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Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for its significance as one of Cleveland's major teaching hospitals, which was built as a "modern" hospital and funded largely through the philanthropic efforts of several prominent Cleveland residents; and under Criterion C as an excellent example of a large-scale, early 20th century institutional structure in the Georgian Revival style, the defining style of the Shaker Heights neighborhood, immediately to the east. In addition, it is one of the major surviving works of prominent Cleveland architects Hubbel & Benes. St. Luke's Hospital was a direct descendent of Cleveland General Hospital, which was founded in 1894. The nominated property was the third and final location for the institution, which closed in 1999. The first hospital was located at 274 Woodland Avenue.
Just over a decade later, in 1905, Cleveland General Hospital faced physicians and staff to save the hospital. Funding was secured from area churches and the name was changed in 1906 to St. Luke's Hospital Association of Cleveland of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The hospital 1990s. In 1908 the hospital moved from 274 Woodland Avenue to 6606 Carnegie Avenue, where it continued to operate until the present building was completed in 1927. St. Luke's Hospital was built in stages (1927-1973) to accommodate enormous population growth in Cleveland; the growth of the School of Nursing; and the expansion of medical specialties - all characteristic of the field of wing and Prentiss Auditorium, 1929) were designed by Hubbell & Benes, an influential Cleveland architectural the city of Cleveland, approximately one mile from Shaker Square.
The commercial area of Shaker Square was developed adjacent to a rail transit line and also designed in the Georgian Revival style, as were many of the undergoing development during the first three decades of the 20th century. "It was 1894. In Cleveland this was a year of pride and progress; poverty, pollution, disease; dissention; compassion and dreams of better days.... Nearing its hundredth birthday, to be celebrated in 1896, refineries, and to its teeming population, which had tripled in two decades and passed 360,000... So in the Gay Nineties, Cleveland saw itself as a center of transportation, industry, power, education, culture and polluted its land, water, air and food, bringing sickness and death to its people....
For decades children Background Information CONTINUATION SHEET continued to grow, expand and innovate to meet the health needs of Cleveland's growing population until the elegance...In an important sense Cleveland had achieved status....but from its beginning Cleveland had financial difficulties.By 1906,Methodistsin Cleveland developed a plan tojoin with Cleveland General's St. Luke's Hospital imposing homes in Shaker Heights (a separate suburban community) which was also located nearby and firm,and are the most architecturally distinctive portions of the building. St.Luke's Hospital was built within medicine, beginning in the early 20" century. The original building (1927) and the first major addition (the east United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET St.
Luke's Hospital Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio It was against this backdrop that Cleveland General Hospital and its School of Nursing were founded. The College Building and Hospital Association incorporated on January 30, 1894 "to erect and maintain a college building and hospital in connection with a college (then Wooster University) and to do all things necessarily connected therewith for the benefit of such college and hospital..." (Roberston p. 10) the urging of several of the city's women activists she began a nursing school in association with the hospital. Within a few years of the founding of Cleveland General, the Wooster University medical faculty moved to Ohio Wesleyan University, a Methodist institution, in Delaware, Ohio. The first decade of the history of Cleveland General Hospital was precarious.
By 1905, the hospital was in financial trouble, but rescue came in 1906 in the form of the St. Luke's Hospital Association of Cleveland of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Money was raised from Methodist and other organizations throughout northeastern Ohio to purchase and take over operation of the troubled Cleveland General Hospital in 1906. As St. Luke's, its purpose was amended to "conduct a general hospital and school of nursing." (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History p. 859) on Carnegie Avenue, near East 66" Street. The hospital was expanded to 180 beds and the Cleveland Maternity Dispensary was added in 1910. (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History p. 859) Cleveland's population was growing rapidly during the first decades of the 20** century - more than tripling in considered were both expansion at the existing site and the purchase of an entirely new hospital site.
