Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) Primary location of additional data - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) X State Historic Preservation Office has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National Register - Local government - designated a National Historic Landmark - University - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - Other - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1907 architecture history.
Bibliography Architect/Builder Criteria Considerations Significant Dates National Register listing) Cultural Affiliation Significant Person Applicable National Register Criteria Name of repository: Narrative Statement of Significance Areas of Significance Property is: (Enter categories from instructions) (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) G less than 50years of age or achieved significance Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio purposes. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Summary. The Frederick E. and Catherine Bullerdick House meets Criterion C in the residence of the 1900s, combining Italianate Renaissance Revival, Colonial Revival and Craftsman elements.
The house's symmetrical façade, Neo-Classical portico, broad eaves and low roof, as well as its four-square interior plan with center hall, epitomize a new type of house that combined these diverse influences. The house is particularly significant for its decorative program: The ceiling mural, intricate stenciling, and result, the house exhibits high artistic values and high-quality materials that set it apart architecture in Cincinnati, c. 1890-1910. Little altered since its construction, the house retains a high level of integrity under all its aspects. The Bullerdick House's period of significance is 1907, the date of its construction. The rise of the comfortable house. The design of the Bullerdick House reflects trends in improvements and less formal, less servant-dependent lifestyles for middle-class families led to new, simpler, more comfortable house types.
Architects moved away from the complex, polygonal forms of the late Victorian era toward simpler, more rational cubes and rectangles with central or side hallways. Towers, multiple bays and balconies were eliminated. Complex roof forms, such as mansard, steeply hipped or multi-gabled roofs, were discarded in favor of simpler hipped, pyramidal or gabled forms. Contrasting textures gave way to smoother surfaces. Bold color palettes were discarded in favor of lighter, more monochromatic schemes. As central heating became standard in middle-class homes, interiors became more open and less formal. In some houses, vestibules, stair halls and reception halls were discarded altogether, and doors opened directly into living space. New mechanical systems--central (8-86) elaborate art glass windows suggest a harmonious collaboration between architect and Architectural development Section 8.
Statement of Significance early-2o"-centuries. It has been evaluated in the context of eclectic residential designer that is rarely seen in Cincinnati upper-middle-class homes of the period.As a area of architecture as a significant and well-preserved example of a Cincinnati eclectic middle- and upper-class housing at the turn of the 2oth century. Technological Page 1 from many other local examples. The Bullerdick House is one of the best examples of the Section8 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio heating, indoor plumbing and electricity - also raised the cost of building, necessitating Looking forward, looking back. According to architectural historian Walter E.
Langsam of the University of Cincinnati, one of the major strands of architectural effort to be more authentic in recreating historical architectural sources. "The architectural training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where aspiring American architects began to flock after the Civil War, encouraged reliance on the classical tradition from Antiquity as transmitted through the Italian Renaissance and French Baroque and Neo-Classicism" (Walter E. Langsam, Great Houses of the Queen City the Georgian Colonial style "that was believed to reflect the Enlightenment-era standard of 'good taste' and refined restraint" (ibid., p. 90). At the same time, the influence of the Arts & Crafts movement led to a new interest in simplicity and handcrafted, "honest," "natural" materials.
It also gave rise to the Prairie Style, the first indigenous American Modernism, and the leveling effect of popular taste, gave rise to eclectic house designs attempted to create a new style appropriate to the early 20** century, with a minimum of historic references" (ibid., p. 114). Like the Bullerdick House, these turn-of-the-20t*-century eclectic residences typically have a flat, symmetrical front façade, with the entry area accentuated by small classical columns or pilasters. The simple, low-pitched hipped roof is typically covered with ceramic tiles, and includes broadly overhanging, boxed or open eaves, normally with decorative brackets underneath. Most of these houses, like the Bullerdick residence, are clad in light-colored brick, which evoked the look of the pale stone and, perhaps, the light palette of (yellow, cream, tan) of Colonial Revival clapboard houses.
