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1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 7 Page 1 Summit County, Ohio The Gothic building, built in 1902 and designed by Akron architect Frank O. Weary, is a four-story masonry former apartment/commercial located in the Akron central business district. The exterior walls are two-color tapestry brick masonry party wall with an extended parapet along it's south elevation. The facades of the building are of yellow and supported a wide cornice. The building is rectangular in plan, four bays wide on its north elevation, and three bays wide on its east elevation. The north elevation faces East Mill Street and the east elevation faces South High Street. Both of these faces feature patterned brickwork and an arcade at the ground floor of Tudor arch openings.
Each arch is formed of soldier course bricks with a sandstone keystone. The fourth floor, on both the north and east facades, is separated from the lower floors by a yellow brick band. The original wood frame storefronts have been replaced with metal frame storefronts in a similar configuration, and the transoms have been covered with solid wood panels. All but two of the original wood windows are still intact, although in disrepair. The bilateral symmetry of the north façade features recessed entrances and display windows in the ground floor retail each of the four stores. Each brick panel separating the bays of the façade is defined by decorative brick panels of orange acting as the center axis unifying the composition is the widest of them all.
It is defined by a tapestry brick pattern of 2 two equidistant smaller panels are accented by small double hung fenestrations on each floor: The corner panels frame the types and sizes reflect the different spatial functions and define the structure as a new building type, the apartment. upper sash) on both sides of the medallion panel opening into a former bedroom space and the other a Chicago Style window at the corners of the façade with decorative diamond shaped lights on the smaller upper panel opening into the former dining or parlor space. The paired windows are separated by plain thick mullions. The paired windows of the 4"h floor are all of the same size and type. The Tudor arch formed by a double row of headercourse brick frames the paired double-hung Tudor arch windows. There is a wood geometrical trefoil filling the cusp. At the same time each window has a gothic sash.
In this case the upper sash is multipaned with curved muntins forming three pointed arches with two lights at the cusp. There are small double-hung windows in every floor between each large window at each side of the axis that correspond to the location of the bathrooms of the apartments. The second and third floor bathroom windows have jack arches formed of soldier courses brick cut for voussoirs. Each window rests on a single sandstone sill. The double windows of the 2id and 3"d floors are surmounted by a jack arch of soldier course from the face of the wall.. The muntins of upper sash at the east end of the second floor window are missing, and have been replaced at a later date with single light sash. The fourth floor bathroom windows have gothic pointed arch frames topped by masonry gothic pointed arch formed by a double header course of bricks.
The east façade, which is also part of corner elevation facing S. High Street, has three distinctive bays. It is a bilateral symmetrical façade on the upper floors and an off center Tudor Revival entrance to the apartments on the first floor. This wide Tudor arch frames the recessed entrance with a double row of soldier courses with a centered sandstone keystone. At the same time a corbelled gothic arch frames the Gothic arch door with three upper Gothic arch lights and three curved The Gothic Building orange glazed face brick. The north, east and west facades feature newer low parapets at the roof line which once medallions: one small one, the head, on the 4" floor and another larger, the body, spanning the 2"d and 3d floors. The next compostion.
The different window types on each floor define the tripartite classical form, the first floor store windows are There are two different types of large rectangular window on the 2d and 3"d floorss: one paired (double-hung, smaller bricks, cut at angles to form the voussoirs. Each jack arch has a stepped keystone of brick, which is slightly corbelled store openings. The four large window bays defining the façade are centered on the keystone of the Tudor arch framing PS 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 Section number 7 Summit County, Ohio lights in the cusp. This single door entrance door is of solid wood. Display windows are featured in the two northernmost keystones of the first floor Tudor arches.
This time the center ofthe two color decorative brick pattern facade is defined is continued from the north elevation starting with yellow brick, followed by orange and ending with yellow. The quoins façade. The second and third floors of the center bay feature double hung windows in the Chicago style. They correspond one over one windows as in the north facade. Each group of second and third floor windows rests on a stone sill and is topped by a jack arch with corbelled brick keystone like those on the north façade. The fourth floor windows are pairs of Tudor arch double hung sash like those on the fourth floor of the north façade. The change of grade from one end of the façade to the other is noticed by the different display window height on the first floor and the higher Tudor arch of the apartment entrance door. This slope is steeper than the façade on E.
Mill Street, which leads to the streets where the former canals were operating in the 19th century. The south elevation is a plain masonry wall of common brick that was once a party wall to the demolished Colonial Theater's boiler room, stage and scenery and auditorium, an adjacent building This median wall is presently painted white. The parapet extends beyond the roof line and once housed chimney flues that are no longer in use. A few of these have been capped with either stone or concrete caps. The west elevation has two different façade treatments. One is the part that shared a party wall with the demolished of plain common bond brick. Like the south elevation, these areas are party wall and were once hidden by the Colonial Theatre, an adjacent building.
The second part of the west elevation, 3d and 4th floor, overlooked the roof of the mentioned Lobby and has the decorative two color brick pattern of the rest of the Gothic building. At the third floor, the two bays each have a single double hung window with a Tudor arch formed with a double row of header course bricks three pointed arches with two lights at the cusp similar to those on the fourth floor of the north and east facades. skylight had probably the original rusted steel frame, however it was in very poor condition and some of the original wire glass panels are broken and some have been replaced with regular glass. Today, the leaking skylight has been recently replaced with a modern insulating translucent panel system of the same size and pitch. The ground floor storefronts are entered from East Mill Street.
The ground floor is currently vacant; it retains its basic original layout, but has newer interior finishes. One original feature that remains in half of the ground floor area is a metal ceiling, which has been painted white. The interior spaces of the upper floors retain their original layouts, materials, and architectural details. The upper floors, former apartments and offices, are entered through the Tudor Revival doorway at the south end of the east (High The Gothic Building ground floor openings belonging to the store opening on E. Mill Street.The three upper bays are centered on the continue tobe the dominant design pattern.The narrower elevation did not allow developing brick panels as in the north frames the single Tudor arch window.
The double-hung window's upper sash is multipaned with curved muntins forming The roof of the building is hipped in form and features a shed form skylight set against the south parapet wall.The Page 2 The tripartite classicism is defined again in the Renaissance Revival massing. The rhythm of the color pattern in the bays as the ones described in the north façade. The end bays of the second and 3" floor have pairs of rectangular double hung Colonial Theatre's four-story stairwell and the two-story entrance/lobby hall. The partially painted masonry wall is built north and center bays each contain a single double hung window with a segmental arch opening. At the fourth floor, these Street) façade.
A small entry area at the ground floor retains most of its original floor tile with the words "the Gothic" by the Chicago Style windows on the 2"° and 3°° floor which define the with of the 4* floor pared Tudor Revival window. PS 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 Section number 7 The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio spelled out in small dark red tiles within a small white tile background. From here a straight run of stairs leads to the upper floors. The staircase is wood with turned balusters, square newel posts, ornamented open stringers and paneled underside. Each of the three upper floors is divided into two suites, mirrored about the north-south axis. Interior windows from each floor open into the atrium. throughout are wood boards.
A few rooms feature ghosts and fragments of low relief plaster or composition ornament on the ceilings. They were the former dining and parlor areas. There is evidence, in the form of flues, of fireplaces and openings, and removal of a few partitions to accommodate later commercial uses or offices for the apartment tenants, like The current roof installed around 1980 is a combination is a built-up system. Due to leaks a spray on system was added in 2006 together with membrane roofing. - The original hipped roof had a projecting eave with a built in gutter system. When the roofing material was replaced, the built in gutters were removed together with the projecting eave and a new parapet with a different color of brick recesses facing S. High Street, were opened to create a new storefront with false transoms of covered black vitrolite.
The 1950 storefronts obtained aluminum frame display windows. The interior of the Gothic did not undergo significant visible changes. Most of the areas were affected by water infiltration reflected in the damaged plaster and woodwork. Some of the interior doors leading to the suites are 1950's replacement, but most of the wood doors are the original five-panel type. The originally stained woodwork has been painted. Some new framed mirrors and wood risers were introduced in the second and fourth floors in the 1950's, but the quality is inferior to the existing original woodwork. New lighting fixtures were introduced in the 1950's. Today one observes a mixture of incandescent and fluorescent lamps. One significant architectural feature, part of the window hardware system is that the double-hung windows have an innovative combined sash weight and lock system metal mechanism.
The metal rotary member is rusted but the parts are closing the window through almost a century. architectural styles of the time. It was used for institutional buildings as well as multistory apartments. The Second jack arches. keystones and its smooth brick surface. The Tudor Revival/Jacobethean elements are the Tudor and gothic arches, the multipaned window sashes, copper gutter and downspouts. The Gothic was built at the beginning of the Arts and Crafts movement, and architects Frank O. Weary introduced a couple of architectural features from that period, the Exterior changes the emerging industrial rubber city in the 2o century.The structure represents the new eclecticism of the revival doctor's office. Page 3 second floor common area, which is a three-story atrium space.
