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of a type, period, or method of construction or Period of Significance Criteria Considerations A Property is associated with events that have made A owned by a religious institution or used for B Property is associated with the lives of persons Previous documentation on file (NPS): Applicable National Register Criteria Cultural Affiliation Walter R McCornack st Technical High School WTHS Alumni Association for National Register listing.) Significant Dates significant in our past.
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The site and shares the lot with a parking area, a track, an athletic field and a grandstand to the north. There are two primary entries to the school, one at the corner of W. 93d and Willard Avenue and the other centrally locate on the W.93d Street elevation. Secondary entrances face W. 89 Street, Willard evidence of the school's former horticultural program. The athletic field, track, and grandstand, known as West Field, were constructed in 1910 along The original portion (western 2/3), 3 story brick building, built in 1911-12, was designed by architect Street, although the main entry is at the southwest corner at West 93 Street and Willard Avenue. The east-side. The building was designed to accommodate classrooms, an auditorium, machine shops, on the north end of the lot (Photos: 5-18). The building varies from three to four stories and features brick veneer and stone trim.
Wood multi-light 1910 1911-12 (8-86) Page Narrative Description Continuation Sheet The existing school complex consists of the original school building structure plus several additions West Technical High School West Field at the time of the schools construction(Photos:1-6). Avenue, the athletic field and West 93rd Street at the north end. An iron fence surrounds the complex. panels.Vertical stone mullions articulate windows on the facade and the spandrels have festoons. 10-12).A balustrade parapet accents the main facades (Photos:15). In order to achieve the maximum National Register of Historic Places United States Department Of The Interior is nestled in a residential neighborhood comprised of mainly 1% story and 2 % story frame houses.
Abandoned gardens are located in the southeastern portion of the lot, and scattered plants prove with a small frame building for storage and ticket sales. The school adapted the lot known as building is rectangular in plan, with projecting bays on the west-side and saw-tooth light-wells on the locker rooms, a foundry, a mill room, and a power plant. The track, athletic field and grand stands are The entrances are articulated with classical columns, entablatures, balusters and cartouches (Photos: light into the classrooms, light-wells divide the block into three sections. Saw-tooth skylights at the base of the light-wells provide light into the basement. windows are grouped in vertical ranks surrounded by stone frames and divided by ornamented stone constructed from 1911-1972(Photos:1-42).
The school building is situated at the south end of the site West Technical High School is located at 2201West 93rd Street on a lot bounded by W.93"d Street to OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places West Technical High School Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page typical educational amenities and the hallways are lined with lockers. (Photos: 34-42) building offers. The two smaller out buildings include a transformer room and another related structure (Photos: 26-28). constructed in 1922-24 and was designed by W.R. McCornack, successor to Barnum as the Cleveland and a new gymnasium (Photos: 16-18). One of the notable programs at the school was the Green Thumb Club, a horticultural program.
The time between 1912-1932 and two green houses that were constructed over the years 1922 to 1932 were demolished in 1972 and all that remains are the slab foundations. The existing building features a two ramps to a lower level. welding and the auto body shops. This building feature curved exterior masonry walls. All of feature brick relief work that mimics the bay division. These design elements are sympathetic to the 1972 1922-24 1912-1922 (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a attached utility building is the power plant built in 1922(Photos:6). The power plant is a flat roof Between 1911 and 1922, three one story utility buildings were built in the north section of the lot. The A one-story addition was built at the southeast corner in 1948 and housed aviation mechanics, the window openings have been closed in with either brick or cement block.
(Photos:19-21) A new larger gymnasium was built to the north east of the school complex and is connected to the main ceilings are dropped in many areas concealing original plaster ceiling surfaces. The classrooms display masonry wall structure with a rectangular plan. Steel factory sash windows are the only articulation this gable roof with modest classical detailing. It demonstrates decades of neglect. Adjacent and nearby are two-stories. The entrance is emphasized by the use of white painted cast stone. The exterior brick walls (Photos:22-23,30-33).These buildings are located east of the main school building.The greenhouses NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number The entire complex, developed between 1912 and 1970 with the most significant structures erected between 1912 and 1922, was constructed for the Cleveland Board of Education. It was built at a time 1910 to the fifth in 1920. When West Tech, as it is better known, opened on February 15, 1912, the of its solid construction, the building structure, envelope and interior partitioning remain in relatively West Technical High School Building, built 1911-1912 (including additions: Power Plant, 1922; classroom addition, 1922-1924; shop addition, 1948; gymnasium addition, 1972) Transformer building and related building, 1922 Horticultural building, c.