Some houses also included elements of the emerging Craftsman style, such as heavy square brick piers, (8-86) academic style. cost savings. reaction to Mid-Victorian historicism and late 19-century creative eclecticism was an [Cincinnati Museum Center,2002],p.89).American architects also looked to the This interplay between European revivalism, Colonial-era nostalgia and the stirrings of Anglo-American colonial period of the 17h and 18-centuries for inspiration, particularly NPS Form 10-900-a Cincinnati houses built for affluent owners in the 1890s and 1900s reflect a dichotomy: "[Ojn one hand they continue late 19-century eclecticism; on the other, their architects Section Page 2 that, in effect, looked both forward and backward. Appropriately, many suburban NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Inside, the houses typically have a four-square plan, with broad central hallway. Wide archways open to rooms on either side. Local examples. Four diverse examples, all located in suburban Cincinnati neighborhoods, illustrate the evolution of this house type during the 1890s and 1900s. The Charles W. Breneman House (1898; Samuel E. Desjardins and John G. Drainie, palette with Neo-Classical elements and tall "skyline." This sophisticated residence of cubical plan features a high-hipped roof and four hipped dormers with flared eaves. The walls are laid in buff brick, with columns and balustrades cut from massive blocks of dressed sandstone.
Because three sides of the house are visible from the street, each was given a decorative wall dormer, giving the effect of a tower. The semi-octagonal porch, with bold Doric columns, fits the angle of Rose Hill Avenue. At the rear is a hexagonal Preservation Association, "North Avondale Historic Homes Tour, 2005") Siter, architect), is "an important and sophisticated early example of the American Victorian geometric box" of limestone, buff brick and white trim, under a truncated hipped roof (much lower than that of the Breneman House) with tall cross gable. In contrast to the house's monochromatic palette and overall simplicity, the entire surface is enriched with Adamesque ornament. More delicate and refined than the Breneman house, roof still prominent but lower.
Located in the Clifton neighborhood, the Duhme House is a contributing building in the Clifton Avenue Historic District (National Register, 1978). Similar in form to the Bullerdick House, the Charles Roth House in North Avondale is a cubic brick block with wide veranda. It is crowned by a low-hipped roof, broad eaves and a hipped roof dormer. windows. (8-86) architects) in the North Avondale neighborhood combines a characteristic cool color terrace. The carriage house matches the house in materials.(Cincinnati treatment.The entrance is dramatized by a projecting center bay that ends in a According to Walter Langsam,"Brightside,"the Charles Duhme House (1891; H.A. Section _8 Page 3 Mission-style surrounds, hipped dormers, broad, flat chimneys, and double-hung sash Colonial Revival, inside as well as out" (Langsam, Great Houses, p. 100). It is a "post- NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Anthony Kunz, Jr. (1872-after 1932)... [who] specialized in Roman Catholic The Charles Roth House, which cost the then-considerable sum of $20,000, is complemented by the low, wide-eaved red-tile hipped roof that relates to the hand, the front porch still looks Victorian, with its Romanesque-influenced stone (ibid., p. 114) The Frank J. Enger House (c. 1895; Matthew Burton, architect) is "an early local example of the restrained Beaux-Arts Classical style given prominence by the works of McKim, Mead & White on the East Coast" (ibid).
An L-shaped design that appears at first glance to be a rectangular box, it presents a broad façade layered in a monochromatic palette of rusticated stone, buff brick and white terracotta, creating a "modern" effect. The low-hipped roof almost disappears behind a deep cornice, recalling a Florentine palazzo. Inside, "generous spaces...open into each other through broad pocket doors" The Enger carriage house/garage, which was built around the same time as the main house, or somewhat later, has a stronger horizontal emphasis in its wide eaves, buff brick walls, and more delicate Federal Revival details.... [T]he Enger outbuilding resembles Frank Lloyd Wright's earliest suburban Chicago works, such as the Winslow House built in River Forest, Illinois, in 1894, shortly before the Enger House.