Heights and Shaker Heights (both early suburban communities)." (Roberston, p. 128) However, the city of Cleveland needed this land for expansion of the Fairmont Reservoir and later purchased the land from the hospital. St. Luke's found another location, but it was also sought for the Rainbow School, a school for disabled we took the Van Sweringen tract at Shaker Boulevard and East 116" Street, which we had wanted all along but felt we couldn't afford. We called on the Van Sweringen brothers and explained that we wanted as much land as they could give us for the sum we had set aside for real estate. After several weeks of negotiations they made us the startling and generous offer of the entire tract (16.5 acres) for the price ($250,000) we had set. And let me add that they made an outright gift of more actual land value than we paid for.... This was in 1923.
Right then we knew our dream of a greater St. Luke's would come true...." (Robertson p. 128). along Shaker Boulevard was a benefit to their business interests, as well. The Shaker Heights Rapid Transit line was completed in 1920 and connected a newly developing suburban area with downtown Cleveland. The new By 1906, the hospital was outgrowing its original 75-bed facility located at 274Woodland Avenue, near East Although the Van Sweringens were very generous in their sale of land to St. Luke's Hospital, the new location care.St.Luke's responded by considering expansion plans as early as the mid 1910s.Among the options they The board decided to purchase property"... located on high ground near the city's borders with Cleveland Section number8Page Page 20th Street in Cleveland, and in 1908 it moved to a larger, 120-bed facility, in the former Van Gorder residence children.
Francis Prentiss, president of the hospital board stated "... We seem to be pursued by the city.... then United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET St. Luke's Hospital Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio area along the transit line and approximately one mile from St. Luke's Hospital. the new hospital. Elizabeth Severance Allen Prentiss was the daughter of a wealthy and prominent Cleveland family; the widow of Dr. Dudley Allen, one of the nation's leading surgeons and a distinguished medical educator; and the wife of Francis Fleury Prentiss, a successful businessman and president of the board of St. Luke's. She offered $2,000,000 in memory of her late husband. The terms of her gift required St.
Luke's to raise an additional $1,000,000 by the end of 1924, with none of the funds coming from the sale of other while changing the name of St. Luke's Hospital. The matter was resolved while Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss were in Europe on an extended vacation. One of the board members traveled to Italy to meet with them in person. Mrs. façade under the name of St. Luke's Hospital. By 1923, St. Luke's Hospital was working at capacity with 54% of the patients as charity cases, 24% able to hospital treated 10,500 patients with no discrimination in care based on religion, nationality or race. Mrs. Prentiss. Donations came from many of Cleveland's most prominent citizens, including the Severance, Van Sweringen and Mather families, as well as $300,000 raised from Methodist churches in northeast Ohio.
The firm of Hubbel & Benes was selected to design the new building, and a construction contract for $2,500,000 was signed in June, 1926. The new hospital was inspected on December 5, 1927 with a final cost in excess of $3,000,000. It was a state-of-the-art medical facility with a 500-bed capacity, 14 operating rooms and on-site housing for 120 nurses. It was also made an important architectural statement through its size, scale and prominent location along Shaker Boulevard. "The main entrance on Shaker Boulevard was imposing. It led through a portico with lonic columns 32 feet high into a central pavilion, a seven-story structure of cloister brick and limestone surmounted by a white clock tower. To the east and west were loggias with Greek columns similar to those at the main entrance. This pavilion was the part of the hospital dedicated to Dr. Allen." (Robertson p.
135) A construction company leaflet described some of the interesting facts about the building, its scale and its modern features. It stated that 1,898,500 bricks and 33,000 cubic feet of limestone for trim were required for construction, and the building covered 4.5 acres, with nearly one mile of corridors. It also included information decide to live in nearby Shaker Heights. Later, the Van Sweringens developed Shaker Square as a commercial Page - Immediately after the purchase of the property, a benefactor stepped forward with a generous offer to help fund property. She also requested that the name of the hospital be changed to the Dudley P. Allen Memorial Hospital Prentiss amended her agreement to name the main building after her husband. Dr. Allen's name appears on the pay for a portion of their care and 22% able to pay in full for the care they received.