1922-1932 Grandstand structure and 2 ticket booths, 1910 School site including athletic field, track, and remnants of the former greenhouses and gardens CONTRIBUTING (8-86) Page compost bins which are located in a courtyard adjacent to the greenhouse, These resources were considered not substantial/significant to add to the resource count. West Technical High School small utilitarian structures of unadorned design accommodate the complex.and three small one-story Continuation Sheet The building has been vacant for seven years and is showing signs of rapid deterioration throughout as Technical School was constructed in the 1970s. original building's window bay size, and rhythm but is windowless (Photos: 24-25). Two additional, neighborhood was primarily residential.
Today, the neighborhood remains residential with 1 ½ to 2 ½ frame houses of singles and doubles, as well as brick apartment buildings. Willard Elementary School, which predates West Tech, is directly across from West Tech at the corner of W. 93d Street and Willard when the city, and its school age population was rapidly growing (population 560,663). By 1920 the Avenue. Trinity Free Will Baptist Church is also nearby on Willard Avenue. the result of no maintenance and heavy vandalism. A fire in October of 1999, destroyed the stage in good condition. The building is one of two Technical Schools in the Cleveland School district. The East 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 Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page_ Statement Of Significance West Technical High School is significant under Criterion 'A' and 'C' as a good example of the early Barnum. Barnum pioneered fire resistive construction, more functional planning, introduction of modern including West Tech, with a caption: "Cleveland Schools Keep Pace With Educational Ideals." Frank S. Barnum was a prominent Cleveland architect, responsible for the design of other well-known place at this time. The building was constructed in several phases, predominantly in the Neo-classical one structure the elements of the modern school type developed by Barnum and utilizes the unilateral potential addition of floors that may be demanded in the future.
The school features an auditorium on Development of the Cleveland School System The first schoolhouse in Cleveland, a crude structure built of logs, was built in 1806 at the foot of The second school erected in Cleveland was built on St. Clair Street in 1821. The building was one of public school system was introduced to Cleveland, soon after the state legislation incorporated Union school. In 1839, the city decided to divide thecity into four school districts and buy lots 50 by 200 1 "City Blazes Trail for Education", Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 6, 1913. School. (8-86) West Technical High School across the country.
A 1913 article in the "Cleveland Plain Dealer," "City Blazes Trail for Education," stated that the growth of "commercial and technical schools have made a phenomenal record which cannot be equaled by any city in the country."Illustrating the article are images of four schools, architect and superintendent of buildings for the Cleveland Public Schools from 1895 to 1915, during a time of unprecedented growth for the Cleveland Public Schools. The evolution of school planning took Cleveland, in 1836. The city council appointed a board of school managers, and opened the Bethel feet in dimension where upon school buildings would be erected at cost not to exceed $3,500, including equipment. These buildings were the simplest in design and accommodated 200 pupils. classroom lighting approach.
It is constructed of fireproof construction and has a flat roof to facilitate the the first floor (in lieu of the third floor), and utilizes lockers instead of the cloakroom. The exterior expression of this design approach resulted in the massing of windows on the long wall and a more structures, several of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.He served as the developed by Barnum was reportedly studied and adopted by other cities nationwide.West Technical Superior Street.Asael Adams"kept school for six hours a day for a monthly stipend of $10 and board. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number ability. During Rickoffs 15-year tenure, the schools expanded from 9,463 to 26,990 students and from 123 to 473 teachers.
