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OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior RECEIVED 2280 National Park Service April 26, 2007 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all other names/site number 2. Location city or town Cleveland - vicinity state Ohio code OH _ county Cuyahoga code 035 zip code 44114 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 L 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 nationally - statewide X locally. (L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Department Head Signature of certifying official Inventory & Registration Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 4. National Park Service Certification entered in the National Register - See continuation sheet.
determined not eligible for the removed from the National other (explain): Date Register comments.) 1. Name of Property street & number_205 St. Clair Avenue, 1370 Ontario Street, 1796-1808 East 13h Street _ not for publication NPS Form 10-900 National Register historic name_Euclid Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase) , hereby certify that this property is This form is for use innominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box In my opinion, the property meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. (- See continuation sheet for additional items. 529 Euclid Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase) 5.
Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count x private - building(s) x public-local :district - public-State _sites - public-Federal _ structures _objects Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed . (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register 6.
Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions DOMESTIC/hotel, apartment building DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling COMMERCE/business, professional, financial COMMERCE/business, professional GOVERNMENT/government office GOVERNMENT/post office Late 19" and Early 20* Century American Brick, Terra Cotta, Sandstone Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) roof other Masonry Foundation Total institution walls Materials Architectural Classification 7.
Description Cuyahoga County, OH Movements Noncontributing (Check as many boxes as apply) (Enter categories from instructions) Asphalt Late 19" and Early 20" Century Revivals United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Euclid Avenue Historic District, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number The Euclid Avenue Historic District dates from 1870 to 1958. A wide variety of architectural styles found along Public Square and Euclid Avenue is the Neoclassical. Other prominent styles include the Commercial Style, Renaissance Revival, Beaux-arts, Moorish Revival, and Art Deco.
The three buildings that reside in this Boundary Increase: the Allerton Hotel exhibits the Moorish Revival;the Standard Building reflects the Commercial style with hints of the Art Deco styie; and found throughout the rest of the district and are contributing buildings in the district. The following Building numbers correspond to maps showing larger Euclid Avenue Historic District. 1796-1808 East 13' Street Allerton Hotel/ Manger Hotel/ Parkview Apartments and Parkview Garage Erected 1926, 1973-74 The irregular-in-plan, sixteen-story, red brick laid in a Flemish bond, Moorish Revival families. A two-story arcade three-bays wide marks the eastern-facing main entrance off of East 13" Street. Two stone columns with stylized capitals that feature foliage and rams' heads supporting a basket-weaved abacus flank the central entry, now bricked-in.
This bricked-in entry and the entries on either side that are filled with modern aluminum window/door construction are framed by painted stone, and dentil surrounds. On either side of the arcade are brick piers with stone basket-weaved capitals echoing the central entrance-framing stone capitals. Like the aluminum systems. All windows on the upper floors, lined with stone sills, have been replaced with a combination two-thirds fixed glass and one-third operable. Arched windows are found at the second-(fanlight),third-(round arch), and fifteenth-floor (round arch). Decorative features include herringbone-pattern brickwork at the second floor spandrels, protruding header brick accents across the primary elevations, and isolated instances of corbel tabling at the third, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth floors.
Red face brick accents the top three floors and central tower (sixteenth floor). The roof is flat. Page Physical Description (Boundary Increase) and St. Clair Avenue where the Standard Building and the St. Clair Building are located. central first-floor bay, many storefront windows have been bricked-in, while a few contain modern Historic District in two locations. The first intersection occurs at East 13"Street and Chester Avenue where the Allerton Hotel is located. The second intersection is at the corner of Ontaric the St. Clair Building is a simple Commercial style building, all reflect those prominent styles describes specifically the contributing buildings located within the district boundary increase.
style former hotel building designed by Murgatroyd and Ogden of NYC now houses low-income United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Euclid Avenue Historic District, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number Page The garage was constructed in 1973-74 as part of the conversion to the Parkview Apartments. As was built in the modern style. 1370 Ontario Street Standard Building/Engineer's Building Erected 1924 At the southwestern corner of Ontario Street and St. Clair Avenue, this glazed terra cotta the cooperative banking venture of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; other banks, law firms, City and County offices, the Marshall Law School, and the office of Elliot Ness have also occupied the building.
Seven bays span the width of the eastern façade (Ontario Street), and nine run from the first floor through to the 20th, contains two 1/1, double-hung, metal replacement starburst motif is present on two other downtown buildings designed by Knox and Elliot: the Prospect in the Lower Prospect/Huron Historic District (NR, 1995). Spandrels and piers are decorated with the starburst motif at the second floor, between the second and third floors, and between the third and fourth floors; only the spandrels and not the piers are decorated with a simplified version of the motif between the sixteenth and seventeenth floors, and between the eighteenth and nineteenth floors. An articulated cornice in the starburst motif lines the flat roof. 205 St. Clair Avenue St. Clair Building (Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company)//Parcel Post U.S. Post Office- former) façade (St.
Clair Avenue) and ten bays across its east elevation (West 2d Street). The building designed by an unknown architect, served as a parcel post for the U.S. Post Office, and from the 1950s to 2000, was occupied by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, its 1956-68 building a western neighbor to 205 St. Clair. In 2000, the City of Cleveland moved the Central Collection Agency Division of Taxation and various other departments like the City Archives here. A centrally located entry bay (Boundary Increase) part of the renovation the two to four-story western portion of the hotel was demolished. This area contained the swimming pool, tennis and handball courts, and game rooms. The parking garage Commercial style office building designed by Knox and Elliot rises eighteen stories in a U-shape from its three-story rectangular footprint, for a total of 20 stories.
The building originally housed arched windows. Above the two-story rectangular base, each bay, distinguished by piers which windows. The ornate panels of cream-colored glazed terra cotta with their pronounced modern take on an intricate geometric starburst design typify the tastes of the "Roaring Twenties." This Corlett Building (NR, 2003) and the H.D. Koblitz Building (Ohio Desk Company Building) on The rectangular-in-plan, five-story, brown brick laid in a running bond with sixth course alternating bays span the northern façade (St. Clair Avenue). The modified storefronts on both facades are United States Department Of The Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Euclid Avenue Historic District, (Boundary Increase) Cuyahoga County, Ohio Section number situated slightly off center within a monumental sandstone surround.
The windows on either side of the entry bay are the original painted metal configurations: paired within sandstone surrounds, their fenestration is uniquely divided into five horizontal sections, the top section containing twelve lights of glass bock. The windows in the eastern-most and western-most bays are tripartite, the middle window featuring the same five horizontal sections as the other first floor windows, and the flanking windows featuring skinny, configurations of glass block. Above the first floor windows, between a continuous sandstone lintel and sandstone watercourse, sandstone diamonds and replacements, fill the eastern-and western-most bays on floors two through five. Paired 1/1 aluminum replacement windows fill the other bays. Sandstone edges the window sills.
Recessed spandrels of header brick occur at floors two through five, and are accented with sandstone corbelling, and sandstone coping. The roof is flat. Page on the north facade consists of a modern aluminum double-door and divided light transom system circles adorn the spandrels of herringbone brickwork. Chicago style windows, all 1/1 aluminum 8. Statement of Significance