Nomination for National Town and Country Club

The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1.

Name of Property historic name National Town and Country Club other names/site number Fenn College; CSU - Fenn Tower (CUY-140-1) 2. Location street & number 2401 Euclid Avenue n/a not for publication city or town Cleveland n/a vicinity state Ohio code OH county Cuyahoga county code 035 zip code 44115 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this x nomination o request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property x meets o does not meet the National Register Criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant o nationally x statewide o locally. (o See continuation sheet for additional comments.) [signature] Payne Dept. Head Planning, Inventory & Registration March 11, 2003 Signature of certifying official Date Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property o meets o does not meet the National Register criteria. ( o See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I, hereby certify that this property is: x entered in the National Register o See continuation sheet. o determined eligible for the National Register o See continuation sheet.

o determined not eligible for the National Register o removed from the National Register o other (explain): ___________________________________ [signature] Signature of Keeper 10/30/03 Date of Action National Town & Country Cuyahoga County, Ohio 5.

Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) private building(s) Contributing Noncontributing public-local district 1 ____ buildings public-State site ___ ____ sites public-Federal structure ___ ____ structures object ___ ____ objects 1 0 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register n/a n/a 6.

Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) SOCIAL - Clubhouse EDUCATION - College ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ 7.

Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) MODERN MOVEMENT - Art Deco Foundation STONE ____________________________________ roof Asphalt ____________________________________ walls Limestone ____________________________________ other Brick Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __7__ Page __1__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio The National Town & Country Club (later known as Fenn Tower) is located at the northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and East 24th Street, in the middle of the Cleveland State University campus (Photo 1). The campus is located on the east end of downtown Cleveland, between Playhouse Square and the innerbelt freeway (I-90). Most campus buildings date from after the 1964 founding of the university, giving the campus a very modern appearance centered around Rhodes Tower. Campus buildings and elevated walkways have been constructed over East 21st Street and East 22nd Street as part of a superblock with green space.

Older buildings on the campus include Fenn Tower - built 1930, the Corlett Building - built 1917, and the Ohio Buick Dealership (now Charles J. Stillwell Hall). The National Town & Country Club is a twenty - one story buff brick building with white terra cotta accents. It is steel frame construction. The facade has a three story round arched central entrance centered on East 24th Street. The east and north elevations of the building base have relatively few windows (Photos 2-4). Sandstone was used on the south and west elevations of the building base. There are setbacks at a variety of heights, including above the sixth, fourteenth, and fifteenth stories. The twenty - first story was a recessed penthouse. Abstract geometric ornamentation, reminiscent of a Mayan design, was used in spandrels and at the top of each vertical element. This design was also used at the top of the tower.

The building has fourteen bays and fronts 228 feet on East 24th Street and fronts 83 1/4 feet with six bays on Euclid Avenue. Vertical ranks of recessed steel sash windows were topped with geometric designs in the Art Moderne style. The secondary facades on the north and west elevations were plain brick. . . The National Town & Country Club replaced on the mansions that lined Euclid Avenue (attachment 10). In the late 19th century Euclid Avenue had been known as Millionaires Row and the north side of the street had been lined with mansions in a variety of Victorian era architectural styles. When it was constructed in 1930 Euclid Avenue had experienced tremendous change. Euclid Avenue was no longer popular among the city's elite. They had begun moving to Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights.

The large houses began falling into disrepair and were being converted into hotels, rooming houses and were often demolished. The lower part of Euclid Avenue, had lost several mansions to commercial development. It had extended to East 17th Street with the construction of the Playhouse Square Theatres in the mid - 1920's. The section of Euclid Avenue near Fenn Tower was also experiencing commercial growth with automobile dealerships, office buildings, clubs, and retail shops replacing old mansions. The Cleveland zoning code was introduced in 1929, and Euclid Avenue to East 30th Street was zoned E-5, unrestricted with a 250-foot height limit. With all these changes Euclid Avenue maintained an elite image for retailers and clubs. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __7__ Page __2__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio As the Town and Country Club the first eight floors housed club activities, including meeting rooms, dining rooms, ballrooms, and athletic facilities. The next ten floors had 122 bedrooms with baths, and the upper floors contained service areas and a solarium. National Town & Country 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or a grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) ARCHITECTURE _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Period of Significance 1930 _______________________________________ Significant Dates 1930 _______________________________________ Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) _______________________________________ Cultural Affiliation _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Architect/Builder George B. Post and Sons, NYC, architect Thompson-Starrett Co., Chicago, contractors Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested. previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # ___________________ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # ___________________ Primary location of additional data State Historic Preservation Office Other State agency Federal agency Local government University Other Name of repository:____________________ National Town & Country Cuyahoga County, Ohio 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property Less than one acre UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Zone Easting Northing 1 17 443895 4594530 2 ___ ____ _________ Zone Easting Northing 3 ___ ____ _________ 4 ___ ____ _________ See continuation sheet. Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

Form Prepared By name/title organization Robert Keiser, Secretary - Landmarks Commission date _6/18/02 street & number _601 Lakeside Avenue, Room 519_ telephone__216-664-2531 city or town __Cleveland__________________________ state _OH_ zip code _44114 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property.

Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name ___Cleveland State University_____________________________ street & number__2121 Euclid Avenue__________________________ telephone__________________________ city or town___Cleveland____________________________ state__OH__ zip code___44115_____ Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).

Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __8__ Page __1__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio The National Town and Country Club is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, according to criterion C, within the context of Art Deco "skyscraper" architecture in downtown Cleveland. It was built in 1930 to house the National Town and Country Club. Fenn College moved into the building in 1937 and it became the main classroom building when Cleveland State University was formed in 1964. The National Town and Country Club was designed in what was referred to when built as the Perpendicular Gothic style, now known as the Modernistic or Art Deco style.

Classical ornamentation was replaced with streamlined geometric ornamentation that reflected the machine age, and had no historic precedent. There are only two taller Art Deco / Moderne style skyscrapers in Cleveland, the Ohio Bell Telephone Building and the Midland, Republic, and Guildhall Buildings. The Midland, Guildhall, and Republic Buildings, built 1930, were built behind the Terminal Tower, all had Art Deco or Modernistic elements, but had flat roofs. The National Town and Country Club building was a sophisticated design reminiscent of a New York City skyscraper. The building's design promoted images of a metropolitan lifestyle, that would help sell club memberships to the city's elite. It was an image portrayed in the movies throughout the late 1920's and early 1930's. The National Town & Country Club was built on the site of the Rufus K.

Winslow House, an eighteen- room High Victorian Gothic residence that had been built in 1878 and was designed by architect Levi T. Scofield (attachment 10). Rufus Winslow occupied it until his death, when Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick Winslow occupied it. They sold it to Herman Frasch, a Standard Oil chemist. The house was transferred to his daughter. She gave the National Town and Country Club a ninety - nine year lease on the property. The National Town and Country Club was one of the tallest buildings in Cleveland when constructed.