National acclaim came to the educational exhibits of the Cleveland Public Schools at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In 1884,an after-school program called the Manual Training School opened, including classes in William H. Elson, Superintendent from 1905 - 1917, pioneered vocational education by opening a children, which devoted a half-day to academic work and the remainder to industrial work, home economics, and physical education. educational commission study of 1905 - 1906 that was implemented by the school board from 1906 - in education, the school population in 1918 numbered 106, 862, with 4, 715 in the commercial-technical high schools.^ In the 1920s, daily enrollment rose to 144,000, which encouraged the construction of 32 schools between 1920 and 1930. ^Van Tassel, David and Grabowski, John. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition.
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1996. p.279. 3 Van Tassel, 278 Page2 Vocational Education (8-86) West Manual Training School and added a two-year business course to the secondary curriculum. Continuation Sheet prepare students for immediate self-support in a determined-upon occupation.Vocational education is West Technical High School were made to Americanize the children of immigrants.Many of these concepts trace their origins to an Cuyahoga, Ohio high schools prepare potential candidates for entrance to higher institutions.Vocational schools technical school in 1909.Also in 1909,an industrial school opened for non-academically talented Vocational education aims to make an intelligent producer, either of commodities or of services.Many grade.
In 1915,2/3 of the upper student body left the Cleveland school systems before the legally United States Department Of The Interior By 1842 there were 15 public schools in Cleveland, enrolling 1,200 students. In 1846, school manager public high school west of the Alleghenies.? Cleveland superintendent, Andrew Rickoff, established the include recreation, extra-curricular activities, and public health. Thirdly, efforts in Cleveland schools 1910. In 1921, the Bing Act required school attendance until age 18.As a result of these developments Charles Bradburn established the first public high school, Central High School, which was also the first A greater emphasis on vocational education around a desire to retain students in the upper current education program of classifying students into 12 grades and three divisions of primary, OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places West Technical High School Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Page courses to be taught. The Federal and State Acts provided for all-day, part-time, and evening to 300 square feet per pupil or 1,500 square feet per shop, ceilings should be 12 to 32 feet, rooms for with adequate tool and stock rooms. Other desirable characteristics included windows on both sides these planning components. a distinctive curriculum of three different programs: technical, commercial, and academic (college Donovan, John J. School Architecture: Principles and Practices. New York: MacMillan Company, 1921. pg.157 7 "Fifty Golden Years", West Technical High School. 1962. (8-86) School Board.Vocational schools required much more square footage for classroom. At the time vocational schools.
Section number old factory buildings or abandoned schoolhouses that had outlived their usefulness for general NPS Form 10-900-a vocational purposes, as with West-Tech, was rare at the time and obviously the most desired by the Donovan's School Architecture: Principles and Practices, vocational school buildings should be planned with the following dimensions based on particular industrial work. Shop-floor space should provide100 years, the school concentrated on class-work rather than vocational schooling. The school partook in for two distinct groups of students, boys and girls enrolled in public school(all-day instruction) anc vocational schools.
The Federal Act aided in providing to state and local communities federal funds for the salaries of teachers in vocational schools and stipulated in detail the vocational character of the The trade or industrial training required a separate school. Initially vocational schools were remodeled contain the appropriate materials and the proper heating and venting. The machine room should be class recitation, mechanical drawing and laboratories should provide 25 to 90 square feet per pupil, classrooms were approximately 22 x 32 feet and accommodated 45 pupils.According to John located on the ground floor.West Tech's original industrial classroom layout demonstrates many of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page training skillled workers during both WWI and Il.
Of particular note are the following facts. The school many years it was the only high school in the city that could be attended by choice, by west-siders. It was one of the nation's first public schools to get a radio transmitter (in the 1920s) and the school In 1929, Old West Commerce High School merged with West Tech enrolling 4,026 students. In 1937, the school celebrated it's 25" Anniversary and was visited by over 22,000. In 1938 the school reached it's peak enrollment of 4,479 students.® In 1947, over 10,000 fans witnessed the first night game under winner and head of Worcester, Mass., Art School. Frank S. Barnum Frank S. Barnum, architect and superintendent of Cleveland Public Schools from 1895 to 1915, developed the evolution of the modern school type in Cleveland.
