Nomination for Blossom, Elzabeth B. and Dudley S., Estate Service Compound

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 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 Elizabeth B.and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound other names/site number 2. Location street & number 24449 Cedar Road not for publication city or town Lyndhurst _OH county Cuyahoga 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and Ohio Historic Preservation Office State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: Date of Action entered in the National Register determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register other (explain): comments.) nomination Date state Registration Form National Register See continuation sheet. Signature of certifying official National Register of Historic Places vicinity JAN - 7 of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A).

Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information does not meet the National Register criteria. See continuation sheet for additional This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant In my opinion, the property X Meets 44125 nationally Ohio 2/20/04 Elizabeth B.and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Cuyahoga, Ohio 5. Classification Ownership of Property Check as many boxes as apply) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Number of contributing resources previously listed 6. Function or Use DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures COMMERCE/TRADE/Business, WORK IN PROGRESS 7.

Description Other: Tudor Revival (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) other site roof object structure Brick public-State buildings public-local private Narrative Description public-Federal Noncontributing Total Materials walls Slate Architectural Classification district Historic Functions Name of Property in the National Register Name of related multiple property listing Current Functions County and State (Enter categories from instructions) Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) Sandstone foundation 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number _ Cuyahoga Co., OH The Blossom Estate Service Compound is located adjacent to Cedar Road. It is the only separate, complete unit of the larger estate. The formal plan for the facility places two dwellings and a garage/storage building on three sides of a service yard enclosed on its east side with a brick wall and open gateway (Figures 1 and 2, Plates 1 and 2). A stone wall extends along the southern boundary of the Blossom Estate along Cedar Road (Plate 3). Additional features of the property include a greenhouse located west of the garage/ storage building and landscape elements such as a lilac hedge. A second drive from Community Drive leads to the service compound. A paved parking area has been added to the site immediately east of the service yard.

The South Dwelling, circa 1925 The south dwelling in the service compound is a fully developed design in the Tudor Revival style of the 1920s (Plate 4). In the manner of the Tudor Revival, this dwelling has an irregular form and picturesque massing and is executed in a lively mix of materials. Sandstone forms the foundation and details door and window openings and other features. Blended shades of brick are laid with colored mortar. The timbers of the half-timbered wall surfaces are joined with wood pegs. Slate, in varied colors and graduated in depth and reveal, covers the roof. Wood-framed double-hung sash has leaded muntins. The building is further detailed with its original gutters and leaders and original exterior light fixtures. The main entrance is set in a slightly projecting entrance porch that extends from the east façade.

Wood posts support the roof of a narrow porch along the west side of the house that shelters a kitchen door (Plate 5). This free-standing dwelling encloses the south side of the service yard. The interior of the house is more utilitarian than the exterior and retains its original floor plan. There are two fireplaces with modest wood surrounds and mantel shelves (Plate 6). Enclosed stairs rise to a small upstairs hallway with a coved ceiling. The original built-in exposed on the interior (Plate 7). Alterations to the building are limited to the enclosure of an originally screened porch on the south end with brick, similar to that of the original portion of the building, and pairs of casement sash.

This material, which appears to have been installed during the 1930s, has been set between buttressed stone Description Page 1 cabinets remain in the kitchen.The masonry materials used to enclose the porch are piers at the corners and the walls of the main house. portion of the large property visible from Cedar Road and has always stood apart as a 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 7 Cuyahoga Co., OH The North Dwelling, circa 1925 The north dwelling in the service compound is also a fully developed design in the Tudor Revival style of the 1920s (Plate 8).

This dwelling, similar to but not identical to the south house, has an irregular form and picturesque massing and is executed in a lively mix of materials. Sandstone forms the foundation and details door and window openings and other features. Blended shades of brick are laid with colored mortar. The timbers of the half-timbered wall surfaces are joined with wood pegs. Slate, in varied colors and graduated in depth and reveal, covers the roof. Wood-framed double-hung sash has leaded muntins. The building is further detailed with its original gutters and leaders and original exterior light fixtures. The main entrance is set in a slightly projecting entrance porch that extends from the east façade. This dwelling is connected to the garage/storage building to the west by a covered walkway that joins the house at its rear (south) entrance (Plate 9).

A wood trellis is attached to the wall of the south elevation. Like the other house, the interior of this dwelling is more utilitarian than the exterior and retains its original floor plan. A fireplace has a modest wood surround and mantel shelf (Plate 10). Enclosed stairs rise to a small upstairs hallway with a coved ceiling (Plate 11). The original built-in cabinets remain in the kitchen. A pair of French doors provides access to the enclosed porch. Alterations to the building are limited to the enclosure of an originally open porch on the north end with aluminum framing, sliding doors, and transom windows. This new material has been set between buttressed stone piers at the corners and the walls of the main house and consequently has not destroyed the original fabric of the structure.

Garage/Storage Building, circa 1925 design in the Tudor Revival style of the 1920s, utilizes the same materials of the nearby forms the foundation and details door and window openings and other features. Blended shades of brick are laid with colored mortar. Slate, in varied colors and graduated in depth and reveal, covers the varied roof forms of three sections of the building; a metal cupola and weathervane with a kangaroo figure extends from the tallest roof ridge. Original doors include paired paneled and glazed wood units with long wrought-iron dwellings and has carefully detailed utilitarian features(Plates1,2,9,and 12).Sandstone Page 2 garage, hay mow, stable, work, and living sections. The building, also a fully developed This large building in the Blossom Estate service compound, built circa 1925, includes a 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 7 Page Cuyahoga Co., OH hinges. Windows have wood sash with leaded muntins and those in the west wall of the garage area have industrial steel sash. The long row of vehicular doors in the garage section has replacement, but older, overhead wood doors set between buttressed stone piers. The flat roof of the garage section is edged with a parapet wall of brick and stone. The garage/storage building is connected at its north end to the adjacent dwelling by a covered walkway. The south end of the structure is a stable area and two stalls remain in place adjacent to a tack room and bathroom (Plate 13).

