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1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 7 Page 1 The Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms building is an impressive eleven-story structure located on the southwest corner of The surrounding area is commercial and institutional in nature with low-rise commercial buildings directly across Carnegie Avenue, a number of surface parking lots to the west and south, and institutional buildings for Case Western University to the north and east. The building is close to the University Circle area, which also houses the Cleveland Art Museum and the Natural History Museum. Carnegie Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare leading from downtown constructed with a steel frame structure and a brick and limestone exterior.
It has extensive surface treatment and decorative detailing that contribute to highly-textured surfaces. The building was constructed as a clubhouse and residential facility for Cleveland Club members. It also served as the Tudor Arms Hotel, which was contained in the upper floors with the lower floors still used by Cleveland Club members and more recently as housing/educational uses as part of Case Western University. The building form is articulated as a three-story rectangular base, a U-shaped plan for floors 4-11, a decorative parapet and a two-story tower set back slightly from the parapet at the northeast corner; a four-story wing is located on the west spaces. The lower floors housed commercial uses (storefronts), major public spaces including both recreational facilities designed for sleeping rooms for club members and their guests.
Due to its corner location, the building consists of two primary elevations: one facing Carnegie Avenue (photos # 1-3) entrances into the building along Carnegie Avenue - one with access to the main lobby and the other which led directly limestone detailing and feature double doors within Tudor-arched openings with tri-partite windows above. (photo #5) The storefronts along these elevations feature large segmental-arched storefront windows with separate Tudor-arched entrances. The storefront area on the east elevation and the northeast corner of the north elevation is faced with limestone. (photos # 6, 7) Another storefront area is located beneath the Crystal Ballroom at the west end of this (photo # 8) The lower level windows on the north and east elevations carry through the Tudor Revival theme with many in the Tudor-arch and segmental-arch form with stone hoodmoulds.
A balcony level with a decorative stone balustrade is (8-86) Exterior Narrative Description Carnegie Avenue and East 107" Street. The main entrances to the building are accentuated with two-story carved elevation. This area also had a limestone facing but it appears that the current projecting storefront was added later. to the early 2o" century eastern suburbs of East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and Shaker Heights. The building is Carnegie Avenue and East 107"h Street on Cleveland's east side. The building's design, which accentuates the corner of the building with a tower and extensive corner detailing, and its large scale contribute to its presence in the streetscape. constructed close to the street in an urban setting. It is eclectic in style with Tudor/Gothic Revival elements and is side of the building.
The form of the building and the fenestration patterns indicate the interior plan and hierarchy of to the below-grade recreational facilities and the Crystal Ballroom. There were also commercial spaces facing both NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 7 Page 2 located above the third floor on the Carnegie Avenue elevation. (photos #2-7) The Carnegie Avenue elevation of the west wing of the building, which contains the Crystal Ballroom, features a two-story window with stone mullions, and carved stone surround in a Tudor-arch design.
Two smaller windows on the second floor and three large windows on Windows at the fourth and eleventh floors feature segmental arches, while the remaining upper floors are simple thistle medallions at the top further enhance this upper portion of the building. (photos #2, 3, 4) The corner tower, which rises two stories above the main block of the building, is comprised of a central square section and four detached octagonal turrets. (photos #2, 3) The tower accentuates the northeast corner, as does the elaborate stone architectural detailing on the lower floors. This detailing includes an angled corner with stone quoins on the sculpture is a carved stone balcony and two-story stone window surrounds. Flanking this composition are two other limestone decorative motifs and limestone coping Tudor arch lintel with finial is above the recessed door.
Three Tudor-arched tri-partite windows are on the ground floor. The building is U-shaped above the fourth floor until the western three bays, where the building is only five stories high. brick above the third floor and the stringcourse is over the second story windows. The five-story west elevation is located next to a vacant lot and is without fenestration. (photo #1) The roofline is partially crenellated. Above this section can be seen the west elevation of the main block of the building. Here the elevation mirrors that of the south elevation, including three-over-three windows and crenellated parapet with stone The building was constructed to serve as both a private club and a residential facility. The first five floors were devoted coping. Interior (8-86) upper floors is enlivened with slightly projecting brick piers separating the window bays.
Decorative bases and stone 107 and a rear entry. The first bay has limestone detailing including window surrounds and a balustrade that continues The rest of the windows are rectangular three-over-three with soldier course lintels and stone sills. This shorter section of the building contains the crystal ballroom and squash and handball courts. Here the wall is solid second and third floors terminating in a carved niche with a sculpture of Moses Cleaveland, the city's founder; above the the fourth floor share the same detailing. A stone-capped crenellated parapet completes the design. (photo #8) rectangular windows with flat lintels. Windows retain original three-over-three sash. The fenestration pattern on the two-story window compositions highlighted with stone window surrounds and carved-stone railings. These exist on around the corner.
The rear entry has a smooth limestone surround with crenellated top. (photo #12) A projecting floors five and six in this corner of the building. (photos #9, 10) The cornice level features a crenellated parapet with The south elevation, facing Wilber is fairly plain, (photos #4, 11) with ornamentation limited to the first bay from E. (See also c.1939 floor plans and Cleveland Club Today booklet for interior descriptions) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 7 rental hotel rooms for members. on three sides, with the original balcony rail intact. The pool is still in use. The much smaller women's pool, known as features include floor tiles and wainscoting.
A five-lane bowling alley was also located in the basement, but the bowling lanes have been removed. Locker rooms are still in use. (photo #15) The first floor was designed with several retail spaces with the main lobby raised above street level. The main entrance The building's major public spaces were located on the second floor. The Tudor Room and the Crystal Ballroom are both two-story spaces. The Tudor Room is the more informal space with a balcony on three sides with decorative rail The room also contains a stone fireplace with carved wood overmantlepiece. (photos#19-21) The Crystal Ballroom is Neo-Classical Revival in style and features a stage with broken pediment proscenium arch at one end. Metal balcony rails are at the third story clerestory windows.
The ceiling is intricately detailed and original Other intact features include wood flooring, decorative window and door surrounds, and chandeliers. Window frames the exterior. (photos #22 - 23) Smaller dining rooms were also located on the second floor. A wide hallway with paneled wall panels and parquet wood large kitchen area provided the service for the entire second floor. A separate exterior entrance serviced the Crystal Ballroom at the western end of the building. A small vestibule with ornate decorative plaster led to a staircase with paneled wainscoting and decorative iron stair balustrade. Tall windows fill this stairwell with daylight.(photos #25-26) The third floor contained offices, as well as smaller meeting/parlor rooms for use by members. The clerestory for both the Tudor Room and Crystal Ballroom takes up much of the space on this floor level.
