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NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior AUG 0 5 2010 entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property historic name Fairview Public School and Annex other names/site number Twelfth Ward School, Twelfth District School, Fairview German Bilingual School 2. Location street & number 255 Warner Street/2232 Stratford Avenue N/A not for publication city or town Cincinnati state: Ohio code: zip code: 45219 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification -request for determination of eligibilitymeets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meetsthe procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion,the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant - nationally - statewide EX locally. (L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency or Tribal government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. (L See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting official/Title 4.

National Park Service Certification 1, hereby certify that the property is: Ventered in the National Register - See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the - removed from the National Register - other, explain Date Registration Form National Register National Register of Historic Places As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination National Park Service N/A vicinity RECEIVED 2280 county: Hamilton code: July 28, 2010 Department Head, Inventory & Registration State or Federal agency and bureau or Tribal government Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio 5. Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property [X] building(s) [ ] public-local [ ] district [ ] public-State [ ] site [ ] public-Federal [ ] structure I ]object 6.

Function or Use (Enter categories from instructions) EDUCATION: School 7. Description LATE VICTORIAN: Romanesque stone: granite MODERN MOVEMENT stone: sandstone, limestone (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) other foundation Total roof brick Noncontributing Materials Narrative Description walls Architectural Classification VACANT Current Functions Name of Property asphalt shingle Historic Function previously listed in the National Register Category of Property Name of related multiple property listing. Number of contributing resources County and State (Check only one box) (Check as many boxes as apply) [X] private (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number 7 Page 1 The former Fairview Public School and Annex, most recently known as Fairview German Bilingual fronts on Warner Street and is bounded on the west by Stratford Avenue, on the east by Chickasaw Street and on the south by the annex. The modern flat-roofed annex, at 2232 Stratford Avenue, was built in 1957-58. South of the annex is a green space created in 1990 and partly occupied by a which slopes down toward the south and west. A massive limestone retaining wall topped by a sandstone coping and iron fence encloses the original building along the three public streets.

On the There are two openings in the fence on Warner Street, a pedestrian gate at the front entrance and a vehicular gateway near the northeast corner.The areas around both buildings are paved with asphalt. The surrounding streets are lined mostly with small late-nineteenth century houses. The property east buildings built circa 1948. (See sketch map, p. 15.) stone stringcourses, and the foundation is rough stone that continues up to the sills of the first story windows in angled bays defined by rough stone quoins. The third floor is offset by corbels. The main drawings.

A large, arched infill above the doors is painted, probably fairly recently, with "Willkommen," south façade has a similar arched window at the first floor above the basement, echoing the main The windows have double-hung six-over-six wood sashes and a three-paned transom which probably arched, emphasized by brick and stone surrounds and semicircular transoms. On the front at the third contains a wide hipped-roof dormer on each facade. The windows in the dormers have twelve-over- twelve double-hung wood sashes. The basement is punctuated by single-sash windows with 6 panes; their sills are at grade. Some of the windows are covered by metal mesh screens. Exterior Setting DESCRIPTION School, comprise two separate but related buildings located in a residential area of the Clifton Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati.

The original Romanesque Revival school building, built in 1888-1890, east side, the original building site is a few feet below the grade of Chickasaw Street. The south end of of Chickasaw Street is wooded and occupied by a tall TV broadcasting tower and related utilitarian windows, approximately nine feet above the ground. Each of the massive corner turrets contains five arch. The double eight-paneled wood doors are probably not original but they match the original significance of the property and is not part of this nomination.) The school site is located on a hillside, the old schoolyard is enclosed with a chain link fence, which is interrupted by a passage to the annex. The original Fairview Public School is a massive rectangular three-story building with a large turret at entry on the north facade, approached by stone steps from Warner Street, is framed by a corbelled entrance.

NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 2 The stone stringcourses continue the horizontal lines of the sills and lintels, contrasting to the vertical accents of the narrow alternating stone quoins that outline the edges of the many-sided polygonal The roof, which was originally covered with slate, was reclad with asphalt shingles in 1992. The main entrance on Warner Street is emphasized by a stone plaque above displaying the name of the school; arches. The wide hipped-roof dormers retain the original small 12-over-12 window sashes and walls help anchor the building to the ground. floor. There are six primary rooms on each floor, three on each side of the central corridor.

In rooms; one at the south end of the first floor, two at the north and south ends of the second floor, and one at the south end of the third floor. Between classrooms there are narrow cloak rooms, each with a separate door to the hallway. The three entrances are all several steps below the elevation of the first floor. The front entrance leads to the central corridor. The floors in the corridors are stained concrete, scored to look like stone. The two side entrances connect with full-height stairwells, which have been enclosed with drywall there they stalls and a small sink, all old fixtures. The interior doors are mostly solid wood doors with seven beaded board wainscoting, black chalk boards, and suspended acoustic tile ceilings.

The partition wall between two classrooms at the north end of the third floor was designed so that it could be raised into of the attic are set off by partitions of horizontal wood boards. In the center of the attic wood stairs rise rooms, with transomed doorways and small closets with paneled wood doors, were once occupied by custodians until it was realized that this was a fire hazard. The basement floor is similar to the floors above. There are classrooms in the northwest and southeast turrets; a toilet room in the northeast turret, storage on the east center, boiler room on the moved through vertical masonry shafts.The volume of air was controlled by dampers operated by cast Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 the grouping of stone-framed windows above.The secondary entrances are also highlighted by round reinforce the centers of the sides of the building.

The"battered"or sloping rough stone foundation County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) corner turrets.The ridgelines of these turrets project diagonally and dramatically from the main roof. stone roundels with inscriptions of the superintendent and building committee in its upper comers; and The interior plan is organized around a wide hallway running longitudinally through the center of each addition, ends of the hallways have been set off by wood and glass demising walls creating small handrails. In the northeast stair, toilet rooms are located at the landings. Each toilet rooms have two The attic floor features dramatic heavy timber trusses supporting the roof. The north and south ends enter the hallways on each floor.

The stairs have pierced iron risers, concrete treads, and simple wood unknown date this rather thin partition was covered with corkboard, presumably for acoustic purposes. replaced at an unknown date by steam radiators. On the west side of the building, there is a passage under the schoolyard connecting the boiler room with Stratford Avenue for the delivery of heating fuel NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Section number 7 Page 3 filled with red brick and another wider opening filled with brick and a flush metal door. Fairview School and Annex have changed little over the years.

Alterations to the original school building have been limited to heating and ventilating systems, stair enclosures, toilet rooms, lighting Heights, the stone retaining walls were added to the site in 1895, and high brick walls extended along school yard was originally paved with brick, which was later replaced with concrete. An undated site northeast corner of the lot.' The current asphalt paving was added at an unknown later date. south end of the lot, which housed the Gymnasium and Industrial Arts Room. Their construction was stacks in the walls. The flow of air was regulated by dampers controlled by cast iron dials in the hot-water system with an oil-burning boiler and radiators. Drawings by E. N. Hannaford, Engineer, dated April 4, 1908, show the locations of radiators under windows on the perimeter walls.

