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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) RECEIVED 2280 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM the information requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural 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 Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Other names/site number Baker R&L Company; A.L. Englander 2. Location street & number 7100-7122 Euclid Avenue - not for publication city or town - vicinity state OH code Ohio_county Cuyahoga zip code 44103 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination - request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets D does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant - nationally - statewide X Department Head, Inventory & Registration Signature of certifying official Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 4.

National Park Service Certification 1, hereby certify that this property is: determined not eligible for the entered in the National Register - See continuation sheet. removed from the National Register other (explain): comments.) Date Cleveland National Register 2-21.07 Date of Action This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative _ code 035 In my opinion, the property -] meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. ([] See continuation sheet for additional December 28, 2004 Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio 5.

Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) X private - public-local - district - public-State - site - structure - object Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed 6. Function or Use Current Functions commerce/specialty store/auto showroom and service 7.

Description 20th century/commercial (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Noncontributing Foundation other Total roof brick walls Narrative Description Historic Functions Architectural Classification Materials vacant public-Federal poured concrete See continuation sheets in the National Register Category of Property (Enter categories from instructions) (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) Xbuilding(s) flat/built up 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 Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio The Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building includes the structure built in 1910 for the company, as well The Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building is a concrete-framed building with a brick exterior. It was designed by Cleveland architect Frank B. Meade and is located at the southeast corner of Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street, in the former "Gold Coast" area of Cleveland's east side. This was once a neighborhood of some of the city's finest houses, home to many wealthy industrialists, businessmen, and community leaders. Following the demise of the Baker and R&L electric automobiles the property continued in use for auto sales and service by A. L.

Englander Motor Company, which expanded the building with a one story addition on the east side of the building in 1931. The Baker building was built as a showroom and maintenance facility serving primarily owners of the Baker electric auto, which went into production in 1898 and was the first of its type produced in Cleveland. The Baker building is somewhat trapezoidal shaped to fit the boundaries of its city lot. It is primarily a one-story structure, with two two-story sections: the section along Euclid Avenue, and another at the building's southwest corner. The exterior walls are primarily brick, with some areas of ornamentation executed in tile and in stucco.

The Euclid Avenue elevation is the most ornate and has a symmetrical composition of a central gable-roofed section flanked by square pavilions with pyramidal central entrances, while the central portion had a central entrance with large showroom display windows to either side. Both storefronts and display windows were removed and replaced at some time in the past by artificial siding and small vertically- proportioned windows. The second floor of the Euclid Avenue elevation retains all of its original windows, which are placed in groups of two, three, and four. The brick walls of this elevation provide the building's primary ornamentation, having been laid in varying patterns such as Flemish Bond, soldier courses, header courses, and a modified basket weave.

The upper part of the second floor in the central portion has a stuccoed surface; glazed tile panels provide additional ornamentation on the corner pavilions and in the stuccoed area; in the latter area, the four tiled panels have a shield motif, surmounted by a crown and sporting a back-to-back "BE" that stands for "Baker Electric." (photo #2) Other elevations are plainer but still have considerable ornamental brickwork. The brick patterns are the same as on the main north elevation, but are used only on the two front pavilions and on the one at the southwest corner. The one-story part of the west elevation has Flemish Bond brickwork, but the other elevations have only common bond.

(photos #3-6) The east elevation is not visible due to its location Window and door openings on the west and south elevations have mostly been bricked in or covered over, although the openings themselves have not been altered. There were three garage entry doors on the against adjacent buildings. as the one-story wing added in 1931,when the building was used as the A.L. Englander Motor Company. roofs.(photos #1,2) On the first floor these pavilions originally had commercial storefronts with recessed United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio west elevation; two have been infilled and one remains in use; there also are two personnel doors. On the door were cut into the south elevation near the building's southwest corner.

