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OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) RECEIVED 2280 United States Department of the Interior AUG 0 5 2011 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, How instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property other names/site number 2. Location street & number 11810-11824 Buckeye Road N/A not for publication N/A vicinity _county Cuyahoga 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. - national X local Dept.

Head Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4.

National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register _determined not eligible for the National Register _removed from the National Register Date of Action 035 Date state Registration Form Title NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National Register of Historic Places zip code be considered significant at the following level(s)of significance: NPS Form 10-900 Signature of commenting official Moreland Theater Building I hereby certify that this X nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards In my opinion, the property Xmeets does not meet the National Register Criteria.1 recommend that this property In my opinion, the property X meets _ does not meet the National Register criteria.

-other (explain Signature ofthe Keeper Ohio historic name United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) (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 6. Function or Use RECREATION AND CULTURE/theater VACANT/NOT IN USE COMMERCE/TRADE/specialty store DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling 7.

Description LATE 19TH AND EARLY CENTURY STONE/limestone, BRICK, WOOD, object private building(s) Total roof: structure district site TILE other: ASPHALT METAL Materials Architectural Classification COMMERCE/TRADE/business REVIVALS Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) listed in the National Register (Check only one box.) NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing) United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State Summary Paragraph tapestry brick walls are combined with limestone facing.

The foundation is brick, and the flat roof is a modified bitumen the partial basement.' In addition to the ornately-decorated theater, there are four stores on the first floor with five office vacant and in fair condition. configuration and most of their original materials, while original 6/1 windows identify the second-story offices. Inside, the woodwork, cabinetry, and flooring are found in many of the stores, apartments, and offices. The varnished wood doors and transoms in the offices are especially evocative of the 1920s. streetscape, but the buildings immediately to the east and west of the Moreland are extant (photo 2). Across the street, National Register of Historic Places. walls surrounding the entrance arch are faced with limestone, and shallow recessed arches with roundels at the top flank the opening.

The arches originally held cases for theater posters; the roundels had carved heads in them. By the 1940s the limestone is now coated with plaster. Above the limestone that tops the entrance arch, "Church of God in Christ Inc." has been painted on a band of exposed brick where the marquee was removed sometime after the mid-1970s. On the second story above the theater entry, an expansive variation on a Palladian window is rendered in limestone, with bricks Artstone is the American Artstone Company's brand of cast stone, a refined precast concrete product designed to simulate cut stone Exterior Narrative Description figure 1). The plan is roughly trapezoidal with a west side extension; the building fills most of the lot. On the façade, design of the façade clearly delineates the different uses of the building.

Above the broad, arched entrance to the theater composition of baroque ornament marks the entrance to the second floor. The storefronts retain their original The Moreland Theater Building is located on the east side of Cleveland on Buckeye Road, which was once a long, dense theater, second floor entry, and four storefronts in an asymmetrical arrangement (photo 1). All of the windows on the the recessed theater entrance, which is paved with marble. A planter in the center marks the spot where the box office boarded. The crown molding within the entry includes fluted, egg and dart, and bead and reel moldings. The exterior the theater entrance had been clad in black architectural glass (figure 2). By the 1970s the glass had been removed, and limestone pinnacle on each side. The metal structure that supported the blade remains. 3 According to David Wallach, grandson of original owner A. T.

Wallach, the blade sign was still there in 1962 National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form suites and two apartments on the second floor. A tailor shop occupies one of the stores; the remainder of the building is Despite some losses, the Moreland Theater Building retains most of its distinctive, character-defining features. The stood. Four pair of original French doors lead into the theater lobby; the doors and the transom above have been lion's heads. There are two Artstone' plaques with lyres on the parapet wall above the Palladian window. The blade sign 'GSI Architects, "Conceptual Feasibility Report: The Moreland Theatre Building, Cleveland, Ohio" (Cleveland: GSI Architects, 2004), 4. United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property with a copper lantern.