That same year, the hospital would be located along the transit line and it was likely that doctors and other hospital staff might Section number United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio dumbwaiters and other modern conveniences. Francis Prentiss, who became president of the board when St. Luke's Hospital was founded in 1906, was still serving as president when the new hospital was dedicated 21 years later. The newly constructed St. Luke's Hospital was indicative of the enormous change that was taking place in the exiled human wreckage into awesome citadels of science and bureaucratic order, they acquired a new moral identity, as well as new purposes and patients of higher status... What drove this transformation was not simply the advance of science...
but the demands and example of an industrializing capitalist society, which brought large numbers of people into urban centers, detached them from traditions of self-sufficiency and St. Luke's Hospital provided a major source of healthcare for the region and Cleveland welcomed this new building. "Public recognition that the hospital was in the forefront of progress in Cleveland was evidenced by mounting demands for its inpatient and outpatient services, by a marked increase in its support by reputable physicians and surgeons who were not members of its staff, and in the number of applications of well-qualified Within a year of completion of the new hospital, plans were made to complete the East Wing to increase the capacity to 550 beds. Francis Prentiss personally assumed the entire cost of construction.
He also built a 425 seat auditorium - Prentiss Auditorium - out of Indiana limestone. The East Wing and Prentiss Auditorium were for through the generosity of Prentiss. Much of the new wing was devoted to the nursing school and residence with a "library, a 10-bed demonstration room for instruction, a 75-person lecture room, a chemistry lab, a biology lab, classrooms, sitting rooms and roof garden." (Langan, Cleveland Restoration Society) community in discussion of health care issues. " Prentiss Auditorium was also used for public lectures, the success of which influenced the founding of the Cleveland Health Education Museum in 1936." (Langan p. 2) St. Luke's Hospital was responsible for innovations in the field of healthcare during much of its history, and among the first to practice public health nursing.
In response to the national trend toward the use of hospitals for maternity cases, St. Luke's opened the Cleveland Maternity Dispensary in 1910. St. Luke's was one of the St. Luke's was noted for its advanced and innovative Obstetrics Division." (Langan) function and design of hospitals during this period."Few institutions have undergone as radical a In addition to its state-of-the-art facilities for treating patients and training nurses, the hospital also engaged the particularly in the field of obstetrics during the early 2oh century."Graduates of its School of Nursing were St. Luke's Hospital Section number 8 Page projected ideals of specialization and technical competence...." (Starr p. 145-146) about push-button elevators, operating rooms, telephones and radios provided for each patient, soundproofing, completed in September 1929.
Of the nearly $1,800,000 of improvements made that year, nearly all was paid first hospitals in the country to use nitrous oxide for maternity patients. Under the leadership of Dr. A.J. Skeel, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio In November 1929, a statue of St. Luke, carved from a 36-ton block of granite by Cleveland sculptor Walter Sinz, was dedicated in front of the hospital. The following year, William Hunt, hospital treasurer and president southwest corner of the East Wing) in honor of Mrs. Prentiss. It was designed by Hubbel & Benes and contained five stained glass windows representing Benevolence, Flora, Art, Music and Learning - representing Mrs. Prentiss qualities and interests. The cost of the room came from Mr. Hunt's personal funds. The room no longer exists.
October 29, 1929 was Black Tuesday. The Cleveland Plain Dealer headline on October 30, 1929, the day after the stock market collapse, stated "Gigantic Selling Wave; $25,000,000,000 In Paper Values Swept Away in Decline of Last Few Weeks." As the Depression settled on the nation, Mr. Prentiss expressed concern over the small size of the hospital's endowment and the increased number of charity cases it was handling. By 1930, the hospital's debt was rising and it still had some uncollected pledges for the building campaign. This marked the beginning of a period of retrenchment. cases. Guardian Trust, the city's third largest bank, was insolvent and it held St. Luke's debts, endowment, operating account, and savings account, as well as the investments of many of the hospital's financial supporters. St. Luke's was in serious financial trouble, as it was asked to repay a debt of over $430,000.
was also suffering financially from market conditions. Cleveland's other hospitals were also suffering from the Depression, and the Cleveland Hospital Service Association was formed to help hospitals weather the financial crises of the period. This group later became Blue Cross of Northeast Ohio, but at the time of its formation it was a radical idea. People would prepay for While it was a difficult time financially for the hospital, its doctors continued to provide exceptional health care. Dr. A. J. Skeel was noted for his advances in obstetrics and in 1932 he was instrumental in the formation of the Cleveland Hospital Obstetric Society, which conducted important research into maternal mortality. Francis Prentiss died on April 1, 1937. He had served as president of the hospital board for thirty years. His living trust and left St. Luke's more than $4,000,000. Mrs.