The development and evolution of Barnum's design program for educational facilities can be identified throughout the Cleveland School Barnum's accomplishments: March 1997. 9 "A Short History of West Tech (1912-1986)," Partners, West Tech/BP America Education Partnership Newsletter. Vol.1, No.2. Pg.2. 10 Ibid. pg. 2 (8-86) year and washreatened with demolition. In the fall of 1999 a fire started in the auditorium and damaged Cleveland.8 West Technical High School featured an excellent int -mural broadcasting system.
This interschool broadcasting system was the National Register of Historic Places aeronautics/aircraft classes, and for a long time the only high school to offer metallurgy classes.For featured the largest school green house in the U.S.,and the only vocational horticulture program in largest high school in the state(as it was in 1938).The school closed at the end of the 1994-95 school first of its kind in the world, and was based at West Tech's broadcasting studio. West Tech once the surface plaster through out the auditorium and destroyed much of the stage. was a pioneer in industrial training. Other significant persons included Sante Grazzini, a Pulitzer Prize the new lighting system at West Tech Field." As late as the 1970-1 school year, West Tech was the alumni: Alexander J. Hamilton (1903-1994) an Olympic gold medallist in speed skating; Edward Burk District.
Barnum is a well-recognized prominent Cleveland architect. William Ganson Rose summarizes 8 "Commemorative Issue: Recalling 83 Historic Years," The West Tech Tatler, Volume 79, No.2 art;Frank Herzegh inventor important in the development of tires;Paul Elmer According to the"Dictionary of Cleveland Biography",the following were among West Tech's notable Leimkuehler(1918-1993),who founded a prosthetics business;and Lowell O.Mellen(1897-1993) who Henning(1922-1993),an art historian and the Cleveland Museum of Art's first curator of contemporary offered the first auto driving classes in the U.S.in 1936.lt was the first school to offer OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page Historian Samuel P.
Orth describes Barnum's accomplishments further : Frank Barnum was born in 1850 in Norwalk, Ohio and came to Cleveland in 1871. He began his career and Power Block commercial structures, built in 1881, (demolished), Western Reserve Medical School standing). Shortly thereafter, Benjamin Hubbell and W. Dominick Benes joined the firm and designs Huron Road built 1900, (NR, 1973) and the Park Building on Public Square built 1903, (NR, 1996) said to be one of the first office buildings constructed of reinforced concrete slab floor construction. Barnum Walter Roy McCornack drafted the 1922 addition to West Tech. Walter R. McCornack (1877-1961) was born near Onedia, Illinois. He attended Knox College and MIT, graduating in 1903.
From 1909 - 1913, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked for Peabody and Stearns, and McKim, Mead, municipal architecture" and his training in the beaux-arts is highly reflected in McCornack's work. (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970. p.649 (8-86) compact, comfortable and sanitary."12 shower baths, and adjustable seats were standard features."11 Walter Roy McCornack West Technical High School NPS Form 10-900-a were drafted for the Western Reserve Historical Society 1898,demolished).In 1895,Barnum "Mr.Barnum,by careful study of conditions and limited by the economies of the board of "In 1895 Frank S.Barnum was appointed school architect as an era of modern school built in 1887,(demolished), the Washington Lawrence House (later Bay View Hospital, built in 1898, still planned and constructed more than 75 school buildings.
He retired in 1915 and died in 1927. education, has evolved a radically new type of schoolhouse that has been adopted by most of before moving to Cleveland, he worked in the office of Edmund Wheelwright in Boston. Wheelwright Architect and designed a number of public schools, fire houses, police stations, and hospitals while teamed up with Forrest Coburn.Among the firm's significant buildings were the Blackstone Building 11 Rose, William Ganson.Cleveland:The Making of a City, 1950. asa draftsman for Joseph lreland.In 1876,Barnum opened his own office and twoyears later he NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10240018 National Park Service Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page employed, or to continue the Division. On November 24,1919 McCornack presented his idea which pertained to the "Set-up of Division of Architect" to the Board of Education.