A single stairway leads through the open atrium to the Interior materials include plaster on wood lath covering all walls and ceilings. Due to a neglected roof leak much of the upper floors plaster has deteriorated. Most, though not all of the interior doors are extant. They are five panel wood doors with transoms. Wood trim around most of the doors and windowsis of plain boards with a decorative backband. Floors stoves in a few rooms. However, none of these are extant. A few of the suites were altered by the addition of arched was built. There were eleven courses in common bond. The plain parapet was capped with sandstone. The original storefronts were renovated in c. 1950. The transoms on Mill Street were paneled over. The brick Overall, the Gothic building has retained its architectural integrity as a new building type, the city apartment building of complete.
The system did not work anymore because the teeth in the wooden sash were worn out from opening and Renaissance Revival is reflected in its rectangular massing, proportions, hierarchy of architectural features, symmetry, PS 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 Section number 7 Summit County, Ohio multipane upper sash over a single lower sash and the tapestry brick treatment in texture and color. There is no-other building in Akron like it. The Gothic retains the original form, general plan and the architectural character as designed by its architect Frank O. Weary. Current Addition Today, the Gothic building is part of a federal and state tax rehabilitation project.
The rehabilitation work is complying with the Secretary of Interior Standards and has been approved by the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. In order to bring back the Gothic to contemporary use and be able to comply with the 21 century building codes, a new addition has been added to the south. The addition is 5 stories tall, because it reflects the original 5-story height of the former Colony theatre. The height of the attic space of the Gothic defines the 5-story height of the vertical circulation addition. The penthouse ends at the attic level. The addition is of the same height as the Gothic Building at street line and stepped back to the attic height. The addition uses the common wallthat was shared with the former Colony Theatre State and Auditorium facing S. High Street. (See HP page 1).
This addition will serve as the vertical circulation distribution core for the Gothic allowing the building to comply with the current code without affecting the architectural integrity of the historic building. This brick, aluminum and glass structure will be providing space for the elevator, staircase and lobby is compatible with the existing historic building and is complying with the Secretary of Interior Standards of Rehabilitation. The brick defines the stairs, the glass defines the lobby and the brick the stairs, elevator shaft and mechanical space. The new brick is compatible with the original building. There is a recessed black brick line of approximately 12" wide is abutting the existing party wall differentiating the new structure from the old. As mentioned earlier this wall was share by the former Colony Theatre, which was demolished decades ago.
The two different colors of brick use yellow for the horizontal bands and orange for the surfaces in between are compatible with the existing brick façade of the Gothic Building and continue the compete with the simple parapet of the Gothic. The storefront window creates a dialogue with the original ones. The windows on the upper floors are part of the landings in the stairwell. The determining factors for the height of the addition are the existing party wall and the height of the attic the Gothic. The new addition is not destroying any historic materials, and is compatible in its size, massing, historic integrity of the Gothic Building and the surrounding urban environment. According to comments from historic building". original two-color theme. The addition is finished with a non-projecting deep cap of cast stone.
It does not The Gothic Building space.This party wall has no architectural significance.The new addition is working as a deferential piece to scale and use of architectural materials through its recessed stepped design maintaining and enhancing the Page 4 the National Park Service, the new addition maintains an"appropriately subordinate relationship with the PS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8. Statement of Significance The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio The Gothic Building is nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria C. It qualifies under Criteria C because of the high level of architectural design and a distinctive building type: an apartment building for the emerging middle class of the turn of the century.
This new middle class was the result of the beginning of economic Goodyear and Firestone (Goodrich was in the rubber manufacturing industry since the 1870's in Akron), prompted by the development of a new mode of transportation, the automobile. The Gothic building represents a transition between the two part commercial building, stores on the first floor and apartments on the upper floors to the full apartment building building is also a distinctive example of eclectic architecture, Italian Renaissance Revival, Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts applied to an emerging building type, the apartment building, designed by an architect. It is also historically significant as a rare surviving example of the work of noted Akron architect Frank O. Weary. The Gothic Building is important in its representation of Weary's masterful use of a variety of styles throughout his career.
Furthermore, the retains most of its architectural integrity and significance. This commercial/apartment building is still on its original site; therefore it also maintains its site integrity and significance. Architect of the Gothic Building Simon B. Weary, was a carpenter by trade. In Akron, the elder Mr. Weary, Simon B. Weary established a planing mill, lumber and general building business, manufacturing lath, shingles, sash, blinds, flooring, ceiling mouldings, doors and dimensioned lumber needed for the continuous physical growth of the city of Akron. Simon Weary entered in partnership with architect Jacob Snyder, creator of the Akron Plan Church, and David G. Wilcox in 1864.
The company became known as the Weary, Snyder, & Wilcox Manufacturing Company and located itself on North Main Street, which was an industrial street at that time because of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal flowing along it.The company closed its doors moving to Boston Massachusetts to complete his training. During his tenure at Heard and Blythe, he is credited with having been involved in the preparation of drawings for the Academy of Music and the Commerce Block at the corner of Main and Market streets in Akron. (At some point in the construction of the Academy of Music Building, ownership reconstruction of the city after the Great Fire of 1871. In 1875 he returned to Akron and was given the commission for the Akron Rural Cemetery (Glendale Cemetery Group) Memorial Chapel, a Gothic Revival style structure.
(NR 80003236) The Chapel commission led to work on three other designs, a caretaker's house, an administration building, and a bell tower. The Chapel itself was a very personal commission to Weary. Weary served in the drum corps during the Civil War after enlisting at the age of 14. A number of close friends and family members are remembered in the at the corner of Main and Mill Streets (west of the Gothic and separated by Maiden Lane Alley), and the Arcade Block (1883) on Howard Street, one of the busiest commercial streets of Akron, now extinct. In 1885, Weary entered into partnership with architect George W.Kramer. Kramer had been working with architect Jacob Snyder on a number of Church commissions built in the Akron Plan mode. The Akron Plan Churches proved to be a (Rev. 10-90) in 1897.
Page 1 and physical growth of the city of Akron after the establishment of two new and very significant rubber industry giants, Frank Orlando Weary was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1849; he came to Akron with his parents in 1851. His father, Frank O Wearybegan the study of architecture as an apprentice in the offices of Heard & Blythe in Cleveland before designs incorporated into the work of the Memorial Chapel. Other early commissions included the Buchtel Hotel (1883) development in the surrounding established neighborhoods that occurred following its construction in 1902. The Gothic PS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8.
Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio demanding national market and by 1899, Kramer had moved his practice to New York City in order to publish a book on Church design and focus on that area of practice. Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, and New York Some of the identified architectural works of Weary' s firm outside Ohio are the Michigan. (See List at the end) Weary served as the architect for Oberlin College, and designed from 1886 to 1892, Talcott Hall, Peters Hall, Baldwin Cottage and Shurtleff Cottage, all National Register of Historic Places listed properties. From the period 1885 through the early 1890's the buildings designed by the firm were largely executed in High Victorian Gothic or Romanesque Revival Styles. After 1893, the Neo-Classical style of the Chicago World's Fair greatly influenced the work of Frank Weary.
According to George Kramer's book, "The What, How and Why of Church Building," first published in 1897, designs After a disastrous fire at the Academy of Music in 1897, Weary was hired to assess the damage, and create a new design for the building. The railroad magnate, Sylvester Everett, commissioned Weary to re-design the Second Empire building neo-classical block on the ruins of the earlier three and a half-story structure. The new building provided new space for the Akron Public Library on the second floor and offices in the upper floors. Other commissions that followed included Buchtel Hall at the University of Akron (1900), Miller School (1900), Lane School (1902), Fraunfelter School (1904) and the Carnegie Free Library (1903-1904) All of these structures depart from Weary's previous work in terms of style.
Each was executed in a Neo-classical mode, with the Carnegie Library (NR 83002060) being executed in the Beaux-Arts style. Frank O. Weary's work spanned the late 19" century architectural period and the early 20" century, therefore his designs represent an evolution of his architectural style, especially expressed in the Gothic Building. Historic development of the city of Akron because the Cascade race, was built on Race Ave (the future Main Street) at an elevation of 10 to 20 feet higher than the finished Ohio-Erie Canal in order to increase the water power of the future mills on the canal. It would enter at Lock 5 (at the end of Mill Street) and go down to Lock 17 to the north providing great amount of power to the situated mills. The race therefore connected the Little Cuyahoga River to the north with the Ohio-Erie Canal at Lock 5.