Prentiss succeeded her husband and was elected president of the Hospital Board in 1938. St. Luke's responded by increasing enrollment from 167 in 1940 to 236 in 1944. St. Luke's Hospital treated nurses was built in 1948, on a site adjacent to the hospital, at a cost of $2,000,000 (demolished within the past In 1943, the U.S.Public Health Service set the goal of 65,000 new admissions to nursing schools in 1943-44. future hospital needs (health insurance) which would allow the hospitals to have money to continue to operate. generosity during his lifetime was exceeded by his plans for the hospital at his death.Prentiss established a It was incorporated in 1934with thirteen participating hospitals,including St.Luke's.
43,374 patients in1946- an increase of nearly 12,000patients over the year before.A new residence hall for of the Cleveland Insurance Co.,secretly planned and executed creation of a Women's Board Room (in the St. Luke's Hospital Section number 8 Page 9 Prentiss, a long-time benefactor was personally liable for repayment of $340,000 of loans he guaranteed, yet he In 1931, the East Wing was closed to patients and the hospital began to limit outpatient treatment for charity United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio ten years). It freed the East Wing of the hospital so that it could increase its bed capacity. A utilitarian service wing was built that same year at the rear of the hospital. Mrs. Prentiss died on January 1, 1944 and left at least 50% of her estate to benefit St.
Luke's Hospital. Her estate had an estimated value of at least $8,000,000. That year also marked the 50th anniversary of the nursing school. The affiliation of St. Luke's with medical schools was always somewhat controversial, dating from its earliest years, when the affiliation changed between schools, to the late 1940s when the board wanted to affiliate with a school and the staff voted to defeat it. After several years of fierce debate, the hospital board voted against affiliation with Western Reserve University Medical School in 1950. Medical research increased as a result of the success of "miracle drugs" developed during World War Il and the federal government's interest in and funding for innovative research. St. Luke's Hospital, like many others, In 1951, Dr.
Donald Glover, director of surgery, called for a substantially increased level of research and predicted the cost would include the need for 50,000 square feet of space at a cost of approximately $100,000. The following year, the managers of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation notified the hospital board that the foundation was shifting its focus to research from future outlays for bricks and mortar projects. The hospital continued to modernize during the second half of the 20th century. Walker & Weeks and their associate Howard Horn were employed to provide direction in adapting the hospital to respond to demands for changes in its use. Shortly after taking this step, the hospital received a gift of $413,000 for construction from Charles Foster, a successful Cleveland businessman.
The hospital's new research laboratory was named after construction of a psychiatric unit in 1956, at a cost of $218,000 and the modernization of the obstetrics department in 1963. One of the most important research advances to come from St. Luke's Hospital was innovation in the heart/lung Charity Hospital in Cleveland in 1956. Dr. Donald M. Glover, director of surgery described the accomplishment as follows "while the epoch-making principle of the heart-pump had not originated at St. Luke's, this hospital the heart/lung machine are now used routinely throughout the world during heart surgery. While this nomination has concentrated on St. Luke's Hospital, it is important to note that the School of graduated its last class. Since 1896, the school graduated 2,938 women and 2 men into the field of nursing. Nursing education progressed, as medicine, changed during this period.