Tall buildings constructed in Cleveland from the early part of the twentieth century included: Terminal Tower (1930) 741' Beaux Arts Ohio Bell Telephone Building (1929) 360' Art Deco Keith Building (1922) 250' Renaissance Revival Standard Building (1922) 240' Sullivanesque Midland, Republic, Guildhall Buildings (1930) 218' Art Deco National Town & Country Club (1929-30) 200' Art Deco Williamson Building (1896) Demolished 196' Beaux Arts Hanna Building (1921) 195' Renaissance Revival There had been an eastward trend in the local commercial real estate market.

In the 1850's Cleveland's small commercial district was along Superior Avenue. east of Public Square. By the 1880's the commercial NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number ___8___ Page ___2___ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio district expanded to surround Public Square and included Euclid Avenue to East 4th Street. The development of the New Center, East 9th Street and Prospect, offices in 1900 including the construction of the Rose Building, the Osborn Building, and the Caxton Buildings. This was followed by the development of Playhouse Square theaters and offices, East 14th and Euclid, with the construction of the Hanna (1921) and Keith Buildings (1922).

The National Town and Country Club Building was the last of this eastward trend in 1930. It was built at Euclid Avenue and East 24th Street, at the same time the Terminal Tower and the Union Terminal Development was under construction, bringing the focus of commercial development back west to Public Square. The National Town & Country Club was constructed at a cost $1.5 million. George B. Post and Sons of New York City was the architect and Thompson - Starrett Company of Chicago was the general contractor. W.S. Ferguson Company was the supervising architect and engineer for the project. The Rorimer - Brooks Studio had the interior furnishings contract. The National Town and Country Club was planned during the late 1920's when there was optimism about the local economy and real estate in the central business district.

A rendering of a twelve - story building in the Italian Renaissance style, by architect Samuel H. White appeared in the February 26, 1928 Plain Dealer (attachment 4). The Cleveland zoning code was adopted May 6, 1929 (Ordinance 85681). Euclid Avenue out to East 30th Street was zoned E 5, unrestricted with a 250' height limit. A foundation permit was issued on December 14, 1929 and a building permit was issued on January 25, 1930. ARCHITECTURE New York architects George B. Post and Sons designed the National Town and Country Club. A July 28, 1929 Plain Dealer article showed a rendering of the proposed building (attachment 6). It was a good example of the Art Deco - Modernistic style with its setback skyscraper design, and its emphasis on verticality with its ranks of windows. It is a sophisticated design, reminiscent of New York City skyscrapers and the Ohio Bell Building in Cleveland.

In New York City this setback design was dictated by the zoning code. That was not part of the zoning code in Cleveland. The building's architect, George B. Post and Sons was a well-known architectural firm from New York City that had completed several projects in Cleveland. Buildings designed by George B. Post include the Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion (1879-1882), the New York Times Building (1888-9), the New York Stock Exchange (1901-3), and the Wisconsin State Capitol (1906-1917). The firm was also the designer of many hotels, including several Statler Hilton Hotels in Cleveland (1911-2), Detroit (1914-5), St. Louis (1917), NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number ___8__ Page ___3__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio Buffalo (1921-3), and Boston (1926-7), the Roosevelt Hotel in New York (1922-4), and the Warwick Hotel in New York (1925-7). The firm had an office in Cleveland in the Schofield Building from 1907 to 1929. A variety of local architects worked in the Cleveland office, most notably Charles Schneider in 1912. The firm designed several projects in Cleveland, including the Williamson Building (1896), the Beaux - Arts Cleveland Trust (1905-8), the Statler Hilton Hotel (1911-2), the Wade Park Manor (1921), the Fenway Hotel (1923), and the National Town & Country Club (1929-30). George B. Post (1837-1913) was the founder of the firm.

He had two sons that joined him James Otis Post and William Stone Post. They took over the operation of the firm after their father's death. After his sons, retired the firm continued in operation with his grandson. In New York City there was a George B. Post office in the Architect's Building, 101 Park Avenue until 1972. From 1972 - 1995 the firm operated out of an office in Huntington, New York. W.S. Ferguson was the supervising architect and engineer for the project. Canadian - born William Stanley Ferguson (1880-1954) founded the W.S. Ferguson Company in Cleveland in 1910. They were the architects / engineers of several industrial projects including the Grant Motor Car Company, the Atlas Bolt and Screw, the Hydraulic Press Steel Company, and the Liquid Carbonic Corporation. From 1924-9 Ferguson was the Director of Public Service for the City of Cleveland.

He was on the board of directors of the National Town and Country Club. Rorimer - Brooks completed interior decoration for the building. Louis Rorimer (1872-1939) established an art studio in Cleveland in 1893. It later merged with the Brooks Household Arts Company, a consultant firm in interior design. They became the nationally known Rorimer - Brooks. Their clients included Statler Hotels, the Chamber of Commerce Clubs, and the Van Sweringen offices. Louis Rorimer utilized cleaner, modern designs. CLUB LIFE Fenn Tower was built for the National Town and Country Club. It was one of the exclusive clubs that was sprouting up in Cleveland. They included the Tavern Club, Hermit Club, University Club, Cleveland Athletic, Cleveland and Union Club.

Two high-rise exclusive social clubs were under construction in 1929, the National Town and Country Club and the Cleveland Club, East 105th Street and Carnegie Avenue, emphasizing the optimism about the local economy during the 1920's. Clubs were important to Euclid Avenue life after families had sold off the large Euclid Avenue homes they became more important for entertaining. They were forceful magnets in pulling residents into urban life. Clubs linked Cleveland families with others in New York. Chicago. Detroit and Washington. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __8__ Page __4__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio D.C.

The National Town and Country Club combined a centrally located clubhouse with social and indoor athletic facilities and a rural golf and country club. The National Town and Country Club was planned during the prosperous end of the 1920's, but opened during the Great Depression. The club construction was financed with a $1.5 million bond issue. The National Town and Country Club was designed with the usual club facilities, provisions for every sort of indoor athletics, such as a gymnasium, swimming pool, running track, in addition to 160 sleeping rooms. It had a large membership list in the 1930 Cleveland Blue Book. It was an inclusive club with several Jewish and Roman Catholic members that may have been excluded from some of the city's other clubs. George Grant Guy Peckham was the President and C.W. Brand was the Vice President of the club.

Peckham was the organizer and owner of the Ohio Buick Company, a company that had its showroom at nearby 1960 East 24th Street and at that time the largest Buick dealership in the state. National Town and Country Club members were from a variety of occupations and backgrounds. They included industrialists Morris A. Black, David W. Teachout, and Joseph Caribelli, retailers Howard C. Burrows, William T. Higbee, S.P. Halle, S.H. Halle, Nathan Dauby of the May Company, architects Munroe Copper, W.S. Ferguson, Herman Kreglius, G.A. Tenbush, Earl J. Andrews and Sherman Scofield, David W. Teachout, and owner of the Cleveland Indians Al Sutphin. The club's timing was poor, opening in the middle of the depression. It went out of business by 1937. FENN COLLEGE The National Town and Country Club did not use the building very long after its construction.

It became the location of Fenn College in 1937 (attachment 9,11). It was named for Sereno P. Fenn (1844-1927), who gave $100,000 to the college in 1926. Fenn College had its origins in the 1880's as an evening education program of the Young Men's Christian Association. Fenn worked for the Sherwin Williams Company, where he was vice president from 1921 until his death in 1927. He was the director of the YMCA from 1868 until 1920, and was the president for twenty - five years. The first college credit classes in engineering and business were offered in 1923. Classes were initially offered in the YMCA building at Prospect and East 22nd Street. A liberal arts college was added in 1932. Fenn College offered a quality low cost educational program designed to attract those for whom college education might be financially unattainable.

It became the second college in Ohio to adopt the cooperative educational program. The North Central Association in 1940 accredited it. Dr. Cecil V. Thomas served as Fenn College's first president (1930-1947) and the YMCA's executive director. In 1930 the Cleveland YMCA School of Technology was renamed Fenn College in his honor. Fenn was a member of Old Stone Church. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 5 OMB No. 1024-0018 National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio The closed National Town and Country Club offered many facilities that the college needed. Local architect Herman Dercum was hired to determine the adaptability of the Town and Country Club for college use.

The building housed twenty - seven classrooms, a library, six laboratory spaces, a student lounge, an assembly hall, a dining hall, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, handball and squash courts, an assembly room, complete physical education facilities, and 136 residential rooms. The most significant exterior change was the elimination of the four retail storefronts along Euclid Avenue. With the GI bill after World War II the student enrollment climbed from three thousand to four thousand students in the 1940's. Fenn College would later expand to include Foster Hall (built 1948), and the Ohio Buick Dealership Building (purchased 1953) that became Stillwell Hall. Fenn College became a part of Cleveland State University in 1964. It was part of Governor James Rhodes plan to expand public universities throughout the state.

Municipal universities in Akron, Cincinnati, and Toledo became part of the state system. New state universities were formed in Cleveland and near Dayton during the mid to late 1960's. NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __9__ Page __1__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio BIBLIOGRAPHY City of Cleveland, Division of Buildings, Foundation Permit, Issued December 14,1929, 10039 E City of Cleveland, Division of Buildings, Building Permit, Issued January 25, 1930, 10239 E Cleveland Architects Card File, Fine Arts Department, Cleveland Public Library Cleveland Blue Book 1930 Earnest, G.

Brooks; A History of Fenn College; Fenn Education Fund of the Cleveland Foundation: Cleveland, 1974 Johannesen, Eric; Cleveland Architecture 1876 - 1976; Western Reserve Historical Society: Cleveland, 1979; p.150-1 Landau, Sarah Bradford; George B. Post, Architect Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist; 1998: Monacelli Press - New York City Monnett, James G. Jr.; "Town club will rise twenty stories"; Plain Dealer January 5, 1920 Sanborn Insurance Map, 1952, revised to 1966 Van Tassel, David and John J. Grabowski, Editors; The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996 Van Tassel, David and John J.

Grabowski, Editors; The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987 Wilson, Ella Grant; Famous Old Euclid Avenue of Cleveland: at one time called the most beautiful street in the world; np, 1932 na, "Town Club will rise 22 stories on Upper Euclid"; Plain Dealer July 28, 1929 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __10__ Page __1__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio Legal Description Cuyahoga County Permanent Parcel Number 103-04-008 (see attached Map) Verbal Boundary Justification The nominated property includes the entire parcel historically associated with the building.

National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer : Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Looking Northeast 1 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer : Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Looking Northwest 2 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer : Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Looking South 3 of 9 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __10__ Page __2__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer : Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Looking South 4 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Interior elevators 5 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer : Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Interior woodwork 6 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Interior woodwork 7 of 9 NPS Form 10-900 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number __10__ Page __3__ National Town & Country Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Interior second floor hallway 8 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Robert Keiser August 26, 2002 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Interior woodwork 9 of 9 National Town and Country Club (Fenn Tower) Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co. UTM Referenc[e]: 17/448395/4594530 CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO 1994 COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO. 203 Canalon Did: 812 Huron Rd. Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (216) 771-3995 CUYAHOGA CO., OH National Town & Country - Attachment 1 1912 E. 24TH ST.

Furo No 6 Furo No 6 Furo No 6 Furo No 6 EUCLID AV. UNION 91 92 CUYAHOGA CO., OH National Town & Country Attachment 2 1952 91 2 84 E. 24TH AV. N. E. The Sone Mansion Co. (Injection Molders) Shipping & Rec'g. (Manufacuting Coffee Makers) Machining Assembly Offices Ship Rec. G. M. MICO Commercial Warehouse and Distribution E. 24TH ST. CHESTER 83 EUCLID. AV. E. 21ST ST. 100 CUYAHOGA 92 CO., OH - National Town & Country Attachment 3 1952 NORTH CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY CHESTER AVE. N.E. CHESTER CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY E. 24TH ST. E. 22ND ST. VACATED EUCLID AVE. E. 21ST ST.

Plain Dealer SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1928 BUILDERS WORK TO CUT ACCIDENTS Ohio Conference Gives Pledge of Aid; Oppose Injunction Bill. Hearty indorsement of the campaign to reduce accidents to building construction by 25 per cent. this year was given to the safety division of the Ohio Industrial Commission at the state conference held under the auspices of the Ohio Association of Builders' Exchanges in Columbus. Nearly every exchange was represented by official representatives and the commission, including Thomas A. Krehbiel, director of the safety division, was complimented for the advanced position in regard to its part, not its, in accident in the building industry of the state was made. Krehbiel asserted that previous to 1927, 80 per cent of the accident three-fourths of all the accidents were preventable if proper precautions were taken.

But further, he declared, "the building industry as a whole still has a high accident rate, but this can be brought down rapidly through co-operative committee action, persistent activity and stubborn interest, more education and example." Directs at Builders' Exchange. One action at the builders' exchanges participating in the conference was adoption of a uniform safety code. Shrapnel flying from brick, steel and tile bared by hot riveting hammers, was pictured to the building industry as most hurtful to owners and others interested in general conditions on construction activities. A considerable amount of material is being furnished by the Builders' Exchange for exhibitions and such books are about to be circulated in the average country home.

House plans in the future are expected to be made only after all local conditions have been weighed and precautions taken for fire escapes and the resulting dangers from fire have been removed or reduced, is the competition sentiment. Only two companies having the issue of "Accident Prevention in Home Building," published in the White Memorial Building, has been favorably received at the exchange, showing a 25 per cent accident attent when brought into use-very few other examples from subjects The "word of record" in regard to the building trades received at the Builders' Exchanges Saturday and Sunday, reached practically all units. Insurance agents and men in the ally are responsible for this latter. The four fatal accidents so far noted for January builds the percentage. Builders' Exchanges headquarters intend to work on ways to reduce this tendency.

New Town Club Soon to Be Started All efforts of the National Town & Country Club Co. are being directed toward getting construction under way of the exclusive building at the corner of Euclid avenue, east boulevard and 29th Street, which will house the new combination country and town club. The architects' drawing above gives a good idea of the building which it is proposed to erect. The main floors will be used for club, business and social purposes, while the upper floors are to be finished as high-class apartments for members of the club. Swimming pools, gymnasiums, sun rooms and recreation rooms are all included. The musical pipe organ for this building will permit broadcasting of the Halaron, Renaissance type, with interior roofed with stone. Cup room will be fully fireproof. There will be two large entrances.

Altogether there are to be thirty separate connected private clubs within the general body of the organization. In addition to the main club, bath, health- and squash courts, fundamentals for building applied and the highest possible protection given to tenants, renters and property. Members will have rights to the use of the country grounds of the Town & Country Club near Lee Road and South Moreland Blvd. The building, which is to be erected on the site of the 21st district police station and the present Kentucky building, will have a frontage of 327 feet, with court-yard in front and all rooms will be outside rooms. The town club and the apartment units will be distinctly separated so that club activities will not interfere with the privacy of the apartment tenants.

Chairman Paul Forhan of the board of directors is working hard to get the program of arrangements for early ground-breaking completed. Edward A. Roberts of the Industrial Commission and Charles M. Smythe are in charge of the conference, with second division to th chairman's committee of five. L. L. Hartzell of Norwalk, member of the Ohio Legislature, TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB New Apartment for Lakewood Site CLEVELAND CLUB COST OF ELECTIONS NEARLY A MILLION Counties' Expenditures for Agriculture in 1926 Were $400,000 Less. COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 25. - (AP) - Ohio counties spent on the holding of elections in 1926, virtually as much as they did for the conduct of agriculture in home, status and operation during the same period, figures just compiled by the commission on public offices, show.

The cost of public elections in the eighty-eight counties was in excess of $900,000 in 1926, while the amount spent for agriculture amounted to $400,000 less than that figure. The commission's report declares that, next to the support of the common pleas and probate court, the holding of elections represented the highest cost to the counties. The commission, which is directed by the last Legislature to make a study of the expenditures for the various governmental subdivisions of the state, said that the only item approaching the elections in cost was in the raising of bridges. Principal data prepared by the commission show that counties in 1926 appropriated $916,000 for public elections. The Public Offices Commission, consisting of Sen. James E. Cassidy of Cleveland, chairman, and the following: Representative Searle Fess of Lodi and Representative O. W. Stinchcomb of Medina.

Flic PAGE TWENTY-TWO TOWN CLUB WILL RISE 20 STORIES Director Set April 1 as Date for Completing Foundations. BY JAMES O. MONNETT, JR. National Town & Country Club directors yesterday announced that the proposed club house at the north-east corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 24th street would be twenty stories of the metropolitan type, instead of a twelve stories covering more ground area, as originally planned. They voted to go ahead this spring. By contacting the ground area the directors have managed to save the club about $70,000 a year in the land end of the projected action, Chairman C. G. G. Peckham of the board of directors said. The building will be confined to 80 by 83 feet of Euclid Avenue frontage of the former Herman Frasch property, a dept of 228 feet along the east side of E. 24th Street.

The directors have surrendered the rear 300 feet of this parcel and have given up the offer of leasing the Euclid-Oliver property, immediately east, which also is 83 feet wide. A contract has been made, Peckham said, to purchase the fee to the 80 by 228 feet of the Frasch property from B. E. Dettelbach, Fred W. Goakes and Sam W. Emerson, who acquired it several years ago from the daughter of the late "sulphur king," the Princess Constatina, and contracted to lease the whole to the club. The club now is ready for financing and will have a bond issue of $1,800,000. The directors have set April 1 as the date when the foundation will be completed. George B.

Post & Sons have been continued as architects and are to include a banquet hall with usual club facilities, provisions for any sort of indoor athletics such as gymnasiums, swimming pool, running track, etc., and in addition also sleeping rooms, suites and 200 connecting rooms, all outside rooms. Lake bldg. will be retained. "The building will be designed with true Ohio civic pride and as a venture worthy of the faith being shown in the success and development of the city," Peckham said. "It is possible the accommodations now planned may be increased and maybe the total height by additional stories, as the avenue has developed within recent months. He called attention to the growth of commerce along the avenue immediately west, in the last few months, the condition having changed from numerous vacancies of store rooms to almost complete occupancy.

"The next frontages to be developed off Euclid Avenue is between E. 21st. and E. 30th Streets," Peckham said. "Quite a few of the property owners have plans under consideration to develop their property and the club site will in the center of this advance." Another Woolworth Store. The Woolworth Co. has leased a store and basement space of 4,000 square feet in a building owned by Harry L. Kaplan at the northeast corner of the Lee and Tullamore Roads, Cleveland Heights, and will open another store there May 1. The lease is for ten years at about $205,000 total rental. The Kaplan improvement extends the store unit from 50 to 60 feet to 115 and 105 feet and makes second-floor units while the entire front of the building in bronze of copper and nickel. Mark Welsh is the architect. The Three Industrial Deals. The Scranton Co. has leased from the U. S. Radiator Co.

25,000 square feet of land at 2294 Scranton Road, where the deal is a six-car garage. The lease calls for an "$112,000 net." P. B. Shephard and the Greenfactor Space Broker arranged the lease. Other deals: the Samos Company and other interests recently leased from the American Woolen Mills. R. F. Kaplan arranged a lease to Frank E. Hart and W. M. Hart of a store at 1819 Payne Avenue N.W., taken by the Bieg Four Railroad Co. This is five years at $7,500 rental. SEEKS TO REGAIN RECORD. Flying Cashier to Try for Endurance Mark Again. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Jan. 4--(AP)--Miss Viola Gentry, "the flying cashier," announced today that on Jan. 20 she would attempt to regain the endurance flight record for women. On Dec. 20, Miss Gentry established a record of eight hours and six minutes, but Jan. 2 Miss Bobbie Trout of Los Angeles stayed in the air twelve hours and five minutes. Legal Notices.

Legal Notices. Legal Notices. IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 2644 G. C., THE TREASURER IS PUBLISHING THIS NOTICE, THE TAX BILLS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL ON OR ABOU Treasurer's Notice RATE OF TAXATION IN PURSUANCE OF LAW, I, ALEX BERNSTEIN TREASURER OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the number of mills levied on each dollar of property listed for Taxation with 1923 is as follows: FOR STATE PURPOSES Plain Dealer Y, JULY 28, 1929 rials Favored for Home Bu GOOD TIME NOW FOR REPAIR WORK Jobs Started Now May Be Done by Winter, Says Secretary Roberts. Now is a good time for property owners to fix up their homes and other buildings according to Edward A. Roberts, secretary of the Builders Exchange. "Although the mid-summer activities are in full swing throughout the city, there are plenty of men available to do repair and alteration work," Roberts said.

"Such work is a big factor in the building improvement. If started now, may be completed before winter. To those contemplating any sort of work in or about their homes, I would strongly urge early action and believe this course is dictated by wisdom on the part of owners from all standpoint that may be considered. "Among the larger projects about to be started in Cleveland shortly, according to information received at the Builders Exchange are the new county jail and administration building, The Bierman Bros.' two-story factory building, the Town and County Club on Euclid Avenue, the new eighteen-story Midland Bank Building in the terminal group and real schools for Cleveland and surrounding suburbs, new churches and a good list of residences on the Heights and in other locations.

A copy of the prospectus for the convention of the Contracting Painters' International Association has been received at the Builders Exchange. This convention is scheduled for October 2 and 13 in Oakland, Cal. A tour of points in California is arranged, including the planned Golden Gate bridge, several large industrial projects, and the work shops of leading paint concerns. S CUYAHOGA CO., OH National Town & Country Attachment 6 Town Club Will Rise 22 Stories on Upper Euclid NATIONAL TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB The National Town and Country Club; to be erected on the site of the former Bierman Frasch residence at the northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 24th Street, will rise 22 stories. It will house the Country Club, and also the City Club of New York.

Reference is being made to the membership campaign to be waged by the Town and Country Club, which is to be the new social center for Cleveland. The building, as announced by the Ohio Realty Company, will provide luxurious club quarters, restaurants, gymnasium, Turkish baths, swimming pool, roof gardens and individual sleeping quarters. The 21st floor will have dressing rooms and showers and the 22d floor will be solarium. In the basement will be a bowling alley with spectators' stands. The tower will extend upward from an entresolent floor. A condition in the contract which will be signed as scheduled by Aug. 1 has been satisfied. The officers are W. H. Bierman, president; W. H. Greene, treasurer, and S. CORPO AUC Method L Cities p Quick tur ings will b Ohio Realty corporated headquarter In other i a leading i real estate only a few interests w J. H.

Gre years, his tion corpor another to Klein, Hart treasurer. For the h headquarter be the T Offices an representat Ohio's larg mortgage lo participatin They exp movement about $5,0 more comm renovated, realty bou Realty i Statisti $1,204,813 bonds hav and propo country. In diana. GARAGE AGE FOURTEEN AINTERS RENAME KOCH cretary Has Held Office 10 Years; McLellan, President. Fenny W. Koch, was returned here yesterday by acclamation for Palnters Union, Local No. 76, a position he has held for the last ten years. He was also elected chairman of the union grievance and led the ticket for delegate to the Painters District Coun- the Cleveland Federation of Labor. Other officers elected include John McLellan, president, and City Councilman Clarence L. Young, vice president, both elected without opposition. A.

McNamara, defeated Ralph Rymar for recording secretary, and Court Newman defeated Edward Whelpley for treasurer. Other new officers are J. Caughlin, warden; conductor: Wm. E. McMahon, Fred C. William Nicholson, examining board member, and J. C. Edward, trustee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DATE for Dinner? You'll find this Delightful, Pleasant Place ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's STAR Specials Pork Barbecue Sage Choice, tender pork tare, barbecue, with a special sauce of tomato, savory herbs and spices. Served with sage dressing ................16c -------------------------------- Sweetbreads Creamed . . Sweetbreads, fresh mushrooms and hard boiled eggs combined with a delicions white sauce seasoned with wine. Served on toast...

12c -------------------------------- New String Beans .... Fresh, meaty, tender, Kentucky Wonder string beans shipped in from the south. Seasoned with smoked bacon ................. 4c -------------------------------- Egg Custard Pie ... A delicious, rich custard made of milk, eggs, butter and sugar, sprinkled with nutmeg and baked in a flaky home-made crust.............. 5c -------------------------------- Blue Boar Cafeteria 643 EUCLID AVE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ National Town & Country CUYAHOGA CO., OH Attachment T Plain Dealer 7.2.1936 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAPS TOWN CLUB REOPENING PLAN Sponsors of New Setup Would Honor All Old Memberships. BY JAMES G. MONNETT, JR.

Plans for a new Ohio Club to take over the unoccupied National Town and Country Club at the northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 24th Street were presented to and favorably received by a large group of property owners and members at the Hotel Statler yesterday. Several years ago the property was leased but not purchased by a group which turned over the so-called "Ohio Dinner Club" in the rooms, after running a similar organization in Brooklyn. The new plan, briefly is: A new Ohio Club, with local men in control, wants to acquire the 21-story building and land from the Prudence association for cash. They hope to rent the Club for 99 years, renewable forever, or for "so long as the Club continues in existence." The purchase price for the property is about $1,750,000 at the last receivers sale. Back of Move, Men at Head. C. G.

Peckham, head of Ohio Quirk Co., who has been a leader in organizing the Town and Country Club, is president of Quirk Felt, Inc., and is chairman of the executive committee of the Ohio Club. The Ohio Club is made up of a number of prominent men of several cities, one of them being Ross W. Judson, founder of Continental Motors and for some time identified with the Peerless Motor Car Co. This company is in control of the club with Fred E. Joyce, former manager of the Union Club, as its manager. The Ohio Club must maintain a dues-paying membership of at least 1,500 under the proposed plan. Their present funds on hand are in the Central National Bank, mortgaged three years property. Once the new proposal were to move the Ohio Club fully functioning in the most modern equipment it was stated by Charles E. Bendl of New York, representing the bond house.

The proposal of members would have the Town and Country Club submit its unpaid "life" tickets to receive the new type of member- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day in By RUSSELL There is a defi - the to the preferred st they sold to the ing crisis. More public money was a r t u c t u r e d s of American banks. In 1933 and 1934 The government holding had been Reduced to ap proximately $900,000,000 at the end of 1935 further reduced in 1936 in var like the balances banks which are currently being of the govern ment interest. There are now gross government government in key and heavy ex-government, The first in The organization and management of the first half profit year. government finances: establishes a new world etitauy to extend its work of the banking world the bank is justified to keep these funds.

With the coal With respect above it will not than 6,000 commercial companies has expose government in the expansion of banks, they would large volume of government during the last three years, protested violent rate of interest fers. But what Treasury law frequently how own waken. the obliged to revert that old progra In the early administration as Elsio. Economic ship in the Ohio Club is a joining fee. Dues will than a year. With it happily would mark the hearship with excuse for all kinds accommodation. According to the increase for all members. The membership in the members. Plain Dealer 9.10.1937 BY NEVELL R. DEAN National Town & Country Attachment B CUYAHOGA CO., OH Addition Also Is Started for Laurel Realty Co. BY JAMES G. MONNET, JR. A renovating job which will give a new appearance to the first story of the Erie Building at Prospect avenue S. E. and E.

9th Street, was started yesterday. The improvement was designed by Steffens & Fox, architects, Field- ity Building, and the Arthur H. Sinc Co. has the general contract. The work is being done for the New York Life Insurance Co., which ?pok over the building more Avenue and are being made into one-large unit which will be oc- cupied by the Wirtschafer Co. The supply maker and de- which now has the smaller her store. The company's ten-year lease also covers 100 N. E. 9th Street and will give the company nine display window Covered also by the lease is the former waiting room once used by bus companies. This space will be turned into a workshop for the Wirtschafer Co. which will also use almost all the building's base- ment space. Two other tenants on E. 9th Street will remain and their stores likewise will be given new fronts.

Work also was started yesterday by Mark Fisher on a two-story ad- dition to the former Bamber Co. Lens Building, Euclid Avenue and Longwood Street. The enlarged building will have stores on the first floor and offices above. The lower story of the addition will be structural glass and the upper stone and stucco. The owner is the Laurel Realty Co. Second Federal Changes C. W. Grove, president, last night announced that directions of the Second Federal Savings & Loan Co., Williamson Building, had re- elected Thomas J. Feeney, head of the construction loan department. Miss Eileen M. Owens, assistant to the president, was chosen assistant secretary. Air-Conditioning Classes Spencerian College, 3201 Euclid Avenue, has arranged first meetings of day and evening classes in air- conditioning for today and tonight. President E. E.

Meryville said interest in the subject had been intensified by opening of the two Kelvin all- year-conditioned homes and by the school's air-conditioned cottage at the Great Lakes Exposition. Fenn College Option Ellwood H. Fisher, chairman of the board of Fenn College, told a meeting of trustees and friends of the college yesterday that the total cost over a ten-year period of the former National Town and Country Club Building would be $81,000. The college option, running until Dec. 1, calls for a purchase price of $250,000. Fisher said back taxes and necessary alterations would cost about $100,000 and interest and other charges would make up the total. The meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce Club. Rubber Unionists Pay $1,108 Fines by the wind. William Fox, 23, was the victim and his wife Eunice the heroine.

The Foxes, with their 4-month-old son Billy, were on the rear barge, 14 and a half southern miles west of Erie, Pa.; Mrs. Fox heard her husband call from the dark waters for her to set off the flare. She did and Capt. Glen O. Farr quickly swung the tug back over the unseen. Walsh Clough, fireman, leaped into the choppy lake to pull in the sinking Fox. Montreal reports the flow of Ar- thur's bulk cargoes both ways on the United States is practically at a stand. No cargoes of the South American Tonnage have to point in grai pome of develop, Alpene, Lady or level water closing vessels vega this sr Chat of the A g frank No. h and Wis. Water way Co. o Lake off C Rec yards vessel pass whe Lino also Ca; detai PASSAGES DETROIT - UP Clemenson J. 6 10 Brf Heleu M. Blly 10 33 Brf Schoonknor J. 11 13 Brf Schoonknor J. 10 48 Brf Alexandria 9 50 Brf Anne 8 10 Brf Anne 8 20 Brf Ste.

Marie 7 55 Brf Calumet 8 40 Brf Wolf 8 10 Brf Daniel J. Morrell 9 15 Brf Marquette 10 25 Brf Arthur B. Homer 6 00 Seward Emery 4 00 Seward F. M. Barton 6 35 Seward J. P. Wells 6 40 Seward Davidson 7 30 Seward McDougall Foster 9 25 Seward E. L. Wallace 5 10 Detroit R. S. Winslow 6 10 Detroit Nahma 4 35 Detroit Worden 5 15 Detroit E. H. Utley 5 00 Detroit Marsh 8 10 Ashland R. J. Hackett 8 30 Ashland ? 8 35 Ashland ? 9 10 Ashland M. H. Boyce 8 52 Ashland H. T. Eriksen 8 15 Ashland H. G. Dalton 8 40 Ashland Albany 8 35 Ashland W. B. Schillinger 8.00 Buffalo H. G. Dalton 7 50 Oswego R. J. Hackett 9 55 Oswego Mohawk 7 40 Oswego E. W. Burdett 7 10 Montreal E. W. Burdett 8 10 Montreal F. J. Dickey 10 20 Montreal Auburn 5 00 Montreal Baden 10 25 Montreal E. M.

Connor 7 00 Brockville Kellogg 7 10 Prescott Woodruffe 9 00 T. I. Woodruffe 9 20 T. I. H. H. Smith 9 01 T. I. M. S. Mitrowitz 10 02 Cornwall M. S. Mitrowitz 10 12 Cornwall M. S. Mitrowitz 8 35 Coteau PORT HURON - DOWN Wolf 7 00 F Wolf 8 10 F E. H. Utley 8 35 Detroit Mohawk 8 30 Detroit Auburn 8 40 Montreal Rogers City 8 10 Amherstburg Arthur B. Homer 7 10 Seward Marquettte 10 25 Seward Emery 7 10 Seward F. M. Barton 7 28 Seward Daniel J. Morrell 7 10 Seward Davidson 8 40 Seward J. P. Wells 8 10 Seward McDougall Foster 7 10 Seward Auburn 2 40 Corn Marsh 8 10 Ashland Marsh 8 15 Ashland Albany 8 10 Ashland H. G. Dalton 8 10 Ashland W. B. Schillinger 8 10 Buffalo * Arrived * Cleared Arthur (Butch) Barr 5. Finds Child's Life on the Cleveland Flats and earlier Hane- lin's St.

a Grind for his Han- Never a Happier Group One could consume lots of var- ious descriptions which his dad had purchased to keep Butch amused. But I never saw a happier little group anywhere than the very warm and hospitable galaxy of the Fenns. "How would you keep Butch from being overworked?" one asked. "He doesn't go out unless we with him," explained Barr. It is true that weather is con- sidered abroad, but it is available just a step from the house; that would seem to be the only possible disadvantage. The next time your heart bleeds for the poor ship keeper and his family, contain yourself. The prob- ably having a better time than you.

36 Milk Drivers Get Safety Awards Thirty six milk drivers who have worked a complete twelve months without a traffic accident were honored at the sixteenth annual Cleveland Safety Contest of the Belle Vernon' Creamery at an annual fellowship supper held in their club rooms 5262 Euclid avenue, last evening. Representing an aggregate of 216 years of safe driving, the group was lauded by R. F. Robbins, direc- tor of the company, urged to greater co-operation with the safe- ty department. Safety today is one of the most important factors in the business and as such must always receive an important part in our thoughts and actions, said Mr. Robbins. Stanley Wilczenski, engineer of the State Milk division, stressed that the causes which bring about many accident can be corrected by the observer.

Recipients of the safety awards were: Ad Barr, Al Barr, Bill Williams, an , Joe Chakas, Steve Chakas, Adam Wolowski, Eugene Caron, Dave Caron, John George, Walter Wontorowicz, Joseph Woj- cik, Lester Szpekowski, Frank Szpekowski, John Guryak, Ed Guryak, Walter Staudinger, Fred Williams, Walter Omelis, Ernie Wargo, William McClain, Verne Friend, Harry Ekeberg, Charles Rush, William Duncan, John Lauer, William Phillips, John Mates, Charles Reda, John Maziarc- zyk, Steve (unreadable), Bill Peters, Emil Reichard, Frank Ciborowski, Ben Just, Jess Caron. CLASS ROOM WITH BATH AWAITS FENN Luxury Suites Undergoing Changes in New Home Between classes, the Fenn Col- lege youngsters will be able to en- gage in such "worldly" pleasures as a bath in one of the luxury class suites in the institution's new home in the erstwhile Euclid Athletic Club, E. 40th street and Euclid avenue.

Originally designed as luxury suites, with adjoining baths, the seven floors of the Fenn will have as squad rooms and study rooms. Fenn reserved the two upper (7th and 6th) floors. These are required as "barracks" for a squad of cadets and are the first and second in Cleveland to house high school students. The men are taking a course of study in cabinet making and assembling cabinets out of good solid birch, using the gym and lockers as their own. The private baths supplied to every bachelor in a club as part of his "luxury" will now, of course, be used by Fennians as a pleasant variation from the habit of rinsing their faces for classes from a bowl. Roof Will Be Campus The labyrinth that gives the table rooms its point has been re- sumed, the swimming tank revived, and other sports courts. Turkish baths and sun porches, with new suites and sun porches. According to Prof.

Williamson, boys from their classes to the pool, where the need for marching, exer- cise at some point, (so the theory is) The college gets the least used rooms and still will rent them, while above all will mass produce Williams barraged bars. The women, also, will be used to the rooms for space. He said, "We would profit very easi- ly having our students get the ex- cellent doing all the while school." CONVICTIONS IS REVERSED Farmer Who Had Wife Pull Plow Freed of Manslaughter NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The State Supreme Court today overturned the manslaughter conviction of John W. Davis, 66, a farmer, in connection with the death Arther (Butch) Barr 5. Finds Child's Life on the Clevel- and Flats and earlier Hane- lin's St. a Grind for his Han- Third Mate William Barr. --Plain Dealer.

1.16.1938 Orchestra on Sunday afternoon, Severance Hall under the direction of Rudolph Ringwall, associate con- ductor, will follow the second con- cert on Feb. 6, it was announced yesterday by E. Yvorburg, manag- er of the orchestra. The concerts are given in re- sponse to public demand for tickets to the Sunday afternoon event, and further afternoons will be arranged if necessary. Both the next and the final afternoon concert will begin at 2:30 p. m. The final will be April 3 and the next Feb. 6. Tickets will go on sale Monday in the main box office and will be sold as long as the supply holds out. The orchestra's 1938 series is being arranged for the benefit of the music-loving public. KENNEDY STOPS IN CITY New Ambassador to Britain Changes Planes at Airport Joseph P.

Kennedy, former chair- man of the Federal Maritime Board and recently named Ambassador to Great Britain, was in Cleveland briefly yesterday when his chartered plane stopped at the airport here on the way to New York. He remained in his seat in Braniff's twin-motored airliner during the 10 minute stopover, and was greet- ed by the honking of a strike. Ken- nedy, Democrat, was known to a few traveling friends and quickly was made to "simply ignore what is standing in your way." He was enroute today for his re- port the president. National Tour & Country Attachment 9 CUYAHOGA CO., OH 200 persons per were Stephen A. Cisler, general superintendent of the service; superintendents from New Y., Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Services will be in charge as officials and as the service on the Medinah in 1930 he was a clerk at Detroit, then came to Cleveland. The toastmaster was E. R.

Thew, now acting superintendent here. He has been assistant field inspec- tor and is a guest of honor a- SAFEGUARD YOUR VISION You will admire the styles and appre- ciate this value. 8.50 Complete Examination of Your Eye Octagon Single-Vision Lenses Gold-Filled Mounti D. N. BERRI OPTOMETRIST-OPTICIAN 1581 EAST 66TH ST. HOLLENDEN HOTEL BLDG. 3 MARX BOYS "I've great faith in RCM, it never failed to relieve my coughs." Mrs. Stella Morz The faith that the Marxes have in RCM is duplicated in thousands of households. And for the reason RCM soothes, through the resulting, real, ... The gentleman in the bowler hat is none other than Tom L. Johnson. The time, as well indicated by the stage of streamlining in the automobile, is 1909. The place: the drive of Johnson's home (left) on "Millionaires' Row" at East 24th Street. On the right is the mansion of Rufus K. Winslow. CUYAHOGA CO., O. H.

National Town & Country 1939 Attachment 10 Fenn College now occupies the site of the Winslow home at East 24th and Euclid. The building is the Town and Country Club that was - or rather that wasn't. Build Thee More Stately Mansions National Town & Country Attachment II CUYAHOGA CO., OH A History of Fenn College G. BROOKS EARNEST President of the College Published by THE FENN EDUCATIONAL FUND OF THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION Cleveland : 1974 Fenn Tower with stores on Euclid Avenue--1936 National Town and Country Club AUDITOR: J. TIMOTHY McCORMACK 4 PERRY PAYNE SUBD., V.25 P.9 PERRY PAYNE SUBD., V.26 P.14 NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO'S SUBD. NO.5 V.129 P.30 to 31 MAP 102 O.L. 84 O.L. 83 O.L. 82 323.466 O.L. 81 EUCLID AVE. FREEWAY O.L. 56 O.L. 59 INNER BELT PROSPECT AVE. 82.5' O.L. 57 O.L. 58 CLEVELAND MAP 103.

SCALE: 1"=100' 50 0 100 200 2-94 DRAWN: MAY 1991 REVISED: DRAWN: MAY 1991 REVISED: National Town & Country Cuyahoga Co., OH Attachment 12 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY National Town and Country Club NAME: MULTIPLE NAME: STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga DATE RECEIVED: 9/15/03 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 10/06/03 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 10/22/03 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 10/30/03 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 03001102 REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N /_ ACCEPT ___RETURN ___REJECT 10/30/03DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: Entered in the National Register RECOM./CRITERIA___________________________________________ REVIEWER________________ DISCIPLINE________________ TELEPHONE________________ DATE_____________________ DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N Welcome Cleveland Court House National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 1 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 2 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 3 of 9.