Ventilating fans were installed in the center rooms on the west and east sides, while the toilet rooms that originally boys' room at the southwest. New stone steps in areaways were then also added to provide egress from the new toilet rooms to the outside. Junker & Lensky, whose drawings dated April 1, 1959, show a new hot-air system with a new oil- burning boiler,. At this time, the stairways were enclosed and the lighting was replaced.

In 1974, the lighting was upgraded again, per drawings by KZF dated March 27, 1974 with new wiring and light fixtures.In 1983, per drawings by architect George Allen Paul, the toilet rooms were renovated, cork was installed on both sides of the wall between classrooms 301 and 302 to enhance sound-proofing, Plant of the Cincinnati Public Schools, Made Possible by Grants from the United States Works Progress Administration, 1938 Alterations Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) 3T. C. Holy,A Survey of the School-building Needs of Cincinnati, Ohio,1945,p.75. plan from ca. 1920 calls for concrete paving and shows a small temporary "colony building" at the By 1938 the first colony building was gone, replaced by two additional one-story colony buildings at the wood-frame with paper composition roofs and wood steps?

A 1945 Survey of the School-Building When completed in 1890,the original building had a coal-forced air system that employed vertical classroom walls, typically within a blackboard (see Photo 12). In 1908 this system was replaced with a ductwork was installed in the attic to provide cooling in hot weather. In the basement, a new boiler and occupied those spaces were relocated to the tower rooms - the girls' room at the northeast corner and and other materials. There are two openings in the retaining wall on Stratford Avenue; a narrow one Needs of Cincinnati, Ohio, recommended that Fairview be replaced with a new building, however, it was rated as a lower priority than other school projects and did not happen. to a satellite or supplementary facility to a school that could be on-site or at another location.

Early on, in order to and the site.Based onphotographs in 1894 and1895brochurespromoting development in Fairview the east and west sides of the lot.A history published by Cincinnati Public Schools states that the The term"colony building," which appears on a 1956 site plan by Schulte and an earlier undated site plan, apparently refers NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Section number 7 Page 4 created between the former classroom and the former lounge at the south end of the hall. The stone retaining walls were repaired in 1967 and 1994.

Other alterations to the school include the enclosure being dropped through the stairwells, and replacement of the slate roof with asphalt shingles in 1992. old building. In 1967, the heating system was provided with a gas conversion burner. In 1983, when the library was moved from the Annex to the old building, the former library at the northwest corner of The annex, which fronts on Stratford Avenue, is a three-story, flat-roofed red brick building with smooth projecting porch, two-bays wide, with the name of the school in large metal-colored aluminum capital block letters across the front. The doorway is equipped with two sets of double metal replacement doors with transoms above. The date "A.D. 1957" is carved in stone on the inside of the north wall of the porch and randomly colored tile decorates the soffit.

The rest of the building has a horizontal emphasis with long window bands punctuated by smooth limestone pilasters. The triple windows, which are divided by recessed limestone mullions, have aluminum double-hung sashes each with three In plan, the building has a double-loaded longitudinal corridor with stair towers at both ends. The main floor has classrooms on the west side, and a teacher's lounge and toilet rooms on the east side in addition to the upper portion of the gym. The interior finishes consist of vinyl tile floors, painted concrete-block walls lined with glazed ceramic tile, and acoustic tile ceilings with recessed fluorescent lights. The classroom doors are typically solid wood with single lights at the top. The most distinctive features of the interior are the built-in maple cabinets, which typically line two interior walls in each classroom.

The built-ins include coat closets with pivoting doors, cabinets, and in some rooms a sink. The cabinets are distinguished by brass recessed ring pulls. Another interesting feature is wood folding partitions, which exist in the gymnasium and the former "resource center" on the second floor. These partitions enable these made on the east side.The largest of these is a second furnace room with three large furnaces which Annex horizontal panes. Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) The biggest change to the site was the construction of the Fairview School Annex on the south side of the Annex was restored to a classroom; the library storage room was converted into teachers lounge, lounge and toilet rooms on the west side; and boys' and girls' locker rooms, classrooms and the boiler rooms on the east side.

The second floor contains offices, a teachers' lounge, first-aid room, and of the stairways and insertion of metal screens in the centers of the stairways to prevent objects from entrance leads through a vestibule with metal and glass doors to a two-story stairwell with terrazzo former "resource center" on the west side, and a double-height gymnasium on the east side. The Third spaces to be subdivided for maximum use of the space. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) were installed to serve both the original school building and the annex. Continuation Sheet Name of Property Fairview Public School and Annex Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS) Primary location of additional data: X preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been X State Historic Preservation Office - Other State Agency L previously listed in the National Register - Federal Agency - Local Government - designated a National Historic Landmark - University Lrecorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - Other -recorded by Historic American Engineering Record 1888-1958 1957-58 1888-1890 Architecture purposes. Bibliography Property is: Education Architect/Builder requested. Criteria Considerations Name of repository: Cultural Affiliation individual distinction. Hamilton, Ohio important in prehistory or history. Register listing.) County and State Siter, H. E.

[] Ca birthplace ora grave. []G less than50 years of age or achieved significance -previously determined eligible by the National Register NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) The former Fairview Public School and Annex are eligible for the National Register under Criteria A and C for their representation of the development of Cincinnati Public Schools and for their architect for Cincinnati Public Schools from 1890 to 1899, the original school is an excellent example of the Romanesque Revival style. It is one of the oldest public school buildings still extant in Cincinnati school facilities after World War II.

History of Cincinnati Public Schools According to a 1902 history, "Schools of Cincinnati," by John B. Shotwell, the City of Cincinnati had the a tax for the erection of public school buildings. In 1829, Cincinnati established a board with one member elected from each political ward to oversee its school district. In the early schools, students of all ages and abilities sat in the same room. For the first two decades of public education in Cincinnati, there was no superintendent. This changed in 1850 with a new state law requiring the election of a superintendent for each school district in Ohio. Nathan Guilford, a lawyer and state senator who had helped create the 1825 school-funding law, was elected the district's first superintendent. He served just two years and was followed in 1853 by Joseph Merrill. After 1853, the superintendent was appointed by the board rather than elected.

The district began to build new model schools throughout the city in the 1830s. Woodward High School, which opened in 1831 on Sycamore Street in the neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, was famous readers, taught there in the 1840s, and President William Howard Taft was among its graduates. Sometime between 1836 and 1840, Cincinnati became the first city in Ohio to institute was overseen by a 20-member Board of Education. Enrollment grew by 1850 to 11,000 students taught by 124 teachers. During the 1830s and 1840s, Cincinnati's school buildings were vernacular examples of the Greek detail evoking the classical ideals of the early republic. In the 1850s two new high schools were built; castle punctuated by a gabled projecting entry and slender octagonal towers on each corner.