This village was situated north of South Akron, the original town platted in 1825 by Simon Perkins, the builder of the Ohio & Erie Canal. North Akron was platted at a later date, in 1833, on land owned also by Simon Perkins in partnership with Judge Leicester King and Dr. Eliakim Crosby. Akron was the summit of the new canal, the site of the continental divide. was significant. The Gothic Building (Rev. 10-90) County Courthouse(1886),Akron(Central)High School (1886)and Akron Savings Bank(1891).The firm designed Page 2 While in partnership with Kramer, Weary's commissions included the Carroll County Courthouse (1885), Hancock numerous churches, in addition to courthouses, schools and jail structures in Ohio, California, Colorado, lowa, Wisconsin, were submitted by the firm for an international competition for a Model Sunday School, to be constructed at the fair.
This interest in designing a building for the fair is evidence that, like many of their peers, influence on both Kramer and Weary Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey and the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, built in 1871(in which Weary was involved in its design as an apprentice architect). Weary's design created a six story The Gothic building is situated on what was originally known as the North Village of Akron, later called Cascade Village, PS 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 Section number 8. Statement of Significance The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio North Akron was surveyed and a town plat created by Albert G. Mallison, Deputy County Surveyor, in August of 1833.
The original grid layout of streets, blocks and alleys is still in place. The Gothic building is situated on lot 2 of Block 7 of the King's Allotment, at the intersection of E. Mill Street and S. High Street on the SW corner. Mill Street began at Lock 5 where Dr. Crosby built a two-story stone flour mill where the race connected with the canal, and ended at High Street (the 1835 alteration to the plat map extended Mill Street to Summit Street.) Mill Street is 66° wide running in the west- east direction intersecting High Street, which is also 66' wide but running north-south. Mill Street has maintained its original width. The Gothic building is situated in the former North Akron CBD, where historically the most important commercial and nation.
These activities increased significantly with the establishment of the second canal in 1840, the Pennsylvania and Ohio along Main Street, site of the former Cascade race. This successful beginning was overshadowed by the arrival of the railroad in 1852.It displaced the canals as transportation sources, but it brought new industries looking for water resources, and therefore keeping Akron a vital city and a vibrant community. Akron incorporated as a city in 1865. Akron is the result of the evolving commercial activities created by the establishment of different transportation modes since 1827, the canal, the railroad, trolley, interurban and later the automobile.
After the Civil War, the industrial character of Main Street slowly evolved into commercial development, which continued to evolve significantly after the Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal bed was filled in 1884 with the construction of a five-foot brick hydraulic conduit to continue carrying water to the mills. The Gilded age began in Akron with the expansion of the railroad and the rise of big business entrepreneurs who laid the foundation of Akron's progressive industrial base. Among them were John Seiberling with the manufacture of Agricultural implements, the first rubber industry established by B.F. Goodrich, the Barber Match Company founded by O.C. Barber (the founder of Barberton) and the Shumacher Mills, a block away from the Gothic building site. The Gilded age also brought the expansion of the railroads, which supported the growth of industry and commerce.
Also the arrival of a new mode of public transportation, the electric train in 1888, contributed to the economic growth. A syndicate of three members, two from Cleveland and one from Painesville created this local transportation line, when the city of Akron passed a resolution allowing the use of city streets for the installation of a rail line. By 1890, the famous Akron "Loop Line" was firmly established. It had a starting point at Mill and Main, a block from the future Gothic Building site, to the east. Another significant milestone in Akron's public transportation was the establishment in 1902, after many mergers, of the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company providing interurban rail services with the surrounding communities. They established an interurban station at the corner of Main and Mill Street, one block away from the Gothic Building.
The streetcars went along Mill Street, in front of the Gothic, as part of the Akron Loop line. stage was set for developing new building types, industrial, commercial, institutional and residential in the city. The Depression of 1893 had brought Akron to almost a standstill and marked the end of the Gilded Age. This economic downturn produced the panic at Wall Street and the collapse of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. This created bankruptcy, factory closings and unemployment in Akron.
Two of the most important business leaders in Akron, new inventions and advancementsin technology.New telephone companies emerged and provided Akron in 1899with the first automatic phones.Gas lights and electric lights were used in conjunction to illuminate street and homes.The Page 3 industrial activities took place generated by the new market economy created by the long awaited canal in Ohio and the PS 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 Section number 8. Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio implements, the Empire Mower & Reaper Works, sustained heavy losses. Only the rubber industry was showing signs of great moments to come and the Goodrich Rubber Co. survived the hard economic times.
The era of competition in the rubber industry had begun with the establishment in 1892 of the Miller Rubber Company, in 1895 the Diamond Rubber Company and followed later by two future industry giants, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber spearheaded by the rubber industry responding to the new "horseless carriage" industry. It was the beginning of the most significant physical and economic growth in the history of the city, establishing Akron as the rubber capital of the world, Judge Leicester King originally owned the Gothic Building site when he established the Village of Cascade in 1833 in partnership with Dr. Eliakim Crosby and General Simon Perkins, the founder of South Akron. After 1847 the property came under the ownership of Colonel Simon Perkins. In 1854, due to financial troubles, Perkins conveyed and assigned a order to be sold to pay off his creditors.
Colonel Simon Perkins, the son of the founder of Akron, was one of the pioneers in establishing the first railroad in Akron. He sold his land, and sacrificed almost all his private fortune to finance his attorney general, which was vacant due to death. In 1862, the Secretary of War appointed him as Assistant Secretary of War and Wolcott moved to Washington. But before his move, in 1859, he sold all the properties of Simon Perkins of which he was a trustee, to Jedediah D. Commins, a friend and former business partner of Simon Perkins. Dr. Jedediah D. Cummins was one of Akron's most prominent pioneers and citizens. He arrived from Vermont, via Western New York and established in 1832, the first drugstore in this new canal town. From early on he became involved in Akron's civic life by becoming a Village/Town Trustee. He became a business partner and civic leader together with Col.
Simon Perkins. In 1839, a charter was established for the new Akron Rural Cemetery modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, with Simon Perkins as president and Cummins as Secretary of the association. In 1843, they were the trustees for the construction of the Summit County Courthouse. Cummins became an industrialist as a partner in the Perkins Company, which manufactured satinets. In 1856, the Perkins Woolen Mills had to close due to competition from the New England Mills, and the partners converted it into a flouring mill in partnership with the Allen brothers. The mill was later renamed after merging with Center Mills, to Allen Mills. When Jedediah D. Cummins purchased the Gothic property in 1859 he was partner of the J. & J Allen & Co. Center Mills with offices on Howard Street, between Market and Mill Streets, a couple of blocks to the north from the future Gothic property.
In 1863. Jacob Snyder bought lot 2 of Block 7 from Jedediah D. Cummins. Jacob Snyder was one of the early architects of Akron. He arrived to Akron from Pennsylvania in 1853 after working as a master carpenter and studying theoretical architecture at Dickinson College. By 1855 he was involved in architecture and contracting work. After purchasing this property, he became part owner of the planning and lumber mill of Weary, Snyder & Wilcox Manufacturing Co. on North Main Street (previously mentioned). Snyder was the typical American architect of the 19 century, initiating his career as carpenter assistant, following as a master carpenter and ending as an architect. He specialized in Church and School Architecture. The famous Akron Plan Church was developed by him and adopted by the whole nation, from the New Jersey shores to the Pacific states.
The Gothic Building Historic Context Page 4 Shummacher, founder of Quaker Oats and John Seiberling, with his investments in transportation and agricultural Company in 1898 and Firestone in 1900. Akron entered the 20t century with a new impetus of economic growth as the Magic City, and a population growth from 50,000 inhabitants in 1904 to 200,000 in 1920. certain amount of his lands (the Gothic property was one of them) and tenements to Christopher P. Wolcott, in trust, in railroad venture. Wolcott was a prominent lawyer in Akron, who was appointed in 1856, by the governor of Ohio to be PS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8.
Statement of Significance Page 5 The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio Ambrose built a two-story masonry building complex on the site, moving from Howard Street, to be a plow manufacturer. In May of 1869, Chapin sold his property to Alvin Rice and James Trowbridge. Alvin Rice was a manufacturer and industrialist of the new emerging city of Akron. He came from Erie County, Pennsylvania, where he was educated as a lawyer, but after passing the examination and not being admitted to the Bar, he became a moulder by training. Rice arrived to Akron in 1846 and worked for the Akron Stove Company before entering into partnership with James Taplin, a mill gearing adding later stove manufacturing with a variety of cooking and parlor stoves, heaters and others, which were extensively used during the expansion of the West.
One of their popular products, the Climax heater was even exported to Howard for $1834. Prank D. Howard was the son of Dr. Elias Howard who served in the Civil War attending the wounds of the Union Benjamin & Howard, an Agricultural Implement Co. involved in the manufacturing of plows. It continued the original use of the existing property. This company was one of the third most important emerging agricultural implement companies after the Reconstruction period in Akron. The other two were the Buckeye Mower and Reaper, Aultman, Miller & Co. and the J.F. Seiberling Co. company and dealership until 1893. It was the year of the economic panic at Wall Street and the collapse of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. These events lead to the end of the manufacturing of agricultural implements industry in Akron.