The fourth floor contained a exterior balcony) on the north side, and an apartment and several sleeping rooms (now offices) along the east side of the building. The hallway on this floor is fairly narrow and retains marble wainscoting and original doors and frames with transoms above. (photos # 27-28) (8-86) Page_3 with mirror inserts line the west wall and lend a formality and symmetry to the space, when in fact, it is a blank wall from pool, known as the Roman Pool, is the larger of the two. (photo # 13) It features Doric columns supporting a balcony of this period. The original wood flooring is still visible in the seating area of the lobby. (photos # 17, 18) Two swimming pools, locker rooms and a former bowling alley are located in the basement. The rectangular men's opens into a small foyer with decorative plaster wall and ceiling ornamentation.
(photo #16) A flight of steps leads to and heavy timber supports. The dark-colored wood ceiling has exposed beams. Original chandeliers remain in place. combination of sports facilities (racquetball and squash courts along the west side), three lounge spaces (one with an the main lobby, with its dark wood paneling giving it the solid and elegant appearance one might expect in a private club NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 7 Page _4 Some of the rooms were larger than others and were more like small efficiency apartments, however without kitchens, since the members took their meals at the club. These floors had wider hallways with plain plaster finishes, the rooms were very simply finished as well.
(photos # 29-30) The elevator lobbies feature two elevators and an open stairway, which extends for the entire height of the building. The staircase retains its original decorative metal railing. (photos #31-32) materials and craftsmanship of the original design and construction. Although the building has changed uses, it has always been largely residential (private club, hotel and dormitory) and the significant public spaces remain intact. The building never had any additions. (8-86) Integrity 20" century. In this case, the influence of English architecture, with the frequent use of Tudor arches; carved stone spaces.
The amount of historic fabric remaining in the major public spaces is very high and represents the quality of The Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms building retains a very high degree of historic integrity of location, design, materials, hoodmolds, leaded glass windows and stone fireplace in the Tudor Room, and the wood paneled lobby and other public Floors five through eleven were designed with living accommodations for"bachelor"members and for members'guests. craftsmanship, feeling and association. The original design elements reflect the popularity of revival styles in the early NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Statement of Significance The Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms building is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for its C as an excellent example of early 20* century revival architecture designed by prominent Cleveland architects Meade & Hamilton. The Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms building was constructed during the era when private clubs were popular Square in downtown Cleveland, reflects the gradual move of the population to suburban communities surrounding the city. On the east side of the city, these suburban communities included East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights.
Meade and Hamilton was a well known and prolific Cleveland firm, which was responsible for the design of six club buildings in Cleveland and the nominated building is an excellent representative of their forte in private club design. Because of Cleveland's rapid industrial expansion of the late 19"h and early 20" centuries, the city experienced significant same time, the desire to live in the country away from the noise, pollution, and congestion of the city and the east side of Cleveland attracted many of the city's more affluent residents. to privately finance new streetcar lines to their housing developments. The Garden City landscape design movement was at the height of its popularity as the east side was being developed. Many developers used this naturalistic planned well as Shaker Heights are all examples of the Garden City movement.
Here, high-style houses on spacious lots became the fashionable place to live for Cleveland's business and professional class. Additionally the eastern suburbs were adjacent to recreational and cultural amenities. Public parks along Doan Brook on the east side were established around the turn of the century. Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, both the Cleveland Museum of Art (1916) and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1920) were opened in nearby University Circle. Two major institutions of higher education - Case School and Western Reserve University (later a private social club for the city's wealthy and elite, was formed social, recreational, and professional outlets. Its location on East Carnegie Avenue, approximately four miles from Public Page_5 Section_8 (8-86) population growth.
As the city grew, the need for housing increased and the boundaries of the city expanded. At the General History Case-Western University)were also located in this area of the city.It was within this context that the Cleveland Club, as The electric streetcar system and later the automobile facilitated suburban growth. Some land developers went so far as transportation to make it possible provided the impetus for development of many of Cleveland's first ring suburbs. The design philosophy for their subdivision plats. The Euclid Golf and Ambler Heights subdivisions in Cleveland Heights as association with the development of a private social/recreational club in early 2o" century Cleveland and under Criterion NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section Cleveland Club History The Cleveland Club was incorporated in1925 with offices at 467 Erie Building. It was a private club with membership coming from the invitation of existing members. The club was formed with the purpose of targeting members from the University Circle community, residents of the newly developing east side suburban communities, as well as from the faculty of Case School and Western Reserve University. well as provide a central luncheon spot that could serve the burgeoning business and manufacturing enterprises of the The site belonged to Minerva A. Hughes and S. Edmund Counter who leased it to the Cardo Co., which in turn leased it to the Cleveland Club.
The chosen site was in the heart of the university and museum district. It was determined that the membership needed to be grow to at least 600 before construction could begin. Membership was only half that Two-million dollars was budgeted for the construction of the new club building. A rendering from an early club brochure This was the original design, which was published for the Cleveland Club. (8-86) Land was secured through a 99-year lease, at the corner of Carnegie Avenue and E. 107t Street, in 1925 for the indicates that the building was originally envisioned as being Neo-Classical in style. (Attachment C) A later sketch which (Attachment D) CLEVELAND CLUB purposes of constructing a club building.The strategic location would conveniently serve the targeted membership as Page _6 city's east side.
appeared in the December 19, 1925 Cleveland Town Topics magazine more closely matches the built design. amount when the campaign of"The members get the members"began. ("Cleveland Club,"Cleveland Town Topics) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 8 Page 7 The Cleveland architectural firm of Meade and Hamilton, with Frank B. Meade as lead architect, was chosen to design graduate who worked in Chicago for Jennie and Mundie. In addition to buildings for social clubs, he also designed a Meade & Hamilton completed 6 club buildings.
Meade, an active club member (Union, Roadside, Euclid, and Century Meade also playeda leading role in developing the Group Plan in Cleveland, appointed secretary of the Group Plan Commission in 1911. Meade's colleagues on the commission were prominent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead of Boston and sculptor Arnold Brunner of New York City. Meade was a member and president of the American Institute of Architects, Cleveland Chapter." (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History) Before partnering with Meade worked on his own from 1904 until he formed a partnership with Hamilton in 1911. James Montgomery partnership with Meade. On November 15, 1926 Sam W. Emerson Co. was awarded the contract for the construction of the building's Reserve University president, Dr. Robert E. Vinson, had been president of the Cleveland Club since its founding. A bust gala events.
