Nomination for Medfair Heights Apartment Historic District

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RECEIVED 2280 MAY 21 2008 REGISTRATION FORM NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual classification, materials and areas of significance, enter only categories and processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property: State Street Apts., Walden Apts. street & number: 221 North State Street not for publication: N/A state: Ohio code: OH county: Medina code: 103 zip code: 44256 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination - does not meet the National Register Criteria. I Dept.

Head Ohio Historic Preservation Oftice, Ohio Historical Society Location nationally statewide Date (Expires 12-31-2005) vicinity: N/A documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable."For functions, architectural National Park Service request for Signature of certifying official Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NPS Form 10-900 city or town: Medina (Rev. Aug. 2002) United States Department of the Interior determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering X locally. (See continuation sheet for additional comments.) OMB No.

1024-0018 Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the historic name: Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the recommend that this property be considered significant items on continuation sheets (NPs Form 10-900a).Use a USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form In my opinion, the property criteria. (See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting official/Title National Park Service Certification determined not eligible for the Date of Action meets Date National Register Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District See continuation sheet.

removed from the National Register other (explain): Medina County, Ohio entered in the National Register does not meet the National Register Page #1 State or Federal agency and bureau I, hereby certify that this property 1s; USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form x_ private Category of Property (Check only one box) of a multiple property listing.) 6.

Function or Use Noncontributing structure Total Register public-local district site Domestic Classification public-Federal building(s) object Cat: Multiple dwelling Number of Resources within Property public-State Sub: Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Page #2 Medina County, Ohio Ownership of Property(Check as many boxes as apply) USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Medina County, Ohio 7. Description - No Style. Foundation: Concrete Concrete block other : - See Continuation Sheet, Attached. 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information Materials: Walls: Roof: our past. Asphalt shingle Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, Architectural Classification: Brick chimneys, Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) period, or method of construction or represents the work of a Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the property on one or more continuation sheets.) contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Page #3 individual distinction.

_A Property is associated with events that have made a significant USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Medina County, Ohio Page #4 owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. removed from its original location. a birthplace or a grave. a reconstructed building, object, or structure. --Community Planning and Development Period of Significance: 1943-1953 Significant Dates: _1943 Cultural Affiliation: . Architect/Builder: National Housing Agency, Engineer: J.R. Barth (Federal Housing Authority, Contractor: Alger Rau, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) Narrative Statement of Significance: *See continuation sheet, attached. past 50 years. --Architecture Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District a commemorative property. --Social History a cemetery.

Areas of Significance: Significant Person:(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) less than 50 yearsof age or achieved significance within the NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio by the FHA. The Medfair buildings are laid-out in an irregular, four-sided County, Ohio, adjacent to the now-vacant Permold Company aluminum castings plant and the Norfolk and Western railroad tracks, in what is currently a light When Medfair was built in 1943, it was located just outside of Medina town exception of the Permold Plant, which moved from Cleveland to Medina in 1941, campuses to provide housing for returning WWII veterans taking advantage of the college portion of the G.I. Bill.

Page Physical Description Section SUMMARY- Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District industrial area just inside of the Medina city limits.(Survey) The proposed Medfair Heights Historic District ("Medfair") is a grouping of 19 (originally 21) buildings, consisting of 18,one-story, concrete block (name of property) built under the strict budget of the Lanham Act and design limitations dictated (county and State) OMB No. 1024-0018 standards as WWII defense worker housing. All buildings within Medfair were the surrounding area was farmland. An additional ten acres immediately to the the Medfair apartments was the location for 80 temporary trailers which also housed the inconing Permold defense workers.

The 80 trailers and the ten acres trailers were removed immediately after the war for placement upon college south of the cement block apartment "settlement" between the Permold plant and (8-86) (Expires 12-31-2005) boundaries and within the original boundaries of York Township.With the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service (name of property) Medina County, Ohio (county and State) The 18 cement block apartment buildings, the Community Building and the relationship among the apartment buildings, fostering a sense of communal identity, while at the same time, separating the complex from the surrounding Avenue, the main entrance road into the complex. Directly adjacent to the playground equipment. This open lawn design is original and illustrates the WWII governmental and morale in the home-front industries.

Residents, to delineate the "back recent vintage; these are not original to the complex. Five narrow, curved, internal, roadways are surfaced in gravel and setback of at least 12-15 feet from the front of each apartment building. apartment unit to allow for car storage, which by 1943 was becoming a common means of transportation. (Photos 9, 10, & 11) Section Page emphasis on recreation facilities for the purpose of maintaining productivity CONTINUATION SHEET (Expires 12-31-2005) ORIGINAL LAYOUT- Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District yards" of a few of the apartments, have added individual fence sections, of farm community.

original shed (note: the three sheds located on the property are not large Each of these roads is approximately 20 feet wide, allowing for a grassy sited away from the existing Medina County roads and are oriented inward, Playground equipment exists on three separate lawn areas within the complex. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES building is sited along State Road and is oriented inward toward its format on the property.(Survey;Site Plan;Map of Lots)The buildings are all toward the center of the complex and toward the Community Building. Only one for outdoor private space, as well as community green space for the complex. asphalt. They provide for low-key traffic circulation throughout the complex. making up 758 of the site. The distance separating each apartment building varies between 45-60 feet of open space.

These lawns and courtyards provide enough to merit inclusion within the building count)are sited in a village United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Medina County, Ohio (county and State) The entrance to each unit is acçessed by a narrow aggregate concrete sidewalk than 258 of the site. (Photos 2, 3, 6, & 11) evergreen trees and smaller evergreen shrubs placed to line the internal by open fields on two sides. units, grouped as four units per building, totaling 72 residential units. The apartment building was converted in August of 1944 into use as a schoolhouse apartments, but also burned down about the same time, c.1977.

(Interview with The residential buildings within the Medfair Heights Historic District are divided into three groupings that vary by the sizes of the apartments within slab foundations. (Photo 8) Each four-unit block has a gabled roof (6/12 short brick chimneys for each of the apartment units protrude symmetrically along the roofline. The gabled end walls on each four-unit block are also (8-86) Section Page roadways, parking areas, courtyards and apartment doorways.

Additionally, the Residential Buildings- CONTINUATION SHEET 19th building, the Community Building, contains the apartment for an apartment This building was later converted into use as a storage building, c.1977 and The original landscaping consisted of wide, open grass lawns and small (name of property) NPS Form 10-900-a small parking lots are scattered throughout the (Expires 12-31-2005) characteristics that unify them as a district.All 18 of the one-story Of the 19 buildings remaining within this district,18 contain apartment complex as not tobe visible from the"main"roadways. complex contains mature oak and maple well as the small OMB No. 1024-0018 flowering trees, shrubs and various resident plantings.

The site is bordered of the large lawn areas plus the c.1979 addition of large (30 foot tall) for children of the "settlement" in grades one through eight. apartment buildings are constructed of cement block and are set on concrete Suzi Deem).Expansive lawn areas surround these buildings.(Photo 1) each building. Regardless of that variation, all buildings share common for a small amount of attic storage in each apartment.The office (original)and a maintenance shop (original).The original 2oth NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District (name of property) Medina County, Ohio buildings are constructed with minimal decorative elements (roof gables and doorway trellises, see below).