A dog-leg staircase leads to the upper level, a space with a door below an exterior hoist for lifting of hay or other items to this level. Five The north end of the building has built-in storage cupboards and stairs to the upper level. A chimney that rises through this section of the building originally served a furnace that heated the servants quarters on the second story; residential space remains in the upper A historic photograph (Plate 1) indicates that originally the roof above the north end of the building extended to the cupola area; dormers suggest that there were servants' rooms in the upper level. It appears that at a relatively early date, during the 1930s or 1940s, a portion of the upper level was removed and the flat roof and parapet were erected over the garage section.

More recent alterations are limited to the installation of replacement garage doors and two safety-type exterior light fixtures. The Stone Wall, circa 1925 A stone wall extends across the southern boundary of the Blossom Estate along Cedar Road and forms the southern boundary of the service compound. The dry-laid stone wall, approximately five feet in height, extends from a point slightly west of the intersection of Community Drive along the entire Cedar Road frontage of the Blossom estate. Stone pillars and a wood gate mark the intersection of a service drive into the compound and The Greenhouse, circa 1925 and 1947 The greenhouse, located west of the other buildings in the service compound, is separated from the garage/storage building by a turf lane.

The greenhouse, more utilitarian in design than the dwellings and garage/storage building, consists of a two-part brick head house from which two glazed wings extend to form a U-shaped plan (Plate 14). doors in the east wall give access to one large garage space at the center of the building. level of the north end of the building. Cedar Road (Plate 3).The wall is intact and in good condition. 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 7 Cuyahoga Co., OH South of the wing closer to Cedar Road stands a chimney and a flue; north of the other wing is a cold frame. The greenhouse appears to have been constructed in two stages.

The two wings of the greenhouse proper, and the difference in the form and materials of the two-part head house, suggest that the original southern half greenhouse was enlarged circa 1947 and that the existing glazed wing was refurbished with the aluminum framing Blended shades of a lighter-colored brick than used for the other service compound buildings forms bulkhead walls for the greenhouse wings and the walls of the head house. The south portion of the head house has a gabled roof, while the north portion has a flat roof; both sections have a door flanked by windows on the east side. The identical panels. An exterior wood framing system supports slatted shades that can be rolled down from the ridge. Two rooms are in each wing, separated by a glazed wall and door. Both of the west end walls have exterior doors.

This greenhouse is more utilitarian in design than the other buildings in the service compound, and does not appear to be part of the group of buildings designed by Abram Garfield. It was doubled in size and refurbished near the end of the period of significance. The landscape of the service compound was part of a plan for the larger property. was surrounded by a park-like setting defined by larger trees that connected with the wild garden area of the estate on the north. Ornamental trees stood closer to the residences and houses were surrounded with a variety of ornamental plants, no doubt the ornamental vibernum and Euonymus species, and other shrubs used elsewhere on the property.

Vines, probably including wisteria, clematis, and ivy, climbed façade areas of the houses, as well as the intersecting gable face of the garage/storage building and the porch that connected that building to the north dwelling. Vines and bushes also softened the appearance of the stone wall that enclosed the east side of the service yard. Some of this plant material survives though some has been lost due to neglect and consequently the integrity of the landscape is only good. The vines on the garage/storage The Compound Landscape Historic photographs depict the original landscape design and indicate that the compound system at that time. Page 4 greenhouse wings have aluminum framing in an ogee-arched form that holds glass 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.

Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 7 hedge located west of the greenhouse (Plate 15) and a turf lane west of the garage/storage building. The most obvious changes are the paving of the service yard and the addition of The Tudor-revival style dwellings have excellent integrity with alterations limited to the enclosure of the porches. The removal of the second story on part of the garage/storage building has altered the roofline of the building, but otherwise the integrity of the building is very good. These three buildings and the stone wall retain more than sufficient integrity in design, materials, and craftsmanship to document the quality of the architecture of the Blossom Estate.

The greenhouse, doubled in size near the end of the of their location and immediate setting remains good, even after changes have been made to the larger estate property and the feeling and association of the property as a private estate have been reduced Page Integrity Cuyahoga Co., OH period of significance and in a somewhat deteriorated state, is fair to good. The integrity building and dwellings are an obvious loss.Features that survive include a long lilac a paved parking area east of the brick wall that encloses the service yard. Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Cuyahoga, Ohio 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. 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 Period of Significance lack individual distinction. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) A owned by a religious institution or used for religious Significant Person B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) C a birthplace or a grave. Cultural Affiliation D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) Primary Location of Additional Data preliminary determination of individual listing (36 State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested. Other State agency previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register Local government recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey recorded by Historic American Engineering Record 1925-1947 Architecture Bibliography purposes.