Howard's Agricultural Works and Foundry was not the only company closing, but the other two major competitors also closed, the Seiberling's Empire Mower & Reaper Co. and the Buckeye Mower & Reaper Works. It was In 1894,the old industrial brick building (still owned by Frank D. Howard) was adaptively reused as a Livery Stable, E. Mill Street and S. Main Street separated by S. Maiden Lane Alley. John L. Reid was the proprietor and advertised also Horses were clipped and buggies were washed. The old foundry provided service to a mode of transportation that was going to face a great change in a decade. In 1898, it became known as the Palace Livery and Transfer offering 24 hours The former Howard's Foundry continued to be used as a Livery business until the purchase of the site by investors who W.
Cubbison became its owner in 1900 renaming it as the Howard livery, where their main use was providing services for for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. service. agricultural implements, an emerging industry which dominated Akron's economy during the rest of the 19 century. OMB No. 1024-0018 an end of an era. During the Civil War, in 1864, Snyder sold his lot to Ambrose Chapin for $300, one of the first manufacturers of China. Four months later, in September of 1869, Rice and Trowbridge sold their new acquired property to Frank D. soldiers.
Frank Howard entered into partnership with Lewis Benjamin, a real estate investor, in 1872 and founded By 1876, Benjamin left the partnership and Howard continued the foundry and agricultural implement manufacturing called the Buchtel Livery Stable, providing service to the guests of the Buchtel Hotel, located next door on the corner of built, the Gothic building and the Colonial Theatre in 1901-1902 William H. Adams owned the livery in 1899, and Edgar PS 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 Section number 8.
Statement of Significance The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio The turn of the century marked the beginning of an extraordinary growth for the city of Akron due to the growth of the foresaw the city's new needs and its surroundings, for entertainment and housing. realty leaders saw the changes occurring in Akron spurred by the rubber industry and the car and decided to purchase prime real estate property and adaptively re-use the sites to the new economic demands. The former Howard Foundry was one of them. Because Frank Howard died unmarried in 1897 without a will, approximately 13 different distant relatives of his family from Vermont to Illinois inherited the property.
Akron Realty found all the property owners of the site of the former Howard's Agricultural Works and Foundry, situated on lots 2 and 3 of Block 7 of the Kings Allotment Company was also the developer of Kenmore, a planned community southwest of Akron, which was reached by the The leaders of the Akron Realty Company decided to build a theatre, the Colonial Opera House, later known as the Colonial Theater on part of the property. W.W. McIntosh, the secretary and general manager, was the lead for the In 1902, the Akron Realty Company sold the corner of lot 2, at S. High and E. Mill Street to Jennie A. Dobson and Grace B. McIntosh for $6,000. The deed specified architectural guidelines for the future structure to be built on the site. It is the Mill Street front of the Colonial Theatre and that same shall be finished by October 1,1902. The lead developer of the theatre, W.W.
McIntosh, of the Akron Realty Co. was also directly involved with the upcoming Gothic building. Jennie A. Dobson was the wife of Russell T. Dobson, who was part owner of the Akron Democrat and sole owner, Secretary and Treasurer of the Beacon Journal Company at that time. Grace B. Mcintosh was the wife of William McIntosh, the secretary of the Banker's Securities Co and general manager of the Akron Realty Co. who owned the property by using his wife name on the deed. Russell T. Dobson was also involved in development. In 1904. he built the Dobson office building (demolished in 1924) at Main and Bowery. The Gothic building was another one of his investments, by using his wife's name on the deed.
Dobson and McIntosh were among the first group of developers responding to the city's needs created by the changing economy, the new transportation opportunities and housing demands for the middle class in the changing urban landscape. The introduction of middle class multifamily housing in the cities was visible across the big cities in the nation. It was spearheaded by New York, Washington DC and Chicago, at the end of the 19" century, and followed by mid-size cities in On Saturday, December 28, 1901, the Akron Beacon Journal announced: "The Colonial Building to be erected at once" (The deed was dated March 1902). The article mentioned that Crisp & Son received the contract together with the company. interurban. Page 6 rubber industry serving the emerging automobile industry.
The former industrial sites in the city were much desired to One of the most prominent realty companies owned by developers and investors,the Akron Realty Company took the and purchased the lot for the construction of the Colonial Opera House on part of the site in 1900. The Akron Realty investment group, together with William C. Hall and Horace B. Camp, one of the principal stockholders in the building the Midwest and the Plains, like Cleveland and Kansas. The new multifamily building type, the apartment, replaced the tenements and boarding houses of the 19 century. The Gothic building was a transitional form and type. fulfill the demand by construction for new building types required by new needs and new lifestyles. Realty companies lead. They incorporated in 1900 with a capital of $150,000, the same year as the Firestone Rubber Co. was created. The PS 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 Section number 8. Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio Hankey Lumber Company, which provided the building materials and acted also as contractors. John Crisp & Son were contractors and builders, specializing in pressed brick, fire brick and stone. The Beacon Journal article continued to being $15,000. There will be four store rooms on Mill street and each of the three floors above will have two suites of Mclntosh owned the Gothic until 1940. The two-part commercial/apartment building always maintained its commercial first floor, but the apartments above slowly were adaptively re-used to other functions. The Gothic Building Occupants and its use.
The first tenants in the Gothic were not Dobson, Mcintosh or the Akron Realty, but they were professionals and middle neighborhood. The tenants walked to their work or rode the streetcar, which passed in front of the building and was part of the Akron downtown loop (streetcar). Among the first tenants entering the 102 High Street address were, Dr. Leo Reich, a physician and surgeon specialized in gastroentorology and dermatology. He had his office and his residence at the same address occupying one floor. Another one was Willoughby C. Vincent, who lived with his wife Elizabeth in one of the suite units, and he was working as a Bork was a merchant tailor working for the Herman A. Bork business. Like Dr. Reich, some residents had their business also in the Gothic. Joseph B. Looker lived with his wife Leta in the Gothic, but everyday he went downstairs to work in his restaurant at 52 E.
Mill Street in the Gothic building. There were other professionals in the Gothic, like Attorney Harlow W. Loomis, from Loomis & Robinson, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, who had their offices in the Hamilton, situated on W. Mill Street, between S. Main and Howard Streets Building, half a block away from the Gothic. Attorney Harlow, lived with his wife Ella. This upscale new apartment building provided housing for the growing middle class of The businesses occupying the 4 stores on the first floor facing E. Mill street served the citizens of the apartment building, citizens attending the Colonial Theatre and the rest of the city, like the restaurant already mentioned on 52. E. Mill Street. Also the store of Metzger & Brittain, wholesale and retail cigar dealers, smokers' articles, news, books, stationary, etc. located another of their stores in 54 E. Mill Street. The store at 56 E.
Mill Street was vacant for one year and in 1904 was occupied the corner store at 58 E. Mill Street. The Gothic building evolved gradually from an apartment/retail building to an apartment/office educational/retail building. By 1920, there were already a couple of offfices in the second floor, like Hoover & Bunker, a real estate and insurance company, and Hess-Cook Co., a landscape architects office. The construction of the stage on the 4* floor was the result of the establishment of the Akron Institute of Music in 1925 by Edwin A. Fournier and it was incorporated in 1929 with 15 teachers. It was a comprehensive school of music, teaching instruments were taught. They accepted students from 6 years old to adults. The stage was built for their musical building.
Page 7 The Gothic Building from the elementary level to the"highest artistic and orchestra training.All musical to the Gothic, reflected in the tiled floor of the apartment entrance lobby and the listing in the 1903 city directory. manufacturer's agent for the National Manufacturing and Supply Co. Otto F. Bork and his wife Bertha took another suite. Akron, attracting professionals and businessman who walked to work or had the public transit system in front of their occupied as a barber shop by Charles J. Weber. The Indemnity Savings and Loan Company with assets of $1,900,000.00 apartments, making six in all." Architect Frank O. Weary was the designer. During construction the name was changed management that worked in the city of Akron. The first store owners were providing services to the surrounding PS Form 10-900 OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8. Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio performances. By 1931, all the apartment floors of the Gothic were occupied by the school and the only ones having residence there were Mr. & Mrs. Fournier, the school founders. In 1930, John Stein, a famous Akron baritone, head of the Voice Department, had students who became Music Directors, like at Wooster College; others won scholarships to continue studies in Switzerland and the Chicago Musical College. Stein, himself, had studied with the director of the Chicago Civic Opera and was a former Metropolitan bass. By 1931, Stein was the director of the school. The Akron J.A. Braden. It occupied editorial office space in the Gothic, until it was purchased by C.