(photo #7) Other than the three pavilions and the north elevation's middle section, the building has a flat roof, and there is a brick chimney about two stories high along the east elevation. The original interior plan had two store rooms in the corner pavilions along Euclid Avenue, with the auto showroom in the middle section between the pavilions. There was no connection between the store rooms and the showroom. Four small offices and some rest rooms were partitioned along the south side of the showroom. At some time in the past, the showroom and the store rooms were connected and the ceilings lowered, although it is known that at least some original ceiling elements and lighting fixtures survive above the lowered ceiling. The finishes appear to have been painted plaster over structural beams, giving all these spaces a coffered ceiling effect.

(photos 8-10, 14) The rear portion of the first floor was devoted entirely to automobile maintenance. Original partitions divided the space here into two large service bays, one for electric cars (photo #6) and one for gasoline- powered cars (photo #7) with a repair shop for each type of car, as well as a single stock room, along the east side of the building. Monitor windows were located above the garage to admit natural light into the work area. (photo #8) A "garage office" and a wash rack for each service bay was near the west wall, and three turntables, one on the "electric" side and two on the "gasoline" side, facilitated moving the cars around. A paint shop and trimming room occupied spaces along the south wall of the building.

None of the fixtures or equipment associated with auto maintenance, including the turntables, has survived intact, with some later partitioning (photos #11-13, 15) The second floor of the southwest pavilion was used as office space. Perhaps the most unusual space, however, was the second floor over the showroom and storerooms in the Euclid Avenue section of the building. Here a stairway accessible from East 71st Street led up to an arcaded corridor along the south side of the two-story middle section. (photos #16-17) Off this corridor were several apartments that consisted of several rooms and what appears to have been common dining, lounge and, cooking facilities. (photos #18-19) These rooms are said to have been built for use by chauffeurs who worked for some of the wealthy Euclid Avenue families nearby.

The Baker auto, since it was electrically-powered, was - although the matters still apparently were left to chauffeurs. At the end of the day, when the cars' batteries had run down, the chauffeurs drove them to the Baker Vehicle Company Building for re- charging; the chauffeurs would stay overnight and then head back the next morning for another day of driving the lady of the house around Cleveland.

popular with the women of these families, since they were easy to drive and required no cranking to start - These working spaces had no ornamentation and were utilitarian in character.These spaces remain largely Section number 7 Page 2 south elevation there originally were no doors; at some time in the past a garage door and a personnel United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Although they have suffered surface damage and loss of paint and wallpaper, the second-floor apartment area, including the original mailbox and doorbell panel, remain in place as an unusual document of the early years of the automobile. The one-story brick wing was added in 1931 as an expansion of the A.L. Englander Motor Company.

(photo #24, 25) It is also constructed with a poured concrete foundation, brick exterior walls and flat built up roof. The addition was designed to complement the existing building. It features two square end sections where entrance doors were located and a central tile-covered pent roof section, which featured the showroom window. The openings have been infilled, but the terracotta surrounds are intact. This wing projects from the plane of the original building and is located closer to the street. It is likely that at the time of its construction, the showroom was the main draw with the original Baker Electric Motor Building housing the service functions.

Baker Motor Vehicle Building has undergone some alterations, however the combined building retains integrity of design (the original forms are unaltered and most of the exterior materials including decorative brickwork, tile with the "B E" and stucco ornamentation), location, and feeling as early 20th century commercial structures. In addition, the Baker Motor Vehicle Building retains its association with the early automobile industry of Cleveland. The area around the building has changed over the years as the wealthy residents moved farther out of the city, but the buildings retain their commercial character with minimal setback and Baker's corner location. Continuation Sheet Section number 7 - Page3 Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) XA Property is associated with events that have made B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. L D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates 1910 (original construction) 1931 (addition) (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person A owned by a religious institution or used for (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) religious purposes. B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery.