Other Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Federal agency Significant Dates Name of repository: Applicable National Register Criteria County and State Abram Garfield (Enter categories from instructions) a significant and distinguishable entity whose components for National Register listing) designated a National Historic Landmark Name of Property Property is: University in prehistory or history. G less than50years of age or achieved significance within (Mark "x in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 Statement of Significance The Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound, a group of three the ideals of Cleveland's large private estate owners. Designed by the office of prominent Cleveland architect, Abram Garfield, the two dwellings and garage/storage building in the compound are exceptional examples of Tudor Revival style estate buildings. A greenhouse, stone wall, and landscape features are additional components of the resource. The service compound has been the public component of the estate, visible behind the stone wall along Cedar Road that identified the property as a private retreat. The Blossom Estate Service Compound is eligible under Criterion C for its exceptional architectural merit as an example of private estate architecture in the Cleveland area.

The buildings in the service compound, as one of the few surviving resources in the Mayfield Country Club Estates development, are a reminder of how thoroughly private estates utilitarian buildings. This property, that well represents the picturesque architecture of the Country House era, has a period of significance that extends from 1925 to 1947. The Blossom Estate in the Mayfield Country Club Estates The Blossom Estate in Lyndhurst, on the east side of Cleveland, was located in one of several areas where the social elite of Cleveland established full-time or weekend homes. The care with which architecture, landscape architecture, and garden design were used in these estates was evident throughout the Blossom property.

As the sole surviving architectural component of the Blossom Estate, the service compound well represents the The Blossom Estate is located in Euclid Township of Cuyahoga County. Southern Euclid Township was rural farmland prior to World War I where German and Italian immigrants raised strawberries and grapes and produced wine. The nature of the area began to change in 1899 when the Cleveland and Eastern Railroad, an interurban line, was extended from Cleveland's Public Square east along Mayfield Road. The Richmond Road stop on the line was 50 minutes from Public Square. A village incorporated in 1917 as Euclidville was renamed in 1920 as Lyndhurst. A water line installed in 1922 and the increasing use of automobiles furthered development in this far-eastern suburb, although the pre-World larger endeavor.

Cuyahoga Co., OH on the main dwelling, and consequently document the importance of fine architecture for Page 1 were designed to create idealized settings. The two dwellings and garage/storage building buildings erected circa 1925 and adjacent features, represents how architecture expressed were designed with care and constructed with the same class of expensive materials used 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number Cuyahoga Co., OH War II population of the village remained under 2,400. Lyndhurst, incorporated as a city in 1951, experienced considerable growth during the post World War II construction boom period (Mayfield Country Club 1986; Van Tassel and Grabowski 1998).

One of the early developments in the area related to the improved transportation was the Mayfield Country Club. The Euclid Club, a facility established in 1900 at the top of Cedar Hill in Cleveland Heights, was relocated east to a 235-acre property on the south side of Mayfield Road, west of Richmond Road. The property was a mixture of farmland, orchards, and dense forest, traversed by Euclid Creek. A Tudor Revival style clubhouse opened in July 1911. Many of Cleveland's leaders in commercial, political, and social circles who had been members of the Euclid Club transferred their memberships to the new facility. They were joined by Chester C. Bolton, Dudley S. Blossom, Cyrus Eaton, Harvey S. Firestone, and Dr.

George Crile, founder of the Cleveland Clinic (Mayfield The area south and east of the Country Club, bordered on the east side by Richmond Road and the south by Cedar Road, was developed as the Mayfield County Club Estates. The project was planned and promoted by prominent landscape architect Warren H. Manning and local real estate developer Frank C. Newcomer. Manning and Newcomer envisioned the area developed as a community of individual estates linked to a central recreation reserve, the golf course. A 1918 prospectus for the project emphasized how the natural beauty of the area and the cooperation of estate owners would create a community where "unobtrusive refinement and good taste" would be evident.

Manning mandated architecture that expressed the personality and desires of each owner, rather than being a Manning's plan for the development laid out the major roads and lots and also suggested how residences could be sited on each property (Figure 3). The prospectus identified the Summit," that reinforced the ideals of the developers. The north end of the property included a section with much smaller home sites. The location of the project at the edge of the established suburbs of Cleveland made it possible for the few estates developed there to be full-time, rather than weekend, residences. Country Club 1986). Page 2 that the properties would be developed with a spirit of co-operation and an eye to buildings blending into, rather than dominating, the landscape. He encouraged "servile acceptance of the fugitive house style of a period" (Manning 1918:preface). 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number Cuyahoga Co., OH Two houses had been erected in the development by 1918, the homes of Chester Bolton and the Henry Sherman. Photographs of these homes were included in the prospectus as examples of the architectural distinction that was intended for the Mayfield Country Club Estates. Chester and Frances Payne Bolton's large Colonial Revival style home, "Franchester Place" (1917, Prentice Sanger, architect; listed on the NRHP) suggested ties to the American past. The property of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Sherman featured a picturesque English style home (1915), formal and informal gardens, a sheep pasture, and a wild garden (Bauschard 1984; Manning 1918).

Otto Miller purchased the "Tall Woods" site north of the Blossom Estate, and Gardner Abbott acquired "The Flower Field" northeast of the Blossom property. Bascom Little purchased "The West Slope" site. However, these properties were not developed by their original owners. The southern portion of the Mayfield Country Club Estates consisted of the Blossom, Bolton, and Sherman estates and the smaller properties of M. Roslyn Weir and Joseph C. Little near Richmond Road (G. M. Hopkins & Company 1942 [1932]). The Hawken School was established on a site in the northern part of the Mayfield Country Club Estates with financial assistance from Frances Payne Bolton. in the Mayfield Country Club Estates. The Blossoms apparently selected their lots as the project was being developed in 1917 although their purchase was recorded with Cuyahoga County in 1922.