The apartment buildings are painted a tan color and feature long, unembellished horizontal lines, side-gabled roofs of green or double hung window, emphasizing the horizontal lines of the buildings. Each apartment unit contains at least four windows and two exit doors, two of the windows and one door located on each side of the unit. This fenestration allows for cross-ventilation and ample natural light exposure for each unit. The end units each have an additional two windows, located on the end elevation on the buildings in the form of cantilevered wooden canopies over each door. Photos 1-4, & 9-11) Today, all of these common, original, exterior elements, including the structural items lost have been the wooden trellises, the result of decay and design.

(Photos 1-4, & 9-11) reports at the time, the interior spaces of the apartments are very modern, according to the number of bedrooms contained within each apartment. Medfair. (The two buildings which burned were one B and one C type).The Section Page (Expires 12-31-2005) bedroom units; there are seven of these buildings in Medfair.Finally, CONTINUATION SHEET simple trellises defining the doorway of each unit.("Medfair Heights," p.1; (Blueprints) Building type A contains all one-bedroom apartments;there are constructed of cement block;some gables are currently faced in wood siding, rust colored asphalt shingles and original, wooden, one-over-one sash windows.

open courtyards and lawn intact.The only The window fenestration on each building is wood one-over-one bedrooms range between 8'x 12'and 10'x 13'in size.(Blueprints;Site Plan) clean and functional.The apartments consist of a of the buildings.(Photos 11)Simple decorative elements are included (county and State) damage. Portions of a few of the trellises remain to tell of the original sufficient for safe, clean living. The four-unit buildings are grouped while on others the concrete block remains exposed. (Photos 1-7, & 9-11) The The Medfair apartments also share all common interior elements many of OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 12-31-2005) National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Medina County, Ohio (county and State) kitchen has a kitchen window, under which could be placed the kitchen dinner table. Open cupboards are built in over the sink and counter to hold dishes. window. A curtain track is built across each living room's open wall to allow It would seem that they were, based on the swing lines noted on the blueprints (Photos 12-18; "Medina's Trailer," p. 1) original wall surfaces remain today throughout the complex, they have never tiles; some apartments exhibit several layers of more modern vinyl tile over the original linoleum tiles. (Photo 8) more recent vintage. Also, the coal space heaters were removed c. 1972 and units have been replaced. (Photos 17 & 18) ceilings. (8-86) costs.

Page Section CONTINUATION SHEET and cove moldings remain, lining the joints between the floors and the Originally, cupboard doors were not built, in order to save on construction United States Department of the Interior electric refrigerator,a built-in kitchen sink and a short counter space.Each original blueprints whether the bedrooms were originally supplied with doors.

"modern" coal space through a brick chimney was originally replaced with in the original installed in each unit.Each unit also has a built-in hallway storage closet walls covered ina type of faux base a shower stall (no medicine cabinet anda (name of property) NPS Form 10-900-a shelvesin each closet full bathroom(6'x for this room to be used as an additional bedroom.

It is not clear from the The floors consist of cement slabs, covered with what appears to be linoleum and shelves (no doors), ceiling access to attic storage space, a closet and A gas water heater is supplied in each apartment.A centrally located All interior walls consist of concrete painted white.These NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District (county and State) Type A bulldings contain four, one-bedroom apartment units. As with all of door opens into the kitchen, which is a small, square shape. (Photos 12 & 14; very short hallway off of the living room. The rear wall of the living room contains a window and a second exterior door, which leads outside to a small stoop and the surrounding lawn area.

(Photo 4) The short hallway between the kitchen and living room leads to the hallway storage closet and the bedroom. hall storage closet is the bathroom, which also contains a window. (Photos 17 & and are the largest of the building types. Each two-bedroom unit contains are identical to the one-bedroom floor plan, with the addition of a second bedroom located at the front of the apartment, to the left of the kitchen. This bedroom is accessible from the short hallway between the kitchen and (Blueprints; Site Plan) Section Page Type B buildings contain four, two-bedroom units.These buildings are Medina County, Ohio (name of property) (Expires 12-31-2005) measures 25'.3" by 73'.5" and is the smallest of the building types.Each one- Type A Building- OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Blueprints) The doorway from the kitchen leads into the living room or into a Once again, all rooms have at least one window. End units in this plan living room. All rooms are slightly larger than the one-bedroom plan. have one additional window in the second bedroom and in the living room. (8-86) the Medfair building is one-story and rectangular in shape.It NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District (name of property) Medina County, Ohio (county and State) Type C buildings contain two, one-bedroom apartments (located on the ends of the buildings) and two, three-bedroom apartments (located in the middle of the buildings). These buildings measure 25.3' x 93.3', the mid-size building type.

These buildings were designed to allow the construction of either two, one-bedroom and two, three-bedroom units in each building or the construction The three-bedroom apartments each contain approximately 627 square feet of bedroom units, with the addition of the third bedroom located at the rear of rooms in this floor plan are slightly larger than those in the other two floor Room. Contributing Building: The Community Building- The Community Building repeats the one-story height, but rises to a height It is of identical cement block/cement slab construction. The main entrance to this building is asymmetrically located on the south face of the simple covered porch, created by a flat roof supported by two wooden posts. Office to the adjacent parking lot.

The window fenestration, door canopies and roof structure for this half of the building are identical to that of the once contained the medical clinic for the complex. Continuing further to the left, it appears that there originally existed a doorway into the Community to allow for use as a manager's apartment. configurations. apartment buildings. Page of units in each building.Construction of Type C Building- office for the apartment complex.Immediately to the right is the space that This portion of the building also contains a rear entrance/exit door accessing accessible from the short hallway between the kitchen and living room.All the maintenance shop and a west side exit door allowing easy access from the plans.(Site Plan; Blueprints)All rooms in the three-bedroom floor plan have (Expires 12-31-2005) Section 7 OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior one window, with the end unit plan having only one extra window, located in the of one and one-half stories over the Community Room portion of the building. Office/maintenance shop half of the building. This entrance is marked by a Upon entering through the main office door, immediately to the left is the Room.This door was apparently blocked off when the Community Room was altered living space.The floor plans and facilities are identical to the one and two- the left of the living room.This third bedroom is also OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Medina County, Ohio (county and State) The small office retains many of its original interior features.

Specifically, the walls are concrete block, painted white, the floor is concrete slab covered in layers of vinyl tile. A dropped, acoustic tile its concrete block walls, concrete slab floors, worktables and built-in tool The Community Room makes up approximately one-half of the Community Building. As noted above, the roofline of the Community Room portion, the east end of the Community building, rises to a height of one and one-half stories; this allowed for a higher interior ceiling height in this room, which was Additionally, the one-over-one wooden sash windows in this Community Room portion of the building are approximately 1/3 taller than the windows used for Community Building. Otherwise, all exterior structural details are original of this meeting room portion of the Community Building was altered c.

1977, when it was converted into a three-bedroom apartment for use by the apartment concrete block walls and concrete slab floors remain. Medfair has retained a substantial majority of its historic integrity both (8-86) Section INTEGRITY- Page CONTINUATION SHEET maintenance shop. (Garden City styles)in public housing and defense worker housing.