Operating staff for the new building came from other esteemed Cleveland establishments such as Willowick Country Club, Hotel Hollenden, and Wade Park Manor. Although the club was patterned after other private mens' clubs popular at the time, the club's location and promotional material made the facilities accessible to the entire family. A marketing publication, Cleveland Club Today - Let's Look into Your Family's Club, eloquently states the attraction of the club for every member of the family. "Cleveland Club stands at the crossroads of Cleveland... to the North stretch miles of beautiful parks, the center of the city's cultural spread wide the residential districts from whose fine homes come wives and children for social life and exercise in their beautifully appointed club. To the South sprawls one of the world's greatest industrial areas.
From factories and foundries busy executives hurry to their convenient club for a few hours of soothing relaxation from the grinding pace. To the West stands the business section. At the close of the day come businessmen who stop on their way home from the office for an hour of sports at their club. In the center of this activity Cleveland Club stands ready to serve you and your family at the crossroads of your daily life." The entire family was invited to join, but the facilities were still dining and meeting facilities. The club was promoted and known as being a "club within a club" because of the dual A four-day celebration from the June 3rd to the 7tm was held. By this time membership had reached 1500. Western (8-86) Hamilton, Meade had partnerships with Alfred Granger (1896-97), followed by one with Abram Garfield (1898-1904). segregated in some cases.
For example, the mens' and women' pools were separate, yet they shared many common delayed and the building did not open until June 1930. It was over budget by $500,000. foundation. At this time it was anticipated that the club would open on New Year's Day, 1928. Construction was designing hundreds of houses, particularly for Cleveland industrialists and professional men."Meade was an MIT life.From colleges and laboratories, come professional men to enjoy an hour of quiet leisure at their club.To the East Hamilton arrived in Cleveland in 19o1 after college graduation.He worked in the firm of Meade and Garfield before his in his honor was made by local artist, Coralie De Long Maxwell, and was presented to the club membership during the mumber of homes in the suburb of Cleveland Heights. "(www.emporis.com).
"In addition to their residential practice, clubs in Cleveland), was also an organizer and first president of the Hermit Club and designed that group's clubhouse. the building. The firm was formed in 1911 and continued until 1941. During that period, the firm is credited with NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 8 Page 8 for guests of club members and out-of-town members. A promotional brochure stated "Two hundred sleeping rooms of varying size, have been planned as to meet the requirements of taste and space...
Cleveland Club will prove a delightful Home for the man whose family is vacationing, or the Bachelor who would have companionship or privacy, at his pleasure." (Cleveland Club brochure) The success of the Cleveland Club was short lived, however. It went bankrupt and was placed in receivership in March and ownership passed to the Barto Co. of New York in April of that year. The Cleveland Club reincorporatedin August 1931and negotiated a new lease with the Barto Co., which allowed it to and the fee title to the land for $350,000. The new club was given until the following July to rebuild its membership to at least 500 and occupy the facility without rental fees before the 10 year lease started. New members were to purchase one share of common stock. The following year the Barto Co. undertook a $50,000 renovation the building.
This athletic facilities remained exclusively for the club members along with the dining rooms and lounges. A separate dining hotel rooms were available. The Cleveland Club and the Tudor Arms Hotel co-existed for ten years, until 1949 when the Cleveland Club folded The building was then converted to dorms for Case Western Reserve University.It was later used for the Cleveland Job Private clubs provided an important social outlet in turn-of-the-century Cleveland. The city had several clubs devoted to recreation, socializing, or professional pursuits. The first club to form in the city was the Union Club in 1872. A decade the dining rooms. (8-86) included new equipment, new squash courts, the combination of some rooms to make larger suites, and redecoration of Corps Center and functions as both an educational and residential facility.
1931, probably at least in part due to the beginning of the Depression. William Henry Barnum & Co., partial financiers Historic Context Hotel established by Melrose.He also operated hotels in Toledo and Buffalo, as well as others in Cleveland.The facilities.A 1925 article quoted an address from the membership committee,"It is to be a club for all the family with The Elks Lodge then occupied some of the former club spaces for several years.In 1963 the Tudor Arms Hotel closed.
of the building, brought foreclosure against the Cleveland Club.The building was sold at a sheriff's sale for $8oo,000 was made for the Cleveland Club to occupy the lower five floors, with the remainder being converted to the Tudor Arms departments for women and juniors." ("Cleveland Club," Cleveland Town Topics) The Cleveland Club also had a residential component with apartments for permanent residents, as well as hotel rooms later it had a dining room and lounge for women. The Union Club initially was an educational and athletic club, but ultimately became an important and influential social organization in the city. A number of other clubs were formed from room and cocktail lounge were provided for hotel guests on the first floor in a former commercial space. Two hundred NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 8 Page 9 the late 19"h century through the 1920s. These clubs were private and membership was by invitation only. There were Athletic Club (1910), Mid-Day Club (1928), National Town and Country Club (1930), and the Professional Men's Club luncheon club and the Women's City Club (1916), for civic-minded business women. The Depression was a difficult period, but all of the above clubs survived. The one exception was the National Town and Country Club which did not is now owned by Cleveland State University. houses. Larger clubs or those with wealthy memberships often chose to build new clubhouses that conveyed the club's country.
In Cleveland, the era of private clubhouse construction extended throughout the first three decades of the 20th As money was being raised for the construction of the Cleveland Club the leaders of the organization researched other club buildings to be sure that they were getting the best design for their members. "It is of interest that the builders of the Cleveland Club, of which Dr. Robert E. Vinson of Western Reserve University ispresident, have studied more than a dozen leading clubs scattered over the nation before they approved the plans for this structure.
They have outlining his vision of the new Cleveland Club, Dean Henry Turner Bailey of the Cleveland School of Art, told the banqueters: "The business man needs the professional man's point of view and the professional man needs the their weight on one side of a question to maintain the foundations of civilized life, will be found in Cleveland Club." ("Cleveland Club," Cleveland Town Topics) upper class and the upper middle class. Wealth was shifting from Cleveland proper to these new communities where the a concentration of cultural and educational facilities. (8-86) century. numerous clubs for men to aspire to joining, including the Tavern Club (1892), University Club (1898), Cleveland Desiring a strong club for the business men of the east side and the professional faculty of the adjacent universities, business man's point of view.
