga Co. 3. Hlaterman , Clereland, ohio Cuyahoga le: 4. Waterman, Clerelmd, Ohio Cuyahoga la. 5. Waterman Cleremd Ohio cuyahoga Ce. Cuyahoga loy cuyahoga Co. 9.
Waterman, Clereland, Ohio Cuyahoga Cuyahoga Cuyahoga l. cuyahogilo FPSNo.19 X563496 1511 OUTLET FPSNo. 13 X393496 1511 cuyahoga co. Cuyahoga lo. Cuyahoga co. Cuyahoga Co. Cuyahoga Cw. Cuyahoga Co. FPSb Cuyahoga Co Cuyahoga Co. CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO 203 Carton Bidg 812 Huron Rdl 41081-D6-TF-024 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Utm:17445970-459153 E. 63rd AND WATERMAN AVE CLEVELAND, OHIO PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY KEY 1938 1922 NOMINATION WATERMAN BUILDING SITE PLAN ( SANDVICK ARCHITECTS, INC. NATIONAL REGISTER Waterman Service Building, Clevelcnd, Cuyahaga Co, Ohio WATERMAN AVE. 50 Waterman Service Building , Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, Ohio OL UMN Waterman Service Building, Cleveland, cuyahaga Co, Ohio FIRST FLOOR 5620 Broadway Ave.
- Cleveland, OH 44127 phone: 216.429.1182 - fax: 216.429.2632 web site: www.slavicvillage.org Barbara Powers, Department Head Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 March 7, 2001 Broadway-Slavic Village neighborhoods, is seeking approval for the application for the architecture of this building is valuable to our community, which is why we are seeking to Development, has financing commitments for the balance needed for the project. The Waterman Building is an important structure in the center of the St. Hyacinth redevelopment efforts planned for this neighborhood and the restoration work will set the standard for other residential and commercial renovation. We are asking that the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board support this application for National Register listing. Thank you.
Executive Director Slavic Village Development, as the non-profit development corporation serving the apartments that would be located in this building would be a catalyst for other Dear Ms. Powers, Planning Inventory and Registration commitments of grant funds towards this project and our private partner, Charge neighborhood and located across from a newly-built 1 acre $350,000 city park.The50 loft preserve and redevelop this long-standing vacant structure.We have raised over $575,0o0 in Waterman Service Building to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Serving the Broadway Communit o member of Sincerely Edward W. Rybka Councilman, Ward 12 Committees: Public Parks, Property & Recreation, Chair - City Planning, Vice-Chair - Finance, Vice-Chair - Aviation & Transportation March 8, 2001 Ms.
Barbara Powers, Department Head Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Dear Ms. Powers: I am writing to express my enthusiastic endorsement of the application to place the Waterman Service Building on the National Register of Historic Places. This building merits this designation because of its architectural significance and because of the prominent architect who designed the structure, Walter R. McCormak. I strongly support the preservation of historic buildings in our community and have committed funding towards the preservation of this building in particular. From a community standpoint, the location of this structure in the heart of the St. Hyacinth neighborhood makes it a focal point for revitalization.
We have a local non- profit community development corporation and a private developer who have committed to preserve and restore this structure, utilizing it for 50 loft apartments. The restoration in our community and is the first step in a multi-faceted redevelopment plan for this community building. Thank you very much. - Sincerely Councilman, Twelfth Ward Residence - 6832 Indiana Avenue - Cleveland, Ohio 44105 - (216) 641-8265 Ward Office -6302 Fleet Avenue - Cleveland, Ohio 44105 - (216) 641-8265 community.
CLEVELAND Planning Inventory and Registration EWR:kbm Office of the Council of this building will set an example for other residential and commercial property owners City Hall - Room 220- 601 Lakeside Avenue - Cleveland, Ohio 44114 - (216) 664-4233 - Fax (216) 664-3837 COUN 1796 James Czech 2995 East 63° Street Cleveland, Ohio 44127 Barbara Powers, Department Head Planning Inventory and Registration Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 March 8, 2001 Dear Ms. Powers, As a lifelong resident of the Broadway-Slavic Village neighborhood, an Waterman Building, I am writing to tell you of the community's support for the Waterman Building to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This building was once the central warehouse for the Cleveland Board of Education and was a hub of activity.
Since it was abandoned by the school district over ten years ago, it has been vandalized and is deteriorating quickly. Slavic Village Development has come forward with a plan to restore the building and make it a hub of activity again. The restoration of this building is important to our neighborhood because : - The architecture of this building is important to preserve. - Itis located in a prominent location at the heart of our neighborhood and located across from a new city park. - It will be the home of 50 new loft apartments. - It will promote other historic preservation work in our community. I hope the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board will support this our community's future. Thank you. Sincerely, active participant in our community's redevelopment, and a neighbor to the application for National Register listing because it is an important step forward in
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