Two aspects of the division of re-organization of Division as recommended by Architect. McCornack addressed that salaries and compensation fixed by the School Board were far beneath the open market, and that capable and efficient men could not be obtained by lower salary rates. Some of the items that McCornack's proposal an Architectural Cost, and the cost of the Division of Architect also include the expense which attaches the office of Architect within the school system.
During McCornack's tenure as School Architect he encountered a need to reduce the cost of school Building Code and Wasteful Planning.'® He found that following the Collinwood Fire in 1908, the public construction, and the fire doors separating stairways from the rest of the building as a "menace to life to argue that "all types of ventilation which presents reasonable and sound mechanical features should be admitted for use in school houses". He studied 17schools in Cleveland to indicate that the only period compromising the toilet facilities to be morning recess and that 50 percent of these fixtures could area and the minimum number of cubic feet, through the reduction of corridors. McCornack was Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1996.p.
293 1 Cleveland Board of Education Proceedings, Monday November 24, 1919 (8-86) National Register of Historic Places the schoof board into making sound decisions if they chose to hire commercial Architects and dissipate West Technical High School McCornack served as the school board architect from 1914 -1925.In 1915,he establishing a United States Department Of The Interior a continuds study and development of school house design and construction. This proposal was to aid 14 Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski. The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. included were:an increase in salaries by 15%,that those salaries be charged to the Building Fund as of education had requested McCornack to make a study of the situation and report with his were approached: Exhibit A - Expenses of Division reduced to percentage cost, and Exhibit B - Set up Ibid.
18 Ibid and limb, rather than a protection in case of fire or panic." He studied absentee statistics of 20 schools construction in Ohio. He felt that there were two major causes for costly school buildings:the State State Building Code included requirements on ventilation,the number of toilet fixtures,load bearing NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 10240018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number Page ventilation ducts and solid walls of the interior, similar to an office building, while the exterior walls would be load bearing. The interior construction would consist of steel I-beam columns. His intention was not to produce a box-like or factory-like appearance, but rather to reduce the construction cost a beautiful landscape setting would aid to create a neighborhood center.
McCornack established "a school ideal," and what would result as a new wave of school building. He Empire School, Almira School, Addison School and the Waterman Service Building. After 1925, McCornack went into private practice, designing suburban school buildings and become known as a public works public housing project, one of the first three in the city, was the 1935-37 Cedar - Central and City Planning at MIT. He retired in 1945. prevailing example of educational architecture in Cleveland. West Technical High School embodies the centuries.
It is an excellent modernist school design with classical allusions confined to the entrances November 23, 1932 (8-86) West Technical High School evident of McCornack's ideas.Other Cleveland school buildings designed by McCornack include the National Register of Historic Places buildings'(sic).For seventy-five years West Tech offered opportunities to Cleveland's youth by Although the school closed in 1994,due toa decision based on the school board,West Tech isa unsatisfied with this solution due to the changing needs of any school district and their buildings and office buildings, feeling it to be an appropriate comparison. His new plan for schoolhouses eliminated developed the corridor-less building, with a large number of classrooms built around open huge central leading advocator for public housing projects and slum clearance under the public works agencies. His apartments.
He returned to Boston in 1939 and served as Dean of the School of Architecture, Regional School Year Sure of Success," emphasizes the impact of West Tech: "the superintendent said he felt have attended academic schools, and that as a result of those schools attendance at high schools was larger". A postcard of West Technical High School written by an educator post dated on February 28, 1920 reads "We visited two High Schools of commerce yesterday and this West "Teck" mighty nice suggested a "unit"type construction. In previous years, McCornack studied the construction design of 19 McCornack, W.R. "Cost Saving In School Construction". Realty Record. June 1924.
in school architecture theory.It was a progressive school that launched educational buildings and educational programs into the 21s century.A 1913 article in the"Cleveland Plain Dealer,""Open early concepts of modern school design that developed and evolved in the late 19t and early 20th NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024- United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga, Ohio McCornack, W.R. "Cost Saving In School Construction". Realty Record. June 1924. "City Blazes Trail for Education," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 6, 1913. "Cleveland Public Schools, 1992," Cleveland Landmarks Commission, Cleveland City Hall. "Head and Shoulders, Destroyer of Slums, Walter R. McCornack,"Cleveland Mid Week. November 23, clipping (c1911). "Open School Year Sure of Success," Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 8, 1913.