Blake McDowell and moved to the Central D. Bank Building. Until then, W.W. McIntosh was the president and owner of the paper together with Francis Seiberling, related to the founders of Goodyear. He happened to be the builder and owner of the Gothic building. In 1928, Glen Harry became the manager director. The Akron Topics was a social and literary periodical published from 1922 to 1932. The mission statement of the publication was the following: A monthly publication devoted to the promotion of civic ideals, through the medium of frank discussion and constructive criticism. It represents no clique group or sect, and policy. Its aim is to serve the best interest of Akron. Evolution of multifamily housing in Akron from canal, railroad eras to the automobile and rubber industry era. Hotels, Boarding Houses, Tenements, Flats and Apartments.
At the turn of the century Akron had evolved from a canal town-agricultural oriented industry to early 20" century automobile-mass transit rubber industry city, one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. The fast growth created a great demand for labor and consequently housing and services, for the working class and the growing middle class. salesman, visitors and tourists. Large working class tenements like in Lowell Massachusetts were not known in Akron. Some small hotels provided extended stay residence on the city's central district above retail stores, or in small hotels ("boutique") and rooms above retail stores. Most of the workers lived in single vernacular dwellings.
Single men or women also obtained housing in the so called Boarding Houses where a family owner had a chance to increase their Boarding Houses were the norm on the 19" century in providing multifamily living quarters. Payment was made for room and board to live with someone else. This type of housing was very widespread in Akron since early on. Due to hard economic times many working class houses were subdivided and provided living quarters for rent. The need for Boarding Houses also extended to the middle class, providing upscale boarding houses. Some of these mansions became boarding income. The boarding house was the precursor to apartment living. In 1858, the Akron City directory listed citizens that were boarding at homes and at hotels.
For example Russel A Alger; law student, boards nwc Market and Summit, boarded in a private house; C.B Bernard, Auditor, office Court House, boards Empire House, resided in a residential hotel and William Mereth, canal superintendent boards American Hotel, which provided transient and long term residence. At that time Akron had 4 hotels, the Akron Hotel, the Empire House, the American House/Hotel and Railroad Hotel. income. The Gothic Building (Rev. 10-90) houses when extra space was available or the couple became empty nesters.To many it provided much needed additional Page 8 Music School became a well established cultural institution in Akron occupying the Gothic until 1969.
Hotels were the first housing forms for temporary residences in the city, which provided residences mainly for traveling During a brief period from 1926 to 1931, a prominent local newspaper called Akron Topics was managed and edited by has no entangling alliances to jeopardize independent editorial expression. It welcomes contributions in line with this PS 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 Section number 8. Statement of Significance The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio By 1871, the directory was more organized and under the business section, the only listings for multi-family dwellings were the Boarding Houses with the name of nine proprietors. One of them was Mrs. Mary Haynes; west side Ohio Canal north of Exchange.
Boarding Houses were still in existence by the time the first apartment buildings were built at the beginning of the 20th century. Some residence hotels were listed under Boarding Houses in the directory, like the Hotel Pendleton on E. Market Street. In the 1907 directory, apartments were listed for the first time, but boarding houses continued to have their own category. All type of housing was needed in Akron at that time. Tenements were dwellings that provided residence to three or more tenants, living independently of each. Usually cooking facilities were independent, but bathrooms were shared if existing. They usually provided shelter for the working class. Sometimes tenements were associated with overcrowded conditions and poor living conditions, with no adequate lighting neither ventilation. These multifamily structures were part of real estate speculative development.
Tenements represented the dwelling for the urban working class. The city of Akron had a few in the urban area near the Gothic. Only the Sanborn Maps of 1904 identify tenement housing in the East part of Akron at the turn of the century. These were buildings converted from existing 2 story dwellings like at 319 S. High Street and new speculative development replacing old dwellings or built as infill in the old residential areas of the city. from around the country and the world. No such designation existed in the Sanborn Maps of 1892. New and adaptively They were located on North Broadway Street, on South Broadway Street, some of them facing Wheeler Alley. Some new buildings were built on the corner of S. Broadway and E. Cedar Street. Most of them were frame buildings two story existed dwellings or built new as infill in existing city neighborhoods.
They were a more affordable unit than the apartment, but more improved than the tenement. Some of them were located within a three-story high brick structure their own private sanitary facilities. They were the precursors to the "high rise" apartment building, more than 2 stories Other new infill flat frame buildings were built half a block north from the Gothic on S. High Street around the turn of the century. Further north, on Perkins Street a new 6 flat frame dwelling was built on 161 Perkins Street (now demolished). There were also flats in South Akron on the corner of E. Buchtel and Maiden Lane Alley. The city was This new building type was equivalent to the flat, which appeared for a short time as a middle class of family apartment, before the larger multifamily apartment was built in Akron at the turn of the century.
All of these new structures were masonry and were built in the old city neighborhoods. They were part of a national trend in providing housing in the city Apartments high. Tenements. Flats Page 9 (demolished) today part of the Trinity Lutheran Church site.Flats usually accommodated two to four families and had re-used tenement buildings, sometimes called Rooming Houses, appeared at the turn of the century near the Gothic site. Flats were also contemporary to the tenements which were considered more like apartments, adaptively reused from with retail on the first floor, like at 29-31 S. High Street (today the site of the convention center) or 70 N. Prospect providing multiple-family housing within their old neighborhoods. PS 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 Section number 8. Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio for the middle class created by new social and economic conditions. The city of New York took the lead where famous architects, like McKim Mead and White and they were in the range of twenty stories high built high scale apartment buildings. Chicago, Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, San Francisco, Cleveland and Kansas were among the other cities following New York apartment building examples created by the tremendous population growth. By 1907, no private dwellings were built in Manhattan. innovation brought back by architects trained in the Beaux Art School in Paris. Architectural Record of January-June 1907, in an article about apartment buildings, presents them as a new building type.
The article starts by saying: There can be no doubt that the apartment house is destined to become an increasingly important American type of building. Economic conditions are making it necessary in all the larger American cities. Akron was following and reflecting the National trend. At the time the Gothic was built in 1902, as a speculative investment, there were other apartment buildings on the drawing boom", with $3,000,000 investment in construction as reported by the Akron Beacon Journal in January of 1901. Apartment house construction made headlines almost everyday even after the construction of the Gothic. In 1903, the newspaper announced the construction of several apartments of Broadway Street, a block away from the Gothic. The construction of this new building type extended along the streetcar corridor, as well as the railroad corridor in Akron.
The Garfield was the 3-story masonry building with balconies built across the street at 127 S. High Street, in the Colonial Revival Style (demolished after 1954). The Campania (1905) on 279 Park St, and the Amelia (1901) at 218 Park Street (both demolished). One was built half a block east of the new Union Depot station and the other half a block west of the Another elegant three-story apartment building, the Park View Apartments, with four "flats" per floor was built on N. Prospect Street next to the Trinity Lutheran Church, previously mentioned. The first time these apartment buildings were listed in the city directory was in 1907. They were the only ones at that time.
They were all infill buildings in old residential areas and the precursors of the apartment buildings, which would be later, built along streetcar lines expanding into planned communities built at the end of the decade to the 1920's. Among them, West Hill, Goodyear Heights and Firestone Park, as well as the new town of Kenmore outside Akron, reached by the interurban. This was the period of the most intense growth in Akron's history. The first apartment buildings were usually architect design, like the Gothic by Frank O. Weary and others by Charles Henry, two of the most prominent architects in Akron. During the following decade, they were built by less known The Gothic was one of the first apartment buildings of that period built in the business district and its surrounding neighborhoods and is the only one surviving today.
Weary's work with the Gothic Building is transitional.It is a combination of the Italian Renaissance Revival, and Tudor Revival styles with Arts and Crafts elements. Weary admired the Post Office, built in Akron in 1895, one block north at architects. Architectural Significance The Gothic Building Page 10 board in this surrounding neighborhood of North Akron.It was the time that Akron was going through a"phenomenal same station. The Campania was six stories high and the Amelia was five stories high. Both were masonry buildings. The first apartment building was built around 1868 in New York City and as a building type it was considered a foreign PS 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 Section number 8.
Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio the corner of South High Street and E. Market Street (today the Akron Museum of Art) designed by John Knox Taylor in Renaissance Revival in form, with a wide cornice and a body delineated by its brick pattern into a base, shaft, and capitol. Other classical elements are executed by the brick pattern, such as stylized quoins, and voussoirs. The Tudor Revival influence can be seen in the Tudor arch arcade at the base and the fourth floor windows. This early example of Tudor Revival design is rare. Tudor Revival did not become popular until Akron's boom years of 1910 to 1930. The brick sides. Also noted on the 1904 map, beyond the Theatre to the west is Maiden Lane alley, and the Weary designed Hotel Buchtel at the corner of Main and Mill. Both the theatre and the hotel have been demolished.
They fell prey to the post- WWII Urban Renewal syndrome. The Gothic Building apartment has windows to the north, east and west. Because the building abutted the Colonial Theatre to the south, Weary designed an atrium centered on the south wall with a large skylight. Rooms within the apartments borrowed daylight via windows and transoms that faced the atrium. Also the atrium contained two large ventilators that helped to cool and ventilate the building. This well lit space also contains the stairways that lead to the LEED points. Another distinguished features is the treatment of the brick surface, a craftsmanship feature. Two types of mortar were 1900's. Different craftsmen applied these two types of mortars usually. This color today would be impossible to match.