The professional development of nurses was always considered an important part of St. Luke's mission. The nursing school and residence were originally located in the 1927 building and by 1929, the expansion of the east wing allowed for the nursing school and residence to shift to that area, freeing up more room for patients. In 1948 the hospital constructed a new building, also in the Georgian Revival style, to the immediate east of the hospital to serve as the nurses machine.One was built at St. Luke's in 1955 and used successfully in an operation on a six year old patient at St. Luke's Hospital Section number 8 Page 10 Nursing was an important part of the hospital until 1970, when it St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing has done more to make it useful for cardiac surgery than any other..."(Robertson, p.
436) The successors of National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio residence. This building was demolished within the last 10 years and the lot remains vacant. Just as the nursing school ended its tenure, the hospital board voted to affiliate with the Western Reserve University Medical In 1974, the hospital raised over $17,000,000 for expansion. It acquired land; built a medical office building and 600 car garage; constructed a new wing to the west of the historic hospital building; and updated the hospital emergency center in suburban Solon by the early 1980s. It also negotiated affiliations with the Northeast Family Practice Center in Solon and acquired the Shaker Medical Center Hospital, but it wasn't enough to allow has stood vacant since that time. Although it is no longer serving the people of Cleveland, St.
Luke's Hospital (and its predecessor Cleveland city of Cleveland for over a century. "Over the years, St. Luke's achieved distinction through several of its departments. Early graduates of the Training School for Nurses were the first to practice public-health nursing in the city. Under Dr. Arthur Skell, the Obstetrics Division from 1910-1938 was the most advanced and innovative of its kind in Cleveland. The Department of Research, organized in 1952, originated studies in emphysema and cardiocirculatory problems and went on to develop the heart-lung machine." (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, p. 859) St. Luke's Hospital is one of the city's best examples of a large-scale, institutional expression of the Georgian major east-west thoroughfare on the east side of Cleveland.
The scale of the surrounding neighborhood makes this hospital building, and especially its tower, visible from several blocks away. It has become a major landmark on Cleveland's east side. brothers. As noted earlier, the Van Sweringens sold the hospital the land on which the new building would be located, at well below its market value. During the same period, the 1920s, the Van Swerengins were busy building the Terminal Tower complex in downtown Cleveland, the Shaker Rapid Transit Lines and Shaker Square, a commercial area located approximately a mile east of the hospital site. Shaker Square was built in the Georgian Revival style, between 1927-1929, the same years as the construction of St. Luke's Hospital. The Georgian Revival style was also popular for many of the large estate homes that were being built in Shaker School. Architectural Significance Revival style.
The building is especially imposing, given its prominent location along Shaker Boulevard, a It wasn't long after this major expansion effort that the hospital business began to change with satellite hospitals being built to serve a greatly expanding suburban population and the merger of hospitals to increase efficiency St. Luke's Hospital facilities in a number of areas. and to contain costs. St.
Luke's Hospital Association held leases on five medical buildings and had an United States Department of the Interior St.Luke's to survive.The hospital closed its doors on the historic St.Luke's Hospital in 1999 and the building General Hospital) had a major impact on the growth and development of health care and nurses training in the Section number 8 Page 11 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio the form of the new hospital, with its primary central pavilion and dependent side wings. The original hospital building and the expansion of the east wing and Prentiss Auditorium were all designed by Hubbel and Benes Architects, a prominent Cleveland architectural firm.
Benjamin Hubbel and Dominick Benes formed their partnership in 1897, and together they were responsible for the design of a number of Cleveland landmarks, including the Western Reserve Historical Society Building (1898?) Cleveland Circle (1898, since demolished), Wade Memorial Chapel in Lake View Cemetery (1901), the West Side Market (1912), the YMCA (1912), the Illuminating Building on Public Square (1915), Cleveland Museum of Art (1916), the Masonic Auditorium (1921), the business wing of the Cleveland Public Library (1922), and the Ohio Bell Telephone Building (1927). The firm was already very well known at the time it was selected to design the new St. Luke's the planning and development of the Wade Park area, now known as University Circle. The Hubbel & Benes Another significant aspect of the site is the sculpture entitled St.