The estate consisted of three elements that defined its physical character: a large English Tudor Revival-style house (Plate 16, no longer standing), a (partially intact) designed to have several distinct garden, recreational, and service areas plan the property as they began to develop their 22-acre estate in 1918. Although Manning had suggested sites for homes in the overall plan for the Mayfield County Club ' In 2002 the Blossom Estate Designed Landscape was determined eligible for listing in the NRHP under Criterion A for its representation of the development of country estates during the early twentieth century and also under Criterion C for its artistic merit and as the work of two known landscape architects, Warren H. Manning and V. Ethelwyn Harrison. The designed landscape is not Page part of this nomination.

group of Tudor Revival-style service buildings near Cedar Road, and an estate landscape Elizabeth B.and Dudley S.Blossom engaged landscape architect Warren H.Manning to (Gibbs and Bradley 2001). Dudley S.and Elizabeth B.Blossom acquired two lots,"The Forest"and"The Glades," 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 Page Estates, the location ultimately chosen for the Blossom house was south of the site depicted in that plan (Figures 4 and 5). Manning probably worked with the Blossoms to position both the house and service compound, as well as to develop a general plan for the estate landscape.

Prominent local architect Abram Garfield designed an English Tudor Revival style house, erected in 1919-1920 in a dramatic location at the edge of a ravine (Distad 1987). By circa 1925, landscape architect V. Ethelwyn Harrison had developed gardens on the estate and selected material for the house and service compound plantings. The service compound located just north of Cedar Road, also in the Tudor Revival style, was erected soon after the main house, circa 1925. Warren Manning's landscape plan for the Blossom property, no doubt, located the service compound on the southern portion of the estate near Cedar Road and may have included the idea of marking the property boundary with a stone wall. In this visible location, the compound was separate from the main house and also in a position to serve as the visible, more public component of the private estate.

Without plans of any of the designers involved with the property, it is compound plan and the positioning of buildings around a central courtyard. It is presumed that Abram Garfield designed the buildings in the compound because of the other work he undertook for the Blossom family. The two dwellings housed the estate. A greenhouse may have been an addition to the initial plan, as its location west of the main group of buildings suggests. It is more utilitarian in design than the other buildings in the service compound and was the main feature in a group of horticultural Garfield's buildings for the service compound complemented the general site planning but also demonstrate how he solved the design problem. Because the compound was far from the house, it was designed to stand alone as a pleasing composition and one with architectural presence.

The buildings do not replicate the large scale features of the stone and half-timbered main house. Brick and half-timbering predominate on the dwellings in the service compound that are much smaller in scale. Tudor Revival styling and similar features and materials provided a mental link between the service compound to the main residence that were not located within sight of each other. Garfield capitalized on the elements. grounds superintendent and the housekeeper.The garage/storage building accommodated Cuyahoga Co., OH the family's automobiles, a horse or two, and equipment required for the care of the impossible to assign responsibility for the general concept of the formal service 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 public location of the service compound. The upper walls and distinctive slate roofs of the compound buildings are visible above the stone wall that edges the property along Cedar Road. This combination of visibility yet separateness behind the stone wall reflected the estate's location within a community but also its status as a private retreat. Garfield's blending of a formal plan with picturesque buildings that used the finest materials and the visible location of the service compound made it a distinctive entrance feature for the Blossom Estate and the larger Mayfield Country Club Estates community. The Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate was located in one of the areas close enough to Cleveland that it could serve as a primary residence and give Dudley S. Blossom easy access to the golf course.

This choice of location reflected the Blossom family relationships and role in the community. Elizabeth B. Blossom (1881-1970) was a daughter of Cleveland banker-industrialist Charles W. and Mary Perry Payne Bingham. In 1910 she married Dudley S. Blossom; the couple had two children, Dudley S. Blossom, Jr. and Mary (Molly) Gale Lee. After inheriting some of the Payne family Standard Oil fortune in the 1910s, both Elizabeth and her sister, Frances Payne Bolton, built residences in the Mayfield Country Club Estates. Mrs. Blossom supported the musical arts along with her husband and was instrumental in the relocation of Laurel School to Shaker Heights and the development of a new campus there. She made many anonymous contributions to fund-raising efforts. Mrs. Blossom also took a keen interest in the development of the estate landscape and the surrounding area, as described below. Dudley S.

Blossom (1879-1938) was a Cleveland businessman and philanthropist who became a revered civic leader for his work as the director of the city's welfare programs during the 1920s. Blossom, a graduate of Yale, was involved with several of the prominent business firms in Cleveland as an officer or director. For much of the time that Blossom lived at the Lyndhurst estate, he served as the Cleveland city welfare director (from 1919-1921 and from 1924-1932). Blossom was a progressive innovator, gaining national attention for city human services projects, including City Hospital and Blossom Hill Home. He was also a leader of and substantial contributor to the Community Fund.

Blossom indulged his love of music by raising funds to match the Severance donation that enabled the construction of Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra, and served as the president of the Musical Arts Association (Van Tassel and Grabowski 1998). Cuyahoga Co., OH Page 5 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number After the death of her husband in 1938, Elizabeth B. Blossom demolished the Garfield- designed house circa 1940 because she considered it too drafty and dark. She built a Georgian Revival style house on the site of the first house, which she occupied until the late 1940s when she moved to a house on Tudor Drive in Cleveland Heights. The period during which Elizabeth B.