The SIGNIFICANCE Revival style.Typically they were three-story masonrybuildings with massiveproportions and minimal 4Henry Howe,Historical Collections of Ohio.(State of Ohio,1888; rpt.Cincinnati,1907),p.142. Section number 8 Page 6 Schulte built in1957-58, reflects the late work of an important local architect and the expansion of the separate grades. Local law provided for the construction of a building in each district, and each building was divided into two grades.* A German Department was added in 1840 to help educate the city's growing German-immigrant population. A second Woodward High School building was built in 1845. By 1846, enrollment had grown to 7,000 students, and the district employed 76 teachers and and Thirteenth Street in 1854. Both [no longer extant] were in the Tudor Gothic Revival style, emulating the medieval colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.

Hughes displayed the solid symmetry of a architectural significance. Built in 1888-1890 and designed by H. E. Siter, who served as the official and retains a high degree of integrity in design and materials. The modern-style annex by Edward J. considered by Shotwell to be the first successful school in the city. William McGuffey, author of the the original Hughes High School, designed by John B. Earnshaw, was completed in 1853 at Fifth and NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Name of multiple listing (if applicable) interior provided practical amenities such as washrooms in the basement, cloakrooms for the lower- school programs.

Hughes was held up as a model by the national education advocate Henry Barnard, By 1869, Cincinnati had 18 district schools, two intermediate schools and two high schools. During the 1860s and 1870s the Italianate style was favored. Extant examples include the first district school (1866-68) at the foot of Liberty Hill, designed by Walter & Stewart [and converted to condominiums] the former Cummins School (1871-72) on William Howard Taft Road in Walnut Hills attributed to [vacant]. Cummins School is a three-story building with tall windows and projecting bays.Its innovative double-E shaped plan - organized around a longitudinal corridor with six classrooms per floor - provided maximum light, ventilation, and wardrobes for each classroom. The building was also equipped with a principal's office, library, and science laboratory.

It was heated by stoves but was designed so it could be converted to steam heat. Other technological innovations were the use of In 1852, the state had granted African-American activists the right to create and operate the by a board elected by African-Americans, this school system provided a base for an emerging black was gradually dismantled. In 1887 the law was changed to allow black children to enter public schools. Ten years later, the only black school that remained was the Elm Street School, which became School was successful, it was also controversial among some black leaders in the community.

One of the most prominent, newspaper publishers, Wendell Phillips Dabney, was outspoken in his criticism of State legislation in 1877 made twelve weeks of school attendance mandatory for all children eight to lived more than two miles from a public school.In 1889, required attendance was increased to twenty In his 1885 and 1886 annual reports, state commissioner LeRoy Brown expounded on the proper 1869), pl. 77. Press, 2001), p. 56-58. County and State interior pivot blinds to control light." Continuation Sheet published in 1855. by the 15th Amendment, the independent black school board was abolished in 1874 and the system Samuel Hannaford [converted to office use];and McKinley (1876) on Eastern Avenue in the East End Douglass School in 1910.

In 1914, an African-American teacher in Cincinnati Public Schools, Jennie D design of schools, now typically "three-story brick buildings with a raised stone foundation providing a Porter, persuaded the Cincinnati Board of Education to allow her to organize a segregated school with fourteen years old, with exceptions for those who were mentally deficient, needed in the labor force, or 6 Virginia E. McCormick, Educational Architecture in Ohio. (Kent, Ohio & London: The Kent State University 5Outline Map of Cincinnati, Accompanying Atlas of Cincinnati& Hamilton County (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, floor classrooms and a lecture hall occupying the entire third floor, open for community aswell as NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) dominant architectural style. Dr. Emerson E. White, who served as Cincinnati's school superintendent from 1887 to 1889, brought a national reputation to the office, having experience as teacher and superintendent, text-book writer, editor of the Ohio Educational Monthly, State Commissioner of Education for Ohio, president of Purdue lasted only three years, it was momentous in terms of improvements to the curriculum, testing, teacher qualifications, and facilities. Under White, Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) launched a substantial building program, which was initiatives and reforms in education at the state and national levels.

This period saw a growing added at Woodward and Hughes high schools. During this period, H. E. Siter served as the official architect to CPS and designed at least ten schools. In accordance with LeRoy Brown's recommendations, Siter's school buildings were typically three-story brick masonry buildings with raised basements of rock-faced stone. Most were examples of the Richardson. Siter's designs reflected the characteristic elements of that style, including bold massing and variety of surface textures and colors, massive round arches, and steep rooflines dramatized with towers, dormers and tall chimneys. classrooms that could be raised into the attic to provide a large auditorium. A similar method of Groveport built the following year.

In Fairview School, one can also see the high-quality components that became standard for decades later, such as oak floors and wainscoting, brass hardware, and slate Located at the corner of Burdett and Ashland Avenues, the school was proclaimed as "one of the finest public buildings in the city...It contained 16 light, airy recitation rooms, a spacious assembly hall, a fine gymnasium, and a good chemical and physical laboratory besides a general office, a small library and 8 Ibid, 60, 65, 66. blackboards.8 7 McCormick, p. 88-90. National Register of Historic Places Name of Property County and State University, and in high positions in the National Educational Association.

Though his administration furnaces and forced-air heat.They also incorporated a movable partition between two top-floor Siter's largest school commission was the Walnut Hills High School, which opened in September 1895. continued by his successor William. H. Morgan in the 1890s. Mr. Morgan came to Cincinnati with his School in 1856. The 1890s were a period of "Educational Revival," in part reflecting Progressive Era taught, and new school designs. Physical fitness was introduced, and gymnasium buildings were Richardsonian Romanesque style popularized in the 1880s by the prominent Boston architect H. H. arranged around a longitudinal corridor with two stairways, one on each side. They had coal-fired Terrell and Company of Columbus - one built in Johnstown in 1882 and an identical building at NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet After 1900 the one-man design policy ended and commissions were divided among several architects hired to design schools. Edward H. Dornette and Gordon Sheppard designed the Hyde Park School (1901-1902) in the Richardsonian mode. Soon after, however, there was a reaction against these massive Victorian-era structures, which were considered expensive and inefficient, in favor of the more regular Neo-Classicism and its French variation - the Beaux Arts classical style. In addition to ornament based in ancient Greece and Rome, the main characteristics were efficient plans, formal symmetry, and hierarchy of spaces.