(Expires 12-31-2005) manager.It is currently rented as a tenant apartment.In making this conversion, original external structural components were preserved; only the interior was altered by the addition of "temporary" drywall-type walls to allow NPS Form 10-900-a illustration of a group of properties built to Federal Housing Administration and identical to the other buildings in the complex.(Photos 5-7) The interior The maintenance shop also retains most of its original features such as addition of a ceiling panel material.(Photos 5-7)A separate exit door, (name of property) located on the north wall of the maintenance shop. Fence panels of recent ("FHA") standards and reflects community planning and WWII architectural trends storage units. It is unclear whether the ceiling has been altered by the for apartment usage.

The original extended ceiling height, original windows, vintage enclose part of the lawn area behind the maintenance shop. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District (name of property) Medina County, Ohio Medfair retains all seven essential qualities of historic integrity. its rural/light industrial character. Medfair's design in regard to its Medfair project is also unchanged, the open lawn areas, orientation of the the central community building, remain as originally built. with the historic events of the WWII home front is unmistakable, it is almost conveys its historic significance, retains integrity and qualifies for the feeling that is conveyed by this apartment project.

Medfair's association Section Page organization of space among buildings, proportion and scale of original CONTINUATION SHEET (Expires 12-31-2005) The workmanship of Medfair illustrates the utilitarian techniques and nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. remains in its original location and even the surrounding region has retained NPS Form 10-900-a (county and State) buildings both inward (to create its own sense of community) and in relation to aesthetics that were integral to the construction of WWII Defense Worker buildings, ornamentation and materials is unchanged.The setting of the (8-86) as if these apartments were frozen in time.The Medfair project clearly NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medina County, Ohio significance in community planning and development and social history as planned defense worker housing that lodged predominantly minority laborers and their families during the time they were employed at a wartime industrial production under the Lanham Act of 1940. MEDFAIR HEIGHTS NAMING- Medfair Heights, the name may have originated from the Medina County between US Route 42 and Smith Rd. just inside the Medina City limits. Due to its close proximity to the fairgrounds, it is presumed that the name "Medfair" received its origination from the Medina County Fairgrounds. BUILDING OWNERSHIP HISTORY- that these apartments were built in 1943 under authority of the National work at the neighboring Permold Company ("Permold") aluminum casting plant.

distance of the Permold Plant. In 1945, at the conclusion of WWII, during the Re-conversion of the District Page Section United States to peacetime status, Medfair was designated as priority housing CONTINUATION SHEET This land was specifically chosen because it was located within walking Narrative: Historic Significance (Expires 12-31-2005) Contemporaneous newspaper articles and the original blueprints reveal Medfair Heights Apartments Historic Housing Authority ("FPHA") in 1942 for use as a temporary war housing site.

(name of property) The Medfair Heights Historic District is eligible for listing in the for architectural significance as an illustration of design standards of the Housing Authority(NHA)and the Lanham Act of 1940.The apartments were built Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for properties built for WWII wartime (county and State) National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, for its local manufacturing plant. Medfair is also locally significant under Criterion C The Medfair land was owned and tended by Maxwell T. Burnham and his family as available only to returning WWII veterans and their families. Although there is no documented discussion about arriving at the name specifically to house the huge influx of "certified war workers" recruited to a large fruit tree farm.

Burnham leased the farmland to the Federal Public (8-86) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio In 1953, nearing the conclusion of the War Re-conversion program, Medfair ultimately for low-income public housing, until 1974.

In 1974, the apartment MEDINA COUNTY HISTORY- Company produced cast steel valves and in 1896 and 1898 respectively, the Ohio (8-86) Section District Page Medfair Heights Apartments Historic authorized transfer of Federally-owned Lanham Act temporary war and veteran's National Park Service housing for all veterans (including returning Korean War veterans)and few small manufacturing companies began to develop within the (Expires 12-31-2005) land.In 1818,Medina Township was founded as part of the Connecticut Western NPS Form 10-900-a Medina in located in northeast Ohio.Medina county in the late 1800's.In 1860,the population of Medina Township was 968 persons.This large of a population would not be reached again until 1940.

(county and State) an excellent location for new industry.(Hambley) In 1893,the Ohio Injector (name of property) the possession of the MMHA where it continued to be used as veteran priority OMB No. 1024-0018 housing projects (TDU's) to local housing authorities. Medfair remained in this name, thus the name was changed to Medina. county seat and has a population of approximately 25,139 and an area of approximately 11 square miles. Although historically an agricultural-based (Medina Township Zoning Commission) By 1890 a network of five steam railroad Match Company and the Wadsworth Salt Company began operations near the town of was transferred to the non-profit Medina Metropolitan Housing Authority property transfer was made pursuant to the Housing Act of 1950, which Company, which produces candles, has been located in Medina since 1869.

companies linked Medina County to regional and national markets, making Medina County comprises approximately 425 square miles of primarily agricultural The City of Medina is the and finally,in 20o6,to SP State has NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic railways in northeast Ohio, the Cleveland & Southwestern Railroad and the county for dairy production. In 1900, the Cleveland & Southwestern Railroad of Medina, leaving its original location in Cleveland, Ohio. Established in of the area's accessibility to airports, rail lines and to various turnpike was able to purchase land and build a 65,000 square foot factory on the south quality aluminum parts for automobiles, household and office appliances.

During WWII hundreds of Medina County homes displayed a blue star in their window, indicating they had a family member in the service. Communities throughout the county strongly supported the war effort through war bond drives, victory gardens, strict rationing and full support of the home front Township population to be 1228 persons, which is a 278 increase from the (8-86) District Page Section passengers, the electric railway was abandoned in 1931.(Hambley) (Expires 12-31-2005) 1921 Permold,".was the first to specialize in miscellaneous aluminum growth of 7% from the decade before.(U.S.Census of Population 1930-1940) National Park Service 1939 to 4.1 P/A in 1959.("Medina Township Development Policy.") sale housing.In U.S.Census of Population shows the Medina Medina County, Ohio (name of property) Also in 1940 the population of Medina Township was 968,a 27% increase OMB No.

1024-0018 Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company that helped Medina become a leading served approximately 1,250,000 passengers carried that year and had a total In 1940 the Permold Company moved to a location just outside of the town war defense industries. After the war Medina County became the site for numerous housing tracts built to meet the high demand for post-war, private 433 acres in 1959. The amount of person per acreage also grew from 3.5 P/A in from the decade before. During this time the City of Medina experienced a (county and State) 1931,Medina County was served by two of the largest interurban electric OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET (county and State) portion of the county has, however, retained its rural character, with more In spite of this rapid growth, Medina County has managed to retain much district would be an important contribution to Medina's historic preservation CRITERION A: Community Development and Planning the federal government through its Region V, Cleveland office and conducted by a private builder, Alger Rau, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio, upon acceptance by the In the summer of 1940, with the surrender of France to the invading the construction of naval vessels. President Roosevelt called for an annual goals. District limited housing expansion.

Section Page programs to educate residents about Medina County's history.This work has Medfair Heights Apartments Historic Additionally, throughout the city and county, special festivals are held Lanham Act of 1940, was completed according to standard National Housing and Cleveland, Ohio. This suburban housing trend continues today, making Agency, Federal Public Housing Authority (NHA, FPHA) blueprints, supervised by were built specifically to house the huge influx of "certified war workers," Medina County into"bedroom"communities for families working in both Akron historic rehabilitation of the Medfair Heights apartments as an historic historic buildings around Medina's classic Western Reserve Public Square. Medfair is historically significant for its association with government (Expires 12-31-2005) NPS Form 10-900-a Medina County, Ohio (name of property) Region V office of his bid.