Blossom occupied the estate constitutes the period of primary significance for the Blossom Estate Service Compound. That time extends from its construction circa 1925 to 1947-1948. Dudley S. Blossom, Jr. and his wife, Emily Elkins Blossom, moved to the estate. This second generation to occupy the property added to the estate gardens. The service compound remained an important component of the estate management. Mrs. Emily Blossom was an orchid enthusiast and the greenhouse may have been expanded to accommodate this interest during the late 1940s. After Dudley S. Blossom, Jr.'s death in 1961, Emily Elkins Blossom continued to live on the property and the estate became hers upon the death of Elizabeth B. Blossom in 1970. Emily Blossom lived on the property until her death in 1991. TRW, Inc.

acquired the Bolton estate adjacent to the Blossom property as the site for a headquarters building erected between 1982 and 1985. TRW later acquired additional property to the south, including the Blossom Estate; TRW demolished the second Blossom house in 1993 (Dudley S. Blossom, personal communication 2001). Most of the estate gardens, allowed to deteriorate during the 1990s, were demolished in conjunction with the construction of a retail complex in 2003. The Woods" in the ravine north of the service compound, was designed to appear as a natural wooded area visible from the main house; it remains intact and is under a conservation easement. Most of the rock garden also remains. These areas of the designed landscape are not included in this nomination.

The Designers of the Blossom Estate Architect Abram Garfield's plans for the Blossom Estate service compound buildings were part of a larger plan for the Blossom property. His work reflected Warren H. Manning's vision for the property and larger development, as well as the tastes of Elizabeth B. Blossom took an active role in the development of the family's estate. The extent of her involvement can be inferred from her other projects. Mrs. Blossom used architecture and landscape architecture to create a gracious setting for her property. She purchased a parcel of poor farmland on the south side of Cedar Road and oversaw the Page Cuyahoga Co., OH 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 Page 7 Cuyahoga Co., OH development of a residential subdivision on this property during the 1930s. This area provided homes for families with children who would form a community for her daughter's family living in the subdivision. This project was designed by Mrs. Blossom's landscape architect for her own estate, V. Ethelwyn Harrison. Just to the east of the subdivision, Elizabeth Blossom oversaw the construction of "The Hangar" to provide recreational facilities for the nearby community? Designed by architect Abram Garfield in the Art Deco style, the facility built in 1930 housed a clay tennis court, swimming pool, lounge, and dressing rooms (Clarke 1985; Distad 1987). Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom worked with three designers as they developed their estate. As noted above, the project began with landscape architect Warren H.

Manning's site planning. Manning (1860-1938) was one of the leaders of the American Landscape Architecture movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A former employee of Frederick Law Olmsted, he established his own firm in 1896. He worked on many private and public projects throughout the eastern and midwestern states. Valley, an area of country estates east of the city. The landscape architect managed his large practice by overseeing the development of an overall plan and often having S. Blossom in 1918. Unfortunately, neither the Manning archives at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, nor the Manning collection at Iowa State University, hold project files or plans that document the Blossom project. The architects in Cleveland who specialized in the design of large estates included Abram Garfield, the designer of the buildings for the Blossom Estate.

The Abram Garfield Blossom Estate but his diaries for the mid-1920s indicate that he worked for the Blossoms on small projects for the estate at that time. Abram Garfield (1872-1958), son of President James Garfield, settled in Cleveland in 1897 after being educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His architectural work included the design of many large residences for prominent Clevelanders who lived in the Wade Park district of Cleveland, the Ambler Heights section of Cleveland Heights, and the new suburb of Shaker Heights during the first decades of the twentieth century 2 Both the Elizabeth B.

Blossom Subdivision and The Hangar have been listed on the NRHP specialists design specific components of projects.Manning's client list includes Dudley papers at the Western Reserve Historical Society do not include drawings for the Manning's list of projects includes more than 60 in greater Cleveland and Hunting 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 Page - (Johannesen 1979). Garfield became one of a small group of "society architects" whose wealthy clients were his social peers. Garfield designed the Blossom Estate house in 1919 (Distad 1987). Rudolph Stanley-Brown began to work in Garfield's office by 1924. design work for the Blossoms, including the service compound buildings.

Garfield's later estate projects included a home for the Sullivan Folly Farm estate in Hunting Valley in the late 1930s (Tittle and Gottlieb 1999). Garfield often collaborated with V. Ethelwyn Harrison and their joint projects included the Blossom Estate and a project at Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia. There Garfield and Harrison oversaw improvements to the house and grounds of Cleveland native Kate Hanna Ireland (Mrs. Perry William) Harvey during the period from 1927 to 1936 (Thomas 1989). Garfield's ties to the elite in Cleveland led to other types of commissions as well. Garfield designed two buildings on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Leonard Hall, built in 1922, was designed by Garfield and financed by Samuel Mather. Garfield also designed Samuel Mather Hall, a building to house the science department.

This building, completed in 1926, was financed by Kenyon trustee Henry G. Dalton and named for his friend and business partner in the Cleveland firm of Pickands, Mather, and Company. Garfield also undertook important work as a city planner. He was a member of the Group Plan committee charged with establishing a City Beautiful setting in downtown Cleveland. During the 1920s, he became interested in urban renewal problems and public housing. In 1937 Garfield became president of the Regional Association of Cleveland As he often did, Warren H. Manning withdrew from the Blossom Estate project after the garden planning. V. Ethelwyn Harrison (1892-1983) was employed by Manning in 1917 after she graduated from the University of Michigan to oversee his many projects in the Cleveland area. Ms.