Co-operation with a civic scope, in which business men and professional men will throw opportunities for women outside of auxiliary type memberships, but there was the Intown Club (1928), a private not only a club for athletic pursuits to strengthen the body, but a club to strengthen social or business ties as well. "In Cleveland was an important development in the growth of the region. These planned communities were built for the of Cleveland (1930).Additionally there were the golf and country clubs of the suburbs. There were few club business elite, industrial magnates, and professionals were relocating.
In between the eastern suburbs and Cleveland was leaders of the Cleveland Club spoke out on the contributions that a club could make to modern business.It was tobe Not only was the Cleveland Club an up-and-coming new private club, but it was specifically seen by others as an Smaller clubs often rented space for their meetings while other clubs purchased existing buildings, especially older incorporated the best features of each they believe." (Cleveland Club Has Wide Field, 02/20/1928) appear in the Cleveland Blue Book in 1935 and sold its building on Euclid at East 24" Street to Fenn College in 1937. It important link from downtown to the eastern suburban communities. The rapidly growing cluster of new suburbs east of OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 8 Page 10 In a 1928 article the Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses the magnitude of this cultural center to Cleveland's growth and the east side in particular. Furthermore, it was specifically noted that the new Cleveland Club building was an important link in the east side development. "The development of the University Circle district, where the projected cultural center which will bring Western Reserve, Case, the Art School and Art Museum, the Museum of Natural one of the most interesting in the growth of industrial and residential Cleveland.
There is no doubt that this massing of educational units will have a decided bearing on realty about the entire section and that the steady march eastward will be accelerated thereby. Another development of marked importance is the new Cleveland Club. This club, costing concerns of the East Side, which already have large membership in it...
Situated at the gateway to the Heights, the new Cleveland Club will serve a unique purpose for the East End and eastern suburbs." (Cleveland Club Has Wide Field, 02/20/1928) Among the prominent members of the Cleveland Club were Henry Turner Bailey, Director of Cleveland School of Art; Cleveland's first city manager, credited with building parks, improving welfare institutions, beginning the Public Auditorium and development of Cleveland's municipal airport; Francis Prentiss, industrialist and philanthropist, who donated $6 million during his lifetime to St. Luke's Hospital and left it 70% of his estate; William Van Aken, real estate developer and the first mayor of Shaker Heights, serving from 1931 until his death in 1950; and Frederic Whiting, the first director of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The membership also included a large number of professionals and people associated with Cleveland businesses and industries. The Cleveland Club was founded during an important period of private club development in Cleveland and meets Criterion A for its association with this broad pattern of development of private clubs as an outlet for social, recreational and business pursuits. Architectural Context revival houses that they designed, the firm also designed six clubhouses in Cleveland. Meade in particular was an avid member of several clubs. In Cleveland he belonged to the Union, Roadside, Euclid, and Century clubs and was a founding member of the Hermit Club. In New York City he belonged to the Erie and Lambs clubs. Frank Meade was active in the architectural community of Cleveland.
He served as president of the Cleveland AIA chapter and was a leader in the Group Plan development of downtown Cleveland. Meade and Hamilton was an important firm designing hundreds of homes for Cleveland's industrial and business leaders. Many of these homes were in the developing and newly preferred suburbs east of Cleveland. According to (8-86) Harry Davis, four-term mayor of Cleveland (1916-20, 1933-35) and governor of Ohio (1921-23); William Hopkins, NPS Form 10-900-a History and the great Medical Center into one huge educational group without a superior anywhere in the world, is The Cleveland Club meets Criterion C as a good example of the work of a local master designer. Meade and Hamilton was a prominent architectural firm in the early decades of the 1900s in Cleveland. In addition to the hundreds of period NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section 8 Page 11 historian Eric Johannesen in Cleveland Architecture 1876-1976, "Meade and Hamilton built over eight hundred houses and six country clubs between Buffalo and Dayton during their career. ... The firm's clubhouse niche was likely partially due to Meade's various club memberships, but also to the firm's influential connections with Cleveland's upper class living in these new suburbs. The six clubhouse designs of Meade and Hamilton included the Hermit Club, 1928, (Tudor/Gothic Revival), the Shaker Heights Country Club, 1913, (Tudor and Carnegie, is a most notable addition to Cleveland's fine buildings.
Designed by the architectural firm of Meade and Hamilton, it takes rank as one of the outstanding club structures of the country."(The New Cleveland Club Opens Its Doors, 6/14/1930) Other Cleveland club buildings listed in the National Register include the Union Club, 1974, the Tavern Club, 1984, and the National Town and Country Club, 2003. The Cleveland Club fits squarely into the pattern of recreational clubs and exemplifies the era when clubs were considered an important part of a well-rounded social life. The building's architecture reflects the affluent membership's preference for the revival styles that were so popular during this time period. The newly-developed nearby suburbs of Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights are filled with examples of Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival and other styles of the period.
For example, in Cleveland Heights, there were three large estates built by members of the prominent Severance family - Glen Ellen, Ben Brae and Longwood - all in the Tudor/English Revival style. The design of the Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms coping and decorative detailing; Tudor arches and ogee arched doorways; crenellated parapets; and interior public spaces with carved woodwork and massive fireplaces. The Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms retains a very high degree of architectural integrity. Although it has had several uses throughout its life, it has retained a mix of residential, social and recreational uses. The exterior and major public spaces retain their original design, form, design and materials. The upper floors retain the original hallways, stairwells and circulation spaces, while the individual rooms remain simple in design and function.
The building clearly conveys its historic use and retains its character-defining features, its original materials, and fine craftsmanship. Integrity (8-86) architectural Revival), and the Mayfield Country Club, 1911(destroyed by fire in 1914). Upon the opening of the Cleveland Club, building possesses characteristics typical of its English precedents -masonry construction; stone mullions, quoins, Bystander magazine gave it high praise."This new club-located in the University district, at the corner of 107h street NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Cleveland City Directory. 1925-1974. Cleveland Club Today: Let's Look into Your Family's Club. Membership Booklet. Date Unknown.
"Cleveland Club Plans Gala Week To Open Home," Cleveland News, 5/24/1930. Haines Cleveland Address. 1985-2005 Johannesen, Eric. Cleveland Architecture 1876-1976. Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1979.. Monnett, James G., Jr. "Cleveland Club To Start Today," Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/16/1926. Monnett, James G., Jr. "Better Lease For Cleveland Club," Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/29/1935. (8-86) "Receiver Is Named for Cleveland Club," Unknown Source, 3/24/1931. Page_12 "Cleveland Club To Remain Open," Cleveland News, 3/29/1931. Monnett, James G., Jr. "New Club Makes Good Realty Deal," Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/14/1931. Monnett, James G., Jr."Cleveland Club Gets Bids Today,"Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/9/1926 "Cleveland Club," Cleveland Town Topics. 12/19/1925. Monnett, James G., Jr."Cleveland Club To Get New Lease,"Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/4/1933 Kalin, Robert, Editor.