In the 1960's Interstate 71 was opened through the county, providing a main artery to Cleveland, Ohio. This transformed the northwest portion of funded, designed and constructed public housing, built as a response to the German army, the U.S. Congress passed the Naval Expansion Act that authorized (8-86) neighboring Permold Company aluminum casting plant.The construction of these regularly and several historic organizations work to provide research and of its historic character.In the City of Medina,private and commercial NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET (name of property) Medina County, Ohio (county and State) "writeoffs" for the cost of needed defense plant construction and expansion over five years rather than the standard twenty years.

To be the recipient of this tax benefit a plant needed to obtain a "Certificate of Necessity" from Almost immediately after its move to Medina, Permold received its to the war effort and planned for a 40% increase in its workforce. Permold home front). As a result of these manpower difficulties, the federal to the Lanham Act for incoming defense workers and federal aid in locating and housing of the mass numbers of workers needed to operate the production lines nationwide. Early in the war, workers migrated voluntarily to the new to the needs of the military, causing home front plants to look to women, both cases, there was a severe shortage of housing available near the new defense plants for these workers. To help solve this housing crisis Congress (Davidson). program.

District Section Page passed a series of laws altering the then-existing federal public housing Medfair Heights Apartments Historic By 1941,Permold's production output was producing vital parts for people, as opposed to the 350 anticipated upon its move to Medina. The U.S.Congress next turned its attention to the recruiting and bringing workers into Medina to work at the Permold plant.("Approval Is (Expires 12-31-2005) the government certifying that the factory was necessary for the war effort. Received,"p.1.)At the peak of the war employed 800 National Park Service factories and many new workers were needed to meet these production goals. One of the methods used by Congress to spur an increase in airplane production Certificate of Necessity and expanded its plant, dedicated 100% of its output production of 50,000 military planes to prepare for entry into WWII.

New "Selected Government Funded," "Office Open," p.1, "Medina Gets 160," p, 1, 3.) warplanes and ships. In 1941 a sand foundry was added and in 1943, Permold farm workers (to continue food production both for the war front and for the Cleveland, Ohio, allowing it to receive both federally funded housing pursuant industrial centers.As the war progressed manpower was increasingly directed OMB No.

1024-0018 National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio The Lanham Act of 1940 was one of the most significant of the defense $150 million to the Federal Works Agency for the construction of massive numbers of federally built, defense housing in the most congested defense capped at $4,500 (much less than the per-unit cost allowed under the previous offices supervised the construction, management, design, location, be started after that Medfair is an excellent example and, in fact, the only known example of a the only Lanham project to be built in the smallest community to have its own allocated by the Federal government in 1942 to Medina and the Permold plant implemented as a result of the NHA/FHA and the Lanham Act. Buildings were built at Medfair to also foster a positive relationship between neighbors.

The layout of the community building in relation to the rest of the buildings at Medfair helps define the community building as the heart of the Medfair District (8-86) Section Page architectural design, required the use of standardized building plans, the Lanham Act property in the City of Medina.It has the distinction of being specifically to be "torn down" after the war.Eighty temporary trailers plus Medfair Heights Apartments Historic for defense worker housing.Medfair reflects the community planning that was war industry and "defense area" designation according to the Medina County community.Medfair reflects the FHA standards with its clustered buildings (Expires 12-31-2005) NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior $224,890.00.The Temporary Housing Units ("TDU'S) at Medfair were housing laws.This conjunction with its 1943 construction industry).(World War II and the American (name of property) date,2) that within two years after the war's end (county and State) construction by, among others, designated Regional FPHA Offices.

These sale to veteran's or non-profit groups and 3) that they not be used for long- mass purchase of scarce building supplies and the supervision of project architectural contracting and building contracting for each project.Finally, the growth of the Medfair community.In community building was Gazette.The projected cost of the concrete block apartment project was to be materials.Under the Lanham Act more than 625,0oo housing units were built, OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio (county and State) Explains", P. 1, 3, Groth, p. 444.) Two other housing projects were also built in the City of Medina in 1942. These two other projects consisted of individual houses, built and comparison to other wartime defense housing developments in other Ohio Cole Avenue Housing Project Historic District).

Medfair, on the other hand, consisted of 18 one-story buildings each with 4 apartments, or 72 units.

national housing shortage of the Re-conversion years after the war, priority during which time veteran priorities continued, expanding to veterans of the negotiate a reasonable lease fee, the MMHA sold Medfair into private ownership (8-86) District Page Authority.) Section (Expires 12-31-2005) Medfair was properly transferred to a non-profit housing agency, The Medina total of 296 units.(National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: (name of property) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NPS Form 10-900-a for rental at Medfair was granted to U.S.military veterans.In 1954, individual houses were of wood frame construction and have one and two-story after WWII.(Original By-Laws and Minutes of the Medina Metropolitan Housing Medfair Heights Apartments Historic These projects were completely distinct from the cement block, attached, federal-built, temporary, rental defense worker dwelling units at Medfair.

financed by a private developer, upon receipt of permission from the NHA (for counties, Medfair was much smaller than most. For example, the Cole Avenue The Medfair sense of community remained through 1946. During the severe African American and other minority groups, as well as low-income Caucasians instead of an individualist design. (Wyman, "Medina Gets 160," p. 1, 3., leasehold transferred to the MMHA, actual ownership of the land underlying Federal Housing Agency, rather than destroy the apartments as required by the areas.Medfair exhibits the "communally sanctioned"qualities of the time Korean Conflict.As requiredby the Lanham the original Federal Housing in of 61 buildings havinga use of scarce for-sale a permanent nature.These OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic Medina County, Ohio (county and State) Given all of these facts, the numerous existing contemporaneous news accounts detailing and evidencing Medfair's association with the WWII Lanham integrity, Medfair is an outstanding illustration of the federal government' s management of the WWII Homefront defense effort.

It specifically illustrates the creation of defense worker housing in one of the country's small, successful, peaceful integration of an African-American housing project into a historically white, small town population, during an era when violent black population of Ohio grew from 339,461 in 1940 to 513,072 in 1950 reducing In Akron, Ohio, the black population almost doubled from 12,260 in 1940 population from 84,504 in 1940 to 147,847 in 1950. Other Midwestern states, Michigan, alone the black population more than doubled from 149,119 in 1940 to 300,506 in 1950. (U.S. Census Bureau) The physical setting and structure of Medfair was integral to its easily cared-for, efficient and containing the most up-to-date sanitation, Community Hall was built, specifically to provide a bright, open space for place and pride of self.

Additionally, it was a place of which the community District Section success. Page Medfair was constructed within walking distance of the well-paying, Act defense worker housing program and Medfair's remarkable physical (Expires 12-31-2005) plumbing, electricity, coal space heaters and gas cooking stoves.A medical steady and important employment opportunities at Permold.The apartments and NPS Form 10-900-a even the temporary trailers were described by the local newspaper as modern, specialized war industry is the only (name of property) resident meetings, crafts, lessons, celebrations and dances. Large open lawn could be proud.