- E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. Frank B. Meade, Cleveland within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 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 CFR - State Historic Preservation Office 67) has been requested. - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National J Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey recorded by Historic American Engineering Record 1910-1941 commerce Register Bibliography Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Applicable National Register Criteria Property is: our history.

for National Register listing) invention Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Name of repository: Cultural Affiliation a significant contribution to the broad patterns of G less than50 years of age or achieved significance (Mark "X" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Historic Places under Criterion A, for its association with the innovative early years of the automobile industry in Cleveland and in the United States, particularly in development of the electric automobile.

Cars that were powered by electric motors, fed by storage batteries, at one time represented real technological competition for cars powered by internal combustion gasoline engines, and the Baker Electric Vehicle Company was the first in Cleveland and among the first in the A.L. Englander Motor Company, which occupied the building from 1921-1941. Mr. Englander at one time operated at least five other auto dealership locations, although this site is the one that he construction through its use by Englandar Motor Company in 1941. After that time, the building was used for non-automobile related commercial uses. Cleveland had a remarkable number of automobile manufacturers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Some lasted only a few years, while others survived for several decades. Cleveland can claim at least fourteen electric car manufacturers between 1898-1920.

Of these, only Baker Electric (through its merger with Rauch & Lang) could claim to be in production for this entire period. Most of the other automobile companies lasted for two to five years. This period was one of great innovation in the automobile industry. Since automobiles of this period were custom-built and small in numbers, barriers to entry into the automobile production business were Engines and transmissions were uncomplicated in design and auto bodies were very similar to the wood framed carriages and buggies that had been familiar for centuries. Cars were built to run one of three ways - using steam, electric motors and the internal combustion engine. At the turn of the twentieth century, it would have seemed as though any one of these and had the benefits of reliability, simplicity and ruggedness.

By contrast, gasoline powered cars could be cantankerous, difficult to start and fairly complex to maintain. Three major factors influenced the rapid acceptance of the gasoline-powered automobile. The electric starter, patented 1903, made it easier to start the car without manual cranking; Henry Ford's pioneering assembly line in 1913 made the cost of a Model T Ford affordable for the expanding working class; and the gasoline-powered engine could run continuously with refueling, unlike the electric car which had to be charged for several hours once the batteries ran down. Background History the United States to develop a practical electric car.The building was expanded in 1931 for use by occupied for the longest period of time.The period of significance extends from the building's Section number8 Page technologies might have come to prevail.

In fact, steam power seemed to have an edge because it was so relatively low requiring only simple machinery and mechanical ingenuity. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number 8 Page Baker Electric Motor Vehicle Company Walter C. Baker was a New Hampshire native whose parent brought him to Cleveland at the age of four in 1871. His father was associated with Thomas and Rollin White, who developed the White Sewing Machine Company, a major Cleveland industry. The elder Baker invented several features of the sewing machine and was known also for perfecting another White product, roller skates.

Walter Baker trained in engineering at the Case School of Applied Science and later worked for White Sewing Machine, having married Rollin White's daughter in 1891. Baker became interested in the automobile industry. In 1897 Baker and a partner began working on an electrically- powered car, and in 1898 Baker established the Baker Motor Vehicle Company. In its first factory on East 65th Street near the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baker Company built its first production car, a small and light electric buggy weighing 550 pounds, steered by a tiller and with a 3/4- horsepower motor and a chain drive. The car could travel a 20-mile radius. Baker made his first sale to his good friend, Ohioan Thomas A. Edison, who worked with Baker on storage battery development. This was Edison's first automobile. Thomas A. Edison in his Baker Electric Automobile.

(Photo: The Plain Dealer Library, published in Golden Wheels) Continuation Sheet development of ball bearings and also developed several steering and axle elements for the fledgling United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio From a new factory on East 69th Street, the Baker Company continued to produce a stream of constantly improved cars. One major improvement was replacement of the chain drive with a drive shaft; another was low-friction bearings that extended the car's range. By 1904 the company was producing some 400 cars a year in several open- and closed-top models, and in 1906 it moved to a third factory, its last, on the west side of Cleveland on West 80th Street near the lake.