Guide to Cleveland Architecture, AIA Cleveland Chapter, Cleveland, 1997. Monnett, James G., Jr. "Cleveland Club Much Improved," Cleveland Plain Dealer, 12/28/1932. Ford, S.S. "Cleveland Club Has Wide Field,"Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2/20/1928. Miller, Carol Poh and Robert Wheeler.Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1990, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1990. Bibliography Section _9 "New Cleveland Club Is Formed, Officers Named,"Cleveland Press, 8/18/1931. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Rose, William Ganson. Cleveland: The Making of a City, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. 1896/1910, 1952/1972.
"The New Cleveland Club Opens Its Doors," Bystander, 6/14/1930. Townsend, Helen deKay. Cleveland Blue Book, A Social Directory of Cleveland, Ohio and Suburbs. 1929, 1935 Van Tassel, David D. and John J. Grabowski, Editors. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Indiana University www.emporis.com, Cleveland Club. The boundary for the nominated property is Cuyahoga County Auditor's Parcel Id #119-25-001. Verbal Boundary Justification (8-86) The nominated boundary includes the property historically associated with the building. Section_9.10 Verbal Boundary Description Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1987. Page _13 1950. editions. USDI/NPS Registration Form Page 7 Cleveland Club Cuyahoga County, Ohio this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to Keeper, National Register of Historic Places, 1849 "C" Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Cleveland Club/Tudor Arms CONTINUATION SHEET Page 14 Photographer: Jeffrey Darbee 593 South Fifth Street Columbus, Ohio 43206 Date Taken: June, 2007 4. East and south elevations of building S. Detail of north (main) elevation of building 6. Detail of storefront level on east and south elevations of building 8. North (main) elevation of wing containing the Crystal Ballroom 9. Detail of northeast corner of building 14. Womens' swimming pool 15. Locker room 16. Entrance to main lobby vestibule 17. Main lobby looking from hallway 18. Main lobby looking toward entrance 20. Tudor Room, fireplace detail 21. Tudor Room, view from balcony 22. Crystal Ballroom, looking north 23. Crystal Ballroom, looking south toward stage 24. Hallway between Tudor Room and Crystal Ballroom 25.
Separate entrance and staircase to Crystal Ballroom 26. Staircase to Crystal Ballroom 28. Fourth floor space converted to offices 30. Typical upper floor room 31. Typical upper floor elevator lobby 32. Typical upper floor open staircase (8-86) Photographs 11.South (rear) elevation of building Section Photographs 27. Fourth floor hallway 2. North elevation of building 12.Detail of entrance at rear of building 1.North (main) and west (side) elevations of building 19. Tudor Room, looking south 29. Typical upper floor hallway 7. Detail of storefront and windows in Tudor Room on east elevation of building 3.View of north and east elevations and corner tower (in scaffolding) 10.Detail of window in northeast corner of building Benjamin D. Rickey & Co.
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1316 () ROOM NUMBER ASSIGNED EQUIR : ATTACHMENT B Lets look into Your Familys Club Cleveland, Cuyahega County.0H land, a center of activity, a dream fulfilled To the North stretch miles of beautiful parks, the of quiet leisure at their club. home from the office for an hour of sports at their club. This book is limited to two thousand copies of which this is Number 724 NORTH WEST SOUTH EAST rossroads ready to serve you and your family at the crossroads of laboratories, come professional men to enjoy an hour whose fine homes come wives and children for social In the center of this activity Cleveland Club stands executives hurry to their convenient club for a few hours of soothing relaxation from the grinding pace. your daily life.
To the East spread wide the residential districts from To the West stands the business section.At the close PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALBERT DUVAL center of the city's cultural life.From colleges and To the South sprawls one of the world's greatest in For of the day come business men who stop on their way life and exercise in their beautifully appointed club CLEVELAND CLUB stands at the crossroads ol Cleve Htach ment dustrial areas. From factories and foundries busy Attachment B their club and its place in the community. But even dustrial, and professional men have needed and wanted a convenient club near their homes and near their work. They wanted a club complete in every from out of town.
You want to put them up at your doing so you see things here that you have never to see it from top to bottom with a fresh view, to see of service, the height of comfort; to serve as the meet- how much more it offers than you thought, in equip- ment, in service, in activities: that is the purpose of this book. CLEVELAND CLUB'S members today are proud of club, you want to show them through it. And in CLEVELAND CLUB stands ready to serve you at the this community: that is the purpose of this club. and your family with the best of equipment, the finest crossroads of your daily life. For years, business, in. selves, the finest of social facilities for their families, seen before.Let us then look into your family's club, ing place for the cultural, social and business life of the height of comfort for their guests.To provide you detail, with the best of athletic equipment for them- offers.
Suppose that tonight you had guests coming the most active may not be aware of all that this club OUR FRIENDS are weary from their long trip. It will be several days before their house is ready sowe have naturally offered to put them up "Well, it certainly dominates this end of Cleveland." We explain to him that half of the building is reserved for members' gage as we enter our club. After we see them to their rooms they will be interested in dinner and entertainment, but right now both our friend and his wife are anxious to get their bags unpacked and rest a while. gaiety "That's Cleveland Club, your home for the week end." The quiet richness of the lobby brings expressions of surprise from As we drive along the avenue from downtown our guest who is silting sends it around to the club garage.
A bellboy follows us with the lug- ahead?" club and it towers above us, like a great fortress of good living and At the main entrance a beaming doorman helps us out of the car and other half is equipped for social and athletic use.We approach the name as we enter the elevator to go up to our rooms. at our club. WE ENTER OUR CLUB and guests' rooms, one hundred and eighty-four of them, and that the in the front seat asks, "What's the big building with the tower up ception desk.At the end of the lobby the bell captain greets us by our guests as we sponsor them and secure their guest cards at the re is through with his little ceremony of welcome.