There is a single wood door with a window. On the exterior walls, limestone facing surrounds the a roundel and support a small arched cornice. On the second story above, limestone facing surrounds a pair of 6/1 these both opened into one interior space. There is limestone facing at the ends of the façade and above the storefronts, course topped by an Artstone cornice and finally a brick parapet with an Artstone cap. An Artstone turret ornaments the Two 8/1 double-hung wood windows light a second-story office and an apartment. Above the windows is a brick dentil continues only to the edge of the shop window. Beyond that (to the south), the tapestry brick wall is laid in common bond second story above, five 1/1 double-hung wood windows light the apartment. A final pair of 1/1 double-hung wood 11gth Street. The wall is common brick laid in common bond with seventh course headers.

On this side, the front (north) section of the restroom, and apartment. The extension has a south-facing rear wall, which adjoins the one-story theater restrooms on paved with concrete. gone. Interior northeast corner. common bond with seventh course headers.The wall is pierced by one ground floor door located toward the east side.A NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) County and State ornate (photo 3). A round arched doorway leads into the recessed entry with red tile floor, brick walls, and plaster ceiling entrance. Above the entrance, carved limestone entablature is supported by scrolled brackets. The name "Moreland" double-hung wood windows. Skirting below the windows is decorated with corbels and guttae. The frieze above the windows is decorated with scrolls and guttae. Three small limestone pinnacles that projected above the roof line are transom.

Some of the windows have been boarded, and the transoms have been covered. Three of the storefronts store entrances are paved with red tile, and all retain their original wood doors with windows. Three of the storefronts The east side of the building fronts E. 11g" Street (photo 4). The corner storefront wraps around to the east side with windows, topped by an Artstone belt course. Tapestry brick walls above the shop window are laid in English cross bond. The west side of the building faces an alley that separates the theater building from the commercial building next door. the first story (photo 6). At the juncture, a small fixed window and a bricked-in doorway open into a basement stairwell. On the second story of the south-facing wall,two pair of1/1 double-hung wood windows and asmaller fixed window light the apartment. In the corner a doorway opens onto the roof of the restrooms.

The one-story restroom section has double doors opening into the theater corridor and two boarded window openings. On the theater wall above the restrooms, an on the south wall of the restrooms. On the west wall of the theater, two doors open into the auditorium and one into the backstage area. High on the auditorium wall is a semicircular opening with a fan. The ground along the west side is National Park Service /National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Three bays to the west, the entrance to the second floor (11814 Buckeye) is smaller than the theater entrance but equally theater and the second floor entrance. The storefronts retain their original configuration of kick plate, shop window, and have one doorway. There are two doors into the westernmost storefront, 11812 and 11810 Buckeye, although historically with seventh course Flemish headers.

On the first story, a fixed single-pane wood window and a door in a rectangular windows lights the theater's east fan room; this opening is shown as louvered on the blueprints. Beyond that, an expanse High on the wall, an opening filled with metal louvers originally housed a fan. The rear face of the building rises to the top of the theater's fly gallery (photo 5). The wall is common brick laid in the second story, five 1/1 double-hung wood windows open into an incised light court, lighting an office, women's paved area and marks the property line.A vacant lot beyond the fence separates the building from the houses that line E. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH County and State auditorium. From the foyer, a corridor extends to the left (east) and right (west).

The lobby (photo 7) has a terrazzo floor, marble baseboards, and plaster walls and ceiling. The side wall decorations are identical: at each end is a medallion with original. The ceiling is coffered around the perimeter and has a central medallion. Portions of the plaster walls and ceiling have been lost due to water damage. Two square columns mark the transition between lobby and foyer; originally there was a third column in the middle, and plywood doors flanked by windows lead directly from the foyer into the auditorium. The doors and windows were inserted the auditorium. Continuing to the right (west) down the corridor, the south wall has two openings into the auditorium: a Studs have been inserted into the rectangular opening, previously the location of the popcorn stand. There is a small lavatory off the projection room, which is lit by a central light court.