Both have a formality that may in turn have been inspired by contemporary works of McKim, Mead & White. (ibid., pp. 108-109). The Enger, Roth and Breneman houses are located in neighborhoods recommended for National Register listing by the Cincinnati Historic Inventory, but not yet listed in the (8-86) Register. Although it retains an overall feeling of late 19-century picturesque composition, (ibid., p. 91). columns and the stone parapet with openings that recall Chinese garden walls.... clad uniquely in"green enameled brick tile."... Here its intense green color is churches and institutional buildings during the early 2o" century... the home of pork-packer Charles E.Roth (1866-1943) was built as late as 1907, yet it also has elements of the"modern"Arts & Crafts. It was designed by contemporary Chicago "Prairie School" led by Frank Lloyd Wright. On the other NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The Bullerdick family. Frederick E. Bullerdick, better known as "Fred," was born in Indiana in 1864. He was the son of Fred and Elizabeth Bullerdick, German-American birthplace is unknown. formal schooling. Fred went to work in a chair factory to help support the family, earning at first only two dollars per week. Seeking to better himself, in 1884 he started his own business, the Fred E. Bullerdick Mattress Factory. He started the factory with $83.00 in capital borrowed from his mother, making his own mattresses and delivering them in a The business grew and the quarters were enlarged steadily.
In 1921 Bullerdick commissioned an "up-to-date and well-equipped plant" at 3168 Beekman Street (demolished) in the city's Millvale neighborhood. The three-story factories in the country." "A pioneer in the industry, Fred E. Bullerdick had to fight all sorts of cut-throat methods and was one of the few to survive a troubled period in industry" (Lewis Alexander Leonard, Greater Cincinnati and Its People: A History [1927], pp. 159-160). An avid hunter and fisherman, Bullerdick belonged to the Cincinnati Gun and Frog Bowling clubs, and to the Amateur Trapshooting Association of America. He was a member of the North Side Christian Church, where he served as trustee, board member and, at the time of his death, treasurer. His politics were described as Republican but liberal (ibid., p. 160). In 1890 Bullerdick married Catherine Bodin (1868-?).
Like Fred, Catherine came from a (8-86) Historical development. building, with "the most modern machinery,"was"considered one of the finest bedding mother in Hanover.(There is a discrepancy between the 1900 and 1920 census on this German-American immigrant family;it appears her father was born in Ohio and her The elder Bullerdick died when young Fred was small, so the boy had little chance for farmers.Elizabeth Bullerdick was a native of Hanover,Germany;her husband's point.) The couple raised six children:Ethel (born 1891),Lorene (1894),Ellen (born wheelbarrow. "Hard work showed good results," and within a few years he was able to move to a larger plant on Dempsey Street in Cincinnati's North Fairmount neighborhood. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Mad Anthony Street in Northside. In 1907 Bullerdick purchased a lot at the southwest corner of Hamilton Avenue and Westmoreland Street and engaged architect W.W. Franklin to design a new house for the family. It was built by contractor William Gilfillen at a cost of $11,000. Two notices of Permits," The Western Architect and Builder, Vol. 24, No. 30, July 25, 1907, p. 5). The house remained in the Bullerdick family until 1957, when it was sold to K.G. Seitz, a certified public accountant, and his wife, Betty. The present owner bought the house from Mrs. Seitz in 1999. W.W. Franklin, architect. According to architectural historian Walter E. Langsam, William W.
Franklin (1848-1918) "was one of Cincinnati's most prominent architects in the late 19t century. He was evidently a prolific and more than competent designer, especially of houses, some for quite prominent citizens..." (Langsam, Biographical the later 19th and early 20th centuries.