("Get Started," p.1, "40 Trailers," p.1.) the percentage of the population that was white from 95.18 in 1940 to 93.58 in (8-86) laborers in Ohio brought many blacks from the south to the Buckeye State.The Medfair is also significant under Criterion A because it illustrates the Medfair is a strong candidate for National Register listing under Criterion A. to 23,762 in saw an increase in its black OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio the new "certified defense workers" for the Permold plant. Black workers were of African-American and Jamaican descent and relocated from the surrounding industries throughout the United States, the manpower need was met. Formed in 1942 by President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, the War Manpower Commission was designed to balance labor needs of agriculture, industry and the armed forces. The War Manpower Commission brought many new residents to the State of Ohio. Some blue-collar Europeans who had been displaced by the war also helped make- up the workers at Permold. from the New England States and from the German populations of Pennsylvania. During the 1850's, the citizens of Medina had been very active in support of the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Medina County housed a number of documented stations on the Underground Railroad and the town of Hinckley was home to the abolitionist Hiram Miller. In spite of this, few of African-American descent lived in the county prior to WWII. ("Medina County, A from 1940 to 1950 was approximately 22%, which is very similar to Summit ("Medina is not Classed," p.

1) District Section Page (Expires 12-31-2005) In 1943, Medina was in full patriotic fervor, fully participating in any (name of property) and 1950.Located in Cuyahoga County, Cleveland's black population grew by Medfair Heights Apartments Historic Medina, Ohio, during this time could be described as having a primarily its predominately white population between 1940 and 1950.(U.S.Census with regards to its populations during1940 and 1950.Its population increase states of District of and southern NPS Form 10-900-a was not classed in a labor shortage area by the War Manpower Commission, (county and State) making it more likely to receive valuable war contracts. The main problem Medina presumably also experienced a very large influx of black residents into Medina faced was housing shortages which were somewhat diminished by Medfair.

Bureau).However, unlike Cleveland and Akron, Medina, specifically Permold, County at 20% and somewhat greater than Cuyahoga County at 14%.Located in and all efforts to help win wwil.Into this very positive environment arrived NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medina County, Ohio The Ohio integration of blacks in Medina, particularly at Medfair, occurred without the violent opposition that was seen elsewhere in the United of minority war workers occurred in Detroit, Michigan.

In response to the 65,000 African Americans moved to the Motor City to work in the defense April of 1942 the Detroit police and state troopers kept the peace while the tensions at a boiling point, riots between blacks and whites erupted in which was accomplished by reason of the physical design of the project, the use of the local newspaper. Specifically, community information, the use of sensitive welcoming ceremonies for the new residents, positive "open-house" The first families moved into the trailers, then upon completion, into men, recruited by the War Manpower Commission, under a diplomatic labor (8-86) District Section Page integrated project.

CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic (name of property) into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project located in a predominately Polish integration of this new African American population into the town of Medina demand for wartime production and the job opportunities offered asa result, (Expires 12-31-2005) (county and State) States at this time. Such an example of aggressive resistance to integration 675 were injured. ("Eleanor Roosevelt," Baulch.) Medfair, on the other hand, had a more positive integration.

The experienced federal staffing and the support of Medina community leaders and one of the apartment buildings for a dining hall; they brought with them their exchange agreement with Great Britain, provided with work permits, renewable apartments and positive newspaper reporting made Medfair a successfully events allowing Medina citizens to meet the new residents and tour the community in Detroit.In February pickets in white United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Medina County, Ohio (county and State) 95.18 in 1940 to 93.58 in 1950. Many of the Permold workers, most County Gazette during this time lived in Medfair's bright and efficient for their hard labors, relaxed on the spacious lawns and held dances, electing officers among themselves and renting a building at the nearby Medina Fairgrounds to hold dances.

("Medfair Group," p.1.) Permold's aluminum parts production was critical to the war effort, causing it to receive numerous governmental awards for meeting war production Minute Man Flag (a war bond drive award) and the Gallon Club designation for To be clear, the arrival of Medfair's new residents was not without solved the issues that did arise.

Despite the numerous and regular local newspaper articles detailing the progress of the project, concerns over the community, wrote a lengthy letter to the Medina County Gazette, explaining the procedure which the federal government and Permold were using to interview District Section (8-86) Page CONTINUATION SHEET (Expires 12-31-2005) in the Union." ("Gas Company," p.1.) was the community at even before the Community Building was NPS Form 10-900-a Navy E awards granted to government subcontractors.E awards denoted an NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES for their personal contributions to the war receiving the (name of property) OMB No.

1024-0018 from 4.98 in 1940 to 6.5% in 1950, while the white population shrank from predominately black according to photographic evidence found in the Medina They walked to work at Permold, proudly earned award after award completed, the new residents at Medfair had formed their own social club excellent standard of production. Throughout the war Permold workers their excellence in the blood donor campaigns. In 1943, Ohio was recognized E award (July 18, 1942), multiple Army-Navy E awards, and the Army-Navy E Flag as, "having more war plants who have been awarded Army, Navy or Maritime Commission recognition for outstanding production records than any other state this, E.G. Fahlman, president of Permold and a civic leader in the Medina apartments. with three stars.

Additionally, Permold employees were regularly recognized problems.What is significant is the manner in which the Medina community potential Medfair residents.The Medina County Gazette published this rather Medfair Heights Apartments Historic OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic (name of property) Medina County, Ohio workers, citing the ongoing military service of the vast majority of Medina's male residents, noted that the FPHA had conducted a careful study of Medina's the federal government was paying all the costs for the housing project, was for interviews and that these people are of just as high of character as those patriotic duty, asking that they show tolerance and patriotism to these new In addition, the Medina County Gazette continued to publish positive, lengthy articles introducing readers to several of the residents, complete with photos, names, names of children and photos of the new homes.

The man, a maintenance worker, two full time "charwomen," both former teachers and Under Hugg's guidance, three countywide open houses were held, one for the trailer camp, one for the opening of the cement block apartments and one fanfare and formality. The public was invited to meet the residents, tour the open houses were widely attended (500 people at the apartments open house Section District Page (8-86) (Expires 12-31-2005) "Housing Manager" was a Mrs. Marguarite Hugg, appointed by the FHA, then years.She was assisted by an office assistant and a full time maintenance residents of Medina.

African American folk performances and readings.The regarding the new residents.He explained the need for an increase in defense NPS Form 10-900-a public housing servedat Chicago's Hull House for twelve (county and State) In this letter Fahlman went to great length to smooth out any tensions doing all of the interviews and was sending only the best prospects to Permold for final interviews. He stated that Permold had hired only 1 of every 6 sent already living in Medina. He concluded with a strong appeal to each citizen's southern states to be greeted with a dinner presented by the Medina Baptist manpower needs and reminded Medina that if Permold was to do its best in the social workers and a night watchman. ("Workers Move," p.1, 5.) Church and, for the Jamaicans, by the local Episcopal Church.

working at the Cleveland FHA office.Mrs.Hugg was an extremely experienced OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medina County, Ohio Underlying these successes, however, were significant difficulties in solicit additional workers, Permold placed an advertisement in the Medina starting wage for male workers at 60¢ per hour and for female workers at 50¢ per hour. ("Many Permold.") Women, in their hairnets, worked along side of men at Permold during this their own lunchroom at Permold and during Christmas time exchanged gifts and formerly of the Medina County Credit Bureau, even served as editor of the Permold News a semi-monthly newsletter for the Permold employees. ("Mrs. the men still out numbered the women at Permold.