"Open School Year Sure of Success," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 8, 1913. "West Tech Is Giant in City's Education," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 9 1938. "West Tech to Mark 'Fifty Golden Years'," Cleveland Press, May 8, 1962. "West Tech's Reunion to be Week's Event," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 19, 1962. "Commemorative Issue: Recalling 83 Historic Years," The West Tech Tatler, Volume 79, No.2 March Newsletter. Vol.1, No.2. 0018 Books 1997. Page Continuation Sheet Bibliography (8-86) Section number National Register of Historic Places West Technical High School Newspaper and Journals "Ohio's Top Ten," clipping in History Department, Cleveland Public Library, c1971. "A Short History of West Tech (1912-1986)," Partners, West Tech/BP America Education Partnership "New West Side Technical High School will be ready for pupils next fall," Cleveland Leader, undated 1932. Alburn, Wilfred H.
and Miriam R. Alburn. This Cleveland of Ours, Volume II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1933. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga, Ohio Page Donovan, John J. School Architecture: Principles and Practices. New York: MacMillan Company, 1921. Orth, Samuel P. History of Cleveland, Ohio. City:Pub, 1910. Rose, William Ganson. Cleveland : The Making of A City. City:Pub, 1950. Van Tassel, David and Grabowski, John. The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. City:Pub, 1996. Van Tassel, David and Grabowski, John. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1996. Withey, Henry F.and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingallls, Inc., 1970.
Criss Cross Cleveland City and Suburban Directories, Haines & Co., various editions. Cuyahoga County Property Owner Maps, 1990. Hopkins Plat Books, various additions. Krause, F.L. Atlas of the City of Cleveland, Ohio 1898. Sanborn Insurance Maps, various editions. Photographs & Other Sources Cleveland Press photo collection at Cleveland State University. Cleveland Public Library, Photograph Collection, Clipping Collection in History Department. Cleveland Landmarks Commission files, Cleveland City Hall. Continuation Sheet Section number West Technical High School Books continued National Register of Historic Places Maps and Directories (8-86) Cleveland Public Schools, 1922, Cleveland Landmarks Commission, Cleveland City Hall. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior ", West Technical High School. 1962.
Section number Photographs & Other Sources continued Fisher/Johannesen, Eric, Ohio Historic Inventory form, 1976. Proceedings of the Board of Education, January 6, 1913 to December 29, 1913. Page (8-86) Continuation Sheet Cuyahoga, Ohio National Register of Historic Places National Park Service "Fifty Golden Years", West Technical High School. 1962. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service Cuyahoga, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description south, West 93"d Street to the west, Sauer Avenue to the north and West 98* Street to the east. Boundary is based on Existing Tax Map, Sanborn Insurance Maps and Board of Education drawings.
Page (8-86) Section number Boundary Justification Continuation Sheet The property represents the extent of the property historically associated with West Technical High School encompasses the entire block between streets Willard Avenue to the National Register of Historic Places West Technical High School NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Cuyahoga, Ohio Clifton Blyd 1 Exit 247A 1-71 Exit 246 Pershi (8-86) Continuation Sheet Location Map West Technical High School United States Department Of The Interior National Register of Historic Places Dill Chester Ave Oedar Ave Whiskey is Salt Rd gewater Dr Division Ave W67th S Tillman Ave ake Ave W Clinton Ave Detroit Ave Madison Aye Lorain Ave W 85th Str Starkweather Ave W 84th PI Houston Ave Clark Ave Rowiey Ave W 63rd St W 98th St -Sacketl Ave Storer Ave Bridge Ave Exit 245 Exit Meyer Ave Cleveland Memorial Sh Daisy Ave Hyde Ave AWoodbridge Ct Franklin Bivd Cleveland West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio N TS CUYAHOGA COUNTY ENGINEER NOMINATION NATIONAL SCHOOL DOO 00 d0 000 2201 WEST 93RD CLEVELAND, OHIO REGISTER TECHNICAL OPO West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio additions and removals.