Therefore the brick walls are one of the most character defining features of the Gothic and the skilled craftsmanship Crisp & Son, the brick masons live on. Overall, the Gothic Building is also an excellent and unique example of the work of Frank O. Weary, one of the most prominent Akron architects, with national recognition. The structure exhibits his skill in planning functional and pleasant spaces. It also shows his ability to work with a variety of architectural styles and forms, often handled in a mannerist The Gothic Building is a surviving example of Frank O. Weary's work in his home city of Akron, Ohio. The number of surviving structures represents a very small percentage of the executed work for such a prolific and celebrated firm. It also has significant surviving interior spaces and details, not often seen in other extant buildings.
Another unusual trait is that the upper levels of the Gothic were originally apartments, while most of Weary's other extant work consists of civic, commercial, or institutional uses. One of the reasons is that investors building new building types, like the apartment, needed prominent architects in order for the public to accept them. After 1910, unknown and new upcoming architects in Akron, because of increased speculative nature of apartment development, designed the large amount of apartments. This trend was common across the nation.
The Gothic Building used after conducting a mortar analysis for restoration.One was a bedding mortar and the other a pointing mortar both the Italian Renaissance Revival Style.The Gothic commission is a playful mix of the two styles not often seen.It is Page 11 with a reddish coloration produced by the earth pigments (hydroxide clays) commonly used in the late 1800's and early pattern has an Arts and Crafts influence creating a tapestry surface. The 1904 Sanborn Insurance map indicates that the Colonial Theatre wrapped the Gothic Building on the south and west emphasis the architectural significance of this new building type of the turn of the 19# century. The legacy of George United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8.
Statement of Significance Summit County, Ohio Today, the Gothic Building is being rehabilitated and adaptively re-used for offices in the upper floors and retail stores on The following is a chronological list of architect Frank O. Weary's best known works 1875 Akron Rural Cemetery The Buchtel Hotel (Akron, OH) The Arcade Block (Akron, OH) 1885 ENTERED PARTNERSHIP WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON KRAMER St Paul's Church & & Sunday School Existing, interior altered Akron (Central) High School DISOLVED PARNERSHIIP WITH GEORGE W. KRAMER Kubler & Beck Building Miller School Buchtel Hall (University of Akron) Samuel Lane School Summit County Jail Carnegie Free Library Fraunfelter School 1905 The Frontier (mansion of Samuel J.
Ritchie) 1885 Carroll County Courthouse (Carrolton, OH) 1886 Hancock County Courthouse (Findlay, OH) 1887 Talcott Hall (Oberlin College, Oberlin OH) 1886 Peters Hall (Oberlin College, Oberlin OH) 1887 Baldwin Cottage (Oberlin College, Oberlin OH) Existing 1890 Pickaway County Courthouse (Circleville, OH) Existing 1892 Shurtleff Cottage (Oberlin College, Oberlin OH) Existing 1903 1890 1895 1885 1888 1883 1886 Existing Page 12 The Gothic Building OMB No. 1024-0018 Demolished 1994 Akron Savings Bank the street level. Academy of Music The Beacon Block The Paige Block PS Form 10-900 (Rev. 10-90) 1904 1905 1900 1902 PS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number g Major Biographical References Summit County, Ohio Adams, Michael, Gothic Building.
Ohio Historic Inventory Form, 1978 Akron Beacon Journal., 1897; December 15, 1897; December 16, 1897; January 4, 1901; June 13, 1901; October 31, 1929; November 1, 1929; May 28, 2001 Akron-Summit County Public Library. Special Collections Local History Database. Dances of Two Worlds, 1930.; The Stein Singers. 1931 Akron- Summit County Public Library. Special Collections Local History Database. Ruth Wright Clinefelter Collection. Postcards. Akron Rural Cemetery Buildings. National Register of Historic Places, 1980. Akron Topics, vol. 6 Number 71 June 1928; vol.8 Number 8. January 1931; vol.8. Number 10, March 1931; July 1931, June 1930, February 1930, Akron, American Architect. November 29, 1911. The Present and Future Development of the Apartment Houses American Architect. December 22, 1909. Article No. 1 to No. 5. Apartment Houses Issue. Architectural Record. January-June 1907.
Some Apartment Houses in Chicago. Blower, Arthur H, and Korach, Robert S., The N.O.T.L. Story. Chicago, Illinois, Central electric Railfans' Association, 1966. Census 1870 (Federal) Grismer, Karl H., Akron and Summit County, Summit County Historical Society: Akron, Ohio, c. 1954. Kramer, Geroge W. The What, How and Why of Church Building. New York 1897 Lane, Samuel E., Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County, Beacon Job Department: Akron, Ohio, 1892. (Rev. 10-90) 1902;September1.1902;February17,1903;July1,1903;September21,1903;January 11,1928; The Gothic Building Burch&Co.,N.H.,Akron City -1999.Akron Ohio;N.H.Burch& National Park Service December28,1901;January13,1902;February1,1902;March 1,1902;March 11,1902;July11, Page 1 PS 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 Section number g Major Biographical References The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio Longstreth, Richard, The Buildings of Main Street. A Guide to American Commercial Architecture. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California. 2000 Michigan State Board Authority, Eight Biennial Report of the Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities. 1885-86. Lansing, Michigan, Thorp & Godfrey, State Printers and Binders, 1887 Murphy, Elizabeth Corbin, Conservation, Restoration, Extended and Adaptive Use:The Significance of Recycling Buildingswith Respect for Architecture ofthe Pastand Consideration for Present and Future Use. Master Thesis. Kent State University, 1985 New York Times.September 12, 1976. The Annals of Apartments: Courtyards. New York Times.
August 25, 1901, Comforts of New Apartments. New York Times. August 27, 1933, The American Family Today: Its Trends New York Times, March 28,1909. More of Tiffany Mansion Turned Into Apartments. Ohio Architect and Builder, December 1904. More Apartment Buildings. Rausche, Yolita, Main-Market Historic District. National Register of Historic Places, Summit Co. Ohio, 2002 Sanborn Insurance Maps, Akron, 1886, 1892,1904, 1916, 1940 Schlereth, Thomas J., Victorian America. Transformations in Everyday Life. 1876-1915, Harper Perennial, New York, 1991. Soil and Material Engineers, Inc. 2007. Historical Mortar Analysis for Restoration. Gothic Building. Summit County Administration Building. Deeds Thrane, Susan W., County Courthouses of Ohio, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana University United States Patent Office, Robert McMillen, Sash-Balance.
1895 Press, 2000 Page 2 PS 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 Page 3 Summit County, Ohio United States Patent Office, Daniel R. Sheen and James A. Philbrick, Combined Sash-Balance, Lock, and Antirattler. 1900 United States Patent Office. Arthur W. Thompson, Sash Lift and Lock. 1890 United States Patent Office.Charles H. Evans, Combined Sash Weight and Lock. 1912 United States Patene Office, Patrick Lalor, Window. 1902 http://scids.summitoh.net/parcelseaarch/cgi-bin/parcelsearch.dll http://www.michmarkders.com/pages/L1961.htm http://scids.summitoh.net/servlet/com.esrimap.Esrimap?Service The Gothic Building Section number g Major Biographical References USDINPS NRHP Registration Form Summit County, Ohio 10.
Geographical Data Acreage of Property .063 Acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) 1 17 456670 4547969 (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title organization Yolita E. Rausche, M. Arch. Historic Preservation Specialist, Lauren A. Pinney Burge, AIA. Chambers, Murphy & Burge date 08-31-2009 street & number 43 East Market Street, Suite 201 _telephone(330) 434-9300 _state Ohio zip code 44308 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) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Gothic City Revival Group, LLC Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.0. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Project (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.
Photographs Additional Documentation Additional items Boundary Justification Continuation Sheets Verbal Boundary Description Zone Easting Northing The Gothic Building city or town Akron Page 4 - See continuation sheet. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property. benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including the time for reviewing street & number 39 East Market Street. LL1telephone (330) 535-3218 Maps 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 Section number 10 Geographical Data Summit County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description The Gothic Building property is located on one parcel of land, being part of Lot No. 2 in Block No. 7, in Kings Addition to Akron, formerly a part of Portage County when surveyed in 1833. Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot No. 2 and at the intersection of the South line of East Mill Street, with the West line of South High Street; thence Westerly on the North line of Lot No.