Although little is known about his English New, York, New Orleans, and Chicago) his background obviously gave him a broad exposure and a more cosmopolitan outlook than most of his contemporaries working in various late Victorian modes, but was always in the stylistic vanguard and evidently helped to introduce both Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts/Bungalow/Foursquare style houses and their new compositional and exceptionally high quality in their craftsmanship and materials, and he ranged from large mansions for wealthy clients to relatively modest houses for middle class families, which was unusual for the time. (Patrick Snadon) Despite Franklin's earlier prominence, however, he is little-known today. Of his large and varied body of work, it is mostly the residences that have survived. "Known Dictionary).
(8-86) the construction of the house appeared in the Western Architect & Builder (*Building The residence was completed the same year. planning features to Cincinnati. The remaining buildings known by him are of W.W.Franklin was one of the most talented architects working in Cincinnati in in Cincinnati during this period.He seemed to have great stylistic and flexibility, training and American practice (although he is said to have worked in Boston, 1894),Roberta (1899),Winifred (1904) and Weldon (1909).The family resided at 4217 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E.
and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio examples of Franklin's work are relatively few, although he was apparently proficient in Bonneville, " National Register nomination, 1983). Franklin was born and educated in England and emigrated to the United States in 1866. He served as professor of architecture at the Ohio Mechanics Institute, a technical school, in Cincinnati for at least five years (ibid.). Among the popular architects of Cincinnati who are responding to a higher standard of excellence is Mr. W. W. Franklin. This gentleman is a native of London, England, and in 1864 went to New Orleans, where he remained two years, and then returned to Europe to finish his professional education. He studied under the best masters in London and parish for two years, and passed his examinations with signal success, carrying of honors in the general competitions.
Subsequently he returned to America and went to Chicago at the time of the great fire, and remained there for some time. After making two more trips to England he came to Cincinnati, where he has built up a large and influential patronage. He is an expert in his profession, an excellent artist, - and has the demeanor of a thorough gentleman. He is prepared to execute all Century [George G. Fetter Company, 1904], p. 163) Franklin's earlier works, executed in the 1880s and 1890s, are in the Queen Anne style. Places, 1985), the home of industrialist Frederick Lunkenheimer in the Walnut Hills of High Victorian eclectic architecture, blending elements of the Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival and Italianate styles in an eccentric, even jarring composition. The asymmetrical façade is laid in hard-fired red brick and wrapped with belt and string courses of smooth-dressed sandstone.
Important details include a two-story corner bay, off-center belvedere, decorative wall dormers, mixed lintel treatment and roofline urns. Little of the original interior of The Ingelheim survives. The building has been used as offices for many years and some of the rooms have been partitioned to create numerous (8-86) small offices. commissions. Ben La Bree, Notable Men of Cincinnati at the beginning of the 20th These early Franklin designs include"The Ingelheim"(National Register of Historic and Chateauesque.He seems to have had a special interest in conical roof turrets, utilizing them on both commercial and residential properties.."(James H.Biddle,"Cote Page 7 the styles common to the late 19* century: Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Romanesque Section8 neighborhood.Built in 1883,The Ingelheim,or"Angel's Home,"is a striking example NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio In 1902 Franklin designed "Cote Bonneville," a stone chateau for Napoleon DuBrul in the Mt. Airy neighborhood (National Register, 1983). The house is described by Walter Langsam as "an austere transition between Richardsonian Romanesque and Chateauesque, but rather late for both" (Walter Langsam, personal communication). Perhaps Franklin's best-known residential commission of the 1890s was "Wiladel," the Colonial Revival-style home of jeweler William Oskamp and his wife, Adele, located in the Westwood neighborhood.