Examples of this period include the Clifton Elementary School the-Rhine, recently occupied by the School for Creative and Performing Arts, by Gustave Drach. The latter is a monumental, flat-roofed five-story building with a rusticated base, a mid-section with three- The early twentieth century was a time of innovation. In 1905, Cincinnati became the first Ohio city to institute kindergarten, which was accommodated within the elementary schools. Cincinnati also School formed the Art League to "develop a love for the beautiful in environment." With private donations from alumni, parents and students, who made contributions as small as five cents a month, Rookwood Pottery-tiled drinking fountains, most from local artists. schools, seven of which were housed in separate buildings. Over the years, there were repeated studies assessing the facilities needs of the school system.

Cincinnati's population growth was steady and slower than other Ohio cities, without the great boom periods. Nevertheless, the 1920s and 1930s were fairly busy periods of school construction, possibly 10 McCormick, p. 94. Schools." (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bureau of Governmental Research, 1936), p. 371. County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) John B.Shotwell,A History of the Schools of Cincinnati.(Cincinnati:The School Life Company,1902), p.108. Section number 8 Page _9 the Romanesque Revival style with a steeply pitched high roof and numerous conical-roofed turrets. story arched bays accented by quoins, and a heavily bracketed cornice. The former Guilford School Educators also came to recognize that the traditional organization of eight-year elementary schools and four-year high schools was not well suited to the needs of young teenagers.

A new system was the National Vocational Education Act in 1917. By 1935, Cincinnati was operating nine vocational high affected by a 1921 state law making attendance in school mandatory for all children between six and Collegiate Gothic styles were favored along with more exotic revival styles. American Colonial Revival (1908-1910) by Dornette and the former Woodward High School (1909) on Sycamore Street in Over- Junior High School in the West End. Rothenberg in Over-the-Rhine became the second school of this 12Report of Comments and Observations on the U.S.Office of Education"Survey Report of the Cincinnati Public 6 high schools. Cincinnati was also early to develop vocational education, anticipating the passage of NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) architecture had been introduced to Cincinnati by Elzner & Anderson in the mid-1890s. Their design for College Hill Elementary School (1902) with a 1925 addition, is a refined Adamesque composition with a symmetrical façade, impressive portico, pilasters, both round-arched and rectangular windows openings, and other Neo-Classical details. The one-story Kilgour School (1922) by Tietig & Lee in and quoins. distinguished firm of Garber & Woodward.

Both were educated at MIT, worked for Elzner & Anderson, but connected buildings unified by a central portico and arranged around a roughly semicircular Walnut Hills High School (1931), by the same firm, includes a low-domed library, which was modeled after Thomas Jefferson's library at the University of Virginia. Their Hartwell School (1925) is an elegant smaller example of the Georgian Revival. in 1906-08. It was designed by Minnesota architect J. Walter Stevens, who won the commission in a competition. Located on Clifton Avenue across from the University of Cincinnati, the building has a massive seven-story tower, set off by wide horizontal wings. Octagonal corner turrets, buttresses include Central Fairmount (1906) by Dornette, and two designs by Hannaford & Sons - Carson (1916) in Price Hill and Hoffman Elementary (1919-1925) in Walnut Hills.

Other variations on eclectic revival styles include the former Guilford Elementary (1914) on Fourth Street downtown with Italian Romanesque Revival flourishes by Garber & Woodward. The design (1922) (demolished) in Avondale and Oyler Elementary (1931) in Lower Price Hill, both designed by Hannaford & Sons, exemplify the Spanish Romanesque. Mount Washington Elementary School cylindrical tower with a conical roof, reflects the Normandy Manor style popular during the previous Construction slowed somewhat during the Great Depression and World War II. Then in 1945, there decade. County and State Cincinnati's most significant public school buildings of the twentieth century were produced by the and practiced in Cincinnati from 1904 until 1933. They were responsible for the magnificent Withrow topped with gargoyles and tile accents enrich the façade.

Typical characteristics of this style were the large rectangular block, flat roofs, low arches, large areas of continuous windows and stone or cast glass windows and Rookwood tile fountains were often incorporated. Other examples of this style features a taller central block with a strong arcade at the top accented by polychrome voussoirs, and generous loggias (originally open) enclosing roof gardens on the lower wings. Condon Elementary was a new assessment of building needs. In 1942-43, the Cincinnati school system was housed in 81 physical education and competitive sports is reflected by a stadium and gymnasiums to the rear.

The most impressive example of a Collegiate Gothic school is the impressive Hughes High School built (1933) by Kruckmeyer & Strong, with its angled wings, steep slate roofs, textured brickwork and a low High School complex(1915-19),a formal neo-classical design.The school was housed in five distinct NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) decentralization of industries, such as the new Wright Aeronautical plant built in the northern suburb of Evendale in 1941, promoted the dispersal of the population and growth at the city limits.

During the 1950s, the city's population remained stable, actually declining slightly from 503,998 in 1950 16,500 or 34 percent during the same period.This resulted in part from the baby boom but also from enlargement of the school district beyond city limits. By 1962, the Cincinnati school district included the city of Cheviot, most of the city of Silverton, Amberley Village, Golf Manor, part of Fairfax, and parts of Anderson, Columbia, Delhi, Green, and Springfield townships. While the area of the city as of the Board of Education had stated its intention in 1944 of providing specialized schools and classes for children confined to their homes or in hospitals; as well as special classes for pupils with visual or auditory deficiencies and the mentally retarded.

The expansion of the school district to include the new suburbs, growth of specialized schools, the post-war baby boom, and the desire to replace aging school buildings led to a burst of school flexibility as to interior arrangement - with as few weight-bearing partitions as possible, arranging classrooms in unbroken rows of three or more, designing buildings in a way that later additions could easily be made without cutting off natural light and ventilation to existing rooms, limiting building height to two stories, using brick rather than wood, terra cotta or stucco for the exterior walls, designing windows for maximum light penetration, and minimizing decorative masonry features. In light of The 1945survey had recommended replacement of Fairview and several other elementary schools.

By 1962 Fairview and four other schools had received annexes which were designed for future down or abandoned until the 21S century. As a result of the latest facilities master plan completed in 2002, most of these 1950s-vintage and later school buildings have been or will be demolished, making the Fairview Annex a rare survivor. 16 Holy, p 21. 13 Holy, pp. 25, 9. County and State Name of Property deterioration at the center and rapid growth on the edge."3 Improved transportation and including a college preparatory high school, vocational high schools, a special remedial school for construction. In the 15 years between 1944 and 1959,44 new schools or major additions were built at a cost of $69.5 million. Il era attest to the ascendance of Modernism, which swept away historical references and applied ornament in favor of a stark stripped-down appearance and modern materials.

"A Manual for Architects" published by the Board of Education in 1946 recommended maximum uncertainty about the future school population, the board resolved to provide the greatest flexibility in englargment to permit the abandonment of the old buildings. However none of these schools was torn to 502,550 in 1960. But as the general population declined, the school-age population increased by under-achieving students over 12 years old, a special school for crippled children and home instruction the size of any new buildings, which could be readily expanded. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number 8 Page 12 Fairview Public School The original Fairview Public School was built as an amenity to entice people to move to the neighborhood of Fairview was an unincorporated area of Millcreek Township in the first half of the nineteenth century. Because the steep hillsides made the area difficult to reach, Fairview was very thinly populated until inclines and streetcars made it accessible. Around 1856, Fairview Avenue was Creek Valley. In the late 1860s residents began using the name of the street to refer to the entire which climbed the hillside from Clifton Avenue to Ohio Avenue, and opened in 1876.

Dwellings were Because Fairview offered excellent views and the cheapest undeveloped land close to the Cincinnati basin, a group of speculators, related by marriage, business, and political ties, began purchasing large tracts here in the 1870s and 1880s. Lawyer and politician Isaac J. Miller (1833-1910), who had moved to Fairview around 1866, acquired large amounts of land, and other prominent citizens - Christian Moerlein and his son-in-law John Goetz, Jr., law partners Gustav Tafel and Francis Lampe, Dr. Massilon Cassat, and hat manufacturer Phillip Volkert - built large homes in western Fairview. connections to bring public services to the area. From the late 1880s to the mid-1890s, the Moerlein family was very influential in Cincinnati politics. Tafel was a member of the City Board of the Board of Police Commissioners.

During this time, in addition to Fairview Public School, a public services were used by the landowners to spur the sale of their properties. Their land became even more desirable after 1894 when the Cincinnati Street Railway Company completed the Fairview Incline, which ran from McMicken Avenue to Fairview Avenue. Construction of Fairview School began in 1888 and was completed in 1890. The Annual Report of the board has contracted for the erection of an eighteen (18) room house on the Haas lot, on Warner Street, which is also to be equipped by a modern system of heating and ventilation, and when 1890, the building was praised in the Sixty-First Annual Report: "This building is one of the finest, best equipped and appointed school buildings in the State of Ohio, and is truly a credit to the schools of 1 Geoffrey J. Giglierano and Deborah A.

Overmyer, The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati. (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988), 230-231. County and State Administration; Goetz was president of the Board of Fire Commissioners; and Miller was president of firehouse, police station, water and gas lines, sewers and street improvements were all put in place in the still sparsely populated Fairview and adjoining Clifton Heights. Unlike most neighborhoods, where surrounding area. Situated on the southwestern slope of the hills north of Over-the-Rhine, the neighborhood. The eastern part of Fairview began to develop in response to the Bellevue Incline, built along the streets near the incline and the street car line that ran from the upper terminus. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cincinnati. It is supplied with all the modern appliances in the matter of light, ventilation and every thing to make the school room and surroundings cheerful, inviting and pleasant to its pupils and its teachers. The cost of the building complete is $72,288, the lot $15,500, a total of $87,788." Fairview originally housed students from grades 1 through 8, and the student body was predominantly of German descent. In 1918, under the influence of World War I anti-German sentiment, the schools. However, German language instruction was offered in Cincinnati schools as early as 1835. In programs were designed to improve racial balance.

The board located some of the more popular The school became crowded as early as 1900, so a temporary wood-frame "colony" structure was constructed at the northeast corner of the lot. Less than 20years after the first temporary structure, two more colony buildings were built south of the lot to provide a gymnasium and Industrial Arts Room. the School-Building Needs of Cincinnati, Ohio, recommended that Fairview be replaced with a new by the 1950s the building was so crowded that the lower grades were being taught in local churches. However, this plan was never implemented, probably because the subsequent movement of young In 2002 Cincinnati Public Schools completed a Facilities Master Plan to deal with aging buildings and Clifton while the old Fairview school buildings were closed in 2008 and sold for redevelopment in 2009. H. E.

Siter most interesting of late-19th-century architects who practiced in Cincinnati. Siter came to Cincinnati in September 1884, and opened his own office in the Lincoln's Inn Court Building in November 1885, practicing here 1885-1912 (although apparently in Boston in 1899), was a regular member of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and attempted to open an office in Lexington, Kentucky, with the English-born and trained Cincinnati architect W. W. Franklin in 1886. He was listed as a partner of Lucien F. Plympton in 1897. Administration, 1938, Section I: Elementary Schools, Fairview, p. 1-2. 19 Holy, p. 75.

County and State (Expires 5-31-2012) Name of multiple listing (if applicable) programs in what were regarded as less desirable neighborhoods, hoping to draw children from a wide Their construction was wood-frame with paper composition roofs and wood steps.® A 1945 Survey of building; however, it was rated as a lower priority than other school projects and did not happen." Still, According to architectural historian Walter E. Langsam, H. (Henry) E. Siter (1851-1913) was one of the Plant of the Cincinnati Public Schools, Made Possible by Grants from the United States Works Progress program for grades 1-2 at Fairview and at Schiel School in Corryville. These alternative or "magnet" variety of backgrounds from throughout the system. By 1980 Fairview students were racially balanced shifting demographics.

As a result, the German-English bilingual program moved to a new building in after a year in the office of Edwin Anderson (the former partner of Samuel Hannaford). He is listed as NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Siter's earliest Cincinnati work is said to have been the United [States] Bank Building (completed May 1886), at Third and Walnut streets, where he had his office during the 1890s. From the beginning he (whose daughter Helena married the Duke of Manchester), Charles Fleischmann, General Michael American Architect and Building News in 1889 and 1892, respectively.

Siter designed some of the most poetically textured and detailed local variants of the Richardsonian virtually intact (both outside and inside) Richardsonian design with a Gothic flavor. The Richardsonian residences and churches. Although most of his work was Richardsonian in flavor, Siter also designed one of the earliest and (1892) on Clifton Avenue at Lafayette Circle, with its delicate Adamesque detail on a basically cubic office of Clarence S. Luce; two years with Gridley J.F. Bryant, a prominent Boston, Mass., architect; whom Siter was head draughtsman for the last five years (ca. 1879-84); all were prominent architects of their period and place. Siter was therefore exposed, not only to the actual New England Colonial (and Federal) architecture that was beginning to be recognized during his years with Thayer after the Civil War years.

Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building at Fourth and Vine Streets (1885; won by H. H. Richardson, with entries from Bruce Price of New York, Burnham & Root of Chicago, and Wheelwright & Everett of A. Howard Hinkle in 1887(who endowed a scholarship for the A.l.A.), against New York architect Bruce Price, W. M. Aiken, and A. O. Elzner, but contributed unsuccessfully to the circa-1888 competitions were at the turn of the last century, by S. Hannaford & Sons). Siter designed the cruciform main building (Horticultural Hall, also used as the Art Gallery) of the Sighs," as well as a "Log Cabin" for the Exposition. The diminutive Gothic-style stone St.

Stephen (or their estates).His designs for the A.H.Hinkle and C.H.Duhme residences were published in Section number 8 Page 14 seems to have had distinguished clients, especially for residences, such as Eugene Zimmerman Romanesque style was very popular in Cincinnati, exemplified by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building by H. H. Richardson himself, built at Fourth and Vine streets and completed in1888,as well as Cincinnati City Hall by Samuel Hannaford, built in 1888-93, and numerous private block. Perhaps this interpretation of the Colonial Revival also reflects his New England background Although born in Philadelphia, Siter was educated in Newport, R.l., among many sterling examples of Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, but also to the development of H. H.

Richardson's personal Siter & [Edwin] Anderson competed in the nationally important competition for the design of the Boston). Siter won an informal competition to design the Pike Street townhouse of architecture patron finest American Colonial Revival buildings in the area, the jeweler Charles H. Duhme's buff brick house Cincinnati Centennial Exposition of 1888 in Washington Park, linked to Music Hall by a "Bridge of James W.McLaughlin, and the 1895 University of Cincinnati Competition(won, as so many Cincinnati NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) demonstrate further his interest in picturesque massing.

Street opposite the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and torn down in the 1980s for News in July 1889. Siter also designed a pre-1891 Second National Bank Building and the Commercial Bank Building; the Farmers' National Bank in Mansfield, Ohio; the former Citizens' National Bank in Sidney, Ohio; and the German National Bank on Madison Avenue at Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky, mentioned above. He designed a Richardsonian addition to the St. Nicholas Hotel, formerly at the southeast corner of Fourth and Race streets. Siter also designed many large- scale commercial and industrial structures, such as the former Sachs Shoe Mfg Co., 800 Sycamore St. the Enterprise Carriage Co. plant in Miamisburg, Ohio. For the City of Cincinnati, Siter designed at least two police stations and one fire engine house.

buildings built in the older suburbs of the city beginning in the 1880s, and served as the official architect for the Board of Education from 1890 to1899. Siter's schools typically have symmetrical massing, giant pyramidal or hipped roofs, dramatic chimneys, and rich detail, which make them landmarks in their neighborhoods. He designed at least ten. These included the Carll School (1891-2) on Baltimore Pike in North Fairmount, demolished in 1990; the 12* district School (1892) on Southern Avenue in Mt. Auburn; Columbian School (1892-3) in Avondale, demolished in 1993; Mount Adams School (1894) on St Gregory Street in Mount Adams, recently converted to condominiums; and Harrison School (29th District) (1894) in Sedamsville.

Later Siter-designed schools include the former Walnut Hills High School, aka Burdette School (1895), at Ashland and Burdette avenues in Walnut Hills; Garfield (1897) at Elmore and Edgewood streets in South Cumminsville; Salmon B. Chase School (1897) on Chase Street in Northside; and Lincoln School (1898) on Delta Avenue in Mount Lookout; all converted to apartments. Other schools by Siter replaced by the present Hannaford & Sons Tudor Revival structure in the early 1900s). If Siter did indeed design all schools during the period of 1890-1899, then he was also responsible for the Elm Street (6" District) school (1896-97) at Elm and Odeon in OTR (converted to a city health center), and the 21s District School on Price Hill (1892-93).

Fairview is one of Siter's earliest and best school designs.Its high walls, enormous hipped roof dormers, and the relatively delicate treatment of the wall-surfaces suggest H. H. Richardson's Sever West End and a possible addition to Hoffman (19th district) School in East Walnut Hills (entirely Section number 8 Page 15 The Third National Bank Building of Cincinnati, with its high gable, was a superb adaptation of Richardsonian conceptions to a narrow urban site (like the Hinkle house, formerly located on Ninth (ca. 1890); other shoe factories on the southeast and northeast corners of Ninth and Sycamore; and However, H.E.

Siter is best known for his great Richardsonian Romanesque Revival public-school Presbyterian Church (1889-1890) and related Clifford Memorial Chapel (completed in 1889-1890, demolished by the University of Cincinnati in 2004), and the Church of the Nativity, Price Hill, NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places late 19th-century version of the Romanesque Revival is named. Fairview School's layout of a rectangle with corner towers has even more ancient antecedents in the mediaeval chateaux and In 1899 Siter "relocated in Boston, where he built up a large clientele; he is listed with William F. Hannaford, who authored a chapter on school architecture in John B.

Shotwell's A History of the Schools of Cincinnati published in 1902. this is the almost inevitable result of one-man effort. Critically considered, they are in country by the work of H. H. Richardson, of Boston, of which the building of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce is a fine exponent. In the school buildings referred to this feeling is plainly discernible in the high, steep- pitch roof; the constant repetition of circular towers, in place and out of place; the almost constant use of circular head windows; and the heavy, deeply recessed, arched doorways, as well as in the use of the peculiar carvings introduced, wherein the surface refinement and often semi-barbarious [sic].

Of all well-defined styles of architecture, or their variants, there is not one so ill-adapted to the demands of school architecture as Nevertheless, Siter's school commissions represent a significant and lasting body of work. Most of his schools are individually listed in the National Register - Lincoln School listed in 1979, and Mount Adams listed in 1980 - and one, Chase School, is a contributing building in a certified local district - the Cummins School, which is listed under the Samuel Hannaford and Sons Thematic Resource in (Cincinnati: The School Life Company, 1902), 317-329.

Continuation Sheet County and State is crowded to the utmost with heavy interlacing foliage;nearly always lacking in the main designed in that phase of"Romanesque"rendered so popular throughout the Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Goodwin as Goodwin & Siter in Boston 1900-1904."2His move coincides with a new school Section number 8 Page 16 in 1913. By 1902, Siter's work was characterized as a bit behind the times by rival architect Samuel For the last few years, the public school buildings have been creditable specimens of school buildings are still standing and have been successfully converted to new uses. Two of Siter's other architects are individually listed--Withrow High School (1919) by Garber & Woodward and Hamilton County.

Five schools - Bloom, Clifton, Heberle, McKinley, and Rothenberg - are listed by virtue of their location in National register-listed historic districts and are all contributing. A 1998 inventory of school buildings then owned by Cincinnati Public Schools by the Cincinnati Preservation II," 1996, pp. 149-150. fortresses of Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the 10t through 15" centuries. superintendent, W. H. Morgan, taking charge, and the appointment of Dornette & Sheppard as official architects to Cincinnati Public Schools. However, Siter returned to Cincinnati shortly before his death architectural effort. Perhaps it may be complained of as being rather monotonous, but the one under consideration, and it is only by doing violence to the very instincts of the NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Association identified 28 more school buildings considered to be eligible, including Fairview Public Edward J. Schulte Edward J. Schulte (1890-1975) was a nationally famous architect based in Cincinnati who was known for his church designs. He retired in 1967 after almost 50 years in practice. On two occasions, he design of St. Cecilia Church in Oakley and in 1958 for the restoration of St. Peter-in-Chains Cathedral. Other Cincinnati churches designed by Mr. Schulte include St. Monica's (1928), Our Lord Christ the King (1957), Guardian Angels (1963), and Nativity of Our Lord, (1967-69).

Schulte was described as "the most prolific architect of churches in the history of Cincinnati," by Donald A. Tenoever in his A recipient of an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Xavier University, Mr. Schulte served two terms as president of the Cincinnati chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Educated at the served as a draftsman with several leading Cincinnati firms: Werner & Adkins, H. E. Hannaford, Charles F. Cellarius and H. Garriott, on his own after 1912 and with Robert E. Crowe (1881-1944) from 1921 to 1933; then again on his own to 1967. Together Schulte and Crowe designed numerous ecclesiastical works throughout the Cincinnati area; including The Loretto, Dayton, Ohio and St. Peter, Lexington, KY. The role of Crowe in the firm's accomplishments has not yet been ascertained, but many of the best works attributed to Schulte were designed during their partnership.

avoided the usual Protestant Gothic or Colonial Revival modes and devised a streamlined version of earlier medieval and even slightly exotic styles and models, but often simultaneously suggesting an Art Deco or Modern influence. In the 1950s Schulte began to move toward Modernism, as seen in his 1955 renovation and expansion of the 1835 Greek Revival St. Peter-in-Chains Cathedral. Here he modernistic forms. In the 1960s, he explored alternative church plans and relied more heavily on aluminum walls, as seen in the Church of the Nativity (1967). However, for more utilitarian designs such as schools, he used an undiluted Modern approach beginning in the 1940s. Among his works were 45 school commissions, all but four were for Catholic organizations. His first reflecting traditional or revivalist styles.

In addition to the Fairview School Annex, his other public schools were the Lawrenceburg (IN) High School (1935-36); the Physics Building at the University of Cincinnati (1936-37); and Quebec Heights Elementary School (1965-67). By the 1940s his school designs were typically flat-roofed two-story buildings with banded or grouped aluminum windows, often Annex. This Modernist approach was directly in compliance with the 1946 CPS Manual for Architects. The Fairview Annex had a flexible interior plan, with folding partitions in the gym and a second-floor School. County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) master's thesis, "Edward J. Schulte and American Church Architecture of the Twentieth Century." Cincinnati Art Academy, he began his career in Pittsburgh and returned to Cincinnati in 1921. Schulte classroom, classrooms in unbroken rows of three, and large banded windows.

In massing and exterior According to architectural historian Walter E. Langsam, Schulte was a prolific and skilled architect who incorporated historic motifs in a stripped down rectilinear way, but he was still straddling traditional and school commissions-Regina High School and Purcell High School - both dating from 1927 and NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Name of multiple listing (if applicable) materials it was limited to two-stories and brick, with minimal decorative features. Quebec Heights, his only other school for CPS, is a sprawling one-story flat-roofed building of aluminum and glass, and not of the same quality as the Fairview annex in materials or stature.

The former Fairview Public School and Annex are eligible for the National Register under Criteria A and C for their representation of the development of Cincinnati Public Schools and for their architectural significance. Built in 1888-1890 and designed by H. E. Siter, who served as the official architect for Cincinnati Public Schools from 1890 to 1899, the original school is an excellent example of public schools, and the development of the Fairview neighborhood near the end of the nineteenth built in 1957-58, reflects the late work of an important local architect and the expansion of the school facilities after World War II. In addition, Fairview Annex is a rare surviving example of a 1950s-era school, as most school buildings of this era have been or will be demolished as a result of Cincinnati Public Schools' 2002 facilities master plan.

Conclusion County and State Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 18 the Romanesque Revival style and reflects the architectural taste, the building program of Cincinnati century. Fairview School is also one of the oldest public school buildings still extant in Cincinnati and NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Annual Reports of the Public Schools of Cincinnati, 59, 61-68. Cincinnati: Ohio Valley Company, 1889, 1891- "Architect of Schools Expired in Ambulance," Cincinnati Times-Star, 1/4/1913, 9:1. "Architect of Many Banks and Schools was H. E. Siter," Cincinnati Enquirer, 1/4/1913, 8:4.

Barnard, Henry, School Architecture or Contributions to the Improvement of Schoolhouses in the United States, Cincinnati Public Schools. Manual for Architects. Cincinnati: Board of Education, 1946. Cincinnati Public Schools. Survey of Sites, Buildings, and Equipment, Being a Two-year Study of the Physical Plant of the Cincinnati Public Schools, Made Possible by Grants from the United States Works Progress Administration, 1938. Cincinnati Public Schools. Survey of School Plant Needs; Cincinnati Public Schools. Cincinnati: Board of Education, 1962. Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati. Files of the Historic Conservation Office, City of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988. Holy, T. C. A Survey of the School-building Needs of Cincinnati, Ohio. Ohio State University Studies, Bureau of Educational Research Monographs, No.

28 (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1945. Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Ohio. State of Ohio, 1888; rpt. Cincinnati, 1907. World War II," 1996, p.13. 1980. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1898. (Expires 5-31-2012) County and State Continuation Sheet Hannaford, E. N."Heating &Ventilating Apparatus for 30 District School,"April 4, 1908. Section number 9 Page 19 Benson, Maryanne. "Mount Adams Public School." Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, listed p. 28. City of Cincinnati Directory, XXV, 43 (6/16/1894), "Merchants and Manufacturers," p. 24. "First National Bank Building, Cincinnati, O.," American Architect & Building News, XXVI, July 20, 1889, No. 708, Hurley, Daniel. Cincinnati, The Queen City. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1982. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) 2001, pp. 129-141. Martin, Isaac M. History of the Schools of Cincinnati and Other Educational Institutions - Public and Private. Cincinnati: Board of Education, 1900. McCormick, Virginia E. Educational Architecture in Ohio. Kent, Ohio & London: The Kent State University Press, Schools. "Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bureau of Governmental Research, 1936. "Residence for A. H. Hinkle, Esq. Pike Street, Cincinnati, O.," American Architect & Building News, XXVI (August "Residence for C. H. Duhme, Esq. Clifton, O.," American Architect & Building News, XXXVI (May 28, 1892) No. 857, p. 136. Shotwell, John B. A History of the Schools of Cincinnati.

Cincinnati: The School Life Company, 1902, pp. 317- Siter. H. E. "Twelfth Ward School Building, Cincinnati, O.," Sheets 27-32, April 10-24, 1885. Association, 1998. Sullebarger, Beth. "Determination of Eligibility for the Carll Elementary School, Cincinnati, Ohio," Feb. 1990. Survey Report of the Cincinnati Public Schools Made by the United States Office of Education at the Request of Office of Education, 1935. thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1974. The City of Cincinnati and Its Resources. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Times-Star Co., 1891, p.141. Warrington, Louise E. "Lincoln School." Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, listed 10/16/1979. Cincinnati Historic Conservation Office, 1988. 329. 2001. 1889), No. 709, p. 62.