2, 72.25 feet to a point 43.25 feet Easterly from the Northwest corner of Lot No.2, lot; thence Southerly parallel to the West line of said lot 38 feet; thence Easterly parallel to said North line of lot, 72.25 feet to the East line thereof; thence Northerly on said East line, 38 feet to intersection of E. Mill St and S. High St. The proposed boundary is the limits of the building lot, per the legal description of the property. The nomination property includes the land historically owned by the builder's of the Gothic building in 1902, the Boundary Justification The Gothic Building Akron Realty Company. Page 1 the place of beginning.The parcel contains 0.0630 acres.This property defines the SW corner of the 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 The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio Page 1 1. Looking South West, corner view of Gothic Building and South High Street from Convention Center sidewalk on South High Street. 2. View of North East corner of Gothic Building from Convention Center ramp on South High Citi Centre, owned by the city of Akron) listed on the National Register, in the background on South High Street. 4. Looking South West from Convention Center on East Mill Street, corner view of Gothic Building. Former First National Bank Skyscraper (today First Merit Bank) listed on the National Register, in the background on South Main Street. 5. North East corner of Gothic Building. View from Convention Center Patio on East Mill Street. Cascade Plaza 1 in the background on South Main Street. 6.
The Gothic Building at East Mill Street and South High Street. 7. North Façade of the Gothic Building on East Mill Street. View from the North West. 10. Upper right corner of Mill Street façade, at 4" floor. 11. Retail Store bay on East Mill Street. 12. East Façade of the Gothic Building on South High Street. Looking West. 13. East Façade on South High Street, upper floors bay, 3rd and 4. 14. Retail Store bay on South High Street. Street. PHOTO LIST 3.View of Gothic Building looking south on South High Street.Former Akron YWCA (today 8.Frontal North Facade of the Gothic Building on East Mill Street.View from the North. 9.North Facade Tapestry brick pattern and upper stories bay detail. 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 Summit County, Ohio Page 2 15.
Apartment entrance on South High Street. 16. Tapestry Brick Panel Detail.East Mill Street Façade. 17. Brick Tudor Arch Detail. Typical. First Floor. 18. Brick bond detail. 19. Interior stairwell. Stairs up from 2nd to 3rd floor. 20. Staircase on 2nd floor up to 35d floor. 21. Staircase 3rd floor up to 4" floor. 22. Stairwell 4 floor. Looking down. 23. Stairwell hallway 4* floor. 24. Stairwell hallway view from 3rd to 4"* floor. 25. Skylight view from 4* floor stairwell. 26. Staircase system detail. Balustrade. 2"d floor. Typical 27. Staircase undercarriage. 3rd floor. 28. Balusters at stairwell. Typical. 29. Stair detail. 2"d Floor. Typical. 30. "The Gothic" name in floor entrance to apartment building. The Gothic Building PHOTO LIST STEP DOUN Base drawing by Alan Burge Architecture Chambers, Murphy & Burge Title: Basement Photo Key 43 E. Market St. Suite 201 Akron, Ohio 44308 Job No.
07-10 Phone: (330) 434-9300 Fax: (330) 434-9331 Date: August 2009 PK-01 The Gothic Building (1902) GAS Sketch Number: Location: Akron, Ohio restoration architccis IGH STREET Base drawing by Alan Burge Architecture Chambers, Murphy & Burge Title: First Floor Photo Key 43 E. Market St. Suite 201 Location: Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio 44308 Job No. 07-10 Phone: (330) 434-9300 Date: August 2009 PK-02 RETAIL DECK The Gothic Building (1902) Sketch Number: EXISTING Fax: (330) 434-9331 T-OCLG Chambers, Murphy & Burge Title: Second Floor Photo Key 43 E. Market St. Suite 201 Location: Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio 44308 Job No. 07-10 Phone: (330) 434-9300 Fax: (330) 434-9331 Date: August 2009 PK-03 The Gothic Building (1902) Sketch Number: Base drawing by Alan Burge Architecture restoration architeeis Base drawing by Alan Burge Architecture Chambers, Murphy & Burge Title: Third Floor Photo Key 43 E.
Market St. Suite 201 Location: Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio 44308 Job No. 07-10 Phone: (330) 434-9300 Fax: (330) 434-9331 Date: August 2009 PK-04 The Gothic Building (1902) Sketch Number: BAT Chambers, Murphy & Burge Title: Fourth Floor Photo Key 43 E. Market St. Suite 201 Location: Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio 44308 Job No. 07-10 Phone: (330) 434-9300 Fax: (330) 434-9331 Date: August 2009 The Gothic Building (1902) PK-05 Sketch Number: Base drawing by Alan Burge Architecture restoration architeets 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 Summit County, Ohio Photo Key Map. The Gothic Building. Akron. Exterior and surrounding site. 2006 Aerial. Summit County auditor. MAPS CONTINUATION SHEET The Gothic Building The Gothic Bldg. Page 1 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 Summit County, Ohio SEP. 1886 1886 Sanborn Map. Howard's Agricultural Works Foundry MAPS SHEET AKRON The Gothic Building Page 1 SEE OHIO. 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 Summit County, Ohio Page 2 'SEP. 1886 OWARDS SHEET The Gothic Building MAPS AKRON 1886Sanborn Map.Howard's Agricultural Works Foundry HOTEL BUCHTEL SEE NO3. 0222 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 The Gothic Building Summit County, Ohio HOw, 1892 Sanborn Map.
Howard's Agricultural Works and Foundry MAPS QUARRY CONTINUATION SHEET Page 3 THEBUCHTEL HOTEL L REID 120 222 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 TH BUCHTEL HOTEL ! L. REID 1892 Sanborn Map. Howard's Agricultural Works and Foundry. Detail Summit County, Ohio The Gothic Building MAPS Page 4 2225 HGR WKS.P"FOUNDRY? / Foundry HOWARD'S 12028 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 Summit County, Ohio S. MAIN S. HIGH - CHRIST 1904 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building. The Garfield Apartments MAPS MILL The Gothic Building The Garfield The Gothic Page 5 HOWARD GERMRN 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 Summit County, Ohio STACE & SCENERY. 1904 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building. Detail. MAPS MILL The Gothic Building The Gothic Page 6 203 COLONIRL 209 Apartmemts. CORSTRUCTED 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 CONTINUATION SHEET Summit County, Ohio TEL BUCHTEL S. HIGH 1916 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building MAPS The Gothic Building Page S.MAIN Waiting Rin - MAIDEN LIVERY LANE FURNE CHURCH ANR E:MIL Cafe 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 Summit County, Ohio E: MILL 1916 Sanborn Map.
The Gothic Building Detail MAPS Page 8 The Gothic Building COLONÁAL THERTRES NOOD POSTS SCENERY 'IR.CL) 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 Summit County, Ohio E. MILL S. MAIN E. BOWERY 1940 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building MAPS The Gothic Building S. HIGH ROS. MAIDEN Page 9 MOVIES 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 1940 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building Detail Summit County, Ohio MAPS The Gothic Building SCENERY Page 10 16.5 28-48 STEEL ITRUSJES. PILASTO. WALLS. TIC 20*W 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 Summit County, Ohio E. MILL E. BOWERY 1951 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building MAPS Page 11 The Gothic Building POS.MAIDEN S.MAIN 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 Summit County, Ohio 1951 Sanborn Map. The Gothic Building. Detail MAPS The Gothic Building Page 12 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 The Gothic Building. Historic Postcard 1907 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Special Collection. Akron Public Library Summit County, Ohio Historic Photographs CONTINUATION SHEET Page 1 The Gothic Building 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 Summit County, Ohio East Mill Street. Akron, Ohio. The Gothic Building. Historic Postcard. Looking West on E. Mill Street. 1912 (Ruth Wright Clinefelter Special Collection. Akron Public Library. Historic Photographs The Gothic Building Page 2 Jneed 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 Summit County, Ohio Page 3 MILL STREET,WEST FROM HIGH STREET, AKRON, OHIO. The Gothic Building. Historic Postcard. Looking West on E. Mill Street. 1920 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Special Collection. Akron Public Library Historic Photographs CONTINUATION SHEET The Gothic Building NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES The Gothic Building The Gothic Building. Historic Postcard. Looking South East t on E. Mill Street. C.1903 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Special Collection. Akron Public Library. Historic Photographs CONTINUATION SHEET Summit County, Ohio National Park Service Page 4 Colonial Theatre, Akron, O. a THEAT 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 Summit County, Ohio Page 5 Buchtel Hotel, Akryn, Ohio The Buchtel Hotel on South Main Street and East Mill Street. The Gothic Building at the end of E. Mill Street on the left. Historic Postcard. C. 1902 Ruth Wright Clinefelter Special Collection. Akron Public Library.
Historic Photographs The Gothic Building NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 45TH DAY: REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./ CRITERIA DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE RETURN REVIEWER 4/06/10 DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE 5/25/10 5/21/10 The National Register Historic Places Entered in DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF 16TH DAY: STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Summit OTHER : N PDIL: REQUEST: N SAMPLE : N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF PENDING LIST: nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPs. THE GOTHIC BLDG BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS, MUEPWY S BURGE. AKRON, OHIO S.HIGH ST.