Built in 1895, Wiladel was "quite ahead of its time, both as refined and quite convincing Colonial Revival and also in the use of different styles and materials for different room-functions and genders...." (ibid.). ...Wiladel is one of the first convincing American Colonial Revival houses in the Cincinnati area, at least on the outside.... With the pale yellow brick surface, which suggests New England clapboard, the harmonious light color-scheme contrasts with the vivid yet dark colors characteristic of the High Victorian era. The massing is basically symmetrical, or at least balanced, with a round tower on one side matched by a rectangular bay on the other, and the overall effect, with the low hipped roofs and broad modillioned eaves, is horizontal. The delicate Neo-Classical railings of the .
porch...also emphasize the horizontal, with only the slight break of a "swan's neck" pediment topped by an urn to mark the central entrance, which has a restrained Palladian motive above. The slender paired porch columns are widely spaced, like most of the openings. Railings at the edges of the lower roofs, which seldom survive, Langsam, Great Houses of the Queen City [1997), pp. 102-103) Although its spaces open into each other through wide doors and are linked by the huge central hall, the interior of the Oskamp House retains the stylistic and functional diversity of a late Victorian period interior. Each main room evokes a different historic style, with a good deal of eclectic pastiche. The "feminine" reception room to the right of the entrance, however, is a quite convincing and consistent Rococo recreation...
Each of the other reasons also showcases a different wood for the finely carved woodwork, as well as symbolic ornament appropriate to its function... [The] hall combines [a] delicate Federal-style decorative vocabulary...with references to the medieval great hall. (Langsam, Great Houses, ibid.) (8-86) have dainty urn-topped posts spanned by Chinese Chippendale fretwork.(Walter E. Section _8_ Page 8 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio the Arts & Crafts movement and Colonial Revival styles were felt in his work. "After seems to have developed a most satisfying version of the Arts & Crafts, almost American Four-Square" (Langsam, personal communication).
The symmetrical balance, light colors, and refined classical palette of "Wiladel" can be seen in the Bullerdick House, built a decade later. The interior plan of the Bullerdick House also strongly resembles that of the Oskamp House, on a smaller scale. At the same time, however, the influence broad eaves, low, hipped roof, and simplified detailing. Franklin designed a residence similar to the Bullerdick House at 501 Howell Avenue in Clifton. Built in 1916, a decade after the Bullerdick residence, the Howell Avenue house is cubical in form, with a side-hall plan. Although similar in massing, materials and overall effect to the Bullerdick House, it has a more overtly Arts and Crafts/Craftsman flavor, with simplified detailing.
The full-width porch, with paired wooden posts, was apartments and stripped of much of its interior detailing by a previous owner (Sandra Hamilton, personal communication). (Photo 16) Franklin also designed the Kull House, a Craftsman Foursquare at 2812 Harrison Avenue in Westwood, built in 1915. A side-hall dwelling of vertical massing, the Kull House features a sturdy brick porch, stone voussoirs and unusual Prairie-style stone "strip" moldings. Like the Bullerdick House, it features Pedretti murals and stenciling. A 2003 survey recommended the house for National Register listing as part of a cluster of stylish residences at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Werk Road. (Photo 17) In the opinion of Langsam, Franklin's Eclectic designs compare favorably with those of other architects of the period.
"While other local architects worked in the same vein during the same period, executing similar residences in the Hyde Park, East Walnut Hills, One of Franklin's last works was the Woodward Theater, a 1915 movie house in Stripped Neoclassical style, located on Main Street in the Over-the-Rhine Historic District (ibid). (8-86) the turn of the last century Franklin, perhaps under the influence of his son J. Ward, partly glass-enclosed at construction or soon after.The house was divided into and North Avondale neighborhoods, for instance, Franklin's certainly hold their own.." of the Italian Renaissance style can be seen in the Bullerdick House's horizontal lines, The Bullerdick House represents the later phase of Franklin's career,as the influence of Page 9 Section_8 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio (National Register, 1983). The broad façade of the theater, with segmentally arched blind bays, is clad in glazed white brick. The Pedretti family. The Pedretti family of Cincinnati produced two generations of fresco painters, artistic plasterers and interior decorators, who worked on some of the were the city's best-known muralists and professional decorative painters of the time. They were best known for their lush, romantic imagery, including arabesques, flowers to decorative painting, the Pedrettis also specialized in ornamental plasterwork and art The family patriarch, Francis Pedretti (1829-1891), immigrated to Cincinnati in 1854 to decorate one of the city's leading hotels.