"Well, this is like coming home," says our guest as he sinks into an easy to learn that each room had a bath equally as large and was as completely furnished were no more than standard for such excellence and that the entire club was makes us at home and is wishing us a pleasant evening before we realize he hallway with an arched ceiling. The boy unlocks the door to the apartment, in exclaiming over the large size of the bathroom, the excellence of the fur- By this time the women had finished their survey of the rooms. They came clubrooms start are seven floors completely furnished, for members and their They vary in size but they're all furnished with this sturdy oak furniture STEPPING OUT of the elevator on the top floor we go down a long quiet on a very reasonable basis.
nishings and the beauty of the view over the city.Our guests were impressed Yes, we have over a hundred members who live here in the house.This 'Some home.I'd like to live here myself if we didn't have the youngsters. is their home.The balance of the rooms are kept up for guests like yourselves. chair. "Are all the guest rooms like this?' WE GO TO OUR ROOMS "But it must cost an awful lot to live here!We explained that the rates 'Does anyone live here all the time?" Just wait until you see the dining room. that makes them so clublike.From this floor down to the fourth where the WE GO DOWN TO DINE meeting place with its red and black tile floor and heavy oak fur- and the maple furniture with the names of quaint old English inns our friends admitted that they had belter lake a tour through the upstairs. their parties to gather for dinner in the main dining room.
Hors d'oeuvres, consomme, prime roast beef so tender it melted in WHILE THE women were dressing for dinner we went down to Here on the third floor the women have their own cocktail lounge pressed with the medieval dignity of the big two-storied dining THE TUDOR ROOM a little page boy in white passed the relish tray.Then came dinner. waiter smartly uniformed in maroon and black took our orders and MEN'S GRILL guest who remarked about the he-man atmosphere of this men's the Men's Grill on the main floor for highballs before dinner. Here several other members came up and were introduced to our THE PICCADILLY ROOM Going down the wrought iron stairway lo the second floor we to dinner here and we met them on our way to join the ladies us and escorted us to a table in front of the windows. smartly gowned women were there with their escorts waiting for Here a niture. club.
when asked how they enjoyed their first meal in Cleveland Club. Several of the house members were already silting down with its huge log fireplace and comfortable chairs. Here gather groups for dinner or remarked by our guests as we enter. THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM THE LOUNGE ideal place for conferences and meetings.The room is set up now for a sales meeting THE WOMEN'S LOUNGE club parties. Here are held the Sunday Musicals.Here also is the auxiliary dining room and an dinner.
On nights of dinner dances a long bar is set up here for cocktail hour from seven until eight serve the ballroom as well as the Tudor and Empire Rooms.Over six hundred people JUST OUTSIDE the massive Tudor Room is the heart of Cleveland Club, the Lounge, the season's gayest parties.An ideal dance floor and a separate entrance from the THE EMPIRE ROOM dances or musicals.Here are reading tables and quiet comfort before and after Aptly called the city's most beautiful club ballroom, this great hall is the scene of may be served at one time, so complete is the table linen, china, and silver service.
Up the stairs of the Party Entrance is the Women's Lounge and checkroom.Here, Room with a maid in attendance is a gratifying last minute beauty aid at the many Avenue make it perfect for private as well as club parties.The club's great kitchens Htachment o overlooking the balcony of the ballroom is comfort and feminine dignity. A Powder INTERESTED, WE VISIT IMPRESSED, WE SEE.. THE LIBRARY ON THE FOURTH floor we find the Henry Turner Bailey Memorial Library, named in honor of the late beloved dean of the School of Art. Here our quests find comfort while enjoying a book from the shelves, or the view from the windows to the north This reading room with heavy red leather chairs and light reading matter opens out on a wide balcony over the Avenue.
Here on summer afternoons members and their quests rest after an hour of strenuous exercise in the gymnasium down the hall Sporting prints adorn the walls Room on the main floor. Here, off the Men's Grill, we find five tables kepi at the big room is busy with billiards or pool, cards or poker or just plain lounging THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT On our way to look at the athletic section of Cleveland Club, let's stop in the Health morning hours the Health Department is open to women. peak of condition. This big sunlit room, along with the Grill and Locker Room, forms Others relax at the sturdy card tables where card sessions are held every Monday. scotch hose, needle showers, hot rooms, sun lamps, massage tables all that you THE BILLIARD ROOM want in a health department, under careful supervision at nominal cost.
During the Leaving the women to chat in the library we go to inspect the Billiard and Pool and east. Truly a retreat for the studious and the weary. "Even as I,' says our guest, the center for the men's activity in the Cleveland Club.Every noon and night this relaxing in a deep chair. THE CARD ROOM Department, one of the finest anywhere. Here are electric cabinet baths, salt rubs, rooms adjaceni, this makes an ideal place io entertain your friends. and on Sunday afternoons. Besides, the women have the run of the place every morning for instruction. You see, it's a family Club." "It certainly is," reply our quests. duty during swimming hours. rooms and swimming pools.Here our guests were shown what they WE STEP into a special elevator which takes us down to the locker walls and black marble pillars of its setting.
for teaching small children to swim.It's only a foot deep at the shallow end. Here, as in the big pool there is always a irained life guard on Yes, we have mixed swimming on Wednesday and Friday all day by a wide balcony, seventy-five feet ol sparkling blue waler mirrors the THE GRECIAN POOL Those look like AAU diving boards, are they?' asked our guest. THE ROMAN POOL health gives this pool the highest possible rating month after month. kind of suit you want, even wool. lion seventy-five foot pool throughout.As for cleanliness.the board of "Now let's look at the women's own pool. Right off the women's Can the women use the big pool?" asked our friend''s wife. FOR SOCIAL... admitted was the most beautiful pool they had ever seen.
"With the wide balcony and floor space around the pool, comfortable modern chairs, submarine lighting, and luxurious locker and shower We've often gotten up our own splash parties here. You may wear any Surrounded THE BALLROOM PRIVATE DINING ROOMS LET'S SEE WHAT GOESON HERF even to barber shop, valet, cigar stand, florist, a club garage and plenty of parking the members for the members, plus a lot of loyalty and friendliness and enthusiasm that's what makes this club grow. thing luncheons.
of things going on all the time that no one can use them all, but all of us use some Mother and your girl." "Let's look into these activities and see what there is in it for Dad and your boy, for "YOU CERTAINLY have a marvelous clubhouse here," said our guest, "complete times that number serve without pay.Each of the activities I'm going to tell you Saturday noon the chairmen of these committees meet for luncheon to discuss their Plenty of activity has made Cleveland Club what il is today.Activities planned by space.But a building doesn't make a club.What goes on here anyway? To staff this club in all its departmenis we have 1C8 people on the payroll.Many HHachmeu+B "You're right," | answered. "A building doesn't make a club. But activities do. about is in charge of a committee of members who work hard to put it across.