Production rose to about 800 cars that year, and by this time standard features included a clock and "toilet articles" for the female driver (or passenger) to whom the electric auto was so appealing. 1906 Baker Electric Automobile (Photo published in Golden Wheels) National Park Service Section number Page United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Baker's 1909 prices ranged between $1,850 and $4,000, and the firm's factory ran day and night to meet demand. That year President Taft ordered a Baker "Queen Victoria" electric as part of the White House's car fleet. 1909 Baker Electric Automobile (Photo: Frederick C.

Crawford Auto Library, published in Golden Wheels) In 1910 the Baker Company opened its new sales and service branch at Euclid Avenue and East 71st Street. The sales office had been downtown on Prospect Avenue near East Fourth Street, but in its new location it could serve one of its major market, the matrons of the "Gold Coast" of Euclid Avenue. The 50,000-square-foot building combined a showroom and sales office with large maintenance bays serving both electric and gasoline autos. The service area included washracks, repair shops, and paint and trim shops, as well as re-charging facilities. Overnight accommodations for chauffeurs, bringing in their employers' cars for re-charging, were an unusual component of the building.

The Euclid Avenue building was the Baker Company's primary sales agency for the next ten years, which would prove to be the peak years of electric auto production and sales in the United States. The Baker electric car was among the best-selling and most innovative, known for its elegant interior finishes and its page advertising in Vogue and Life magazines in 1912 and advertising in theaters. Yet by the early 1920s, such improvements as the starter motor and a greater range than the electric, as well as a lower price and a growing network of gas and service stations, gave gasoline-fueled cars the advantage and spelled the end of the electric automobile. Continuation Sheet Section number 8 long range of nearly 200 miles between charges.

The company targeted the female market with multi- Page United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio The Baker Company merged with Rauch & Lang, its primary Cleveland competitor, in 1915 with the new producing electric automobiles, for such cars were still in demand, mainly from old, devoted customers, particularly dowagers and a few physicians who had no desire to learn to drive a gasoline-powered car." (Golden Wheels, p. 217) "In 1917 Baker-Raulang, which had a sideline of road trucks for several years, turned to war work, making shells and bomb handlers. The latter were the first industrial trucks built by Baker. A number of tractors, load-carrying trucks, and elevating trucks were built for the U.S.

War Department in 1917, and their production for civilian use was continued after the war. Then, during World War I, the company continued to make some electric automobiles but focused on making shells and bomb handlers. The latter were the first industrial trucks built by Baker...their production for civilian use continued after the war. Then, too, the production of Rauch & Lang electric coaches resumed." (Golden Wheels, p. 217) In 1920, passenger vehicle production was sold and moved to Massachusetts, while the Cleveland operation turned out a line of electric trucks and also began serving other auto manufacturers by producing car bodies. That work ceased in 1948, but the firm eventually became part of the Otis Elevator Company's division that produces electric forklifts, golf carts, and similar vehicles.

automotive development notwithstanding), the Baker Vehicle Company Building on the east side of Cleveland stands today as a reminder of one of the many ways in which innovative entrepreneurs made Cleveland one of the world's premier industrial cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The building at 7100-7122 Euclid Avenue is significant as the principal retail outlet and service facility for the Baker electric car during the period of its greatest popularity.

Located close to its primary market, the well-to-do women who lived in the expensive homes in the "Gold Coast" area of Euclid Avenue, the building combined the functions of sales office and showroom; repair, maintenance, and re-charging facilities for electric cars; repair and maintenance facilities for gasoline cars (just in case they proved dominant); and a residential facility for the chauffeurs who worked for the area's families. The building was designed by Cleveland architect Frank B. Meade who practiced from 1895 until the 1930s and designed more than 800 homes, six club buildings (Hermit, Union, Roadside, Euclid and Century Clubs in Cleveland) and played a leading role in the development of the Group Plan in downtown Cleveland.