In 1886 he was succeeded by his sons, Raphael M. ((1860-1929) and Charles A. Pedretti (b. 1864), who formed the partnership of F. Pedretti's Sons. By 1894 the firm had work in 18 states. Among the Pedrettis' leading commissions was the Montana State Capital. The interior of the Montana Capitol belongs to an earlier time. The halls and public rooms are merrily adorned in a flowery opera-house style common to the Gilded Age. F. Pedretti's Sons, interior decorators of Cincinnati, were engaged to so the entire job... Some of the decorative panels were executed in Cincinnati, then applied to the walls with lead paste, varnished, and framed in plaster moldings. Arabesques, filigree, rosettes, and exotic faces frosted the main walls approaching the main stair. (Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Temples of Democracy- The State Capitols of the U.S.A.
[Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976]) The Pedrettis also executed six paintings on the ceiling of the Senate Chambers. Executed in a realistic style, they depict various historical themes relating to Montana. The paintings are oil on canvas and vary in size from 14' x 17 to 14' x 8 1/2'. In 1901 the firm painted ceiling murals for an addition to the Ohio Statehouse (National landscapes, juxtaposed with panels depicting filigree architectural ironwork. glass. (8-86) and female figures in flowing drapery, as well as allegorical themes.They created Historic Landmark).Darkened with age, the paintings depict female figures in natural Section _8 Page 10 stenciled borders in a flat, conventionalized manner, using deep, rich colors. In addition city's most important buildings from the mid-19" through early-20 centuries.They NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio In Cincinnati, the Pedrettis secured a $25,000 contract to paint the ceiling of the Council walls, frieze and ceiling coffers can be glimpsed in a photograph of the room taken shortly after the building's completion. The official dedication program, dated May 13, frescoed with seals of the nation, of the state, of the county and of the city." The designs in the 1930s, and it is not known how much of the work actually survives underneath. A small section of the ceiling was uncovered in 2006 as a possible first step toward A small allegorical mural can still be seen on the ceiling of the Plum Street entrance to City Hall.
It depicts eight nymphs holding books, a telescope, a lute and a glass ribbon of life beginning with the birth of a child. A fragment of a stenciled border in a flat, conventionalized design was uncovered on an adjacent wall. In 1894 the firm of Samuel Hannaford & Sons Architects published a portfolio of their work, including the newly completed Cincinnati City Hall. F.Pedretti's Sons, who worked on many Hannaford projects, placed a full-page advertisement evocative of their work. The trompe l'oeil illustration depicts a lissome, half-draped young woman, pulling back a heavy curtain to reveal a fashionable drawing room whose walls and ceiling are frosted with delicate plasterwork. In the corner, supporting an entablature, stands a column twined with faux foliage.
In 1890 the Pedrettis repainted the interior of the Plum Street Temple (1864-1866; National Historic Landmark) in downtown Cincinnati. "The spectacular, recently (Walter E. Langsam, "Architecture in Cincinnati: A Guide to Nationally Significant Buildings and Their Architects in the Greater Cincinnati Area," 1999). Other leading commissions from F. Pedretti's Sons that have survived to the present day include the stenciled dado at Calvary Episcopal Church (William Tinsley, 1868) in the Clifton Avenue Historic District (National Register, 1979) a "Good Government" mural at the West End Bank (Weber, Werner & Atkins, 1913-1914) in the Lower Price Hill Historic District, and elaborate stenciled ceilings at the William Resor House (1843, with restoration.
(8-86) restored interior is exotically stencilled in saturated colors, with Hebrew inscriptions..." also included "cherubs and artistic figures."The murals were covered with acoustical tile laboratory container, symbolizing the arts and sciences. The figures are surrounded by a 1893,provides further description of the chambers:"The panels of the ceilings are Chamber in City Hall (1887-1893;National Register,1972). Rich stenciling on the Section Page 11 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio wall and ceiling paintings" (Langsam, Great Houses, p. 43) for the Henry Probasco House (1867; National Register, 1972) in Clifton, a Norman Romanesque "castle" designed by William Tinsley.