Every activity with the other members.Every member of the club is welcomed to these Here there is something for every member of the lamily.We have such a variety AHachment B SQUASH RACQUETS BOWLING BILLIARDS VOLLEY BALL HERE, in one of the finest pools anywhere, swimming comes into its own. Intercollegiate meets and exhibitions to swim. Trained life guards are on duty at all times, and swimming days for men and women are Wednesdays and Fridays and Sunday afternoons. Boys are taught swim- A new indoor game rapidly growing in popularity, bad- is played on the same night that there is mixed swimming the showers breathless and invigorated. Tournaments are SATURDAY CLASSES Your boy will enjoy the instruction in boxing, wrestling. supervision every Saturday morning at your club. After splash party for boys and girls, the noisiest affair at Cleve land Club. See the next page. matches.
BADMINTON emblems. SWIMMING HANDBALL across the net for dear life, and exercise. Mixed badminton enough will keep any man fit and healthy. On our regu swimming and gymnastics that are held under skilled special instructor.And once a month there is a junior seen (and heard) batting the shuttlecock back and forth they'll be glad to give you special instruction.
Mixed lation courts many a hard fought game has sent players to minton is winning over many a tennis player during the A hard fast game of handball repeated frequently held through the season and end in the Club Championship are held here and all members are encouraged to learn AND YOUR BOY lunch the boys take a hike or go toa ball game with a Atachment Bru ming and life saving and compete for Club swimming afternoons each week, the women of Cleveland Club delight in their SWIMMING Two mornings each week beginners and advanced groups in tap BRIDGE LUNCHEONS swimming activity. Expert instruction has made good swimmers out of women's bridge luncheon when table and door prizes are provided for every athletic department.Husbands and wives now play squash and dancing are taught by the women's physical director and her assistant. the bridge party which lasts all afternoon.
A delightful opportunity to afternoon there is instruction in contract bridge and playing in the Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays are open for mixed games in card room. Once a month the main dining room is turned over to the many who were afraid of the water when they first joined here. badminton together and then take a dip in the big pool.Women have gether and discuss their plans.All our members are welcome.In the entertain your friends. WITH THEIR own swimming pool always available for beginners and Once a week the women taking part in activities have luncheon to squash, badminton, or swims for the balance of the morning. A grand chance to become acquainted and keep your figure at the same time. After the class, limbering exercises are taken and the group plays instruction and the big pool open to them every morning and three TAP DANCING their own tournaments in squash and badminton.
FOR MOTHER AND YOUR GIRI CHRISTMAS PARTY HUNIOR SPLASH PARTIES convenience of both. Club tournaments are handicap basis Cleveland Club. Duplicate contract or rubber months. Protected from the wind by canvas shields and provided with cots, here is an ments are served at midnight. Both men and excellent chance to build up the early tan thoroughly. Leading bridge experts of the city partment. Women have the roof in the mom- are invited at intervals to give short talks on the ings and men in the afternoons. member is welcome lo drop in at noon and join friendliness and noonday companionship. Any LECTURES CARDS SUN BATHING special room provided for the purpose are ping ROUND TABLE a private country club for golf privileges for our rent interest. These are open to all members, TABLE TENNIS GOLF members. This reciprocal agreement gives our men and women.
Every noon in the Men's Grill our own mem- members both a city and a country club with EACH SPRING arrangements are made with Every Monday evening is Card Night at In the fourth floor exercise roon and in a interest fine points of bidding and play. From time lo time popular speakers of na members and their friends on subjects of cur women attend these parties and enjoy them bridge isplayed in the card room and refresh Championships which are followed with keen events of the day are discussed. Here is winter monthis and culminate in the Club tional fame are secured to give lectures to our held once a month throughout the season on a started under the sun lamps in the Health De FOR ALL OF US bers fill a big table for luncheon.Here the Hachmen+ time on Saturday nights when no other activity a center for gaiety.
The best orchestras are for prizes, dinner is served and the entire club Our younger set, smartly gowned, meticulously played and the splashing goes on until the small tainment is provided. Movies are shown and dancing. eight bouts are held under strict supervision to music stops. provide hard, clean fights that the whole family Every month the men of Cleveland Club get hours of the morning. can watch. under the dimmed lights of the Tudor Room. family can join in an evening of fun and together for a stag party.A big steak dinner, and repaying social obligations. Room. On these occasions Cleveland Club is BOXING SHOWS DANCING AND GAIETY Cleveland Club's unique splash parties.
From excellent opportunities for entertaining guests nine until twelve there is informal dancing speakers ranging from football coaches to ex- or supper dance is held in the great Tudor SPLASH PARTIES groomed, bring with them youth and beauty plorers make these parties popular with the men. the swimming pool where aquatic games are No other club has anything to compare with plenty of free beer, songs and a variety of enter- At midnight the party transfers its activities to is scheduled. At these parfies keno is played STAG NIGHTS FORMAL DANCES Cleveland Chub boxing shows are enjoyed by AT LEAST once each month a formal dinner the ladies as well as by men.The seven or secured to provide the finesf possible music. Once every month the best amateur fighters in Greater Cleveland are matched for an Other informal dances are held from time to and gaiety.
laughter rings through the club These parties every month, or oftener, are here, to a symphony orchestra or a soloisi of talent, with five hundred to fifty in attendance. They are always worth hearing, tastefully chosen programs, well done. The Buffet tables that the Club chef prepares are members acquainted with one another sponsors a very informal parly. Heid in the big parlors with music, dancing and games-stunts and prizes; no member has yet attended one of these parties and still claimed SPECIAL PARTIES attend. The party lasts until dawn. On New Year's Day Cleveland Club holds Open House for members cordially welcome at Cleveland Club. MUSICALS not to know his fellow members. You're just bound to have a good time. and sweepstakes and dancing and fun.
Over eight hundred people EVERY SUNDAY evening your club provides a Musical and a Buflet Annually Cleveland Club holds one of the Monte Carlo parties for Supper.The Musicals range from our own Clevelandaires pictured MUSIC AND LAUGHTER CLUB NIGHTS which it is known far and wide.The entire second floor is thrown open and guests with tea dancing and refreshments.You are made most For members only, once a month, the committee charged with making bring guesis. lovely to look at and better to partake from. Another excellent place lo to members and their guests.There are games and raffles and buffets CLEVELAND CLUB is open only tomembers and their guests and those to whom limited ship includes the immediate family. It entails initiation fee, purchase of non-assessable stock and annual dues payable quarterly. Resident membership carries with it voting privileges.
