Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) - State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR - Federal agency 67) has been requested. - Local government - previously listed in the National Register - University - previously determined eligible by the National X Other Name of repository: Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland - designated a National Historic Landmark L recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey State University Library ] recorded by Historic American Engineering Record Register Bibliography ARCHITECTURE Criteria Considerations Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Property is: Applicable National Register Criteria Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Period of Significance religious purposes.
for National Register listing) (Enter categories from instructions) our history. Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number _ 8 Page 1 Statement of Significance Summary.
(See continuation sheets 7, 8 - 1 through 13.) The proposed Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District is locally significant under Criterion A, Social History and, Criterion C, Architecture, for the following reasons: 1) it is a distinctive collection of urban multi-family dwellings representing a spectrum of early 20 century architectural styles, 2) with the exception of one non-contributing structure in the north half of the designated area, a significant portion of the original historical fabric remains, 3) it is unique as a workers employed by industries located along the Lake Erie shore railroad lines, these buildings were designed specifically for a middle-class, white-collar tenant.The site is an integral and distinctive part of the demographic pattern of the city's eastward expansion.
The cities of the American heartland, from Pittsburgh and Buffalo in the east to Kansas City and Minneapolis in the west, 1790 to heavy industries such as iron, steel, oil,chemicals, coal and electrical energy throughout the Mid-west that dominated the American economy up to the end of World War II. And third, a pervasive laissez faire economy that, into If one looks at these cities, from Buffalo to Kansas City, one finds essentially the same story told many times but with local concentrated their creative energies in Cleveland. founding fathers had located Cleveland's center at Public Square, on the bluffs above the Cuyahoga River and close to appear shortly thereafter and continue to be built until the late 1920s. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996. See articles on East Cleveland, Glenville and Hough. Context.
development of Ansel Road.The eastern boundary of Cleveland was Willson Avenue (East 55t Street) until the city cluster of low-rise, multi-family structures on the wester edge of Rockefeller Park, 4) in contrast to single and multi-family the third decade of the allowed entrepreneurs to develop their inventions and products with relatively little The result of all this industrial initiative was that Cleveland grew rapidly in the period from 1850 to 1930. Since the 2Van Tassel, David D.and Grabowski, John J., The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition. neglecting the perceived civic virtues and rational planning of earlier Renaissance, Medieval and Ancient cities. admittance of the last of the contiguous 48 states, Arizona, in 1912.
Second, industrial capitalism, which spreads from Rockefeller in oil and Charles Brush in electricity: just to cite a few of a remarkable group of 19t century talents that Lake Erie, its expansion would be west, south and east. It is the easterly expansion that is of interest in relation to the Mumford, Lewis, The City in History, New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961. Chapter 39. began in the first half of the 19 century as commercial villages and transportation hubs.They developed in the second NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) Rockefeller Park The most prominent environmental feature that directly impacts the Ansel Road apartments and undoubtedly provided a along this section of Ansel Road. The history of the park is well documented in The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, 2^° edition, 1996, the Hardlines Doan Brook Inventory and Evaluation, Volume I, 2003, and the Rockefeller Park and Cleveland's eastern expansion after 1872 was essentially into farmland and small villages, such as East Cleveland, Glenville and Euclid. Farms were well dispersed across this area south of Lake Erie, including the Doan Brook Valley.
Doan Brook Parkway would be a key component of what was envisaged as an "emerald necklace" that would embrace the city and preserve the Doan Brook Valley from commercial and residential development. Eventually, the park would Cleveland to cover land acquisition costs already incurred by the city. Their gift was in commemoration of Cleveland's centennial that year. By 1902,Rockefeller Park had assumed its primary defining elements as a place to stroll or enjoy a leisurely carriage the Shoreway (I-90) and University Circle. north-south or slantedto intersect at right angles the main artenes radiating out from the center of Cleveland: St.
Clair, Cleveland Cultural Gardens which have been created by various ethnic groups on their own initiative start to appear in the park in 1916,when the Shakespeare Garden was dedicated and it was thought desirable by a group of interested citizens drive in a handsome landscape that may have been a bit raw around the edges but promised much as the plantings automobile access to Bratenahl, thus disrupting the syivan environment of Gordon Park. By the 1930s, the lower carriage NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) the Ansel Road apartments that were initially cable car lines in the 1890s were: Superior Avenue and Payne Avenue to Lexington and Hough Avenues. The Wade Park line was activated in 1893. During the period of significance, the Ansel Road tenants had only a short walk from their apartments to either the Hough or Wade Park lines. A trend toward private automotive transportation is evident in the apartment buildings constructed toward the end of the their west. The Linnette garage is the only one that survives.