He was associated with the following firms: Meade and Granger (1896-97), Meade & Garfield (1898-1904), his own firm until 1911, Meade and Hamilton (1911-1941. Section number 8 Page 8 With the electric auto having gone the way of the horse and buggy it helped supplant (contemporary company remained Baker R. & L. Company (also known as Baker-Raulang). "The company continued United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio A.L. Englander took over the Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building in 1921 and it served as his flagship auto dealership until 1941. Englander was responsible for the 1931 addition to the building. A.L Englander opened his first automobile dealership in 1906 and operated under a different name. The Avenue.

The company moved to the Baker Building in 1921 and by 1925, the firm expanded and had branches at 1305 West 117th Street, St. Clair Avenue at East 125th Street, 1265 West Third Street and 5353 Broadway Avenue. By 1935, during the Depression, the company had contracted to a single location - the Baker Electric Building. Englander sold a number of different types of cars, including Hupmobiles, Buicks, Pontiacs and Studebakers. Englander retired in 1942, but came out of retirement later and was building, thus ending its association with Cleveland's early automobile history. A.W. Hecker Co. made custom grinders and finishers until 1966. Carpenter-Reserve Printing Company occupied the building from 1966 until 2001; the building has been vacant ever since.

TheBaker Motor Vehicle Company Building is associated with the early automobile history of Cleveland through its association with the development of the Baker Electric Car and through its use as the flagship dealership for A.L. Englander Company from 1921-41. Of the dozen electric cars produced in Cleveland during the first two decades of the twentieth century, only four companies survived by more than three years - with the Baker and Baker R. & L. Company producing electric automobiles from 1898 until 1920, by far the longest-lived of any of the manufacturers. This building was constructed specifically to sell and service the Baker Electric Automobile and despite alterations, it still represents an important era of technological innovation in Cleveland, as well as the A.L.

Englander was in the automobile business in Cleveland for nearly fifty-seven years, including twenty years at this location. During his business career, Englander sold a wide variety of cars, and an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer published upon his death in 1963 described him as the "dean of automobile The Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building represents an important period of Cleveland automobile history spanning from the first decade of the 20th century to the beginning of World War II. The building retains integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. Summary century American life. dealers in Cuyahoga County." still selling cars at the time of his death in1963.In 1942 the A.W.Hecker Company took over the Section number8, Page A.L.

Englander Company appeared in the 1919/20 Cleveland City Directory located at 6016 Euclid period when automobiles made the transition from experimental transportation to a necessity of 20th United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Cleveland City Directories Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 14, 1963, p.30. G.M. Hopkins & Co. Plat Books of the City of Cleveland, Ohio. 1924 Krause, F.L. Atlas of the City of Cleveland. 1898. Prints from original architectural drawings Properties Magazine, January, 1984; Research conducted by Drew Rolick, Cleveland, Ohio Sanborn Map Company, Insurance Maps of Cleveland, Ohio. 1896/1910, 1912, 1903/1910. Wager,Richard. Golden Wheels: The Story of the Automobiles Made in Cleveland and Northeastern Ohio. Second Edition,1986.

Bibliography Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building National Park Service Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number 9 Page Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than an acre (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 17 446650 4594670 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By street & number 593 S. Fifth Street telephone 614-221-0358 city or town Columbus _state OH zip code 43206 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

(Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name 7100 Euclid LLC/ c/o Cumberland Development street & number 6801 Brecksville Road _ telephone. city or town_Independence state OH _zip code 44131 properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

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Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate Estimated Burden Statement:Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description The property boundaries include permanent parcel numbers 118-15-001 and 118-15-002, as recorded in Auditor's File Number 200607060807 of Cuyahoga County Records. The boundaries include all of the land historically associated with the nominated property.