HOUSE RESIDENT for rental of rooms. No initiation fee or stock purchase is required JUNIOR Directors. NON-RESIDENT For men under 28 years of age. Nominal initiation fee, and dues payable quarterly. are payable semi-annually in advance. No initiation fee or stock purchase is required. For further information, address the Club Secretary, guest privileges are extended after proper introduction. Membership is secured through pro- posals by members and after approval by both the Admissions Committee and the Board of All members of Cleveland Club have equal use of the Club's facilities. For members living permanently in the clubhouse.Dues are included in monthly statements For members living in or having their place of business in Cuyahoga County.This member For members living and having their place of business outside of Cuyahoga County.Dues There are four classes of membership: CLEVELAND.
OHIO CLEVELAND CLUB 10660 CARNEGIE AVENUE QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP Wr Approach CIFVELAND CIUB book, that you have invited your made reservations lor them and Lave met them at the Union thought many times before, how Forhere under one roof ard grouped such a variety of places provide the most complete family was planned from the around up your friends to your club. You have Versity Circle area wih its co one of its members. SUPPOSE, as you read this triends who are moving to Cleve- their house is ready As you approach Cleveland and Divided into with the utmost of care for the comfort of the men, womnen and children who are its meinbers You are proud to be taking club anywhere. your club dominates the U land tostopat your chub until CLEVELAND has become the Nation's City - march of Progress.
strong through its ideals and vision upon the park and boulevard system and the Cleveland Club of Civic Pride is a powerful factor in this onward and development of our country. The new Public Auditorium, recently completed are merely developments to meet present needs of sends her products to every corner of the globe. by succeeding generations, until Cleveland today The seeds of commercial supremacy, planted by It will carry on in just proportion to the growth buildings in the Mall, the new Union Station, the the forefathers, have been nurtured and developed of forward looking people. It is builded this thriving metropolis. at a cost of $6,500.000,expresses fully the com- one of the great centers of population.The Spirit And this vast energy will not be stilled! firm foundation of Industry. HE CITY of CLEVELAND is a community Cleveland Club / Tudor Asus munity spirit of attainment.
The group of public Cleveland Club / Tudor Arms YLEVELAND CLUB will be the most beautitul and in club life, affording all the facilities of the modern athletic a club of this type, as that selected for the new CLEVELAND CLUB which will occupy the entire frontage between Carnegie Avenue and Wilbur Avenue, facing One Hundred Seventh Street. of architectural beauty - one that will stand as a monument to the e impressed with the warmth and cheerfulness of the surround of a restful hour. working with the instructor, or indulge their individual whims. It is a natural center for motor car traffic and will The Billiard Room will be spacious and the Card Rooms the Club site. good taste of hospitable, progressive Cleveland. Men who like their exercise may choose the companionable group, Light will forever grace the four sides of this building club with elaborate appointments for social functions.
There is not, in all Cleveland, such an ideal location for On entering the Reception Hall one will immediately become more important when Fairmount Road is completed across pervade the entire Club. The Old English Grill on the First Floor will be the new Reservoir connecting with Fairmount Boulevard in Shaker easy access to the Gymnasium. particularly attractive to men who like to dine with their own cronies and perhaps linger over a fragrant smoke. The Lounge fully equipped Gymnasium and a competent instructor in charge. Indoor Golf, Hand Ball Courts, Bowling Alleys, Turkish at all times, will be of regulation size and in the basement and of secluded enough to insure the desired privacy.There will be a and Library will be conveniently near to lure the man in need Heights.
Fairmount Road now ends, or begins, if you please, at enclosed Roof Garden, which will be so constructed and decorated wholly apart from the activities of the men. style. The privileges of this section of CLEVELAND CLUB are extended the wife, mother or daughter of a member without pretentious Town Club, an edifice to stir our Civic Pride and a Membership Personnel prideful and substantial. subject to election by the Board of Directors. There are five classes of membership available: Perpetual, Life, Resident Annual, Non-Resident, Honorary and Associate. These rill be placed with eligible applicants in fixed allotments and at BUSINESS OFFICE: ERIE BUILDING Telephone, Prospect 3399 There will be ample garage space for the exclusive use added fees. social functions. of Club members.
With an ideal site, a favored location and a magnificent Memberships will be conferred by invitation only and or privacy, at his pleasure. Noontime and evening meals will be served in the great care has been exercised in planning the Women's Department. While CLEVELAND CLUB is essentially a Man's Club, is vacationing or the Bachelor who would have companionship building, CLEVELAND CLUB will be rated as America's most that it may be converted into a Stately Ball Room for the many This will be an unique innovation - really a Club within a Club, Attachment c been so planned as to meet the requirements of taste and space, Rooms for Bridge, an Exercise Room and Lockers and the Dining Room.
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Cleveland, OH 44106 100% USGS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF PENDING LIST ATE OF 45TH DAY PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : RECOM./ CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the 1/16/08 DATE TELEPHONE MULTIPLE REJECT 2/29/08 2/04/08 PROPERTY DISCIPLINE RETURN REVIEWER 2/19/08 REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: Cleveland club REQUEST: N 2.28-08 DATE nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS. OTHER: PERIOD: PDIL: SAMPLE: VACCEPT CLEUELANO CLEVECANO per CLEUELAND CLEVELANO CLUB/ TODOR ARMS CLEUELAND CLEUELAND CUYA+O6ACO.OH ef Parade the Circle CIRCLE VILLAGE LEUELAND CLEUELAND CLEUELAND CLEUELANO CUYAHOGA CO.
OH DLEUECAND CLEVELAND JOB CORPS CENTER CLEVELANO CCUB/ TUDOR ARMS MLEUEUANA * DEPTH -THREE-FEET, CLEUELANO CUYAHOGACO, OH CLEUELANO CLEVELANO CLUB/ TUDOR ARMS CLEUELANO CLEUELANO CLUELAND CLUB/ TUOOR ARMS CLEUELAND CLEUELAND CLEUELAINO CIEVELAND CLUB/ TUDOR ARMS CLEUEUAND MLEUECAND CUYAHOGA CO. OH CUYAHOGA Co, OH LEUELAND LEUELAND CLEUELAND CLUB / TUDOR ARMS CLEUECAND CLEUELAND CLUB/ TUDOR ARMS CLEVELAND CLUB/ TUDOR ARMS CLEUELANO CLEUELAND CLEVELANO CLUB/ TUNOR ARMS CLEVELAND CLUB/ TUDOK ARMS EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO UNITED STATES OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO. E448829 (UYANOGA CO, OH" TOOOK AKIS CLEVEANO, OH 1994 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC)
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