Luke Reading the Gospel, by Cleveland artist Walther Sinz (1881-1966). It was commissioned in 1929 (the same year as the completion of the East Wing and sculpture, which depicts St. Luke flanked by a nurse and a mother and child, was donated by Francis F. Prentiss. Other improvements to the site in 1929 included paving the walkways and landscaping. From the beginning the hospital was designed with future expansion in mind. The central pavilion, the west wing, and a shortened east wing were completed in 1927; the east wing and Prentiss Auditorium in 1929. Drawings of the site, prepared by Hubbel & Benes in 1926, showed a location for a future north pavilion that would have completed the square and created a large garden court in the center of the site. Only the East Wing and Prentiss Auditorium were completed as originally planned.
Much of this early construction of the hospital was funded through the philanthropy of Francis Fleury Prentiss and his wife Elizabeth Severance Allen Prentiss. Several later additions were added within the U-shaped building. These additions were smaller in scale and detail and materials of the earlier building and wings. In 1973, the last addition to the building was made, with the construction of a wing at the west end. Although it is a large addition, from the level of the hospital's main entrance (level 3) and above, the 1973 wing connects to the hospital through only one bay of the building - leaving nearly all of the original window openings and details intact on the west elevation. In spite of these later additions, the original design intent of Hubbel & Benes is still clearly evident.
The Allen Pavilion, East and West Wings and the Prentiss Auditorium retain all their elements of the Georgian Revival style. The original entrance lobby, while altered, still retains much original material, and the auditorium lobby Heights at the time.The style was also popular for large collegiate buildings and was especially adaptable to Hospital. According to the Encyclopedia of the City of Cleveland, Benjamin Hubbel also played a major role in more utilitarian in design -lacking the design characteristics of the Georgian Revival style and the attention to Prentiss Auditorium) and is located in a plaza area directly in front of the main entrance of the building.The St. Luke's Hospital Section number 8 Page 12 partnership lasted until 1939, and "it was as partners that both men completed their largest and most significant and auditorium are intact.
The major hospital spaces were designed to be functional and have changed over the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio years to accommodate changes in medicine and patient care, yet these areas retain double-loaded corridors and exterior and public spaces were depicted in detailed drawings of decorative details and finishes, while the Cleveland had several other major hospitals that were constructed during the early 20* century, including Lakeside, City, Mt. Sinai, Huron Road and St. Vincent's Hospitals- which along with St. Luke's "drew patients Cleveland Clinic was established one year later, in 1921. Of these major hospitals Metropolitan General (formerly Cleveland City), Huron Hospital, University Hospitals contemporaries of St. Luke's.
The architectural styles varied but tended toward the Georgian Revival and other revival styles of the period. Without exception, all of the hospitals have had numerous additions through the years. Hospitals, by their very nature, tend to be altered more than many other building types. In urban areas, they are constantly changing to keep up with both increasing caseloads, but also advances in technology and The interior architectural changes to the non-public portions of St.
Luke's Hospital and the west wing addition dominating central pavilion with its entrance portico supported by massive columns; the central tower; brick also retains its distinctive interior features, including the entrance lobby with classical detailing; and Prentiss Auditorium, with its limestone exterior and interior lobby space with decorative stone-carved details, as well as original decorative detailing in the auditorium space. It is located on its original site, its original materials and craftsmanship are clearly visible, and it strongly conveys the impression of a major institutional building of the early 20th century. original staircases. functional areas such as corridors and patient rooms were shown only in floor plans and finish notes. and limestone building materials; double-hung multiple-paned windows; and slate-covered gabled roofline.It to function as hospitals.
These hospitals had major construction projects during the 1920s and 1930s that are Prentiss Auditorium addition illustrate the hierarchy of public and utilitarian spacesin the early building. The have had a minimal impact on the overall historic integrity of the structure.St.Luke's Hospital retains integrity of Cleveland (formerly Lakeside),Mt.Sinai and the Cleveland Clinic are still standing and all but one continue St. Luke's Hospital Section number 8 Page _13 The 1926 Hubbel & Benes drawings for the original hospital and the 1929 drawings for the East Wing and from all regions of Cleveland. These six hospitals contained 60% of the total capacity of the 20 hospitals of location, design, setting, materials, and association.