The Wade Chateau was on Wade Park Avenue, with public Devon Hall was a residence for single women who, presumably, would not have owned automobiles at the time and relied being "near Payne, Wade Park or 105" car lines." (See additional documentation p. 5) The Immediate Neighborhood.* workers resided south of the lake in dense blocks of modest one and a half and two story wood-frame single family and The city's first zoning ordinance was not enacted until 1929, a year after the end date for this proposed historic district. industrial sister cities, grew through economic pressures and the self-interest of industrialists, real estate speculators and public transit system developers. This was surely the motivation for the businessmen who underwrote the construction of to a beautiful park and near the cultural and entertainment offerings of University Circle and Euclid Avenue.
It would remain a good place to live until the racial tensions of the 1960s exploded in the Hough riots in the summer of 1966. But that, unhappily, would soon collapse with the world-wide depression beginning in late 1929. 3 Encyclopedia, "Transportation", p.1010. Transportation Section number_ 8 Page 3 period of significance in the provision of automobile garages behind them. The now-demolished Florence and its The Ansel Road apartments resulted from the expansion of Cleveland east from East 55* Street in the last decades of the Cleveland's once-dense urban living patterns. The Ansel Road Apartments represent a particular building type that more Until the decade following World War Il most urban Americans either walked to their nearby places of employment or took some form of public transportation. As H.
Roger Grant observes in his article in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, operate or converted to electricityby 1905.The public transit lines from downtown Cleveland of interest with respect to neighbors to the south, the Linnette and Regency Square, date between 1925 and 1928 and all had detached garages to transit at the front door. The Carwilnor, Overlook and Parkcliff apartment buildings were too small to offer garages. The on public transportation. An advertisement for Devon Hall in the 1929 Cleveland City Directory includes reference to jobs. There was, in effect, very little in the way of thoughtful planning citywide during the period of significance. Mayor Newton D. Baker established Cleveland's first City Plan Commission in 1913 but it was largely ineffectual in it early years. The first comprehensive plan for the city's growth did not appear until the General Plan of 1949.
Cleveland, as many of its affordable residences for a niche market of emerging middle-class tenants, close to reliable public transportation, adjacent urban out-migration had begun well before then, with the post-World War Il highways and the total acceptance of the private automobile as the preferred way to travel, which further accelerated the move to the suburbs, undercutting the apartment buildings on Ansel Road and East Boulevard.They saw the opportunity ofproviding comfortable, NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) As this portion of Ansel Road begins to emerge architecturally, it takes on a character that is different from the residential would attract white-collar tenants. in Cleveland and an office in New York City. On the east side of Rockefeller Park, East 105 Street and Glenville evolved by 1930 into mainly a Jewish community. with an 8 percent African-American minority. However, this part of Ansel Road, on the west side of Rockefeller Park did dependence upon national and racial origin, as evidenced in the higher social status of its residents compared to the nearby factory workers.
The Development of the Apartment Building in Cleveland and Its Relation to Ansel Road® The 1910 census shows over 560,000 and a national rank of 6 largest city. By 1920 the population reached just under would continue to grow until after World War II. The 1930 census lists 900,429 residents, more than double the 1900 figure. Writing of Cleveland's growth in this period, Eric Johannesen states that: ...the years at the turn of the century saw a veritable explosion in the building of apartments, flats, and terraces' or row houses. In 1900 there were only a handful of apartment houses listed in the city business directory; in 1910 there were 5 Op cit p. 557-563. Miller, C. P., and Wheeler, R. A., Cleveland, A Concise History, 1796 - 1996, Second Edition. Case Wester Reserve University, 1997.
Johannesen, Eric, Cleveland Architecture, 1876 - 1976, Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, 1979. p 90. blocks to its west, north and south. Apartment buildings were built along Hough Avenue and other streets beginning in the early 1900s that were served by streetcar lines but they were generally simply designed with minimal decorative embellishment and they are not character defining in terms of their overall neighborhoods.
A key factor in shaping the Ansel Road apartment buildings and contributing to their distinctive character was the proximity of Rockefeller Park to the Roadprovided a fine location with amenities that suggested to real estate developers an upscale middle class market that Chairman of the Board of the Patterson-Sargent Co., manufacturers of paints and vamishes, with its plant and main office not have a concentration of any single ethnic group; which suggests the tendency toward upward mobility and less modern flats and apartment houses have been built in Cleveland, of varying degrees of design and construction. The The Ansel Road apartment buildings stand as a rare exception to that trend. east.