Harrison was active as a landscape architect in the greater Cleveland area from that time to the mid-1940s. Harrison became a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1930, no doubt using her Cleveland work to apply for Blossom, as noted above and resided in a dwelling in the subdivision established just south of the Blossom estate developed by Elizabeth B. Blossom. It is likely that Harrison Cuyahoga Co., OH Pebble Hill Plantation has been listed in the NRHP initial layout was set and recommended V. Ethelwyn Harrison to carry on the work of and worked to promote regional planning (Johannesen 1979). membership (Hitchings 1931). Harrison completed several projects with Elizabeth B. 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number _ Cuyahoga Co., OH selected the plantings for the service compound area and may have had a role in the design of the greenhouse. Estate Building in the Cleveland Area, 1900-1940 The estate development project undertaken by Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom with such zeal was part of a larger trend. The weekend and residential estate building in the far-eastern suburbs of Cleveland reflected the broader pattern of American property development. During the period that historians have come to think of as the "Country House Era," from 1890 to 1929, thousands of estates with grand-scale residential landscapes were created by wealthy Americans capable of creating idealized domestic environments and sustaining a country home (Karson 1995).

The area that now serves as the eastern suburbs of Cleveland was close enough to the city center that businessmen and civic leaders could have the best of both worlds. The earliest estates of this type in the "heights" area included John D. Rockefeller's summer home, Forest Hill (circa 1878), built in what is now Forest Hill Park on the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights border. John L. Severance, for whom Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra is named, had a 161-acre estate in Cleveland Heights (Van Tassel and Grabowski 1998). Further east, William Telling, head of a modern dairy operation, established an estate on his family's homestead on Mayfield Road in South Euclid, not far from the Mayfield Country Club, in 1928. The large French chateau-style home was designed by Cleveland architect John Sherwood Kelly (Kneale 1986).

Salmon Halle's home in Shaker Heights, in the "Country Club district," had an estate-like setting due to adjacent parkland but was within commuting distance of the family's department store in downtown Cleveland. Other areas popular with wealthy Clevelanders for a second home included the lakeside community of Bratenahl, which had been the location of summer cottages for Cleveland's wealthy families. Soon after Bratenahl was incorporated as a village in 1903, prominent families began to build estates on the lakefront (Van Tassel and Grabowski 1998). These included Shoreby, the home of Samuel Mather, and Gwinn, the estate developed by William Mather in 1907, which had a site plan and gardens designed by landscape architect Warren H. Manning and garden features designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman, the specialist in flower garden design.

Gwinn acquired a national reputation as an influential example in the American country house and landscape movement (Karson 1995). Page 9 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number8 For larger properties, Clevelanders turned to former farmland in the Chagrin River valley community of Hunting Valley. Beginning during the very first years of the twentieth century, would-be "gentlemen farmers" were attracted to the Chagrin River valley where they could establish estates and pursue riding and hunting on land being vacated by farmers moving to nearby communities.

Prominent Clevelander Jeptha Homer Wade II established "Valley Ridge Farm" and was assisted in its development by landscape architect Warren H. Manning. Real estate developer Frank C. Newcomer also played a role in the development of Hunting Valley estates. Well-connected to the Cleveland elite, Newcomer was an avid rider and a founding member of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club in 1908. His love for the Chagrin River valley extended to purchasing tracts of land, improving them, and finding buyers who would be good stewards of the properties (Tittle and Gottlieb 1999). Most of these projects consisted of a large, picturesque home in one of the historic revival styles and landscapes of the "natural," or even rustic type.

The alternative was a more formal house and grounds derived from classical architectural traditions and a more provided landscapes of lawns, gardens, and woodlands in which the role of the gardener was meant to be invisible. Estate owners undertook what has been called "improving on nature" (Tittle and Gottlieb 1999:75) as they directed the work of architects, landscape architects, stone masons, garden designers, and the workmen who realized plans. The ideal was to situate picturesque buildings in landscapes that appeared to be untouched rural serenity. The natural style, which made use of local and native plants, offered both a connection to nature and the romantic, unplanned sense of the picturesque. The aspirations of estate builders in Cleveland often produced notable examples of the Country House movement.

The Bolton and Blossom properties in the Mayfield County Club Estates development had all components found on other large estates in the Cleveland area. Indeed, the including wild garden areas, a rock garden, specimen trees, formal perennial gardens, and a pleached hawthorn allée, as well as a greenhouse. It also had a designed service compound complete with picturesque buildings and landscape elements that, due to its location along Cedar Road, served as the most visible component of the private estate. Page Cuyahoga Co., OH Blossom Estate had many of the most popular elements of estate designed landscapes, geometric, European garden style (Karson 1995). The American, or "natural," style 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number _ Cuyahoga Co., OH Picturesque architecture was an important component of the estate setting. Some estate owners restored and enlarged old farmhouses as residences, while others oversaw the construction of homes in the picturesque revival styles of the early twentieth century. There was a strong strand of Anglophilia evident in the design of new properties, and the Tudor Revival and cottage styles were popular. The interest in designed environments extended to service and farm buildings as well. Among the more distinctive service areas was the "farm group" on the Van Sweringen Hunting Valley estate, Daisy Hill. The stables and a paddock were designed by architect Philip Small to resemble a medieval European village, complete with a moat (Tittle and Gottlieb 1999).