In 1905, Raphael and Charles Pedretti dissolved their partnership and established separate throughout the Hamilton County Memorial Building (1908; National Register, 1978) in Room, one of the main reception rooms, is embellished with acanthine garlands and l'oeil drapery complete with ribbon garlands and fringe, in shades of gold and brown, highlights the Gold Room across the hall. The artwork was restored and recreated during a comprehensive renovation of the building in the 1990s. Charles Frederic Goss' Cincinnati: The Queen City, 1788-1912 (The S.J. Clarke private residences decorated by Charles A. Pedretti's firm in the early 1900s. Twelve of these buildings have been demolished, including the H.H. Richardson-designed Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce building, which was destroyed by fire in 1911.
Four of the ensembles have been obliterated by remodeling, or hidden under layers of paint. Clifton (National Register, 1973), and the First English Lutheran Church in Over-the- (8-86) the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, a Beaux-Arts Classical edifice built to honor local later additions) in the Clifton Avenue district.Francis Pedretti supplied stylish stenciled veterans and pioneers.Patriotic eagles and flags adorn the theater/auditorium.The Green Publishing Company,1912) references nine public and commercial buildings and 24 Rhine.The disposition of the artwork in the remaining 18 buildings is unknown. stylized florals similar to those found in the entry hall of the Bullerdick House.Trompe firms.Raphael Pedretti's firm may be responsible for the painted frescoes and stenciling Such was the fate of the wall and ceiling stenciling in the George B.
Cox House in Section _8 Page 12 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio undated, archival photograph of the house, taken soon after its construction, looks to the outside of the house: a balustrade has been removed from the upper story of the portico, likely because of deterioration, and the tile roof has been replaced with asphalt shingles. The house has recently been renovated after years of neglect and is in very good transparent and does not block the view of the side yard from Hamilton Avenue. Likewise, the wood privacy fence surrounding the rear yard does not have a major visual impact because it is visible for the most part only from Westmoreland Avenue. condition.
(8-86) Integrity Considerations have been made to its surroundings. An iron security fence was added to the south side of the property in the late-19th-century. Its impact is reduced because it is largely The house's lot size has remained unchanged since construction. Two minor changes remarkably like a present-day view. Only two minor changes appear to have been made The Bullerdick House has been little changed on the exterior since construction.An Therefore, the Bullerdick House retains a high degree of integrity under all its aspects. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Page 1 Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section 9. Major Bibliographical References Biddle, James H.
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Personal communication to Margaret Warminski, October 1, 2006. Samuel Hannaford & Sons, Architects. Selections From Executed Work and Sketches. Cincinnati: Benson, Boyd & Harvey, 1894. Haverstock, Mary Sayre, et al, eds. Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900. Kent, Ohio, and London: The Kent State University Press, 2000. (8-86) "Annual Preservation Awards Recognize Achievements," Cincinnati Preservation Department of the Census.Twelfth Census of the United States. Schedule No.1 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Temples of Democracy - The State Capitols of the U.S.A, 3rd ed. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
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and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Available online at www.realtor.org/rmoprint.nsf. Accessed December 26, 2006. . "The American Foursquare." Available online at http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Foursquare.htm Accessed February 5, 2007. Accessed October 10, 2006. Online Resources (8-86) Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Ohio. Available online at www.oplin.org. Craven, Jackie.Architecture Coach: Simple Appeal: The American Foursquare." Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property_less than one acre, Cincinnati West quadrangle (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 16 712405 4337898 (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) 11.
Form Prepared By Date February 28, 2007 street & number 342 West Fourth Street telephone 513-721-4506 _state Ohio 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 Sandra Louise Hamilton street & number_4321 Hamilton Avenue Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.
Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Photographs Maps Telephone_513-541-6755 Additional Documentation Boundary Justification zip code 45202 Additional items Zone Easting Northing Continuation Sheets organization Cincinnati Preservation Association Property Owner Verbal Boundary Description UTM References city or town Cincinnati - See continuation sheet. name/title Margaret Warminski, Preservation Director A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property. the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Page 20 Section . Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio the City of Cincinnati. It includes, in its entirety, Parcel 196-0026-0170-00 of the refer to map with boundary line drawn. Catherine Bullerdick House. It includes sufficient acreage to enclose the house, its This boundary contains all the property presently associated with the Frederick E.
and (8-86) Verbal Boundary Description Verbal Boundary Justification Section 10. Geographical Data not associated with the house. The Frederick E.and Catherine Bullerdick House is located within the corporate limits of gardens and garage while excluding surrounding properties under different ownership or Hamilton County Auditor's records. The nominated area comprises.345 acre.Please NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Description, direction: View of entrance hall, looking toward front doorway. View to Photo 8 Description, direction: Main staircase. View to the west. Photo 9 Photo 10 Description, direction: Detail view of stenciled ceiling in music room.
Photo 12 Description, direction: Dressing room, located at east end of second floor of house. View Description, direction: Master bedroom, located in southeast corner of second floor of house. View to the southeast. Photo 14 Description, direction: Main (west) façade of the Adams/Woolley House, an American Foursquare residence. View to the northeast. Photo 15 Description, direction: Main (north) façade and east elevation of 501 Howell Avenue, an American Foursquare residence designed by W.W. Franklin. View to the southwest. Photo 16 (8-86) the east. Section PHOTOS Page 22 Interior Views Description, direction: Living room (former dining room). View to the northeast. Contextual Views Description, direction:Dining room (former living room).View to the east. to the southeast. Photo 13 Photo 11 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section 12. Additional Information Exterior Views Location: Hamilton Avenue Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio (same for all photographs) Photographer: Margaret Warminski (same for all photographs) Date: February 1, 2007 (same unless noted otherwise) Description, direction: Streetscape view of the west side of Hamilton Avenue, looking toward the Bullerdick House. View to the southwest. Description, direction: Main (east) façade of the Bullerdick House. View to the west. Description, direction: Entry porch. View to the west. Description, direction: Main façade and south elevation. View to the northwest. Description, direction: North elevation; partial view of main facade.
View to the Description, direction: Rear (west) elevation; partial view of north elevation. View to Description, direction: Garage. View to the southwest. southwest. (8-86) the southeast. Name:Frederick E.and Catherine Bullerdick House(same for all photographs) Location of negatives: Ohio Historic Preservation Office (same for all photographs) Photo 7 Section PHOTOS Page 21 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Bullerdick, Frederick E. and Catherine, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Description, direction: Main (south) façade of the Kull House, an American Foursquare residence designed by W.W. Franklin. View to the north. Photo 17 (8-86) Section PFOTOS Page 23 Frederick E. and Catherine Bullerdick House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Archival view (c.
1907) Built1907-1909 Frederick E. and Catherine Bullerdick House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio First floor plan KITCHEN DINING Frederick E. and Catherine Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Second floor plan Bullerdick House 2Nd flooR BATH HAMILTON AVE. Frederick E. and Catherine Bullerdick House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio HAMICTON AVE. Third floor plan BedRM EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the REJECT TELEPHONE DATE DISCIPLINE REVIEWER 12/21/07 RETURN MULTIPLE 12/12/07 11/07/07 RECOM./CRITERIA PDIL: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OTHER: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs.
REASONS FOR REVIEW: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 12.20.07DATE Sntered in tbe STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton REQUEST: N N SLR DRAFT: N SAMPLE: ACCEPT NATIONAL: 4321 bullerdick touse Puoto 7 OHIO_HAMILTON CO 10 712405 4337818 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CINCINNATI WEST QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CINCINNATI WEST, OHIO Bullerick, Frederick Catherine House MAP EXPRESS, INC. Fax: 303-938-0550 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY House
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