It also does not appear as though a great number of Permold female employees lived at Medfair. It is walked to work. (Tott) In July 1942 Congress authorized the use of $6 million for the 1942 due to the increase in the number of woman working during the war, the demand for the nursery, it does not appear that a day public day nursery was Medina.

("Day Nursery," p.1.) District Section Page (name of property) CONTINUATION SHEET (Expires 12-31-2005) such a nursery, since many individuals preferred more traditional forms of day remains doubtful that any of these newsletters exist today.Although women for childcare services because of the wartime production.("A Response.") In (county and State) baked cakes and pies for the celebration.(Tott)Mrs.Alicia NPS Form 10-900-a the Permold Company closed County Gazette for more laborers, both male and female.

Permold lists the contributed greatly to Permold during the war effort it is unclear exactly how these funds under the Lanham Act a community had to show that there was a need federal government would pay a large portion of the salaries of the workers at formed in Medina under the Lanham Act due to the lack of demand to establish Women worked as pourers and "hot inspectors" (who examined new parts for flaws before granting them the stamp of approval). The women at Permold never lost their desire to carry on their "motherly duties." The women had the day nursery. ("Plan Start," p.l.) Despite several attempts to solicit However, a private nursery school was established during this time and (8-86) Medfair Heights Apartments Historic administrated by Mrs.George Coleman in her home on East North Street in OMB No.

1024-0018 National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic Medina County, Ohio Medfair's first year of operation, Medfair's 80 grade school aged children were admitted into Medina's school district even though Medfair was located These students should have attended York schools, but were not admitted there Medina school district also voted to decline these tuition students due to the education officials and the federal housing officials from Chicago, which were openly and positively reported by the Medina County Gazette. It was decided that one of the apartment buildings at Medfair would be converted into a two- transportation issues and the Medina school district would provide two "colored teachers." Additionally, the district's Art and Music teachers would building within the district.

("Decide on Medfair," p.1.) The building located just east of the Community Building, at the end of Harmon Court, was chosen as the school building. While renovation proceeded on the schoolhouse, the children attended class in Medfair's Community After the war, both Permold and Medina began to change. Permold easily re-tooled, producing aluminum parts for consumer appliances and automobiles. Page District Section coal industries. Building.Additionally, one of the trailers was moved to the Medfair property NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NPS Form 10-900-a (name of property) continue to admit all Medfair students of high school age into its system.

Conversations were held between the Medina board of (Expires 12-31-2005) Around Christmas of 1948,Permold was unable to provide work for 75 give instruction at Medfair on the same schedule as at any other school United States Department of the Interior This emphasis on community conversation and reasonable resolution to room school by the removal of partition walls. There would be no retention of many of its WWII manufacturing customers. This smooth transition was abruptly slowed in 1946 due to severe labor union strikes in the steel and tuition payments were required based on the lack of residency in the district. employees.Permold felt a loyalty to these men because of the extraordinary (8-86) pre-school age within the project ("New School," p.l, Suzi Deem Interview). overcrowding thereupon created in Medina's grade school classes.Medina did (county and State) OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section Medina County, Ohio (county and State) wanted. We have a number of good reliable employees temporarily out of work. stabilized and Permold remained profitable until the middle 1990's. and the globalization of commerce resulted in the bankruptcy of Permold and the abandonment of the once proud factory by the year 2000.

The Permold therefore, is also historically significant under Criterion A for social laborers and their families during WWII in Home Front defense industry CRITERION C: ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE utilitarian construction and minimal use of architectural details, site design requirements dictated by the NHA used extensively for government built and .the overall design incorporates the idea of super blocks and large separation between automobile traffic and pedestrian circulation. The collectively used with the first floor layouts complementing this housing. Authority. District Page (name of property) factory stands empty, awaiting redevelopment.

history as planned defense worker housing that lodged predominantly minority Medfair Heights Apartments Historic people, problem-solving, coupled with the support of community leaders assigned to regional offices of the NHA, namely the Federal Public Housing (Expires 12-31-2005) of this loyalty, Permold placed an ad in a local newspaper that read,"Work idea of a communal first floor plan suggests that the entire complex was NPS Form 10-900-a effort that many of them contributed to Permold during the war. As a result Have you any odd jobs?" ("Company Aids," p.1.) The labor unions eventually The slim profit margin for the industry, combined with new competitors contributed to a successful integration of this new African-American control of the construction, specifying the use of standardized plans and the mass purchasing of supplies.

Supervision of construction and management was (Fahlman and school officials) and positive reporting in the local newspaper This great attention to project design and to proper federal staffing, OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (name of property) Medina County, Ohio function by opening up to the shared and connected, surrounding green site design. As previously described, the buildings of Medfair are an assemblage of concrete block, multi-family, low-rise residential buildings the creation of a community feel resulting from the orientation of the buildings in toward the heart of the complex, the lawn spaces and the military barracks grew, materials dwindled.

Iron, steel and other metals were in 1940 President Roosevelt created several government agencies to develop lists of critical materials, shut down production of low priority items and Although the use of concrete and concrete block in construction was not new, it was used during the war in ways that had generally been avoided structural element. (Friedel, "Pueblo Del Rio.") Medfair also features the living space that faces the living space of the neighbor in an attempt to Medfair's simple ornamentation, close proximity to Permold and community orientation around the Community Building as the social center of the project. District Page Section (Expires 12-31-2005) building materials.

situated in a deliberate plan among large, open, lawn spaces and recreational Medfair Heights Apartments Historic CONTINUATION SHEET spaces.(Cole Avenue Housing Project Historic District Nomination Form) reduce conflicts.(Ibid)The strict USHA standards are exemplifiedby with the minimal use of steel (a war priority material) as a supporting NPS Form 10-900-a (county and State) The Garden City Movement along with the City Beautiful movement sparked principles became popular in the United States for use with public housing and were adopted in the 20th century by the FHA for its standards in planning and reduced manpower with much less skilled labor and in covering large spaces previously.Its use during the war years was pivotal in increasing the speed Medfair constitutes an excellent example of the typical architectural style construction.It was also the impetus for the invention of many new types of reason that war era construction was so different from previous types of United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio housing project; it is the only known Lanham project in Medina, Ohio.

It existence, in light of the common destruction of these Lanham projects, is District Significance. Section Page (8-86) (Expires 12-31-2005) Medfair Heights Apartments Historic NPS Form 10-900-a (name of property) OMB No. 1024-0018 the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion remarkable.As presents a very strong candidate for listing on and construction methods required for a World War II home front defense (county and State) USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Page #5 9.

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Zone Easting Northing or more continuation sheets.) Verbal Boundary Description(Describe the boundaries of the property on a State Historic Preservation Office recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # designated a National Historic Landmark Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 927 Main Street Medina County, Ohio _ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Major Bibliographical References Deem, Suzi. Telephone Interview. 20 Mar. 2007. The Mullin-Kille and Gazette Medina Ohio Con Survey City Directory Master Gazette, 1948. 23 Dec. 1948: 1. 1943: 1. Sept. 2007 Gazette. [Medina, Ohio] 1966. Ohio] 13 Oct. 1942: 1. Detnews.com. 3 Dec.