The extension of the Tudor Revival styling of the main Blossom residence to the buildings of the service compound on their estate was another example of this approach. The use of expensive materials identical to those utilized on main residences, for instance the brick and slate utilized for the Blossom Estate Service Compound buildings, attest to the importance attached to even the utilitarian components of Country House properties. The Blossom Estate Service Compound is one of the few surviving resources of the Mayfield Country Club Estates, one of several Country House areas in Cleveland, where a few of the estates in the southern portion of the large tract were developed during the early twentieth century. The Bolton House survives, but all of its outbuildings and most of its designed landscape were demolished in conjunction with the redevelopment of the property by TRW.

A distinctive walled garden from the Sherman Estate has been incorporated into the landscape of the TRW headquarters building. The large, gracious dwelling of the Bolton Estate, a picturesque Tudor Revival service compound on the Blossom Estate, and a few small portions of the Bolton, Blossom, and Sherman Estate designed landscapes are all that remain of an enclave of prominent Clevelanders, the Mayfield Country Club Estates. The owners of country estates on the outskirts of Cleveland brought the aesthetics of the Country House era to private estates that were close enough to the city to serve as full- time residences. The designed features of the estates extended beyond main dwellings to include barns, servants' quarters, service buildings, and small landscape features.

The service compound of the Blossom Estate is a reminder of a time when the elite fashioned idealized landscapes for their pleasure. They utilized architecture and landscape architecture to both indulge their preferences for picturesque and fully-designed Summary Page this type of property development was popular among the wealthy.As noted above, only 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number 8 Cuyahoga Co., OH residential settings and to demonstrate their good taste and appreciation of the construction arts, as well as having the wealth to construct and maintain such properties.

The full architectural expression and attention to detail in the architecture, site plan, stone wall and small landscape elements make the Blossom Estate Service Compound a representative example of the distinguished private estate design realized in the Cleveland area. The Blossom Estate Service Compound is a resource that well represents the quality of the properties in the Mayfield Country Club Estates development in Lyndhurst. Though not originally the showplace of the Blossom Estate, the service compound was always a visible component of the property and represents the fine architecture and designed landscape that originally extended throughout the estate. The Blossom Estate Service Compound is evidence of gracious estate living in the Cleveland area and links this property to the Country House movement in the United States. Page 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Section number _ Page _ 1 Bauschard, R. B. 1984 Bolton, Chester and Frances, House (Franchester Place) National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Ms. on file, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Clarke, R. G. 1985 The Hangar National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Ms. on file, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus. 1987 Blossom, Elizabeth B., Subdivision Historic District National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Ms. on file, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus. Gibbs, K. and B. H. Bradley 2001 Phase / Literature Review and Cultural Resources Survey for the Proposed Legacy Village Development in the City of Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. ASC Group, Columbus.

Submitted to First Interstate Development Company, Beachwood, Ohio. Copies on file at the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, G. M. Hopkins & Company 1927 Plat Books of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, vol. 5. G. M. Hopkins, Philadelphia. Hitchings, R. H 1931 Landscaping has many Angles. The Bystander (August 1931):18-19. Johannesen, E. 1979 Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976. The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. Columbus. Bibliography Cuyahoga Co., OH Estate Service Compound Distad, R. C. 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Section number Karson, R. 1995 The Muses of Gwinn. Sagapress, Sagaponack, New York. Kneale, R. 1986 A Man & His Mansion. Friends of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library, South Manning, W. H.

1918 A Description of Estates on the Community Lands about the Mayfield Country Club as Allotted by Frank C. Newcomer, Cleveland, Ohio. W. H. Manning, North Billerica, Massachusetts. 1986 The Mayfield Country Club: 75th Anniversary 1911-1986. Mayfield Country Club, Lyndhurst, Ohio. 1989 Pebble Hill Plantation National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Ms. on file, Georgia Historic Preservation Office, Atlanta. Tittle, D., and Gottlieb. M 1999 Hunting Valley, A History. Hunting Valley Historical Society, Inc., Cleveland. Van Tassel, D. D., and J. J. Grabowski (editors) 1998 The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University and CONTINUATION SHEET Thomas, K. H. Cuyahoga Co., OH Euclid, Ohio. Mayfield Country Club Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland. Page 2 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Cuyahoga, Ohio 10.

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Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing to the Chief,Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Beachwood 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 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound Cuyahoga Co., OH Verbal Boundary Description Beginning at a point on the northwest corner of the intersection of Community Drive and Cedar Road, the boundary extends along the curving western edge of Community Drive for approximately 173 feet.

The boundary then extends northwesterly for approximately 136 feet, then westerly for 115 feet to the edge of a ravine; it then extends south for approximately 18 feet and then extends west for approximately 73 feet. The boundary then extends south for approximately 221 feet on a line 10 feet west of the lilac hedge to a point approximately 10 feet north of the stone wall. The boundary then extends west feet to the north edge of Cedar Road, the boundary extends approximately 423 feet along Cedar Road to the starting point. This boundary is shown in Figure 1. Boundary Justification The boundary of the Blossom Estate Service Compound includes the three main buildings in the compound, the greenhouse, the stone wall, and additional elements. The stone wall along Cedar Road serves as the southern boundary of the compound area and extends west to the edge of the estate property.