National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 4of9 HEALTH BOX FORM TOWER DIRECTORY Health Services Room 516 Your Health Care is Our Concern National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 5 of 9 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 6 of9 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 210 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 7 of 9 National Town and County Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 8 of 9 ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 210 National Town and Country Club Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 9 of 9 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE OHIO - CUYAHOGA CO. 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) L A K E E R I E Produced by the United States Geological Survey Control by USGS, NOS/NOAA, and City of Cleveland Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1963.

Revised from aerial photographs taken 1979 and other sources. Field checked 1981. Map edited 1984 Polyconic projection. 1927 North American datum 10,000-foot grid based on Ohio coordinate system, north zone 1000-meter Universal Transverse Mercator grid ticks, zone 17, shown in blue *U.S. Highway 6 alignment updated from best available data Fine red dashed lines indicate selected fence and field lines where generally visible on aerial photographs. This information is unchecked Land lines and original survey corners were retraced or established, where necessary, by the City of Cleveland, and the accuracy is their responsibility Boundaries within the city are those existing at the time of survey Planimetry is derived from aerial photographs taken 1979 and other sources. Revised information not field checked Vertical control 1929 mean sea level datum For sale by U.S.

Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, or Reston, Virginia 22092 A FOLDER DESCRIBING TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS AND SYMBOLS IS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST SCALE 1:24000 1000 0 1 MILE CONTOUR INTERVAL 10 FEET DOTTED LINES REPRESENT 5-FOOT CONTOURS NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929 FOR SALE BY OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 120 INNOVATION DRIVE, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43201, OR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, DENVER, COLORADO 80225, OR RESTON, VIRGINIA 22092 COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO 1984 National Town Bank Cemetery bounds Environs, Cuyahoga, O. See attached information # 873,995 / 445,330 Cleveland State University Office of the President November 21, 2002 Stephen C.

Gordon Ohio Historic Preservation Advisory Board 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Re: George W. Howe House National Town & Country Club Wolfe Music Store Corlett Building Dear Mr. Gordon: The above properties, all located on Euclid Avenue in the City of Cleveland and County of Cuyahoga, are currently owned by Cleveland State University, an Ohio state supported University and all are being considered at your December 6, 2002 meeting for possible recommendation for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Cleveland State University contracted with the Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio in April 2002 to update our existing university Master Plan. While their work is not yet completed, the university has reached the point where we have made an analysis of the possible directions that our campus should take in the next decade. As a result of that analysis, the University wishes to support the listing in the National Register of the George W. Howe House, the National Town & Music Club, and the Wolfe Music Store. These structures can be integrated into our campus plan in such a way that we can rehabilitate and maintain these historic buildings. The University does wish to object, however, to the listing of the Corlett Building, 1935 Euclid Avenue. As you are aware, this property was previously reviewed in connection with the Euclid Corridor historic resources evaluation.

During that review the Ohio Preservation Office, the FTA and Gray & Pape all concurred that this property was not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Cleveland State University agreed with that evaluation and so informed the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of that fact on June 6, 2002 and we continue to support that evaluation and continue to believe that this property should not be listed on the National Register. Sincerely, [signature] John J. Boyle, III Special Assistant to the President Cleveland State University State of Ohio County of Cuyahoga The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me by this 21st day of November 2002, by John J. Boyle, III, who affirmed that the above statement is true and accurate.

[signature] Nanci Hopperton, Notary Public, State of Ohio My Commission Expires April 28, 2003 Mailing Address: 2121 Euclid Avenue RT 1201 - Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2214 Campus Location: Rhodes Tower Room 1201 - 1860 East 22nd Street - Cleveland, Ohio (216) 687-3544 - Fax (216) 687-9333 From: 12/04/2002 05:29 #080 P.001/001 RECEIVED 2280 DEC 1 5 2003 Ohio Historic Preservation Office Cleveland Restoration Society Preservation Resource Center of Northeastern Ohio THE SARAH BENEDICT HOUSE Built in 1883 and rehabilitated in 1998 4 December 2002 Ms. Rachael Tooker State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 E. Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211-1030 Dear Ms.

Tooker: The Cleveland Restoration Society strongly endorses the National Register listing of four historic buildings on the campus of Cleveland State University -- Fenn Tower, Wolfe Music Building, Corlett Building and Howe Mansion, scheduled for review this week by the Ohio Historic Sites Preservation Advisory Board. It is the opinion of the Society that each of these buildings individually possesses sufficient integrity and significance for listing. As an advocate for historic buildings throughout northeast Ohio, the Cleveland Restoration Society has long been concerned about the fate of these four buildings, having several times included them on our annual list of endangered landmarks.

Over the years the Society has participated in many discussions regarding the future of these buildings, and we are very encouraged by Cleveland State University's current efforts to incorporate these important resources in their future campus development plans. The Society hopes that the Ohio Historic Sites Preservation Advisory Board will approve these nominations and recommend their submission to the National Park Service as soon as is practical. Sincerely, Julie V. Langan Director of Membership & Community Affairs cc: Robert Keiser BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bruce E. Levey PRESIDENT Dr. Robert Barber Dr. Virginia O. Benson William B. Bohlen Virgil G. Brown, Jr. Gary E. Cull Jim W. DeRieux Patrick S. Eldredge Rev. Bruce T. Goode Nick H. Guarascio Cecelia R. Huffman Thomas A. Jorgensen John J. Kastelic Nancy Kotheimer Richard J. Konisiewicz Howard C. Landa India Pierce Lee John M.

Lewand Jeffrey D. LeWinn Sheila Royer Michele Charles C. Miller August A. Napoli, Jr. Stephen A. Owingshoff Victor Pascucci, Jr. Mark E. Paterson Vincent R. Petrella Tod Sande Jonathan Sandvick Paul J. Velke Stanley W. Wilkerson, Jr. Rep. Ralph J. Veitwyk Thomas E. Walborny Alan Zambie COMMUNITY ADVISORS Joseph M. Mahovlic, Chair Bruce J. Akers Tim A. Calta Kathleen H. Coakley M. Ian Colman Sarah A. DiJicicco Robert D. Grase Sally Griswold Dorothy Krueger William R. Joseph William H. Madar, Jr. Patricia F. McRitchie Gerlen Ewana McCoy Hunter Morrison Kathryn O'Neil Robert W. Anthony M. Pilla Richard M. Pogge Andrea Metes Ramey Kristen M. Rogers Herbert E. Striebinger Carl H. Umlandweber Peter Van Dijk Levi Velarde HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES Judge William A. Burke Dr. Thomas F. Campbell Louise C. Grande Robert E. McGee Nory I. Nin Dr. Masako S. Lwin John B.

Layden* Sarah Benedict Lynch John Schneider Olive Olevsky Tabor Arthur Weeks Kathleen H. Crowther EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sarah Benedict House 3751 Prospect Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115-2705 (216) 426-1000