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1024-0018 "More to Life than Wages and Patriotism: Recreation Programs." Oregon "Permold Makes Castings for B-29 Bombers."Medina County Gazette. "office Open Daily for Registration of War Workers."Medina County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medina County, Ohio "Permold to Add Three Buildings." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, Ohio] 22 Dec. 1942: 1. [Medina, Ohiol 17 Nov. 1942: 1. "Prefabricated and Mobile." Cornell University Library. 8 Feb. 2007 <http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/prefabhousing/prefab.php1content=six City of Los Angeles. 4 Oct. 2006 Ltd. 23 June 2006 < www.heritagereseach.com/0-P.htm>. County Gazette. [Medina, Ohio] 6 Oct. 1942: 1. [Medina, Ohio]. 26 April 2003: C2. Gazette. [Medina, Ohio] 3 Sept. 1943: 1. Ohio] 21 Sept. 1943: 1. 1943: 1. Section District Page "Trailers not yet Ready." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, Ohio] 12 Mar.

(8-86) "Santa Claus Comes to Medfair Heights." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, Ohio]16Apr.1943:1. CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Apartments Historic (Expires 12-31-2005) (name of property) National Park Service Ohio]24Dec.1943:1. NPS Form 10-900-a "Trailer Camp Now Houses 23 Families."Medina County Gazette.[Medina, United States Department of the Interior Projects." Medina County Gazette.[Medina,Ohio] 9 Wasn't a Casting Until Mom Said It Was."The Gazette. OMB No. 1024-0018 (county and State) "Pueblo Del Rio: Let's Not Forget The Past." Housing Authority of the "Trailer Camp will have Open House." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, "Tenants should have Copy of Registration Statement, Says Waller." Medina "Plan Start of Day Nursery Here on Dec.1o."Medina County Gazette.

United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Medina County, Ohio 1959. [FHA Library]. Ohio] 9 Sept. 1944: 1. [Medina, Ohio] 26 Mar. 1943: 1, 5. Nation edited by Donald Albrecht, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., (MIT Press), 1995. Alfred Meyers Lithographers, Inc. 1966. District Section Page "Wadsworth Foundry gets 50 Jamaicans." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, "Wesley Lee will assist Servicemen." Medina County Gazette. [Medina, (8-86) Ohio]7Dec.1945:1. Wyman, Susan."Historical Highlights of Medina, The Permold Company." CONTINUATION SHEET U.S.Federal Housing Administration.The FHA Story in Summary: 1934-1959. National Park Service (Expires 12-31-2005) Medfair Heights Apartments Historic NPS Form 10-900-a "Workers Move into State Road Trailer Camp."Medina County Gazette. (name of property) (county and State) U.S.

Census Bureau, "Census of Population 1930-1940." Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990." U.S. Census Bureau, "Ohio- Race and Hispanic Origin: 1800 to 1990." World War II and the American Dream, How Wartime Building Changed a U.S.Census Bureau,"ohio-Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Large United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description - Permanent Parcel# 29-19A-16-032. Lot No. 2912. Situated in the City of Medina, County of Medina and State of Ohio, known known as being all of Medina City Lot No. 2912 and more fully described deg. 00'00" East along the centerline of State Road, as aforesaid, 844.29 feet to a point; thence North 81 deg.

31' 32" West 30.01 feet to a point line of York Road, as aforesaid and along the prolongation of the Northerly Right-of-way line of York Road, as aforesaid, 540.01 feet to a 300.00 feet to a point on the Westerly Right-of-Way line of State Road, of-way line of State Road, as aforesaid, 402.02 feet to a point and the Principal Place of Beginning and containing 9.7077 acres of land, as District Section Page (8-86) Medfair Heights Apartments Historic NPS Form 10-900-a wide;thence North 81 deg.31'32" West along the Northerly Right-of-Way asfollows:Beginning at the intersection of State Road(County Highway point;thence North 7deg.00'00" East,755.74 feet to a point;thence No.22)and State Highway No.291 (State Route No.18)thence North7 as being part of Original York Township Lot 1 and further (county and State) West to 104.99 feet to a point;thence South 7deg.00'00" West 210.00 (name of property) but subject to all legal highways.Volume 59,Medina County.

surveyed by Wheeler & Melena, in April 1968,be the same or more or less, South 84 deg.07' 36" feet toa point; thence South 7 deg. OMB No. 1024-0018 on the Westerly Right-of-Way line of State Road, as aforesaid and the feet to a point on the Northerly Right-of-Way line of York Road, 60 feet principal place of beginning; thence continuing North 81 deg.31' 32" (Expires 12-31-2005) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Medina County, Ohio Boundary Justification built, with the exception of two buildings destroyed by fire and one small parcel to the north of the property along State Rd. that was removed around existing boundaries of Medfair, with the exceptions noted above.

Parcel #29-19A-16-032.) District Section (8-86) Page Medfair Heights Apartments Historic (name of property) (Expires 12-31-2005) NPS Form 10-900-a (county and State) OMB No. 1024-0018 encompasses all of the buildings and the entire, original site. (Permanent The borders of the property have been unchanged since the property was USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 11. Form Prepared By date: May 30, 2007 city or town state: OH Submit the following items with the completed form: (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) Name : street & number -Maps -Photographs zip code telephone Property Owner Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional Documentation -Continuation Sheets or numerous resources.

Page #6 -Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPo for any additional items) Medina County, Ohio A sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage Sheehan, Esq. USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Medina County, Ohio Page #7 for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties and to benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.

Washington, DC Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District Estimated Burden Statement:Public reporting burden for this form is estimated Paperwork Reduction Act Statement:This information is being collected for gathering and maintaining data and completing and reviewing the form.Direct (16 U.s.c.470 et seq.).A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor and a National Register of Historic Park C conments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties to average 36 hours per response including the time for reviewing instructions, amend existing listings.Response to this request is required to obtain a United States Department of the Interior 221 North State Street Photographer: Noelle Sheehan Photo #1 Photo #2 View: Facing northeast Showing: Building 10 front Showing: Building 10 rear Note: Concrete blocks, green space Note: Concrete blocks, windows, & Photo # 3 Photo #4 Note: Concrete blocks, stoop, & Note: Concrete blocks & backyard Dec.

11, 2006 Note: Concrete blocks & window height Photo #7 Photo #8 Showing: Slab 2 Note: Window height & roofline Note: Concrete foundation Showing: Buildings 9, 11, 13, & 15 Note: Building arrangements chimney overhangs (8-86) Page Historic District Medfair Heights Apartments (Expires 12-31-2005) CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Historic District National Park Service Note: Entrance Medina County, Ohio NPS Form 10-900-a PHOTO LIST (name of property) View: Facing west NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Photo #6 Photo #9 May 2007 (county and State) OH 44256 OMB No. 1024-0018 Photo #5 Dec. Medina County, Ohio 221 North State Street Photographer: Noelle Sheehan Dec.

11, 2006 View: Facing east Showing: Buildings 9, 11, 10, & 12 Note: Building arrangements Note: Door Note: Living & kitchen room floor & Note: Window & cabinets Photo # 15 Note: Hallway & storage space Note: Concrete block walls & concrete Note: Walls & fixtures (8-86) bathroom kitchen Floors walls Historic District Dec. Photo #16 (Expires 12-31-2005) View: Interior CONTINUATION SHEET Medfair Heights Historic District PHOTO LIST Medfair Heights Apartments National Park Service Photo #17 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the Interior (name of property) Photo #11 NPS Form 10-900-a Showing: Building 4 (2 bedroom) Medina, OH 44256 (county and State) May 15, 2007 OMB No.