CONVENTION CENTER SDEWALK ON BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY SBURGE VIEW OF N.E. CORNER OF GOTHIC BLDG. FROM CONVENTION CENTER RAMP ON AKIRON. OHLO SUMMIT COUNTY. OHIO BY: YOLITA ES. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS, MURPHY SBURGE AKRON, OHLO VIEW OF GOTHCBLDG. LOOKING SOUTH ON S.HGH ST. FORMER AKRON YWCA THE GoTHC BUILDING LBTEDON NR IN THE BACKGROUND ON S. HIGH ST. SUMMIT COUNTY, OHLO BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY IBURGE ON E MILL ST. CORNER VIEW 'OF GOTHIC BLDG. FORM ER FIRST NATIONAL BANK SKESCRAPER. LISTED ON NR. IN THEBAGNGROUND ONS.MAIN ST. THE GOTHC BUILDING XKRON, OHIO LOOKING SW.FROM CONVENTLON CENTER BY: YOUTA E. RAUSCHE -HAMBERS. MURPHY YBURGE AKRON. OHIO NE. CORNER OFGOTHCBLDG. UIEWFROM CONVENTION CENTER FATIO ON E. MIL ST. ON S. MAINST. SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO SUMMiT COUNTY. OHIO BY: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS, MURPHY SPURGE AKRON.
OHIO TAEGOTHCBDS.ATE.MILST AND SUMMT COUNTY, OHIO CHAMBERS ,MUEPHYS BURGE AKRON, OHIO BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE THE GOTHC BULLDING THE GOTHIC BUILDING SUMMITCOUNTY. OHIO BY: YOLTA E RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHYZ BURGE FRONTAL NORTH FALADE OF THEGOTHK BLDG' ON E. MILL ST. VIEWFROM THE NORTH SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CHAMBERS, MURPHY 1BURGE UFPER STORIES BAT DETALL AKRON, OHIO THE GOTHIC BUKLDING SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY &BURGE AKRON, OHIO UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF MILLST THE GOTHIC BUILDING FACADE AT 4TH FLOOR. 330 253 1702 330 697.4619 CBRE Available B 3,000-9.01 RETAIL STORE BAY ON E. MIL ST IHE GOTHIC BUILDING THE GOTHIC BUILDING SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO Br: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE EAST FACADE ON S.WGHST. LOOKING WEST PHOTO Nº 12 ACRON.OHIO THE GOTHC BUILDING SUMMIT COUNTY, OHLO AKRON, OHIO FLOORS BAY, 3RD AND 4T4.
EAST FACADE ON S HI6H STUPPER CHAMBERS MURFIY |BURGE FUTURE TAKRON.COMI 330 697.4/ 19 DTHIC SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO BY : YOUTA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS, MURPHY IBURGE RETAIL STORE BAY ON S.HIGH ST THE GOTHIC BUILDING THE GOTHIC BUILDING CHAMBERS MURPIY {BBURGE AKRON, OHIO BY: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE THE GOTHIC BUILDING SUMMT COUNTY, OHIO DATE OF PIGURE: AUGUST 2009 BY : TOLITA E. RAUSCHE. CHAMBERS MURPHY \ BURGE TAPESTRY BEICK PANELDETAIL E. MILL ST.FACADE. THE GOTHIC BUILDING SUMMIT COUNTY, OHLO AKRON, OHLO BRICK TUDOR ARCH DETAIL. TYPICAL. CHAMBERS MURPHY IBURGE ISTFLOOR. BY: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE BY: YOLITA E RAUSCHE. CHAMBERS MURPHY S BURGE AKRON, OHIO BRICK BOND DETAIL. HE GOTHIC BUILDING THE GOTHIC BUILDING SUMMIT COUNTY, OHLO AKRON, OHIO INTERIOR STAIRNELL. STAIRS UP BY: TOLITA E. RRAUSCHE BY: YOLITA E.
RAUSCHE AKRON, OHLO STAIRCASE ON 2ND FLOOR UPTO CHAMDERS MUEPHY BURSE HHE GOTHIC BUILDING Nº20 3RD FLOOR THE GOTHIC BUILDING BY: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURFHYS BURGE AKRON, OHIO STAIRCASE 3ED FLOOR UP TO 4 TH FLOOR DATE OF PICTURE: AUGUST 2.009 PHOTO Nº21 DATE OFPICTURE: AUGUST 2009 AKRON, OHLO STAIRCASE ATH FLOOR_LOOKING CHAMBERS MURPHY IBURGE THE GOTHHC BLDG. SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO CHAMBERS MURPHY TBURGE Nº23 STAIT2WELL HALLWAY 4TWFL.OOR BY: YOLLTA E.RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MUEPHYS BURGE STAIRWELL HALLWAY VIEW PHOTO Nº 24. DATE OF PICTURE: AUGUST 2009 BY: TOLITA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS. MURFHY& BURGE AKRON, OHIO SKYLIGHT VIEW FROM 4H4 FLOOR STARWELL SUMMIT COUNTY. OHLO BY: YOLITA E. RAUSCHE AKRON, OHIO STAIRCASE SYSTEM DETAIL TAE GOPHC BULLDING CHAMBERS MURPHY SBURGE TYPICAL THE GOTHHC BUILDING SUMMIT COUNTY. OHLO BY: YOUTA E.
RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY: BURGE AKRON, OHLO STAIRCASE UNDERCARRIAGE THE GOTHC BULLDING DATE OF PICTURE: AUGUST 2009 CHAMDERS. MURPHY S PURGE AKRON, OHLO BY: TOLITA E RAUSCHE TYPICAL $HoTo Nº29 BY: TOLTA E. RAUSCHE CHAMBERS MURPHY IBURGE: EGOTH THE GOTHIC BUILDING CHAMBERS MURPHY 1 BURGE AKRON. OHLO ENTRANCE TO APARTMENTBLDG BY: YOLITA E RAUSCHE "THE GOTHIC" NAME IN FLUOR SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 1994 UNITED STATES AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AKRON WEST, OHIO Education - Ranking Member Energy and Public Utilities Finance and Financial Institutions December 1, 2009 Mr. James Strider State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2497 Dear Mr.
Strider Please accept this letter of support for the National Register of Historic Places nomination of the Gothic Building located at the intersection of Mill and High Streets in downtown Akron. The Gothic building is a significant work of Akron Architect, Frank Orlando Weary, during a pivotal time in his career. The building is a designated Akron City Landmark, prized for its beautiful, yet eclectic design. The rehabilitation of this building has been long awaited in the community. Although interest in the project has been significant and a national search for a developer/investor was undertaken by the City of Akron, the redevelopment remained infeasible until the combined state and federal rehabilitation tax credits were made available. The building's new owner, Anthony Troppe of Gothic City Revival Group LLC, has completed phase I of the rehabilitation.
His commendable efforts in the revival of the Gothic Building are a notable contribution to the revitalization and reinvestment in Akron's downtown core. I am pleased to support this nomination, and thank the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board for their consideration of the Gothic Building for the National Register of Historic Places. Senate Building, Room 049 - 1 Capitol Square - Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone: 614-466-7041 - Toll-Free: 1-800-282-0253 - Facsimile: 614-466-4120 - E-Mail: SenatorSawyer@maild.sen.state.oh.us TCS/plo Sincerely, Committees: Tom Sawyer State Senator 28th District RECD BY ÖHPO DEC 07 2009 REC'D BY OHPO DEC 1 1 2009 DONALD L. PLUSQUELLIC, MAYOR December 9, 2009 Mr. James Strider State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2497 Dear Mr.
Strider: This letter is written in support of the nomination of the Gothic Building located at the intersection of Mill and High Streets in downtown Akron to the National Register of Historic Places. The Gothic building is a significant work of Akron Architect Frank Orlando Weary, who as you Akron City Landmark, for its eclectic design and for its place in downtown history. the community. We received significant interest in the property, and conducted an open search for a developer, but redevelopment was not feasible until the combined state and federal rehabilitation tax credits were made available. The building s new owner, Anthony Troppe of Gothic City Revival Group LLC, has completed phase I of the rehabilitation.
Together with the other historic properties he has saved, rehabilitated, and made useable again, his efforts in the revival of the Gothic Building are a notable contribution to the revitalization in Akron's downtown core. I support this nomination, and thank the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board for their consideration of the Gothic Building for the National Register of Historic Places. 200 Municipal Building - 166 South High Street - Akron, Ohio 44308-1653 Phone: (330) 375-2345 - FAX: (330) 375-2468 - E-mail: mayor@ci.akron.oh.us Sincerely, www.ci.akron.oh.us City of Akron, Ohio know, was also the designer of Buchtel Hall and the Glendale Chapel. The building is a designated The City of Akron acquired the property to save it, and its rehabilitation has been long awaited in DONALD L. PLUSQUELLIC - Mayor AKRON
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