have since been some West Tech High School about 1952/72 * TOMPKINS There Insurance Map) about 1913 (Sanborn AV. N. W WILLARD SAUER Insurance Map) West Tech High School WEST TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio W.93RD SAUER AVENUE GRANDSTANDS - 1912 STRUCTURE - MINOR ALTERATIONS - SEVERELY DETERIORA TED. ATHLETIC FIELD AND TRACK - ALWAYS EXTANT - ONSISTENTLY UPDATED, WITH MINOR ALTERATION! WEST 93RD STREET WEST 98THSTREET WILLARD AVENUE ORIGINAL 1910 GRANDSTANDS AND1912 SCHOOL BUILDING. 1910 TRACK AND FIELD 1922 SCHOOL BUILDING AND BOILER ROOM ADDITION SERVICE BUILDING/GREEN HOUSES - SERMCE BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN 3 PHASES FROM 1922 TO 1966. GREEN 1972 LARGE GYMNASIUM ADDITION. CURRENTLY DEMOLISHED. ONLY CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS MISCELLANEOUS STRUCTURES, TRANSFORMER SHELTER, SMALL 1949 ONE STORY ADDITION.
HOUSED AVIATION, WELDING, GATEHOUSE, COMPOST BINS. CONSTRUCTION DATES UNCONFIRM WEST TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE HISTORY KEY PARKING AUTO SHOPS. HOUSES CONSTRUCTED IN 1922,REPLACED IN 1966, EXIST. West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio KOFEB 28 1920 PMI Chio. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department Of The Interior National Register of Historic Places Cuyahoga, Ohio Photograph Key - May 2000 2201 West 93d Street Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 1. Grandstands, camera direction NW. 3. Track and Field, camera direction SW. 4. Storage Building, camera direction SE. 7. North Elevation, camera direction SE 9. West Elevation, camera direction NE. 11. West Entrance, camera direction NE. 12.West Elevation, festoons, camera direction N. 17. South Elevation, camera direction NE 14. Southwest Entrance, camera direction NE. 18.
South Elevation, Entrance, camera direction N. 19. South Elevation, 1949 addition, camera direction NE. 20. Southeast Elevation, camera direction NW. 21. East Elevation, camera direction SW. 25. East Elevation, 1972 addition, camera direction SW. 27. North Elevation, addition, camera direction SW. 29. Northeast View, camera direction SW. 30. Horticulture Building, camera direction S 31. Horticulture Building, door, camera direction NE. 32. Greenhouse Site, camera direction E Continuation Sheet West Technical High School National Park Service (8-86) All photographs in care of Karen Borland, Sandvick Architects 1265 West 6* Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113. West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio SAUER AVE. 2201 WEST 93RD STREET WILLARD AVE.
NRN WEST 89TH STREET WEST West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio SCALE: 3/32 = 1'-O" A401 2GWEST ELEVATION 4G NORTH ELEVATION West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 4GEAST ELEVATION SCALE: 3/32 = 1-0 A402 2G SOUTH BLEVATION West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ollio West Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio. West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 2. 1913 West Tech High School West Technical High School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio West Technical lligh School, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: OTHER : N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.
/ CRITERIA_ DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE DATE MULTIPLE RETURN REJECT 7/11/00 8/25/00 REVIEWER DATE RECEIVED: NAME: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: N SLR DRAFT: * NATIONAL: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga DISCIPLINE ACCEPT 1. HEST TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELANO, OHLO FPSCN CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTI CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOLA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY FPSCNO FPSONO.
imo FTRB CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY COYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOEA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY COYAHOGS COUNTY CUYAHOGA COUNTY 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) West Technical CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO High School 41081-D6-TF-024 4591200 2G SOUTH ELEVATION 4GEAST ELEVATION A402 SCALE: 3/32 = 1-0) PRELMINARY SCALE: 3/32 = I'-O A401 4GNORTH ELEVATION 2GWEST ELEVATION
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