It retains all of its character-defining exterior features, including all of the hallmarks associated with the Georgian Revival style -- overall impression of symmetry; the patient treatment, and the specialization that has been the hallmark of medicine during the 20* century. United States Department of the Interior CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio Saint Luke's Hospital, Carnegie Avenue, 1908-1927 Saint Luke's Hospital, Shaker Boulevard. Completed 1927 Photos from St. Luke's Hospital, 1894-1980 St. Luke's Hospital National Park Service by Josephine Robinson NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 8 Page 14 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio Campen, Richard N. Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: West Summit Press, 1980. Langan, Julie V.
Cleveland Restoration Society Correspondence with Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Robertson, Josephine. St. Luke's Hospital, 1894-1980. Cleveland, Ohio: St. Luke's Hospital, 1981. St. Luke's Hospital Association. St. Luke's Medical Center Memorial Book. Cleveland, Ohio: St. Luke's Hospital Association, 1995. Starr, Paul. Social Transformation of American Medicine. American Medicine Basic Books, 1984. Van, Tassel, David D. ed. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, much larger at one time and included a nurses' residence/school on the lot immediately to the east. This lot is now vacant and is not included as part of the nomination. The hospital also built a medical office building The site encompasses 8.225 acres comprising the entire parcel # 128-08-007, as recorded by the Cuyahoga County Auditor's Office, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Response to this request is required to obtain a Maps name/title United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 2. View of south elevation looking east 4. East elevation of east wing of hospital 6. View along east elevation looking north 7. View of west elevation of east wing of hospital 8. View of rear (north) elevation of hospital 9. View of Prentiss Auditorium from east wing of hospital 11. View of c.1960's wing, rear (north elevation) and west wing of hospital 12. View of west elevation of 1974 wing of hospital 13. View of south elevation of 1974 wing of hospital 16. View of entrance from outside to Prentiss Auditorium lobby 17. View of Prentiss Auditorium lobby 18. View of entrance into Prentiss Auditorium 19. View of Prentiss Auditorium interior Luke's. Window on left was originally a door. 21.
View of main corridor off original entrance lobby Cuyahoga County, Photo Log: CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Ohio 15.View of east sunken courtyard on south side of building 10.View of c. 1940s wing at rear (north) side of hospital East elevation of the east wing of hospital 14.Entrance gate along Shaker Boulevard(south side of hospital) 20.View looking toward original entrance (south) to Dudley Allen Memorial Building of St. 1.Facade (south elevation) of the Dudley Allen Memorial Building of St. Luke's Hospital 22.View of Connection between original building and 1974 addition Section number Photos page 16 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES St. Luke's Hospital NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio -SITE OF 1948 Site Plan for St. Luke's Hospital identifying the dates for various wings of the hospital.
residence and the medical office building are not included 1974 CONTINUATION SHEET Only the 8.225 acre site with the hospital is included in this nomination.The sites of the nurses National Park Service EAST BOULEVARD St.
Luke's Hospital United States Department of the Interior NURSES RESIDENCE 5 ACRE SCALE: 1/$6 - 1-0 EAST RADIOLOGY EXISTING SITE PLAN MEDICAL 1927 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 45TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE RETURN 6/12/05 6/10/05 DISCIPLINE REJECT 4/29/05 MULTIPLE REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: ACCEPT DATE RECEIVED: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Entered in the DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF 16TH DAY: REQUEST: N N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: SAMPLE: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs. ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL CLEUELAND, CUYAHOGACO, OH ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL CLEUELAND, CUYAHOGACO, OH ST.
LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKES HOSPITAL CLEVELANO, CUYAMOGACO, DH CLEVELAND, CUY.CO., OH 11-B1 NNNNN B49 ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST.LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST.LUKE'S HOSPITAL CLEUELANO, CUYAHOGA Co., OH DT. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL CUYAHOGA CO, OH ST. LUKEIS HOSPITAL ST. LUKE S HOSe 17 449423 SHAKER HEIGHTS QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 4592562 UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7NE
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