1024-0018 Photo #12 Page Photo #13 Photo #18 Photo #14 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 S BED Medfair Heights- NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY Apartment Blueprints TEMPORARY DWELLING UHTTS UNIT"C BED ROOM "1 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 UN ITS Apartment Blueprints INATION IINITS - CONCRETE UNTS; NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY TDU3 BED ROOM"I 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 3.000 KITCHEN KIICHEN NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY LIVING - BED ROOM. RIGHT HAND PLAM PZ-BED ROOMS-'FOR END UNITS ONLY' Medfair Heights - Medina County, Ohio Apartment Blueprints UNIT S DATH HAND PLAN BED ROOM 221 North State Street Apartment Blueprints Medina.

OH 44256 NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY HERBERT EMMERICH.-COMMISSIONER 4.00 G LEFT HAND HAND PLAN TEMPORARY DWELLING UNITS KITCHEN LIVING-BED.ROOM KITCAEN Medfair Heights-Medina County, Ohio 221 North State Street CAMPBELL & Medina, OH 4425G .......-; 722-0731 ASSOCIATES, INC Surveying - Engineering MORTGAGE LOCATION SURVEY Note: All bulldings are S 84°0136" E 345.00' block 4 unlt apartments. O hyd. - fire hydrant metal shed - m.h. - sewer manhole Part of Note: Subject's gravel X Cry Lot 2912 encroaches 24' max. S 01º00'00" W Lot 7626 STATE ROAD 6Ø' Note: Portion of subject's access over adjolner's property. Client Order No. 05-2499 C &A Order No June 8, 2005 Survey ME118175 200 Block Exception Address 1940 210.00 29.5 City of Medina 21.3 437 W. Lafaystte Rd.

221 North State Road 217.841 frame shed 173.00' 106' S 01º00'00" W 402.02' "concrete State of Ohio, County of Medina N O1º00'00" E 755.74' N 81°3132" W Date (typical) Bullding http://www.campbel/survey.com Sulte 160 21.5' 5 PIANT 4 68 CARVER DRIVE Sketch Map with Building Numbers HARMON COURT 1AB N STATE ROAD 20 221 LEGEND 1357 Total PARKING North State Apartments DUNBAR CIRCLE Building 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 - YOUNG AVENUE - -YORKROAD - Medfair Heights - Medina County, Ohio SUBSTATION SHCP Slab Build1ne18T - DUNBAR CIRCLE 2|4|6 8 CARVER DRIVE Sketch Map Photographs Keyed 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 HARMON COURT 135 N STATE ROAD 221 LEGEND 1357 PARKING Total North State Apartments Bedrooms i Medfair Heights Medina County, Ohio PATRIOT'S WA R &O RAILROAD ROCKY HOYNTAIN DRI WAZERLOO LANE WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE RAILWAY Key: Road CLs, Jurisdictional Bounds, School District Bounds Location Map - Medfair Heights in Pink Medfair Heights - Medina County, Ohio 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 Key Location Map CORNELL COURT PROGRESS DRIVE REVERE CIRCLE ALDEN COURT ABBEYVILLE ROAD YORKTOWN DRIVE BRANCH ROAD SARATOGA TRAIL WESTBRANCH DRIVE JAMESTOWN PLACE COVENTRY COURT MARSHALL COURT QUINCY COURT VAN BUREN WAY BUNKER HILL PAWN COURT SAVANNA YORK ROAD EMAIN PLACE MARKS ROAD W LIBERTY STREET 360 ft LUNRYS LANE Page 2 of 4 V ROH N CenterLine N Sublot N DualJuris Cities I Villages Area Map: Lots - Medfair Heights in Pink N Boundarles Medfair Heights - Medina County, Ohio 221 North State Street Medina, OH 44256 21784 204.03 173.00 104.99 150.00 300.00 Parcel Search 45.00 302.02 N Hater N Condo 72 ft http://www.highwayengineer.medinaco.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?ppn=02919al6032&imgxy=..

9/17/2007 132 10000 School 54010 270.00 195.02 85.0 #208.88 #245.08 238.88 Live Search - Custom Print Options Page 1 of 1 Douglas Ave Aerial Satellite View Medfair Heights - Medina County, Ohio 221 North State Street Medina.

OH 44256 9/17/2007 http://local.live.com/PrintableMap.aspx?mkt=en-us&a=true Young Ave Live Search Lincoln Ave USGS Carver Dr N State Rd Dunbar Circle -poration UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: OTHER : N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : The National Registe If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE REJECT REVIEWER RETURN MULTIPLE 7/04/08 6/24/08 5/21/08 Historic Places ACCEPT RECOM./CRITERIA SAMPLE: DISCIPLINE Entered in PDIL: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: APPEAL: N REFERENCE NUMBER: 08000624 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 6/09/08 DATE OF PENDING LIST: Building10 (front) Medfair Heights Historic Medina, OH y425G Medina County, Ohio Facing May 17, 2007 Medina, OH 44256 Medina County, Ohio May 17,2007 Medina, OH 44256 Medina County, Ohio Building la kfront) District 221 N.

State St. Medina, OH 44256 Medina County, Ohio Facing north Medfair Heights Historic Medina County, Ohio Medina County, Ohio 2al N. State St. Dec. 1l, a006 05.15.2007 Building I (rear) Medina, OH 44as6 May 15,2007 Medina County, Ohio Medina, OH 44256 Medina County, Ohio May 15, 2007 Slab 2 Medina, OH 44a56 Buildings 9, 1l,13, &15 2al N. State St. District Medina, OH 44a5 6 Buildungs 11 13,47 Medina, OH 44256 Facing east Medfair Heiahts Historic District Buildings 9,1l,10 :12 Interior view Building 4 (2 bedroom) Dec. 1l, a006 2al N. State St. Dec. 11, 2006 Interior View Medina County,Ohio Medina, County, Ohio District Medina County, Ohio Building 4 (R bedroom Building la (3 bedroom) Medina County, Ohio Interior view Dec. 1l,2006 Interior View Medina County, Ohio District Dec.

1l, a006 Medina, OH 44256 Interior View Medina County, Ohio UNITED STATES MALLET CREEK, OHIO STATE OF OHIO MALLET CREEK QUADRANGLE S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) PG DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Light-duty road, hard or GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LITCHF 2 170 000 FEET RECEIVED 2280 MAY 21 2008 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service 2280 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Dear Ms. Matthews: forwarded to the National Park Service concurrent with this transmittal letter. NEW NOMINATION The Verona Apartments Medfair Heights Apartments Historic District South Main Street Historic District staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000.

Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street, Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 Ottawa Hamilton COUNTY Summit Medina Enclosures Sincerely, www.ohiohistory.org Franklin National Register Washington DC 20005 OHIO If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dr. William K. Laidlaw, Jr. Ealy, George and Christina, House Island House Enclosed please find five (5) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification Historic Preservation Officer designation has changed. Notification of this change has been State Historic Preservation Officer procedures have been followed for these new submissions.Please note that the Ohio State