The lilac hedge encloses the compound grounds on the west. The edge of a ravine on the north side of the compound and the edge of the dwelling yard is the northern boundary. Community Drive and the edge of the more open park like area on the east side of the compound comprise an eastern boundary. points of access to the service compound approximately170feet to edge of the property.After extending south approximately15 The area included in the boundary includes all significant built resources and the historic Section number _ Page 1 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Estate Service Compound Cuyahoga Co., OH Photograph Identification The photographs of this property are a combination of views taken by Betsy Bradley in additional views taken by Rae Norris Sprague in March 2003.

The 2003 photographs depict the property in an interim state during a time when stone walls and other materials from the larger property are being temporarily stored on the grounds of the service compound. The photographs are keyed to the map in Figure 6. The negatives for both sets of photographs are retained by: 4620 Indianola Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43214 Architecture Photograph Collection, P96, Dudley S. Blossom home, Box 1, Folder 3, July 1927, Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library) Plate/Photo No., description of view 2. Service compound, facing west. Bradley, 4/2001 3. Stone wall along Cedar Road, facing southeast. 8. North dwelling, facing northwest Sprague, 3/2003 6. South dwelling, middle room, facing west . 7. South dwelling, enclosed porch, facing south. 9. North dwelling and garage/storage building, facing south 10. North dwelling, fireplace, facing west 11.

North dwelling, staircase, facing west 12. Garage/storage building, west side of south end, 13. Garage/storage building stalls in south end, facing southwest 14. Greenhouse, facing northwest 15. Lilac hedge, facing northeast Plate 16. Historic Photograph of the original Blossom Estate House demolished circa 1940 (Source: Mattie Edwards Hewitt Architecture Photograph Collection, P96, Dudley S. Blossom home, Box 1, Folder 3, July 1927, Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library) Photographer/date facing northeast ASC Group, Inc., Plate 1. Historic Photograph of Service Compound (Source:Mattie Edwards Hewitt NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom April 2001 for the initial study of the larger property (Gibbs and Bradley 2001) and NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.

10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Estate Service Compound Figure 1. Map showing boundary of the Blossom Estate Service Compound and Figure 2. Blossom Estate Service Compound partial site plan. Figure 3. The Warren H. Manning plan for the Mayfield Country Club Estates. Figure 4. Portion of the Warren H. Manning plan for the Mayfield Country Club Estates showing the locations of the Blossom Estate House and Service Compound. Figure 5. Map showing the Blossom Estate, 1927. Figure 6. Map showing the location of photographs of the Blossom Estate Service Compound. Resources. Figure list Cuyahoga Co., OH North Dwelling Cold Frame and Posts Blossom Estate Service Compound Boundary 150 feet Figure 1.Map showing boundary of The Blossom Estate Service Compound and Resources. Elizabeth B. and Dudley S.

Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio December 2003 100 Garage/Storage Service SCALE Building North Area Parking Greenhouse Paved Stone Wall Cedar Road Lilac Hedge Turf Lane Cedar Road Figure 2. Blossom Estate Service Compound partial site plan. Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio December 2003 Garage/Storage Greenhouse Paved Yard North Dwelling Cold Frame Building COMMUNITY LANDS MAYFIELD' COUNTRY CLUB FRANK C.NEWCOMER Figure 3. The Warren H. Manning plan for the Mayfield Country Club Estates. Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio December 2003 AS ALLOTTED BY C BOLTON ABOUT THE 150 feet Map source: Manning, 1918. Figure 4. Portion of the Warren H. Manning plan for The Mayfield Country Club Estates showing the locations of the Blossom Estate House and Service Compound. Elizabeth B.

and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio December 2003 100 North SCALE Blossom Estate Boundary Cedar Road DS BLOS3OM Compound Location of Service 7932 a. Blossom Estate Boundary 150 feet -Cedar Road 1.93 Figure 5. Map showing the Blossom Estate, 1927. Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio December 2003 100 SCALE Florence Blossom Service Compound North Blossom House Map source: Hopkins, 1927, 0 December 2003 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Turf Lane Blossom Estate Service Compound Boundary Garage/Storage Service Greenhouse Building Parking SCALE Area Paved Stone Wall North Dwelling Cedar Road Lilac Hedge Cold Frame and Posts Community Drive 100 feet Figure 6. Map showing the location of photographs of the Blossom Estate Service Compound.

Photograph Location and Direction December 2003 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Society Archives/Library). Plate 1.Historic Photograph of Service Compound (Source: Mattie Edwards Hewitt Architecture UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: 2/20/04DATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: National Register If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE REJECT RETURN 2/11/04 DISCIPLINE 1/07/04 REVIEWER MULTIPLE OTHER: RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COMMENT WAIVER:N DATE RECEIVED: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs. NAME: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Bntered in the Elzabeth B.

and Dudley S., Estate Service Compound REASONS FOR REVIEW: N SLR DRAFT: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR I/N PROPERTY NATIONAL: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: Cayahiga County OHio Elicabeth B. & Dudleys. Cuychoga County Ohio Cuyahoga County, ONIO #4 Cugahoga County, Ohio Elizabeth Ba Dudlays. Blosson EstAte Service Componnd Cuyahga County ONio #1l Blossom Estate Seerice Compound Blossom Estate Serrice Coapound December 2003 Elizabeth B. and Dudley S. Blossom Estate Service Compound, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Plate 16. Historic photograph of the original Blossom Estate House demolished circa 1940 located 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES Secondary highway; EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO 1994 OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO.