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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service SEP 1 4 2010 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, Hoi 1. Name of Property historic name The Joseph and Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops other names/site number 2. Location street & number 2149 West 53'd Street N/A not for publication state Ohio code OH _zip code 44112 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination _ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60 In my opinion, the property does not meet the National Register Criteria.

I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: * local Signature of certifying officia Ohie Historic Preservation Office Department Head, Inventory & Registration Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government Signature of commenting official 4. NationalPark Service Certification yentered in the National Register - determined not eligible for the National Register _removed from the National Register 035 meets national Date National Register of Historic Places Title Registration Form N/A vicinity Date of Action September 8,2010 Hugo Boss USA o Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" fo city or town _county Cuyahoga 1, hereby, coftify that this property is: Cleveland 873 Cuyahoga, Ohio 5.

Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count. public - Local public - State public - Federal Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Commerce/Trade = warehouse, office building Industry = manufacturing facility, industrial storage Transportation=rail related 7.

Description Synthetic, Asphalt Noncontributing building(s) district object Total structure roof: Vacant Materials Architectural Classification private (Check as many boxes as apply) County and State Not in use site (Enter"N/Aif property is not part of a multiple property listing) The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops other: Sandstone Late 19 and 20" Century Revivals Concrete Brick foundation: walls: Name of Property The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State Narrative Description property, such as its location, setting, size, and significant features.) Summary Paragraph The Joseph and Feiss Company Clothcraft Shop site is located a few miles west of downtown Cleveland and is about 7 contributing structures: an elevated railroad spur and eight fence piers.

Other notable landscape elements include three which the photographs will attest. The warehouse building, built from 1920 until 1921, is generally rectangular in plan with highlighted with sandstone decorative elements that have Gothic Revival, Neo-Classical, and Art Deco influences. The overall feel of the building is that of a Germanic Gothic daylight factory. The warehouse building's foundation is solid but 23,000 square feet in size and the warehouse has approximately 80,000 square feet of floor space. by Walworth Avenue and Interstate 90 to the north and northeast, Junction Road to the southeast, the Chicago, (1900-1904), with an attached brick water tower (1907) and the warehouse building (1920-21) and its attached Cleveland architecture firm that specialized in courthouses and other public buildings.

They were responsible for Twing Hall at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland's Central Armory, City Hospital, and Temple Tifereth Israel. Cleveland office to service Joseph & Feiss during the 1920-21 major expansion program, the firm was established in In 1900, the north-most section of the administration building was constructed upon the southwest corner of the current of the expanded factory. This expansion utilized Lehman& Schmitt's initial construction drawings, which allowed for the with a new one-story saw-tooth roofed factory space to the east of the administration building. This building is no longer Building Permits Nos. 37395, 14099, 15025, 20465, City of Cleveland, Division of Buildings (1900-1908). acres in size. The site contains two contributing buildings: the administration and warehouse buildings, and two other four towers at each corner of the building.

Concrete columns punctuate the main interior spaces. The brick exterior is Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad tracks to the south, and West 53d Street (formerly Swiss Street) to the west industrial character of the site and mark its northern and southeastern boundaries. The spur was an integral component site. By 1904, two additions had been added to the initial structure to complete its U-shaped form. During the modification of the administration building at this time, original doors and windows were incorporated into the new portions major expansion project in 1918, when Joseph & Feiss began to buy the residential lots to the east and north of the administration building. By the end of1919,the company gained the lots that comprises the current site and had warehouse and manufacturing facility had been completed.

Periodically from 1921 until 1990, the owners of this site (Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property. Explain contributing and noncontributing sycamore trees lining Walworth Avenue. The administration building, which served as the original factory on the site, sits on the southwest corner of the property. It is u-shaped in plan and was built with brick and sandstone.

Original woodworking, iron columns, and general organization of the spaces remain.It has early Gothic Revival elements suitable for an industrial building and presently is mothballed.It is in a tenuous condition due to a fire and moisture infilltration to The Joseph and Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops buildings are located on an almost seven-acre site, which is bounded of the functioning of the complex during production and was placed in service within the period of significance (Existing Boston and became the nation's foremost textile mill and garment factory design shop in the nineteenth and twentieth segmental growth of the company's physical plant. In 1907, Joseph and Feiss again increased its factory square footage centuries.

The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State then faced with red brick to match the warehouse building in Flemish bond. Each was finished with a cut sandstone cap The posts stand seven-feet and one-quarter foot tall. The then-owners removed the steel industrial windows from the first administration building occurred at this time as well" The Joseph & Feiss Clothcraft Administration Building Revival exterior features. Its interiors are those of a late 19'-century factory building. Also, attached to its eastern façade of the building, there is a rusticated sandstone stringcourse near the foundations. The windows have sandstone sills - either smooth cut or rusticated - and arched lintels.

Many windows on the first and second levels are arched with brick, double hung windows with a wood divider.At some point the original windows were replaced with one-over-one double on the north elevation at the east and west corners and on the south elevation (Photos 1, 2,5). The first story of the original smokestack is present on the south façade. This octagonal stack was lowered at some point concrete steps with a metal railing were added When the company demolished the original one-story structure, which was attached to the northern portion of the existing 7). In the north stairwell, windows from the first addition (1900-1903) were incorporated into the stairwell (Photo 35). building with six windows facing north and one in each side. The skylight is placed between iron columns located on the second story (Photo 11). A.

Interiors The basement was originally equipped with men's and women's locker and lunch rooms, a kitchen, washrooms, a rag men's accommodations - an unsurprising sign that the company employed more women than men. the individual buildings. Building Permits, Volumes 5,6, 13,18, City of Cleveland, Division of Buildings (1900-1933); Sanborn Maps, 1903, 1903 revised, 1912, 1912 revised signs (Photos 1, 2). eight are still extant (Photo 30). The posts contain a concrete core, and are two feet by two feet in plan. The cores were bay on the warehouse's south elevation in the early 1990s, and in 2003 to 2004, Ameri-con Homes demolished the Despite the original industrial purpose of the Administration Building, it was designed with neo-Medieval and Gothic Because this building was constructed in several stages, its façade and spaces have their own idiosyncrasies.

In general, openings on the second floor; the wood dividers are still present though. A sandstone belt course lines the building just The façades facing West 53d Street were once considered the front of the building and the main entrance was located in The roof is generally flat with drainage occurring through scuppers at the sandstone stringcourse line. A new synthetic is a five-story brick tower, which dates to c.1907 (Photos 1, 11, 33, 35, 36). The exterior has a rusticated sandstone base with Flemish brick bond running above (Photo 9). On the southern portion a brick divider. They have been filled with concrete masonry units (CMU). The windows on the façades facing West 53rd elevation to the north elevation, where a brick and concrete staircase extends from the building (Photo 5). Brick and room, a boiler room, and an engine room.

More space was allocated for the women's locker and lunch rooms than the "This information was culled from building permits, Sanborn maps, and historic and modern photographs of the site and The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Name of Property County and State The basement under the original section of the building contains seven square, brick piers which line the center of the kitchen was located between these rooms and the men's locker room and rag room (Photo 32). The mechanical systems and boilers were removed from their original locations. These spaces now contain exposed restroom. The additional space provided by the 1904 addition was also supported with brick walls and thin, yet tall, iron columns (Photo 33). constructed on the north end on the building.

This wing contained offices for the company's salesmen and the pattern- contained a bookkeeping office, a meeting room, file rooms, and an extra office. Framing denotes where corridors and offices were once located, though it has sustained some damage. the staircases. B. Brick water tower Attached to the east façade of the administration building is a five-story brick tower, which was added in 1907. It once contained a gravity-powered, elevated water tank before the steel tank was added to the northwest tower of the parapet walls, and rectangular brickwork patterns which articulate the top portion and sides of the tower (Photos 13, 14). A successor to the European tradition of encasing utilitarian functions in charming architecture, the water tower is also on the north and south elevations. Some openings were filled in with brick; others contain CMU.

A flat-cut stringcourse contain a diamond pattern. A brick cornice and another sandstone stringcourse provides a horizontal break on the east pole and simple metal railing are also present (Photo 13). The Joseph & Feiss Clothcraft Warehouse building's northwest tower (Photos 17, 28). The exterior of the warehouse is designed with references to the Gothic Revival and Collegiate Gothic styles, with The second floor conditions have not been fully documented dues to safety concernsregarding the structural stability of Cuyahoga, Ohio The first floor originally contained large open rooms segmented with iron columns. Along the west façade facing the panel door opens to the administration building's flat roof. Above, a brick buttress supports a small balcony, where a flag On the east elevation, witness marks from the saw-tooth roof line of the demolished manufacturing building are visible.

A punctuated by square and round concrete columns, with four attached towers serving as circulation, storage, and modifications to accommodate the building's scale and industrial purpose (Photos 14, 20, 23, 24). There are also Neo- space. The brick partitions which divide the women's locker rooms are still present (Photo 36). The remaining portion of the original structure contains two more posts, a hallway, a stairway, and a portion of the women's lunchroom. The 1904 addition contained sixteen iron columns supporting a wood beam and plank ceiling. A frame partition divided the space longitudinally into the women's lunch room and the men's locker room. Another hall, set of stairs, and the courtyard, a row of rooms portioned the space between two stairways for an office, a store room, a shipping room, and a The October 1926 revisions further divided the first floor's open spaces.

An entrance lobby and entrance stairway was plaster has been damaged in some areas, wood doorframes and wood-paneled wainscoting is still present (Photo 34). elevator shaft, offices for executive management and their secretaries, and restrooms. The space above the boiler room constructed of bricks in a Flemish masonry bond pattern.A large rectangular brick pattern encases the window openings centuries. Rich red brick mortared in a Flemish bond covers most of the building's exterior. At its base, the concrete foundation is exposed (though coated with white paint) and one is able to see the pattern left by the wood forms used in The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property C. South Façade One of the capitals has been damaged.

Between the pilasters, large steel industrial windows with horizontal pivots have been inset to bathe the interior with natural light (Photos 14, 15). with the cut sandstone coping (Photo 14). bricked in with CMU. The fourth and fifth are open with the original windows removed. The sixth bay contains three On the second level, the fenestration pattern is: a triple set of 4-by-6 light dual-pivot steel windows with sandstone sills set were removed from both the third and fourth levels. Some of the sandstone sills have been scratched or chipped (Photo Between the double stringcourse belts above the second story, the metal letters of the Clothcraft Clothes sign, an early D. Southwest Tower light single-pivot windows on levels two, three, and four, and a single 3-by-3 light single-pivot window on level five.

There is also a concrete masonry unit (CMU)-filled doorway at ground level.The original wood paneled door was not removed; The construction of this tower consists of large reinforced concrete beams placed at the divisions of each floor. Concrete County and State The pilasters' vertical reach is interrupted by a double sandstone stringcourse between the second and third levels. At the roof, the pilasters are finished with "capitals" created from a herringbone brick bond and geometric sandstone elements. basement level, two square window openings and a doorway, both filled with CMU, punch through the concrete wall. A On the first level, the façade is plain Flemish bond masonry, the window openings in the first three bays have been Joseph & Feiss brand, seem to float astride the exterior wall.

The san serif letters are bolted to metal flanges which are The south façade has a rectangular six-story tower at its southwest corner, which contains a shaft for two freight piers located at the tower's corners support these beams. The space between the piers and columns is filled with brick strong horizontal and vertical elements, which provide depth and texture to the large wall expanses (Photos 15, 26). The double 3-by-4 single pivot window fills the opening on the first level; a double 3-by-6 dual pivot window fills the opening on the second level, and double 3-by-7 dual pivot windows fill the openings on levels three and four. This bay is also capped On the basement level, the coated concrete foundation wall has little articulation except for the pattern created by the wood forms.

On the basement level, bays four through seven contained three square window openings each that are portion of the building is mostly unexcavated. Some damage to the concrete has occurred where original windows were openings each with a 3-by-4 light, single-pivot steel window. The seventh bay contains a single opening with a triple 4-by- 4 light single pivot window. The original sills remain, with some damage (Photos 14, 15). begin at the double stringcourse. As a result, the window systems consist of double 3-by-6 light dual-pivot metal windows These windows are highlighted by inset header columns. In the second bay from the west, the pilastrelli and windows elevators. The tower is ringed on two sides by the two stringcourses. A more elaborate parapet wall sets the tower apart elevator cab doors when they are in an open position. Some of the elevator openings are of differing heights.

Metal elements seen on the tower's exterior hold the elevator rails to the building (Photo 58). bolted to the masonry units.The"A"from Clothcraft and the"L"from Clothes are missing (Photos 14, 15). The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property E. North Façade bay. Again, pilasters rise from a single sandstone belt with the brick soldier course below at the division between the first the south elevation (Photos 18, 19). steel windows with sandstone sills. Bay three contains two window openings of differing widths divided with brick. One bays six, seven, and eight are also filled in with CMU (Photos 18, 19). On levels two, three, and four, the original sashes are extant, though many of the steel pivot windows have been removed and much of the glass has been either removed entirely, replaced with a synthetic material, or has been otherwise (Photos 18, 19).

Levels three and four retain the fenestration and brickwork pattern of the south façade. Here, all pilastrelli are intact and double 3-by-7 light dual-pivot steel window (Photos 18, 19). The eighth bay lacks the decorative brick patterns below the window openings, but it is flanked by two capitals, positioned F. North Towers concrete and a metal header. Above the doorway are a brick balconet and a 3-by-4 light metal window. The window reads like a glassed doorway to a true balcony found in medieval towers and castles. The balconet reads as a low brick metal window on the north façade (Photo 21). On the south façade of the tower, there are window openings on the basement, first, second, third, and fourth levels seems to be causing bowing to the brick masonry below (Photo 22). features. The overall effect is one of vertical elongation of the tower's mass.

At the first level, there is a projecting bay, a County and State and second levels. The double sandstone stringcourse between floors two and three is also fully intact. The same bays- only two lights wide. The window opening on the first level is filled with CMU; the openings on the second and Two five-story towers anchor the north façade - one at the northeast corner and the second at the northwest corner. The this tower is located on the north and south elevations. The stringcourses and brick headers flow around this tower as The tower located at the northwest corner of the building is by far the largest and most elaborate of the building's four storage rooms. It also provides structural support for the building's elevated water tower.

The weight of the water tank The north elevation of the tower, which served as the main entrance, is marked by a single bay with projecting and inset At the base of the tower (the basement level) on the north elevation, a doorway containing a metal door is framed by a These openings are filled with single 3-by-4 light, single-pivot windows. This tower contains an access staircase (Photo storey and a quarter tall, which also serves as a balconet for the second level. On this bay, two pilastrelli flank the wide dentils regularly interspersed in the belt course. This feature either looks like classical dentils or gothic battlements. The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State opening has been bricked in with CMU (Photo 23). pivot steel windows. In the brick inset are rectangles created with seven header rows.

Above the windows additional features create another balconet. The eye is tricked by the presence of four very short projecting pilastrelli which sit on sandstone scroll brackets that start in line with the lower course of the double stringcourse. This balconet is also capped openings in the following rhythm: a 2-by-7 light dual pivot window, then a 4-by-7 light dual pivot window, and lastly another place of the entrance treatment. The window sills are present. The openings themselves are filled with CMU. The (Photos 22, 24, 25). On the tower's west façade - third level, one window opening was replaced with a doorway and a metal door. This exit once provided access to the roof of the demolished manufacturing building. The walls of the first and second levels, once interior walls, lack the fine treatment present above.

Remnants of the connections to the manufacturing building are still the second level, and the concrete ramp and filled-in openings on the first level (Photo 25). concrete piers are embedded within the walls. The concrete slab floors are supported with additional concrete header beams which remain exposed. and remains bricked in, women's restroom, and ramps to the second floor. The ramps are constructed from reinforced due to their removal. The flooring is terrazzo. removed. The third floor contains stairs, the elevator shaft, and men's and women's restrooms. The fourth floor also contains stairs and framing for additional unfinished rooms (Photos 37-40). G. Water Tower Above the northwest tower stands a white, metal water tower with a 20,000 gallon capacity.

The water tank itself is supporting columns connected with cross-bracing flare out from the tank and stand upon the supporting tower. This tank design was considered to place less stress on the tank's bottom and to be more pleasing to the eye than a flat-bottomed financial and design standpoints. Graffiti artists have tagged the tank as well (Photo 28). H. West Façade The west façade projects slightly forward from the northwest and southwest towers at the third and fourth levels. The façade is flush with the towers on the second and first levels. At accessible locations, the façade has been tagged with graffiti. On the first level, small openings are interspersed across the façade, and one doorway that has been filled with rough concrete has been exposed where concrete slab floors once connected to the warehouse building (Photo 24).

The exterior treatment found on the north-face of the tower is generally replicated on the east and west façades with the following exceptions. On the tower's east façade - first level, three window openings and a flat wall expanse take the This tower is constructed in a similar manner to the other towers; however, due to the water tank above, much larger and molded piece of sandstone, which is supported by angled brick walls. The original door was removed and the pilasters are three centered, thin window openings set back into the brick façade. The windows are 2-by-4 light, single 2-by-7 light dual pivot window. Between the windows on the third and fourth levels and above the fourth story windows are rectangular brick bands.

The pilastrelli are capped with sandstone elements below the parapet capping (Photos 22, The first floor of the tower contains the entryway, sprinkler drain, a small elevator shaft, which was never put into service The second floor contains ramps and stairs, and men's and women's restrooms. The stairs are constructed with a cylindrical in shape with a hemispherical bottom, a circular balcony with a metal railing, and a conical roof. Four CMU. A massive horizontal concrete element can also been seen. At the division between the first and second levels, The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State systems, can also be seen and leave the building open to the elements. The division between the second and third floor manufacturing building (Photo 24).

The third and fourth levels again read as one unit interrupted by the verticality of the windows, pilasters, pilastrelli, and capitals. The rhythm of the upper portion of the west façade follows as such: flat wall expanse punctured by two 3-by-5 light dual pivot windows, one above the other; a double-width projecting pilaster topped with two herringbone bond and I. East Façade sandstone and brick stringcourses, the bay and window patterns from the south elevation, the decorative capitals and Additional features include a smaller two-and-a-half story tower located at the south corner, the smokestack, and and four window openings on its south and east elevations. Only one window remains intact: a 3-by-4 light single-pivot window located on the first level of the south facade.The other openings have been filled with brick or CMU. It appears J.

Smokestack A brick-lined concrete smokestack is located to the east of the warehouse. The octagonal concrete foundations are sixteen-feet nine-inches deep and twenty-five feet wide. The interior diameter of the stack at its base is fifteen feet with a wall thirty feet thick. The original construction plans show brick lining on its interior. The exterior is currently faced with red brick. A lighter color brick was used to spell "Joseph & Feiss." However, as the stack was shortened, only "& Feiss" remains (Photo 18). Originally, the stack connected to the building's boilers through an underground brick-lined concrete tunnel. A metal duct, elevation. A brick buttress was constructed on the stack to support this duct. K. Interior Spaces by square or round concrete columns positioned every twenty feet. Removable partitions could be installed if office space simply-styled lamps.

concrete slab floor of the second level. I-beams are embedded in these square columns, which have a flared pyramidal shaped "capital." Both rooms have concrete floors and walls. The boiler room is also connected to the staircases in the are still present. The gear boxes for the doors are extant as well. Other smaller openings, possibly used for mechanical The warehouse has four levels plus a half basement. The remainder of the basement level is unexcavated. Each level is This three-bay façadecarries forwardmany of the architectural motifs and patterns found on the other façades: the brickwork, and crenellation. A few openings have been filled with CMU and metal (Photo 18).

The tower, trapezoidal in shape, has sandstone and brick stringcourses in line with those wrapping around the building a later addition, now connects the boilers to the stack through a partially bricked in window on the first floor of the east was needed for designers or managers. The result is an essentially open and flexible space lit naturally or with rows of from north to south while the other, intersecting the first, extends from the west side of the building to the one-story engine In the engine room, six square, twelve feet tall columns support the concrete slab ceiling. A brick bearing wall separates tower. The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops County and State room (Photo 44).

columns were painted with the wainscoting effect (light tone above a waist high area of a darker tone) that has been installed in the interior wall of the catwalk provide glimpses of the boiler room below. The catwalk was constructed with brick and concrete walls and concrete floors (Photo 43). concrete columns, cutting tables were set up end to end and reached the entire length of the building. This level has a These columns, too, have pyramidal capitals. Above the windows and brick walls, a concrete header beam spans the piers, and columns. condition (Photo 47). engaged piers stand between the window openings and brick walls. The piers,brick walls, and columns are painted with DEVELOPMENT HISTORY 1874 - 1900 neighborhood is now known. The Walworth Run, a creek named for a prominent Cleveland farmer and postmaster, once flowed freely to the north of the site.

Stockyards, breweries, and other commercial entities, located along the run and Avenue to the south (Ibid). 1900 - 1912 Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property two-thirds of this level, with the other third remaining open to the boiler room below. Within the sponging room, eighteen The second floor space was once used for cutting fabrics based upon pre-made patterns. Between the rows of square Metal pipes, strips, and HVAC ducting are connected to the ceiling. In some places, metal strips reach from the south to By 1874, the southwestern boundary of Cleveland had reached Storer Avenue, and the area in which the Joseph & Feiss square columns with pyramidal capitals stand in a grid configuration of three rows by six columns. This level has brick walls surrounding engaged concrete piers which have angled capitals. The brick walls, engaged piers and concrete applied throughout the building.

Set within the concrete floors is a metal-edged trench (Photo 42). This floor also has a catwalk, leading between the sponging room and the northeast tower. Metal industrial windows engaged piers (Photos 45-48). This level's walls also retain the wainscoting paint scheme on the exterior walls, engaged The flooring is maple over cinders and the concrete slab, and the maple flooring was laid in a diagonal pattern. Because In November 1900, Goldsmith, Joseph, & Feiss Co. received a building permit to construct a one-story brick shop building experimenting with branding and developed the Clothcraft Clothes name. The name is still present on signs on the The first floor contains what was once the sponging room.

With a twelve-foot height clearance, this room covers about The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State alternative designs to accommodate the firm's rapid growth. The original plans for this addition called for a two-story door sashes from the original building were retained for the new addition. The plans also provided for a sunken boiler room without structure above it, and an alternative design with two-stories above. What was built included a two-story alterations were made to the interior and entrances in 1926. company's premises. Internal company histories declare that Joseph & Feiss was "a pioneer in the establishment of the which was later vacated.

Construction of this new addition began at the end of September 1907 (Building permit #14099, 1912 - 2004 Between 1912 and 1918, the site remained relatively unchanged except for the addition of a skylight in 1914. In 1918, documents for a large addition to the manufactüring building and an attached warehouse building. By 1921, with the additions as needed. The site ceased to be used for mercantile purposes when it was sold in 1997to Americon-Homes center of the site was torn down. The contributing structures on the site include the administration building (1900-1904), with its attached brick water tower (1907), the warehouse building (1920-21) and its attached smokestack (1920-21) the modern photographs). Integrity and Historic Associations industrially innovative.

The former perspective, however, does not do justice to the great importance this structure retains factories to house additional production functions, about which more will be said in the next section of the nomination. Its innovative character is first reflected in its age. It is more than a decade older than the physical plants of other significant garment companies, such as the H. Black Company and Richman Brothers. Its style -- rusticated neo- medieval - and technologies -- iron columns - reflect late Victorian tastes for decorative structural systems and faith in industrial progress. Richman Brothers or the H.Black Company, two other well-known garment manufacturers in Cleveland. For the next seventy years, the site was in full use and the company made alterations, mechanical upgrades, and small for redevelopment.

In 2003 to 2004, while under Americon-Homes' ownership, the large manufacturing building at the Lehman &Schmitt again provided designs for the southern portion of the administration building in 1904 and offered piecework to contracted seamstresses or tailors, to that of the inside shop, where all production happened on the first inside shop manufacturing [process] on its own premises." Therefore, by 1904, with the completion of this currently second larger addition to the east of the administration building between the Big Four railroad tracks and Haight Avenue, 9/27/1907).By1912, a five-story brick water tower and a one-story brick and iron-posted manufacturing addition had been completed (Sanborn Insurance Map, 1903 revised to 1912, volume 3, page 63). Junction Road. Though classified as alterations on the permits, the structures were actually demolished.

In 1919, the Cleveland, where firms morphed from the contract system to the inside shop model and increasingly built freestanding Lehman& Schmitt's design is present today (Building permit #50616, 11/17/1904;original blueprints,1904) though some successful Federal Tax Credit projects in Cleveland, purchased the site at auction in January of 2009 (historic and Nos.9929,33687,33688,26176,33687M-33700M,20686C,20914C,21905C,22897C,23697C,23982B,City The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State Its character as a modern and innovative facility is conveyed through the form of the building - "u"-shaped, which provides access to light from several directions -and its amply sized windows. Light was a key resource for garment workers and and tall, thin iron columns above.

The columns and piers divide the building into two open corridors that run around an interior and exterior of the facility for various reasons. Here too, one finds that some openings were moved or partially the next section. As noted, the purpose of the administration building morphed from industrial to office use. As the hub of business operations, the administration building also contained services for the workers, including the nurse's dispensary and the men's and women's locker rooms. The extant partitions, wood doorframes, and wainscoting convey the practical aspirations as it continued its search for additional efficiency and modernization. American expressways. between warehouse and the administration building speaks to its massive scale. Additionally, remnants of its structural the warehouse.

The places where the manufacturing building joined the 1907 brick water tower and the warehouse are also evident. policies. The adminsitration building and the warehouse are able to convey that the site is an early 20-century garment exterior courtyard. Although partitions were added when the building became executive offices, the original open plan, a The administration building was also the location in which Richard Feiss and Mary Gilson devised their plans for the The warehouse retains a striking difference in scale, materials, building technologies, and design, as crafted by Lockwood & Greene for the company's 1920 to 1921 expansion program. More than just a storehouse for large rolls of fabric, this The main tower, with its large elevated water tank on the roof, and the massive smokestack to the east, are distinctive system still remain intact on the west side of the warehouse.

Massive concrete piers and beams jut out on either side of administration building. Though it may not have been the largest and most massive portion of the complex, it is the freestanding facility. It is also where Richard Feiss and Mary Gilson devised their innovative production and personnel a criterion for a well-appointed modern workplace. The original structural system is still intact: brick piers in the basement requirement for the long tables used for cutting, sewing, and pressing new garments, is quite visible. All of the company's manufacturing goals and personnel policies. Their activities and importance, too, will be further explained in elegance a company's management offices. Essentially, each expansion phase is currently represented on the site.

The most important portion of the complex is the The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Ethnic History - European (Jewish) Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work ofa master, or possesses high Period of Significance artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Significant Dates Construction of north side of the administration building 1900; addition: 1902-1903; addition:1904; construction of brick water tower addition: 1907; (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply) construction of warehouse: 1920-21; addition of brick fence posts: 1933; unionization: 1934. Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above) removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. Cultural Affiliation D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property Lehman & Schmitt, Architects less than 50 years old or achieving significance Lockwood, Greene & Co, Engineers within the past 50 years Period of Significance (justification) an addition to the north portion of the administration building, constructed in 1900. In 1904, the administration building gained a second addition.

Joseph & Feiss built the brick-enclosed water tower in 1907, and the warehouse building in 1920 reforms, thus creating a modern and progressive workplace. 1934 marks the year of the Joseph & Feiss's unionization. The unionization of the company resulted in a changed ethos and a shift in the company's operations from that of an 1900-1934 Industry Property is: Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder Social History (Enter categories from instructions) purposes. owed by a religious institution or used for religious to 1921. During the 1910s and 1920s, the company embarked upon many manufacturing and personnel management independent manufacturer to one in which its employee's retained a stronger bargaining position via the Amalgamated Cleveland's first free-standing garment factory on the southwest corner of the present site. In 1902-1903, the company built history.

The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State Criteria Consideratons (explanation, if necessary) Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (provide a summary paragraph that includes level of signficance and applicable criteria) Cleveland, Ohio. This site served as the main production facility, warehouse, stock rooms, and administrative offices for foundations (1920-1921) retains enough presence and material to be understood as a railroad spur and would have served This property is eligible under Criterion A, as the location of one of Cleveland's two largest men's clothing manufacturers, and, arguably, its most innovative, the site is associated with broad patterns of the industrial and social history of the United industrial and corporate spheres.

Joseph & Feiss is also connected to the history of Cleveland's Jewish community from the earliest periods of Jewish settlement through the second wave of Jewish immigration from the 1880s to the 1920s. As a major employer of Jewish immigrants, Joseph & Feiss acted as a catalyst for the melding of Cleveland's two Jewish populations into a cohesive community. administration building is a rare example of an industrial building designed by the prominent Cleveland architecture firm, operation and modern factory standards. The Joseph & Feiss plan was later replicated by Richman Brothers at this general interest in European architectural prototypes, without the selection of specific buildings as models. The fine brickwork on the water tower suggest a knowledge of German brick architecture and the masonry craft.

The warehouse building is a significant example of a large daylight factory with Gothic Revival, Art Deco, and Neo-Classical architectural details in Cleveland. It is an excellent example of Lockwood, Greene & Co's factory design expertise in Cleveland exemplified by the reinforced concrete slab and column construction method, predominance of steel industrial windows, and rational design with centralized factory spaces and distinctive circulation zones. Lockwood, Greene & Co, Engineers Listing on the National Register is sought under Criteria A and C for the Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Clothes site in the Joseph & Feiss Company from 1900 until 1965. From1966 until 1996, the site retained its manufacturing functions remain of the security fencing that would have greeted workers arriving to the plant for their shifts. Another landscape bounded by 1900 and 1934.

In 1900, Joseph & Feiss began construction of its factory upon the West 53rd Street site. The educational programs for workers. Mary Gilson, a personnel management executive at the company, exemplifies a rarely The factory complex is also nominated under Criterion C as an example of local architectural significance. The Clothing Workers of America union. By 1934, Joseph & Feiss had ended many of the progressive personnel and management programs Mary Gilson and Richard Feiss instituted at this site in the 1910s and 1920s. and Hugo Boss USA. After 1996, the property no longer served a mercantile function.

Two buildings on the site contribute additional contributing structures on the site also reflects its industrial character: the railroad spur elevated on concrete as an integral element of the functioning of the plant during garment production and eight brick and concrete fence piers feature from the period of historic significance include an alee of sycamore trees. The period of significance for this site is States.This factory site is connected to physical plant, production, and management innovations in the garment industry documented thread of the women's movement in the early twentieth century: the struggle to gain equal footing in the facility in Cleveland. It is the physical result of the implementation of a new production model in the garment industry.

Its u- shaped plan with ample windows and a saw-tooth skylight are significant examples of the implementation of an inside-shop was the nation's preeminent design firm for textile and garment factories. company's East 55th factory. The administration building, and especially the attached brick water tower, also express a The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Name of Property County and State Narrative Statement of Significance (provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance) The Garment Industry numbers. In Cleveland, the garment industry provided a significant percentage of employment opportunities and was only 1916, Cleveland ranked fourth in the production of women's garments.

It had many successful firms devoted to this area of Joseph & Feiss History & the Inside Shop guidance of Kaufman Koch.Later named Koch & Loeb, the business established itself in the wholesale men's apparel field began looking for more space on the west side of Cleveland. It began construction of a new factory at the West 53d site under the guidance of Julius Feiss in 1900.* For additional historic context, the Richman Brothers Company, Joseph & Feiss's main competitor, was established in Cleveland in 1879.* The company took its modern form when, in 1907, it opened its first retail outlet in Cleveland. The of the 1907 addition.* The original part of the Richman Brother's factory is 'u'-shaped like the administration building at the "Edna Bryner, The Garment Trades (Philadelphia: F. Fell Co. Printers, 1916): 20. 1997). http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article/pl?id=PC.

"Bryner, 17; 27-28 Ohio (August 8, 1939). * Bryner, 22-23. V"Printz-Biederman Co.," The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga, Ohio 10S5595736182.2990&profile...htm and such workshops employed ten to as many as seventy-five workers in poorly lit and cramped conditions.In contrast, Garment production was often categorized depending upon whether the firm produced men's or women's garments. In Sanborn Insurance Maps of Cleveland. (1903): 7; "Historical Note," Joseph & Feiss Company Records,1847-1960, At the turn of the 20 century, Cleveland ranked fourth amongst cities vying for supremacy in the garment industry. New York City dominated with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, and others trailing behind in terms of total employment The Joseph and Feiss Company first began in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1841 as Kauffman & Loeb.

The firm sold a line of mid-priced men's suits and clothing. Construction of the Richman Brother factory on East 55' Street began in 1915, a full (Washington, DC: Historic American Engineering Record, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Heritage 'Paul L. Feiss, Summary of Company History, Joseph & Feiss Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, * Ibid, 53 second to iron and steel in terms of total employment numbers"" production, including H. Black & Co. (NR:2001), Printz-Biederman, and Bobbie Brooks." In Ohio, Cleveland ranked first in terms of employment at women's garment firms, but was ranked second behind Cincinnati in the men's sector. This was Feiss Company and Richman Brothers -- became nationally-known men's clothing brands.

At their height, Joseph & Feiss and Richman Brothers each employed well over two thousand people."i As noted by Edna Bryner in her 1916 book about Cleveland's garment industry, there were a wide range of conditions for garment workers in city. Despite laws that prevented the manufacture of garments in residences, this practice continued Conservation and Recreation Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1978): 51. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, http://ipac.wrhs.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session= This building permit was for the foundations of the first phase of the Richman Brothers' factory. conditions. used a small back room on the third floor of the company's St. Clair building for this purpose." Soon afterward, the firm Daniel M.

Bluestone, ed., Textile Manufacture," in Cleveland: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops County and State garment industry in Cleveland, with innovation in production methods and factory development, were surely capitalized In A Century of Progress, Paul Feiss described Julius Feiss, his father and the champion of the company's movement innovations of Cleveland's men's garment industry by the Joseph & Feiss Company. After establishing an internal manufacturing operation in 1897, Joseph & Feiss no longer used the contract model and was affordable products and for taking care of its employees. Richard A. Feiss, the older son of Julius Feiss, was "an early Other changes in the garment industry occurred in the 1890s as well, in which Joseph & Feiss took part. Consumers were garment producers.

INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION decided to change drastically the existing methods of manufacturing men's clothing by adopting the concepts of scientific * Bryner, 12. American, 1922): 4 ** Wrege, 35. 35-42,http://thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v011/p0035-p0042.pdf. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=JFC. management and new methods of employment management."x A devotee of scientific management and a president of the upon by the Richman Brothers Company. Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property Joseph & Feiss site.*i The Richman Brothers factory did not take its final shape until additions were constructed behind the production techniques of the scientific management system, which were established by Frederick Taylor. Many of these the publisher of The Philistines, which was widely read, especially among young people. The use of the word "craft" also fifteen dollars.

In a successful campaign, the No. 5130 suit became known as the Model Tof suits. The Clothcraft brand *ii Sanborn Insurance Maps of Cleveland. (1912 revised to 1951). towards the inside operation method, asa "brilliant, courageous, and dynamic innovator who conceived of and introduced to the inside shop or factory system may have been begun as early as the 1880s in Baltimore, as the garment industry grew in size and workers became more concentrated and connected to single shops.Yet, Professor Jesse Eliphalet Pope industry at a later date.*ii Inevitably, the move to the inside shop model laid the groundwork for future modifications and The Joseph & Feiss Company was known for its experimental management practices. To wit, "Richard Feiss, in 1913 XVi Francis Joseph Haas, A.M.

Shop Collective Bargaining, Dissertation, (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of techniques are still used in industrial engineering and logistical analysis.xx The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State materials; subdivided each job to encourage specialization; used time studies, introduced bonuses and re-designed chairs, Between 1910 and 1915production increased 42% and cost decreased 10% while hourly wages were raised 45% and To this end, Richard Feiss created the new position of employment manager and, in 1913, hired a woman to fill the post; Bloomfield, director of the Vocational Bureau of Boston, to find a candidate. When Mary Gilson, a graduate of Wellesley Gilson, herself, was an anomaly in the 1910s and 1920s did not escape her. In later years, she published What's Past is a similar position.

My work had been a liberal education and I had had plenty of opportunity for service. I had been a more wholesome respect for them throughout the plant."xxvii MODEL WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT Richard Feiss wanted to create an organization whose aim was not merely the manufacture of clothing, but also provided Nelson, 74. 2003): 204. xxx Ibid, 36 Political and Social Science 65 (May 1916): 28-56.This text includes a speech Feiss first delivered at the Taylor Society. 201. cooperation."xiv management, such as time studies.

Feiss soon learned that the Taylor methods could not be the only guiding principle of a College and herself an advocate of the Taylorsystem, "learned of Feiss's plans to integrate improved production methods Gilson also believed that scientific management for the first time gave women the opportunity for "upward mobility within the She pointed out that worker incentives must include the promise of promotion. It could not be counterpoint to the Boston factory ethos in a Midwest operation. * Ibid, 82 xxvli Ibid. 214 Ibid, 28-56. tables and other equipment to reduce fatigue. both actions were extremely innovative for the time, especially in an industrial context.

He sought the help of Meyer Industrial Equality League and gave a paper entitled, "Legislation Intended for the Protection of Women in Industry."xvi That Prologue, and in this book, she recalled her tenure at Joseph & Feiss as the following: particularly fortunate in working for a firm which was so broad-minded as to recognize ability regardless of sex. They had permitted me to try exceptionally capable women in important supervisory and executive positions denied to women without effectively squelching their morale and corresponding efficiency. Gilson argued that "New freedom to institute necessary personnel changes based on his vision of"fitness for position and organization."*xi Along The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State Gilson developed seven methods to gauge fitness of an employee for a certain position in the factory.

These methods Physical exams were conducted to keep all positions filled with fit men and women. Mental examinations were made woman's fitness for positions with additional responsibilities. kinds of training due a worker; one kind related to the technique of his job and one to the development of his character as a Education provided textbooks and teachers, and the Cleveland Public Library came bi-weekly to refresh the company's four barber shops, athletic fields, the dispensary, medical operating room, and classrooms. thirds of the girls took home their pay envelopes unopened; they were working to keep the family peace. Since bonuses Gilson observedthat this increased both efficiency and contentment of the female workers.

Based on her Clothcraft experience, Mary Gilson also published a labor study titled, "The Relation of Home Conditions to Industrial Efficiency" in Management under Feiss not only encouraged employee participation in the decision-making activities at Joseph & Feiss, In 1921, all of the company's operations had moved to the West 53 Street location*i The new factory facility was an a constantly renewed source of fresh air for the workers. Nelson, 82 xxxiv Wrege, 36 Folder 9. * Wrege, 37. 1916 decisions. xxv Frankel, 201. through psychological tests. The company relied on the opinions of psychologists and physicians, which aided the extension of Richard Feiss's vision. To wit, "[a]ll of the manufacturing space was located on one floor, lighted with saw- "I look back to a dream on that day in May, 1921, when we threw open our new plant for public inspection.

An xxxvii Frankel, 100 *li'Feiss, A Century of Progress, n.p. included: application forms, physical examinations, mental examinations, an interviewing program, an orientation program, Mary Gilson and Richard Feiss also believed in education for the company's workers. As Gilson noted, "[t]here are two As part of Gilson's seven methods, entry and exit interviews were held on the first day and at regular intervals throughout the employee's adjustment period. An orientation program introduced new workers to the programs and accommodations the company offered, including the dining halls, locker rooms, auditorium, recreation halls, swimming pool, bowling alleys, Home visits gave Gilson additional key information, which created another forum for change. She discovered that two were intended as a motivator, it was important that the girls knew when they received such a motivator.

Gilson insisted the employee committees were also established by Gilson such as the foremen's meetings, the Employee Advisory Council, and the Heads of Tables conferences.The employee groups could propose changes as well as veto those proposed by In later years, Mary Gilson reflected upon opening day at the newly expanded facility: our modern, saw-tooth roof building. It had been created with the aid of the last word in factory architecture to make xovi Wrege, 36. tooth skylights [throughout], which provided splendid north light."A state-of-the-art forced air ventilation system provided xxvil Ibid, 38. XOOXVI The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Name of Property County and State it light, airy, and spacious. Great baskets and bouquets of flowers sent in by friendly firms and individuals lent color and gaiety to the picture children the chance to work.

This was a significant form of assistance, especially considering most of the employees were were granted ample rest breaks, as time studies showed productivity increased when employees received such breaks. items noted above, because science of the era determined that drinking-water was best consumed at forty-five degrees, the get ice cream in the cafeteria, and he or she could buy suits at reduced rates. educational reasons, on-site care, and home visits. Richard A. Feiss's and Mary Gilson's innovations at Joseph & Feiss were practiced until 1925 when they were largely of these programs were discontinued. Both Gilson and Feiss resigned in 1924.

Gilson said, "In later years I have realized experiments lived on in the plants and hearts and minds of our visitors and the young men and women who were under our a consultant, publishing several books on the field and teaching economics atthe University of Chicago. It was there that management at Joseph & Feiss. She died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1959. remained until his death in 1956. Gilson described Richard Feiss as, Gilson, 204. xliv Ibid, 37 xivii Gilson, 211. Cuyahoga, Ohio morale. There were also company orchestras, bands, and sports teams. A worker could leave her station in hot weather to reported, "Adah Walker is one of the many Clothcrafters who sing together at their work. On especially happy days, the Healthcare was another key concern of the management. The administration building housed a dispensary and rest room on the second floor.

In addition, there was an operating room, which was used two days a week by a physician, one day a the employees.The newsletter reported on activities, gardens, and factory events. Since the factory closed for a month every September, the October issue was often filled with vacation reports. It was a forum for poetry and recipes as well as articles written by both workers and managers. A September 1921 issue contained an article by Mary Gilson entitled internally. She is mentioned as an early figure in the history of management practices, and her life is a rare example of a woman in the 1910s and 1920s, who did not accept her gender as a hurdle and hindrance to her life. Gilson entered Richard Feiss went to Boston in 1926 and opened a consulting business. In 1940, he moved to California, where he female, and many were recent immigrants.

There was a Clothcraft Penny Bank for worker's savings and loans. Employees Feiss and Gilson created programs and incentives that 'responded to the total needs of the employees."*v In addition to the Joseph & Feiss cafeteria served drinking water at forty-five degrees. Potted ferns grew in the factory to improve worker songs raise high above the whirr of the heavy power machines. week by a surgeon, and one day a week by an eye doctor. Dental services were also provided. A nurse was on staff for The progress andsuccess ofthe company was also reflected inthe monthly Clothcraft newsletter, which was produced by and its effects on the company. that, while the depression and a combination of unfortunate circumstances razed much we had erected, many of our wing for varying periods. industrial in a position with a large amount of responsibility and oversight.

After leaving Joseph & Feiss, Gilson continued her economic scholarship in the field of industrial management, working as The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property and members of his firm resented his bluntness and impatience. His workers had implicit confidence in him and that was all that mattered to him. He was a pioneer and many things he said and did in the early part of this century are now being discussed as though they were newly discovered phenomena in the field of human relations and factory With Richard's departure in 1924, his younger brother, Paul Feiss, took over as Chairman of Joseph & Feiss.

Paul reported that in 1934, when the number of workers in the factory numbered 2100, labor voted to unionize: "After a short strike which lasted only 3 days, the vote was taken under the supervision of the Regional Labor War Effort & the "E" Award uniforms since, due to World War II, the manufacture of civilian clothing occurred on a restricted basis. August 15, 1945, the Joseph & Feiss Company was awarded the U.S. Government's "E" award for its excellent record in the production of naval half times more difficult to produce, the company posted a seventeen percent efficiency increase between 1942 and 1945. standing Navy Uniform Service plan!

Post-World War II wholesale and licensee business models, where the company focused on production and not on the management and Hugo Boss AG, a West German men's clothing and accessory firm, purchased Joseph & Feiss in early 1989 and created 1992 and 1995. 'James Dennis, Cleveland Plain Dealer (August 16, 1945). uniforms. County and State In comparison, the Richmond Brothers Company remained non-union throughout its existence and continued to be plagued with problematic relationships with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The "E" award was the first of its kind given to a large clothing manufacturer. Commander S. J. Singer, U.S.N.R. presented it to both union workers and management. He reported that despite manpower shortages and that uniforms are one and volume and sales. Its annual gross revenues reached well over $100 million. Yet, further difficulty lay on the horizon.

Cricketeer, Baracuta, Country Britches, Cricketeer Woman, and Joseph & Feiss brands. It also manufactured licensed "honest to a fault, blunt, tactless, impatient, and extremely meticulous. It mattered little to him that important guests Workers represent them in all matters relating to their employment. After the vote was counted, it was found that successfully with good spirit and satisfaction to both sides. After unionization, Joseph & Feiss continued to perform well. In July of 1942, the factory shifted to the production of operation of brick and mortar stores. In the 1970s and 1980s, Joseph and Feiss reached its zenith in terms of production Hugo Boss USA. By that time, Joseph and Feiss was the country's oldest tailored clothing manufacturer, producing the into the media.

Unable to maintain confidence in its management at the time, Hugo Boss USA was restructured between Ultimately, Hugo Boss USA could not stave off shifts in the industry: growing international competition and changing fashion xlix Feiss, A Century of Progress, n.p.; "Joseph & Feiss," The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. - -German Buys Joseph & Feiss,' The New York Times D (January 31, 1989): 4 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/business/company-news-german-buy-joseph-feiss.html The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Name of Property County and State Beachwood, Ohio purchased the site for redevelopment into residential townhouses and apartments.

Connection to Cleveland's Jewish History centers or smaller towns in Germany, Eastern Europe, and Russia.It has been argued that the experiences Jewish organizations clustered in garment districts and then into major corporations and large-scale factories. With the commercial did not enter the garment industry but became professionals such as doctors or attorneys. This trend is exemplified in Cleveland by the Joseph & Feiss Company. arrived in later decades. The Koch and Loeb families arrived during this initial period and were able to establish their garment business early in Cleveland's history. German Jewish families had assimilated into American culture and business practices. The Cleveland Jewish community had established the B'nai B'rith Solomon Lodge in 1853 and the more recent Montefiore Lodge in Cleveland.

Jewish immigrants also Americanized their names, such as Yetta Alsbacher, who changed her first name to Julia.As noted, operations. The social networks and economic wealth built during these decades would be used to assist second-wave Jewish immigrants with the adaptation into American life. The Koch & Loeb firm, known as Koch, Goldsmith, & Joseph in the 1870s, survived the lagging 1850s and received an Mergers & Acquisitions, Dec 17, 1996 University Press, 2004): 3-4. * Rubinstein, 5. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=JFC. A second wave of Jewish immigration occurred in the 1880s through the 1920s.* At this time many of the Jewish Cuyahoga, Ohio Ixi Rubinstein, 18, 20. W"Joseph & Feiss Co.,"The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

clothing sales"*The Men's Warehouse purchased the Joseph & Feiss trademark in December 1996; the West 53'd Street These small operations, generally a family working hour upon hour in a small flat, eventually grew into loft-style period of Jewish settlement included many immigrants from what is now Germany. The first Jewish immigrants in Cleveland was a young, small, and predominantly Protestant town. Both Koch and Loeb are Jewish surnames, derived settled near the Central Market area along Woodland Avenue. Koch & Loeb joined other Jewish clothing merchants in Cleveland such as George Davis, Joel Englehart, and Sigmund Mann by opening a wholesale clothing store at 82 German Jewish families had several decades in which to build social ties and economic foundations for their garment economic boost due toincreased orders for Civil War uniforms.

Indeed, the Civil War played a large role in reviving http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4298/is_199610/ai_n14959844 Ix *Joseph & Feiss," The Encyclopedia of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1997). Joseph & Feiss has ties to Cleveland's earliest Jewish settlement period, which occurred in the late 1830s and 1840s. This See Maxwell Gladwell, Outliers (Hachette Book Group USA, 2009). Superior.ix The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State significance of the factory site at West 53d Street, all of Joseph & Feiss's owner-level executives were of Jewish descent: Cleveland Jewish community.

The success of [Goldsmith,] Joseph &Feiss enabled the children of the firm's owners to attend top-notch and mainly The Jewish Orphan Home was located in the former home of Jacob Goldsmith, a partner in the firm before his retirement in active patron in Cleveland's medical and health care community. He was the founder and first President of Mt. Sinai into the fabric of American culture. The growth of Joseph & Feiss, one of Cleveland's important Jewish-owned businesses, enabled the corporation to hire several thousand workers over the course of several decades. The corporation employed second-wave Jewish immigrants, many of whom were women.

As noted by Judah Rubinstein and Jane Avner, both sides of the garment worker's strike of Home, which Joseph & Feiss executives strongly supported, provided shelter and care for children from splintered Jewish Architectural Significance The Joseph& Feiss administration building and warehouse are significant examples of buildings designed by a prominent Cleveland architecture firm and a national engineering office, respectively. The Cleveland firm, Lehman & Schmitt, designed the administration building, which served as the first free-standing factory outside the St.Clair garment district. forming their own partnership in 1885. The firm remained active until 1935 despite Lehman's death in 1914.

Known for Schmitt also provided plans for Cleveland police stations, the Central Amory for the National Guard, Children's Homes in Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia in the late 1890s through the 1930s.kvi http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=JE1. http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=FPL. Ix Rubinstein, 28-29. German Jewish descent, including Jacob Goldsmith, Moritz Joseph, and Julian Feiss. During the period of historic Protestant American universities such as Harvard (Richard Feiss) and Columbia (Emil Joseph). Per the education and and the Excelsior and Oakwood Country Clubs. Paul Feiss, the chairman of Joseph & Feiss beginning in 1925, was an Hospital, Cleveland's main Jewish hospital. Paul Feiss also held positions outside Cleveland's Jewish community.

He environment, and educational classes, Joseph & Feiss served as a catalyst for the assimilation of the more recent Jewish Israel Lehman and Theodore Schmitt were the principals of the firm. Both worked in the office of George Smith before their designs of county courthouses, including the Cuyahoga County Courthouse in downtown Cleveland, Lehman & Rubinstein, 29. American-educated Jewish lawyer. He served on the board of the Cleveland Public Library, as Chairman of the Jewish Orphan Home, and as a director for the Union Trust Company. He was also active in Jewish social clubs such as the Town, Excelsior, and Oakwood clubs 1907. Joseph & Feiss executives also served on the boards of the Cleveland Public Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Orchestra, and was a member of the board of advisors for the Cleveland Museum of Art.

He had gained expertise in incunabula, the earliest forms of printing. During World WarI,Feiss became a representative of the Division of Housing of the U.S. Department of Labor's Cleveland district, and later was asked to join Woodrow Wilson's Industrial immigrants into the predominantly German Cleveland Jewish community and mainstream American culture thriving economy inthe early years ofthetwentieth century and a catalyst for the amelioration of the often difficult plight of Sandusky and Lorain County, and several Jewish synagogues. The firm received a $30,0o0 fee for their design of the Ixv The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State administration building exemplifies the use of Neo-Gothic stylistic features upon late 19t- and early 20*-century industrial awareness of the German tradition of brick architecture.

regions of Poland that were once under Germanic control, are known for impressive brick edifices that tower over the towns locales, established posts in northern Germany. Lübeck was known as the league's "Queen" city, and Hannover was also a and door openings, polychrome bricks, corbeled cornices with dentils, decorative brick relief patterns, stone foundations, and faux-end chimneys were common features of Midwestern Germanic architecture. The faux facades, parapets, and with dentils, decorative brick reliefs in lozenge patterns, and a faux end chimney architectural details.

It is an excellent example of Lockwood, Greene & Co's factory design expertise in Cleveland, exemplified by the reinforced concrete slab and column construction method, predominance of steel industrial windows, was the nation's preeminent design firm for textile and garment factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The warehouse exemplifies Lockwood, Greene & Co's sensitivity to industrial function and the eclectic stylistic tastes of the early decades of the twentieth century. Lockwood, Greene & Co. deftly crafted balanced façades articulated with horizontal towns, which was never fully realized Jewish architectural partnership would be chosen to complete the designs for the Joseph & Feiss factory. The modernized facilities in the Cleveland garment industry. Up until Joseph & Feiss's move west, this industry was and university in the cities of Karlsruhe and Hannover, Germany.

Schmitt studied abroad for ten years before returning to Additionally, the Hanseatic League, a loose consortium of mercantile cities flanking the Baltic Sea, as well as more in-land In addition to the characteristic use of brick in this region, other common features include false façades or parapets and and ornate details, such as the old town hall (Altes Rathaus) of Hannover. Town halls gained prominence with the addition architecture in the Hanse towns in general and Hannover in particular. Additionally, segmented arched lintels over window Ixxili The administration building exhibits many of these Germanic details, such as segmental arched lintels, the use of a polychrome brick pattern, and rough stone foundations.

The water tower also has segmented arches over the windows, highly detailed corbeled cornices and well ventilated workrooms, dressing rooms, lunch rooms, toilets, and clean and sanitary work areas. Joseph & Feiss had embarked upon these changes in 1900. See "Era of Altruism," The Ohio Architect & Builder (Feb 1903): 5. replicated by Richman Brothers at this company's East 55" Street factory. The administration building and the attached brick water tower are also significant due to their connections to the German the fourteenth century until 1669, the league's exchanges through trade allowed for the cross-cultivation of architectural the secular architecture of burghers' houses and town halls. At times, these building types were finished with quite fanciful were sited on narrow plots of land without space between the buildings.

The warehouse building is a significant example of a large daylight factory with Gothic Revival, Art Deco, and Neo-Classical and rational design with centralized factory spaces and distinctive circulation zones. Lockwood, Greene & Co, Engineers stringcourses and vertical elements such as towers, pilastrelli, and engaged "columns" with terracotta "capitals." The end character. predominantly located in the garment district on St. Clair.i The ground plan of the administration building was later The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State result is a richly engaging pattern of horizontal and verticals rather than a flatten grid imposed upon the exterior of abuilding.

significance from 1900to 1934,including the construction of its factory complex at 2149 West 53° Street, the application of beginning in 1900, and the creation of one of the nation's largest and oldest men's clothing manufacturers. Furthermore, at that set the bar for the industry before the company unionized in 1934. Unionization significantly changed the management nomination requirements of Criterion A. and is the first location where a new method of clothing production was fully realized in this region. Its u-shaped plan would characteristic features of brick architecture from northern Germany and Germanic architecture of the midwest. The warehouse building (1920-21) is an excellent example of a 1920s daylight factory, with eclectic Art Deco and Neo-Classical architectural elements that compliment its utilitarian and industrial features.

The warehouse was designed by Lockwood design of modern textile mills and garment factories. The development of the Joseph & Feiss site at 2149 West 53d Street significance. Accordingly, the Joseph &Feiss factory complex should be listed under Criterion C for its architectural http://buffaloah.com/a/archsty/daylight/index.htm, accessed March 27, 2009. See section 7 for additional information on the construction and site development of the Joseph & Feiss complex. Summary significance. progressive reforms to production and management, and the development of one of the country's most successful men's the women's movement and the history of feminism. The company had close ties to important developments in Cleveland's be copied by other garment firms in Cleveland, most notably Richman Brothers.

This building is also a rare example of Lehman & Schmitt's forays into the design of industrial buildings and it exemplifies an innovative approach to flexible Greene & Co., the foremost engineering firm in the United States at the time. Lockwood, Greene & Co. specialized in the operations and negotiations with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The Joseph & Feiss Company was "inside-shop" in Cleveland, the construction of a free-standing garment factory complex outside a central garment district Jewish community from the earliest period of Jewish settlement in Cleveland to the second wave of Jewish immigration into the 1920s.

Joseph & Feiss and its precursor firms represent a major Jewish contribution to Cleveland's economic, in Cleveland and the construction of the buildings and structures upon it all took place during the complex's period of The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Name of Property County and State 9.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form) Conservation and Recreation Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1978. Bryner, Edna. The Garment Trades. Philadelphia: F. Fell Co. Printers, 1916. Building Permit Records. City of Cleveland, Department of Building and Housing Cleveland City Directories "County Building Muddle." Ohio Architect & Builder 5 (Nov 1905): 39-40. Cuyahoga County Atlases: 1874 & 1898. Dennis, James. Cleveland Plain Dealer (August 16, 1945). Dollinger, Philippe. The German Hanse. Vol. 1. Routledge, 2000 (1970) the Midwest. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 2009. Thesis M.S Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Edited by Case Western Reserve University. "Era of Altruism." The Ohio Architect and Builder (Feb 1903): 5. Feiss, Paul. A Century of Progress. Western Reserve Historical Society. -.

"Summary of Company History." Joseph & Feiss Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (August 8, 1939). Feiss, Richard. "Personal Relationship as a Basis of Scientific Management," Annals of the American Academy of Political Frankel, Lee Kaufer, Alexander Fleisher and Laura S. Seymour. The Human Factor in Industry. (Macmillan Co.): n.d Gladwell, Maxwell. Outliers. Hachette Book Group USA, 2009. American, 1922. "Historical Note." Joseph & Feiss Company Records, 1847-1960. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve Historical Society. Hopkins Plat Map, 1930. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=JE1 Cuyahoga, Ohio Bluestone, Daniel M., ed. "Textile Manufacture." In Cleveland: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. "Emil Joseph." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1998. Gilson, Mary Barnett.

What's Past is Prologue. Ayer Publishing, 1980 (reprint of 1 ed. Published Harper, New York). http://ipac.wrhs.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session= 1OS5595736182.2990&profile...htm. and Social Science. Vol. 65 (May 1916), pp. 28-56, first delivered at the Taylor Society http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/business/company-news-germans-buy-joseph-feiss.html Haas, Francis Joseph, A.M. Shop Collective Bargaining. Dissertation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4298/is_199610/ai_n14959844 Joseph & Feiss Company Records, 1847-1969, Collection. Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland, Ohio. http://buffaloah.com/a/archsty/daylight/index.htm, accessed March 27, 2009.

"Men's Wearhouse Inc acquires Joseph & Feiss Co-Brands from Valentino Fashion Group SpA,"Thomson Financial Mergers & Acquisitions (Dec 17, 1996). Nelson, Daniel. Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990. Indiana University Press, 1995. Orth, Peter. The History of Cleveland. Chicago and Cleveland: The S. J. Clark Publishing Co., 1910 A Survey of a Vanishing Culture. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Press, 2004. Sanborn Insurance Maps of Cleveland. 1903, 1903 revised to 1911, 1912, 1912 revised to 1951. Zimmern, Helen. The Hansa Town. Obscure Press, 2006 (1891).

Primary location of additional data: preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67 has been State Historic Preservation Office Other State agency _previously listed in the National Register Federal agency previously determined eligible by the National Register X Local government designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # X Other recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Name of repository: Western Reserve Historical Society Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): - 10. Geographical Data Requested) University http://thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v011/p0035-p0042.pdf. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article/pl?id=PC 2003. Name of Property County and State Previous documentation on file (NPS): Rubinstein, Judah and Jane Avner. Merging Traditions: Jewish Life in Cleveland.

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Wrege, Charles D. and Ronald G. Greenwood. Mary B. Gilson - A Historical Study of the Neglected Accomplishments of a Woman Who Pioneered in Personnel Management. (Rutgers University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse): 35-42. Acreage of Property 6.9 acres Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-earning Women in the United State. Oxford University Press US, "Lockwood, Greene & Co. Inc.," Scripophily.com (June 19, 2008) in "Daylight Factory Style," Pope, Jesse Eliphalet. The Clothing Industry in New York. Vol. 1. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri, 1905. "Printz-Biederman Co." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1997.

(Do not include previously listed resource acreage) The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio County and State Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): 10. Geographical Data (Do not include previously listed resource acreage) UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Verbal Boundary Description (describe the boundaries of the property) Parcel No. 3, and Parcel No. 4 in Lot Split & Consolidation Plat recorded in Volume 338 of Maps, Page 59 of Cuyahoga 122, 006-21-123, 006-21-012 (linked to 006-21-085). Boundary Justification (explain why the boundaries were selected) once owned, which is located across Walworth Avenue from the warehouse.

A stalled townhouse project is now located on surrounded by man-made features which provide a logical boundary for the site: the railroad tracks to the south, the West 53d Street elevated bridge to the west, and Walworth Avenue to the north and east. 11. Form Prepared By name/title Julie L. Schutte/John C. Williams _date 9/9/2010 street & number 1956 W 25* Street #300 telephone 216.622.2990 state Ohio zip code 44113 jschutte@processcreative.com. jwilliams@processcreative.com Submit the following items with the completed form: - Maps: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. photographs to this map.

- Continuation Sheets Northing 439726 4591333 Zone Easting e-mail Additional Documentation Name of Property Acreage of Property 6.9 acres 1 17 the period of significance.It is a cohesive and self-contained site without intrusion from non-contributing structures or structures that do not have a connection to the history of the company. The boundary leaves out a parking lot the company organization Process Creative Studios, Inc. city or town Cleveland A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Key all Situated in the City of Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio and known as being Parcel No. 1, Parcel No. 2, The proposed boundary includes the property owned by the Joseph & Feiss Company at its largest expansiveness during The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops County and State larger.

Key all photographs to the sketch map Name of Property: Joseph and Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops City or Vicinity: Cleveland County: Cuyahoga State: Ohio Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc. Date Photographed: 1-22-2009, 3-20-2009, 7-16-2009 Photograph 1 of 62 Date Photographed: 3-20-2009 Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, southern portion of east façade Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, courtyard: south-facing façade Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, detail: window sills and lintels, sandstone stringcourse on southern portion of west façade PHOTOGRAPHS Name of Property Submit clear and descriptive photographs.

The size of each image must be 1600x1200 pixels at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, south and west façades Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, courtyard: west-facing and north-facing façades Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, courtyard: west-facing façade Cuyahoga, Ohio The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Photograph 10 of 62 Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc.

Date Photographed: 3-20-2009 Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, detail: original window jambs Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, north and east façades and brick water tower, view of stringcourses, brick cornice pole, brick panels, stringcourses, false chimney, brick cornice Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, detail: windows, spandrels, stringcourses, Clothcraft Clothes sign Name of Property County and State Description of Photograph: View of Administration building exterior, detail of water tower's east façade: brickwork panels, Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, south façade and southwest tower Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, southwest tower, south and east façades Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, east façade and southeast tower tower site The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio County and State Photograph 20 of 62 Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc.

Date Photographed: 3-20-2009 doorway, balconets, scroll brackets, stringcourses Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, detail: west façade windows and spandrels Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, roof with brick pier bases, northeast tower and Description of Photograph: View of elevated water tank over northwest tower, south west perspective Description of Photograph: View of brick and sandstone fence pier smokestack Name of Property Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, northwest tower: east and north façades Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, west façade overall Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building exterior, northwest tower detail: main entrance with arched The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops County and State Photograph 31 of 62 Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc.

Date Photographed: 1-22-2009 Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, first level: central corridor and iron columns, partitions, elevator shaft also visible on the right side Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, first floor: detail of iron column capital and wood beam wood wainscoting and door frames exterior wall and brick partition looking west tower structure Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, basement level: former boiler room looking west Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, stairwell: view of windows and lintels of a former Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, concrete ramps, staircase with support pier in northwest Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, staircase between 2 and 3 floors in northwest tower Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, stairwell in northeast tower looking south Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, first floor: central hallway and telephone room with Description of Photograph: View of Administration building interior, basement: southern portion of women's locker room Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, concrete ramps and staircases in northwest tower The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio County and State Photograph 42 of 62 Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc.

Date Photographed: 3-20-2009 Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, first level: looking southwest Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, first level: catwalk looking east ducts, and concrete piers are visible Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: looking southwest toward elevators Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: southerly windows and row of columns looking east Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: overhead doors and brick piers Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, third level: rows of columns looking west Name of Property Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: looking west Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: looking west toward overhead garage Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, third level: southerly windows looking east Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, fourth level: detail of round column doors The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Photograph 53 of 62 Photographer: Process Creative Studios, Inc Date Photographed: 2-11-2009 Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, fourth floor: main floor space and columns looking industrial windows Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second floor: detail of elevator doors Photographer: John C.

Williams Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, detail: wood panel door access door to elevator shaft Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, detail: steel industrial window sash floor space space, steel industrial door Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, fourth level of northwest tower looking northeast northwest County and State Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, fourth floor: southerly windows looking east Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, third floor of northwest tower: detail of steel sash Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, fourth floor: elevator doors Description of Photograph: View of Warehouse building interior, second level: from northwest tower looking into main The Joseph & Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Cuyahoga, Ohio Name of Property County and State Property Owner: (complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO) Urban Housing Ltd street & number P.O.

Box 5303 telephone (216) 685-1457 city or town Cleveland state Ohio zip code 44101 name Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE 9/14/10 MULTIPLE REVIEWER DISCIPLINE 10/28/10 PROPERTY 10/29/10 RECOM./CRITERIA The National Register Entered in NATIONAL: Historic Places PERIOD: SAMPLE: Joseph and Feiss Clothcraft Shops, The DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.

10000873 RETURN ACCEPT OTHER: REFERENCE NUMBER: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: CLOTHO AFT CLITHES CLEVELANO, CUYAHDGA, OHLO JOSEPHS FEISS CO. CLOTHCRAFT SHOPS CLEVELAND, At / CUYAHOGA CO. Joseph t Feiss Co. ClothCRoft Shops 2149 W.53rd St. CLeve land, CuyAHoCA Co., OH ClerelAnn, Oh / cuya HoGa Co. CLENELA No, CUY AHOGA, OHIO JOSEPH § FEISS | CO. ROMCRAPT SHORS JOSEPH { FEISS CO CLOTH CRAFT SHOPS CLEVELANO, OH/EUYAHOGA CO- CLEVELAUO , OH / CVYAHOGACo. CLEVELAND, CUYAHOGA CO., OHIO JOSEPH¿ FEISS CO. CLOTH CRAFT SHOPS CLEVELAND, CUYAMOGIA, OHLO CLEVELAND, CUYAHOGA, OHIO Z149. W. 53 4D ST CLENELANO, CUYAHOGA, OHLO 2144 W 53 RD ST CLEVELAN, CUYAHOGA, OHO JOSEPH FEISS CO. CLOTHCRAFT SHORS ASHBU ERS 118 AMERI- JoSEPH FEISS Co. CLOTH CnAPr SHOPS CLETELAWD, CUYAHOGA, OHLO ASHBU CUEVELAND, CUYAHOGA, OHIO 2144 W 53 b0 sr No. 22 OF Le2 Joseph Feiss Co.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 41 22'30 1994 7.5-MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) Produced by the United States Geological Survey USGS CLEVELAND SOUTH, OH U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCALE: 1" = 90° (APPROXIMATE) C = CONTRIBUTING BUILDING / STRUCTURE - = 2°X2' FENCE POST (C) NORTH LEGEND WAREHOUSE PROCESS PARCEL IDENTIFICATION CLEVELAND CINCINNATI SITE BOUNDARY WALWORTH AVE. BUILDING (Ç) CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD 2149 WEST 53RD STREET Sheps 08.02.10 .. SXE FENCE POST (C) RAILROAD SPUR (C) - ADMIN. PROCESS IMAGE CIRCA 2000 PROPERTY LINE/ WAREHOUSE (C - LEGEND C = CONTRIBUTING BUILDING / 08.02.10 1907 1900-1903 2003-2004) (1933) (DEMOLISHED 1) 2280 SEP 1 4 2010 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE September 10, 2010 Ms. Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find three (3) new National Register nominations for Ohio.

All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. NEW NOMINATION East State Street/Elmwood Place Historic District The Joseph and Feiss Company Clothcraft Shops Stone House 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 Cuyahoga Sincerely, Erie Athens Enclosures Burt Logan REC www.ohiohistory.org Dear Ms. Shull: 1201 Eye Street, NW (2280) National Register If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register HISTORY OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY OHIO