County and State Report of Comments and Observations on the U.S.Office of Education "Survey Report of the Cincinnati Public the Cincinnati Board of Education and the Cincinnati bureau of Governmental Research. Washington, DC: U.S Tenoever, Donald A. "Edward J. Schulte and American Church Architecture of the Twentieth Century." Master's Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) [ ] See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11.

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1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State GEOGRAPHICAL DATA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION new parcel B, created in a lot split drawn on September 3, 2009. BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION The boundary consists of all property historically associated with Fairview Public School and Annex. Continuation Sheet The boundary of the property coincides with Parcel Number 096-0002-0152, remaining parcel A and National Park Service Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number 10 Page 21 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) The following information pertains to all photograph numbers except as noted: Photographer: Beth Sullebarger Date of Photographs: September 2009 Negatives: NA Photographic Information View of setting, looking east along Warner Street North and west elevations, looking southeast East and north elevations, looking southwest South and west elevations, looking northwest Main entrance, north elevation, looking southwest First floor corridor, looking north Main entrance detail, looking north First floor, classroom, looking west First floor, classroom, looking northeast Second floor, classroom, looking northwest Demising wall, first floor, looking south East stairway, first floor, looking east Ventilation dial, third floor, looking south Attic corridor, looking north Annex, north and west elevations, looking southeast Annex, west elevation, looking northeast Annex, south and east elevations, looking northwest Annex, east and north elevations, looking southwest Annex, entrance foyer, looking west Annex, ground floor corridor, looking north Annex, typical classroom, looking northeast Annex, typical classroom, closet detail, looking south Annex, gymnasium, looking north Page Continuation Sheet Section number PHOTOGRAPH LOG Photo No.

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1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Fairview School: second floor photo key Page Continuation Sheet Section number National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Fairview School: third floor photo key Page Continuation Sheet Section number National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Fairview School: Attic photo key Page Continuation Sheet Section number National Register of Historic Places Name of Property County and State United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) KIN BOILER ROOM Fairview Annex: ground floor photo key ADDITION Page Continuation Sheet Section number County and State National Register of Historic Places STOR GIRL'S NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio County and State Section number _ BOILER ROOM FIRST -AID Fairview Annex: first floor photo key ADDITION Page OFFICE Continuation Sheet Name of multiple listing (if applicable) National Register of Historic Places GIRLS' BOYS STAGE CBHTER LOBBY UEVA SCALE NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places List of Figures 1. First floor plan Third floor plan 4. Attic plan Basement plan 6. Front elevation 7. Side elevations 8. Transverse Section 10. Fairview School, looking southeast, Fairview Heights Souvenir, 1894 12. Post Card view, circa 1914 13.

Annex, ground floor plan 14. Annex, first floor plan 15. Annex, second floor plan Page Longitudinal Section Continuation Sheet Section number Second floor plan County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number _ Onginal Fairview ,School, ParcelA Parcel B Annex, Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Name of Property United States Department of the Interior County and State Sketch Map NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 1: First floor plan Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places County and State Section number United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number Figure 2: Second floor plan Page FAIRVIEW Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service County and State Name of Property NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 3: Third floor plan Page Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior Section number County and State National Register of Historic Places Name of Property NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number _ Figure 4: Attic floor plan Page Continuation Sheet County and State National Register of Historic Places National Park Service United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 5: Basement plan Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Name of Property United States Department of the Interior Section number NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 6: Front elevation Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Section number National Park Service United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 7: Side elevations Page National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number County and State United States Department of the Interior Name of Property National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number _ Figure 8: Transverse section Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service County and State Name of Property United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 9: Longitudinal section Page National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior County and State Section number Name of Property NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 10: Fairview School, looking southeast, Fairview Heights Souvenir, 1894 Figure 11: Fairview School, looking southwest, Fairview Heights Souvenir, 1895 Page Continuation Sheet County and State Section number Name of Property NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex Name of Property Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Figure 12: Post Card view, circa 1914, Clyde N. Bowden Collection of Post Cards, Page PUBLIC Continuation Sheet Section number National Park Service The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County County and State National Register of Historic Places THE NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio County and State Section number - KIN Figure 13: Annex ground floor plan Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Name of Property Name of multiple listing (if applicable) GIRL'S NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number _ BOILER ROOM Figure 14: Annex first floor plan ADDITION Page OFFICE Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Name of Property United States Department of the Interior County and State GIRLS! LOBBY BOYS' HERS FIRST -AID STAGE SCALE NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior Fairview Public School and Annex National Park Service Hamilton, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) BOYS Figure 15: Annex second floor plan Continuation Sheet Page National Register of Historic Places Name of Property Section number County and State UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: 9.16-10DATE N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the TELEPHONE DATE MULTIPLE REJECT RETURN DISCIPLINE 8/05/10 REVIEWER 9/19/10 RECOM./CRITERIA The National Register SAMPLE: PDIL: Historic Places OTHER: Entered in DATE RECEIVED: VACCEPT REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton REFERENCE NUMBER: 10000756 9/01/10 DATE OF PENDING LIST: View of setting, looking eastalong Warner Street CincinnatOmo Cincinnati,Oho Beth Sullebarger Eust+ north elevations, looking south west cincinnati, ohio Beth Sullebarger Fairview Schoul BUILT SUP*T HENRY KLEIN Cincinnati Ohno (seth Sullebarger First floor comidor, looking north Fairview Schoop Fairvien Schoof Beth Sullebarger Fairview Schouf Beth Sullebarger Fairview Schoof Beth Sullebarger SMEADS PATENT.

COLD Berh Sullebarger Cincinnati,ohio SCHOOL Cincmnatioho Fairniew Schosf Fairview Schouf Beth Sullebarger Cincinnati,ohio Fairview Schoul Fairview Schoof Cincnnati,ohio Fairnew Schap Fairnew Schorp Cmemnati, ohio sunex, typical clarsroom, looking northeast september, oho mnex, typreal classroom, looking southeast Fainew Schoof cincinnati, ohis Beth Sullebarger September 2009 looking south Fairnew Schiol cincinnati, Ohio AUG 0 5 2010 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Ms. Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 Eye Street, NW (2280) Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find one (1) new National Register nomination for Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission.

NEW NOMINATION Fairview Public School and Annex If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. Executive Director and CEO State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Hamilton Enclosures Sincerely, HISTORY www.ohiohistory.org OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Burt Logan OHIO National Register Dear Ms. Shull: July 30, 2010 RECEIVED 2280