All of these buildings offer direct access to the Park by just crossing Ansel Road and many suites had views into the (cinemas, theaters, restaurants, ballrooms, skating rink) at Euclid Avenue and East 105" Street or to the cultural Cleveland's impressive growth in the first third of the 20* century is clearly illustrated by the Census figures that bracket pure investment idea, of a quick and large return upon a small invested capital, has too largely dominated and a consequent cheap construction has resulted in many cases.'7 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) Historic District, there was a significant row of apartment buildings, located just south of Superior Avenue on the east side The apartment buildings of this period were typically three and four stories tall, often with stacked front porches, and uniformly of masonry, fire-resistant construction which was required for all large commercial, public and multi-family which 172 children and two teachers died. These buildings were also state of the art in terms of comfort, with central steam heat; electricity and telephone service was available. Each apartment, even those of modest size, had a kitchen and bathroom, with hot and cold running water.
Typically, there was a "Murphy bed" in the living room that folded into a considerably, their floor plans were usually long rectangles with double-loaded corridors. An exception is the 1556 and 1560Ansel Road pair ofbuildingswhere the apartments are accessed vertically around regularly spaced stairwells. There was little provided in the way of common areas for meetings or recreation. Some, as was the case with the Wade Chateau Apartments, allowed limited commercial use on the first floor for a beauty shop or tailor, for example that would which to live. Classical, Colonial, Mission, Renaissance and Tudor. At the same time, the plans of each building are relatively similar to proportions and details and each is distinct in its own right.
It is clear that the intention of the developers was to create Buckeye Road, Poles and Czechs in an area that came to be known as Slavic Village in the 1970s, Croatians, Serbians communities that shared a common or related heritage. The Ansel Road apartment cluster comes closer to the rarely realized ideal of the American cultural "melting pot." rather, they tended to provide individual accents and occasionally rows or clusters throughout the city, almost always of East Boulevard that extended south beyond Wade Park Avenue to near its southern end at East 105t Street. Only the housing and the half-dozen apartment houses south of Wade Park Avenue have been demolished recently to make way wall recess during the day to provide more living space.
Although the exterior designs of these apartment houses varied had to be persuaded of their virtues of efficiency, comfort and convenience and that they could be respectable places in quality residential units that would be attractive to tenants who wished for more than just a roof over their heads. This mix and Slovenians along St. Clair Avenue and African Americans in the Cedar Central area, just to cite a few of these Wright, Gwendolyn, Building the Dream: a Social History of Housing in America. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1983. See in northerly portion of the row remains in use today. The central section was demolished in the late 1960s for new public District thus assumes added importance as not just the only apartment group on the west side of Rockefeller Park but an provide useful services for the tenants and the nearby neighborhood.
As Gwendolyn Wright points out in her social history of American housing, Americans did not come from a tradition of apartment buildings, as was the case in Europe. They NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number_ 8 Page 6 Statement of Significance (continued) The people who lived in these apartments were not, typically, the rich and famous. That clientele lived at the residence hotels in the area: Wade Park Manor, Park Lane Villa, the Sovereign Hotel, the Commodore and Fenwick Hall, where number of listings at the Wade Park Manor and Park Lane Villa, in particular. The residence hotel was the urban the Ansel Road apartments were typically single or young married couples.
A few were professionals just getting started apparently the only one of its kind in Cleveland, as suggested inits advertisement (See additional documentation p. 5) total capacity of 205 suites. The Linnette was the largest with 91 tenants followed by the Wade Chateau (40), the Florence residential area for well-to-do young adults who would soon marry or move on in their careers. The names of the tenants Americans residing here at this time. A sampling of the names includes: Hyde, Netherton, Eaton, Kelly, Labowitch, Schofield, Hackenburg, Salomon, Nutting and Murphy. dressmaker, cashier, restaurant manager, day cleaner, credit worker, social worker and clothing designer. They were all the Devon Hall, and similar establishments for professional women in other large cities, was to offer a safe, comfortable, The Tenants not usually welcomed.
It is important to recognize that the option of living in the suburbs was not available to most of (37), the Carwilnor (12) and, the smallest, the Overlook and Parkcliff with 6 each. A random sampling of 35 of the tenants in these six buildings shows that 10 were salespersons, 8 gave no occupation (presumably non-working wives or widows), Book, one at the Linnette and one at the Devon Hall. The parents of the latter lived at the Park Lane Villa. However, The occupants of the Devon Hall were not listed individually in the 1929 Cleveland City Directory. However, the 1930 were not working, 6 were saleswomen, 5 were public school teachers, 2 were telephone operators, and the others a and some were older mid-level employees working in offices or commercial establishments. Parents with children were developed for large numbers of middle and lower-middle income wage earners.
The Devon Hotel, a hotel for women, was Research thus far does not reveal any other hotel in the city that catered to a middle class, professional female clientele. The 1929 Cleveland City Directory lists a total of 192 occupied and 13 vacant suites in the six apartment buildings for a neither appears in the 1930 Census, suggesting that this location may have provided a convenient short-term but suitable living separately and 2 divorced. These women were overwhelmingly American by birth, mainly from Ohio or other NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) The Architects, Contractors and Developers Avenue not far from the present Cleveland Clinic.
However, Dyer had somewhat fallen from his early successes at that Fashionable hotels, yes, apartment houses, no. Nathan Glazer, in his most recent book, states the dichotomy succinctly: dealt typically with streetsand avenues, with parks and vistas, with the placement of monuments and palaces and great public structures."º following which he studied at the Atelier LaLoux in Paris. He was associated with Mahurin and Mahurin and J. A. Cooke in Auburn. While there he designed a country club (1924), a gymnasium (1924), the Hotel Fort Hayes, in Columbus, Ohio (1924) and the Sherland Building in South Bend, Indiana (1923). He seems to have practiced in Cleveland for only four or five years, from 1925 to around 1929 and is listed in the 1930 Census as residing in Chicago, Illinois.
Nathan Weltman, the contractor for the Devon Hotel, was born in Russia in 1887 and immigrated to the United States in 1913. He is listed in Gibbons, about whom nothing further has been found. The job superintendent was Max Lezius, who was born in Ohio in 1871 and residing in Cleveland in the 1920 Census listing. Ansel Road, Apt. 18. The Linnette's architect was Maxwell H. Weis (aka White), who seems to have been associated with Samuel H. Weis (aka White), who was the architect for the Hotel Commodore (1922) at Euclid Avenue and Ford Drive in Francisco at one point. He was active in Cleveland from 1910 to 1929 and was president of the Esplanade Realty with offices at 617 Union Bldg. born in Ohio in 1873. He and his wife resided in the Wade Chateau Apartments until 1928; during which time he had his architectural practice here as well.
The 1930 census places him at 1805 Vassar Avenue in East Cleveland. Death records show that he died in Cuyahoga County in 1932 9 From a Case to a Style, p.281 a few exceptions. J. Milton Dyer, as one instance, designed the now-demolished Venice apartment building on Euclid point and needed the work. In the Ansel Road group, the architects for the Devon Hall hotel, Parkcliff, Linnette and Wade The owner of the Linnette for all three of its construction phases was Mendel Narosny, born in Russia in 1884, according These buildings were generally built by real estate developers and they did not typically employ high-style architects, with Chateau Apartments are on record but the information from several sources is fragmentary and incomplete. In fact, these movement of the earlier part of the twentieth century, had rarely concerned themselves with this aspect of the city.
They the 1925 Cleveland City Directory as a General Contractor. He died in Cleveland in 1980. Landmarks Commission files, Samuel H. was born in New York City, raised and educated in Cleveland and worked in San The architect for the Wade Chateau Apartments was Theo (Theodore) C. Minor. The 1920 Census states that he was NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) exist at the time as cited above. Instead, they were able to exercise their entrepreneurial initiatives in these last years of a that Daniel Burnham railed against when he famously spoke about not making little plans.
He wanted our cities to be built of Ansel Road there survives a rare instance where several real estate developers, acting in their own self interests, drew from the rather drab industrial housing that embraces it on the south, west and north.
In large part they were able to do so because Rockefeller Park bordered the site to the east, providing an urban amenity that was not immediately available to These were the persons who shaped Cleveland as it grew into a major American industrial city.They were not Section number 8 Page 8 within a comprehensive urban framework, but that was not to be then and is not the way it is today, since we live and work upon the talents of relatively small architectural firms and made a neighborhood of apartment buildings that set it apart of Applied Science, Western Reserve University, the Western Reserve Historical Society, were also within walking opportunity to create an attractive place to live for a clearly defined niche market and this is what was created along the pervasive laissez faire govemmental and business environment.
Cleveland is, in effect, a city made up of little plans that within an environment that emerged from the little plans of the entrepreneurs of a hundred years ago and the comprehensive planning much touted by the Modernist Movement in the 1950s is largely discredited. In this short stretch to Wade Park Avenue or down to Hough Avenue, the tenants would have ready access to efficient public transit lines, west side of Ansel Road between Wade Park and Talbot Avenues between 1910 and 1928. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Statement of Significance (continued) A. Primary Sources. 1. City of Cleveland.Building Permits and Board of Zoning Appeals records. 2. Cuyahoga County Archives.
Real Estate Appraisal Records. 3. Cleveland Public Library, Map and Photographic Collections. , Cleveland City Directories, 1910, 1925 and 1929. , U. S. Census, 1920. 6. Cleveland State University Library Special Collections. Postcards. 7. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Fisher, Cleveland Blue Book, 1929. 8. Libraries Connection Ohio: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. B. Secondary Sources. Historical Society, 1981. 2. Glazer, Nathan, From a Cause to a Style, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. Restoration Project, Volumes | and II, Resources Outside Rockefeller Park. Columbus, Ohio, 27 June 2003. 4. Johannesen, Eric, Cleveland Architecture, 1876-1976, Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, 1979. 5. Miller, Carol Poh and Wheeler, Robert A., Cleveland, A Concise History, 1796 - 1996, Second Edition. Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, 1997. 6.
"Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District", National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. 11 March 2005. 6. Van Tassel, David D. and Grabowski, John J., The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Second Edition, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996. 7. Wright, Gwendolyn, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, Bibliography 1983. Section number 8,9 Page 1 3. Hardlines Design Company, Inventory and Evaluation of Historic Resources for the Doan Brook Stream Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cuyahoga County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Primary location of additional data 1 17 / 448200 / 4595875 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) See Continuation Sheets 10 -1 and 10 - 2.
(Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) See Continuation Sheet 10-2 11. Form Prepared By name/title organization Ted Sande, AIA date 18 Sep. 2007 street & number 13415 Shaker Boulevard, Suite 11-H-4 telephone 216-561-3689 city or town -state OH zip code 44120 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.) (See Attached Listing of Property Owners.) street & number .telephone benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
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10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio on the east by a straight line running from the east end of the north property line of 9501 Wade Park Avenue, approximately south along the west side of Ansel Road to the east end of the south property line of 1588 Ansel Road, then west to the west property line of 1588Ansel Road; then north to the south side of Kenmore Avenue for approximately north to the north side of Blackwell Court, then east for approximately 150 feet, north for approximately 75 feet, west for northeast to the west end of the north property line of 9501 Wade Park Avenue. List of Buildings (from north to south). 9500 Wade Park Avenue The Wade Chateau The Regency Square The Overlook The Parkcliff Boundary Justification.
The boundaries selected for this proposed historic district encompass the eight surviving boundaries coincide with the property lines of these buildings. Within the boundaries are one large non-contributing parcel and two rights-of-way: Blackwell Court and Kenmore Avenue. The sites of three demolished apartment buildings and a demolished portion of one garage are included as well.The area defined establishes a density of the apartment Non-contributing Linnette Garage CMHA Housing The Linnette The Devon Hall 1560 Ansel Road Verbal Boundary Description.
The site is bounded on the north by the north property line of 9501 Wade Park Avenue; 100 feet, then north to the south property line of 1560 Ansel Road, then west to the east side of East 94* Street, then approximately 25 feet, then north to the north side of Wade Park Avenue, west to the corer of Crawford Avenue and then historic structures within the period of significance, 1910 to 1928, when the apartment buildings were built. In general, the building type that possesses historical significance and thematic integrity. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description - 2 ROCKEFELLER PARK ANSEL ROAD APARTMENT BUILDINGS 1588 1552 HISTORIC DISTRICT National Park Service United States Department of the Interior (Reduced in size.
Do not scale.) Section number10_ Page 2 Site Map: Digital, scaled map provided by University Circle Incorporated 9501 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Additional Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Cleveland, Ohio; 1912 -1913 vol. 5, 1913. Reel 16-6648-01598. Downloaded from Libraries Connection Ohio. OPLIN. State Library of Ohio. AV. N. E. The Overlook National Park Service NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Page (DEMOLISHED) National Park Service Florence. View looking northwest, 29 January 1952.
From the City of Cleveland, Board of Zoning Appeals Records. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Hddi ti onal Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Linnette. View looking southwest, undated. From the Postcards of Cleveland Collection, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections. Page United States Department of the Interior Section number NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Carwilnor. View looking west, 14 April 1964. From the Photograph Collection, Cleveland Public Library. 1564 Ansel AR Page (DEMOLISHED) Section number United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland City Directory, 1929. Vol. 3, p. 237. Cleveland Public Library Whether you're here fora Day or a Year fort here, in airy jade green and old blue rooms, with library 1588 Ansel Road PEnn. 3300 Payne, Wade Park or 105th car lines. CONTINUATION SHEET National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Additonal retaries, librarians, attorneys, artiats, students, all dwelling in com low-priced, too. $6 to $12 per week. Payne and Wade Park cara. For information phose Mias Heles 1, Smith, Mgr. Ouerlooking Rockefeller Park-near NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Cleveland, Ohio; 1912-Dec. 1951 vol. 5, 1913-Nov. 1951. Reel 19-6648-03653. Downloaded from Libraries Connection Ohio. OPLIN. State Library of Ohio. Page ANSEL AWELL AV.N.E NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Section number _ Regency Square. View looking northwest, 1975. From the Photographic Collection, Cleveland Public Library. 75-67-M-4-8-75 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CARWILNOR 1556-60 Ansel Rd. Additional _ Page 7 FLORENCE NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland Collection, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections. Page Section number Devon Hall Hotel. View looking west, undated. From the Postcards of NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photographic Collection, Cleveland Public Library. Page CONTINUATION SHEET Section number Parkcliff and Devon Hall.View looking south-southwest,1974.From the 74-108-G-5-28-74 1588 Ansel Rd. Dacu mentation Additicnal NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio National Park Service Cleveland Public Library. Devon Hall.View looking northwest,1974.From the Photographic Collection, 74-108-6-5-28-74 1588 Ansel Rd. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ansel Roed Apartment Buildings Historic District ROAD N.E Page Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Composite Historical Map National Park Service Section number 1950,Cleveland Landmarks Commission Collection. From pages 9 and 5,Vol. 3,Cieveland, Ohio,G.M.Hopkins Co.,Phla.,Pa.,1933.Revised to NPS Foris 10-800 (Rev.
10-90) ANSEL AVE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET APPEAL: N N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: - DISCIPLINE If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE 7/04/08 TELEPHONE 6/24/08 RETURN MULTIPLE 5/21/08 REJECT RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER Historic Places SAMPLE: NAME: The National Register OTHER: PDIL: DATE RECEIVED: Entered in REASONS FOR REVIEW: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Cuyahoga nomination is no longer under.consideration by the NPs. DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N LESS THAN 5O YEARS: ANSEL RD APT. BLOGS CLEVELAND, CUY, OH Cuyahoga County CLEVELAND, CUY,OH 2 ANSEL RD. APT.
BLDGSI CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 3 Ceuy ahoga County CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 4 ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. STOP ANSEL RD. APT. BLDÇS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 5 ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH G ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH E Cuyahoga County 1552 ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY,OH 9 ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY,OH 1O Cuyahoga County HERE ON RED STOP Wade Park ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH H! ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUT, OH 12 ANSEL RD APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, COY, OH 13 Cuyahroga County ANSEL RD. APT. BLDUS. CLEVELAND, CUY,OH 14 ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH IS Cuyahoga County ANSEL RD, APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 1G ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS. CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 17 Cuyahoga County ANSEL RD. APT. BLDGS, CLEVELAND, CUY, OH 18 Cuyahoga 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 17.
4595875 N EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE ANSEL ROAD EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO, CIEVELAND UNITED STATE 17.448200E COMMERCIAL SURVEY CO -(216) 771-3995 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CUYAHOGA, RECEIVED 2280 MAY 2 1 2008 NAT. REGISTER D NATIONAL PARK Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Park Service 2280 National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: Enclosed please find four (4) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Please note that the Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer designation has changed. Notification of this change has been forwarded to the National Park Service concurrent with this transmittal letter. NEW NOMINATION Ansel Road Apartment Buildings Historic District Byers, John F.
Residence staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street, Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Montgomery www.ohiohistory.org Enclosures Cuyahoga Mahoning Sincerely, Portage OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO Burt Building National Register Dayton Canoe Club If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register N/Dr. William K. Laidlaw, Jr. HISTORY
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