Boundary Justification Continuation Sheet Section number 10 Page 11 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number photos Photographer: Jeffrey Darbee Benjamin D. Rickey & Co. 593 South Fifth St. Columbus, Ohio 43206 Date of Photographs: May, 2006 Detail of main entrance along Euclid Avenue, including tiled areas with back-to-back "BE" logo. Detail of cornice brackets and decorative brickwork. Looking south at north elevation of 1931 addition. Looking southwest at north elevation; 1931 addition is at left, 1910 original buildings at right. Looking west across former showroom of 1910 building. Original tile flooring in showroom area. Looking east in partitioned corridor in former showroom area. View of "electric cars" service area behind showroom. View of "gasoline cars" service area.

View of showroom of 1931 addition. View of rear room of 1931 addition. Rooftop view looking toward second floor apartment corridor. Open arcaded corridor serving second floor apartments. View of second floor apartment with windows facing Euclid Avenue. View of single room on second floor of southwest pavilion. Page Negatives: Photographer Continuation Sheet Location of Looking north at south (rear) elevation. Looking northeast along west (side) elevation; southwest pavilion is on foreground. Baker Motor Vehicle Company Building Looking east along north elevation(main elevation) along Euclid Avenue. View of former trimming room with former paint shop through opening in far wall.

NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: REQUEST SAMPLE : N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE REJECT DISCIPLINE RETURN MULTIPLE 2/13/07 1/08/07 1/29/07 OTHER: REVIEWER PERIOD: RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL: PDIL: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE RECEIVED: ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: REASONS FOR REVIEW: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments.Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 2-21.07DATE REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga VACCEPT LESS THAN 5O YEARS: Entered in tho CUYAHOEA CO, OH BAKER MOTOR UEHICLECO. 1100-7122 EUCLIO AUE. BAKER MOTOR VEHICLE Co. BAKER MOTOR VEHICLE CO. 7100-1122 EUCUD AUE. BAKER MOTOR VEHICLECO. BAKER MOTOR VEHTICLECO.

7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-CLYAHOGA CO CO. bUILDING, 1994 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLEVE RECD BY OHPO SEP 0 1 2006 Frank G. Jackson, Mayor Cleveland Landmarks Commission Robert D. Keiser, Secretary 601 Lakeside Avenue, Room 519 Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1071 216/664-2531 - Fax: 216/664-3281 August 28, 2006 Barbara Powers Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, OH 43211- 1030 I would like to support the National Register nomination for the Baker Electric Building, 7100 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. The building was designated locally as a Cleveland Landmark on March 4, 1984 with the passage of ordinance 2911 - 84. In my opinion the structure is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places due to its architecture and its history as an early automobile showroom.

Architecturally the building is a conservative mix of Craftsman and Tudor Revival elements, a style that its architect Frank Meade handled very well. Meade designed the Hermit Club, several country clubs and residences throughout Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights for wealthy Clevelanders. The building was constructed in 1905 and was the automobile showroom for the Baker Electric Automobile. The Baker was manufactured in Cleveland. Cleveland's early automobile showrooms were important structures, particularly when they were built along Euclid Avenue. The changes that the developer is proposing will enhance the public's perception of this building. Robert D. Keiser cc. Richard Pace Robert N.

Brown An Equal Opportunity Employer Sincerely, Bill Mason City of Cleveland Dear Barb: REC'O BY OHPO SEP 0 8 2006 7100 EUCLID, LLC September 5, 2006 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Dear Ms. Powers: I am the Managing Partner of 7100 Euclid, LL.C, which owns the Baker Motor Vehicle nomination of the property to be listed on the National Register and we waive our right to comment on the nomination. Richard Y. Pace INDEPENDENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTER 6801 BRECKSVILLE ROAD, SUITE 150 - INDEPENDENCE, OHIO - 44131 PHONE: 216-520-3665 - FAX: 216-520-3669 Sincerely, Barbara Powers Managing Partner Company Building,7100-7122 Euclid Avenue.We are in complete support of the