The building's furnace now occupies women's restrooms off to the left. The restrooms have been remodeled with new fixtures, but the floor plan with women's the basement. At the west end of the corridor are double exit doors. Returning to the foyer and proceeding to the east, not to the full height of the ceiling. The rectangular and arched openings into the auditorium, mirroring those in the west entrance. At the east end of the corridor, steps lead down to double exit doors. All of the apparent changes to the foyer church installed partitions (post-1978) to create two small offices and two storage areas. The partition walls rise part way platform is broken by three sets of stairs leading down to the auditorium floor, which is concrete and level.

In 1963, when the theater was remodeled as a dinner theater, the seats were removed, the floor was leveled, and the raised seating above a latticed area, marking the area where the organ pipes were installed. Next, an arched doorway with double exit the wall is decorated with nine arches in groups of three. At each end and between each group, an ornate metal lamp OMB No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) Name of Property doors between the columns separated these spaces. The floor in the foyer and adjoining corridors is concrete; walls are post-1978 into a large, rectangular opening that originally contained a knee wall, allowing people to look into the auditorium.

On each side of the doors is an arched opening filled with drywall; these were two of the four entrances into On the wall opposite the rectangular opening, a door opens to a steep stairway leading up to the second floor. There are five narrow rooms on the second floor of the theater, with the projection room in the center and a fan room at each end. Returning to the first floor corridor and continuing west, steps lead down and through an arched opening to the men's and corridor, have been filled in. The rectangular opening originally contained a knee wall, and the arched opening was an The theater auditorium remains for the most part one large, undivided space (photo 10). At the rear of the auditorium, the shown in the architects' drawings except for repainting and places where the plaster has been damaged. Nearest the shield on the frieze between the brackets.

Continuing past the balcony, six small arches are arranged on a diagonal door. Above that, original light fixtures flank decorative brackets that support a broken scroll pediment. The remainder of suffered extensive water damage, but the center group is largely intact (photo 12). The stained glass windows in two of The front doors of the theater open into the lobby, which opens into the foyer, or inner lobby, which leads directly into the rectangular opening with decorative corbels at each end followed by an arched entrance to the auditorium (photo 9). original cooling fan apparatus fills the west fan room but has been removed from the east fan room. there is a newer doorway on the left (north) that opens into store #1. Just beyond, the corridor has been partitioned, but area was built at the rear.

At the front of the auditorium, there are two stepped wooden platforms on each side of the stage, a niche with a pedestal is topped by a mask and bellflower swags. Next along the wall, an arched entrance to the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH County and State installed during the 1963 remodeling. There is a stair to the basement in the rear of the store. The floor is terrazzo (covered in places by carpet), and the walls (excepting the new partitions) and ceiling are plaster. Most of the interior woodwork around the doors and display cases two front doors. Sometime after the mid-1970s the space was divided down the center. Some of the freestanding square the store.

The floor is vinyl and carpet, and there is a dropped ceiling The second story of the building is accessed through a small vestibule with marble floor and wainscot; a copper lantern east end of the corridor, a second stairway leads down to an entrance on the east side of the building. Opening north apartment. There is also a women's rest room at the west end of the corridor and a men's rest room near the east end. character to a large degree, particulariy evident in numerous doors with varnished woodwork and transoms. Many offices retain their original configuration and most of their original materials, while original 6/1 windows identify the second-story offices. The Moreland building remains one of the most prominent buildings on Buckeye Road, as it has been since or lost, but most of it remains, speaking to the baroque exuberance of theater design in its day.

The stores, apartments, Summary Name of Property configurations. There is a stairway to the basement in the rear of store #2. A door through the west wall of store #3 opens to the basement stairs that serve store #4 as well. The original asphalt floor tiles are visible in places. Store #4 (11812 and 11810 Buckeye; photo 13), at the northwest corner of the building, was originally one space despite having columns in the center of the store are now attached to this center wall. There are some additional partitions in the rear of three dressing rooms still have mirrors and sinks. A small lavatory adjoins the dressing rooms. It was not evident in the narrow corridor running east and west and lit by the central light court that also lights the theater projection room. At the from the corridor are five office suites, four of them with reception rooms (photo 14).

At each end of the corridor is an On the south side of the corridor there is one additional office and a laundry room. The offices retain their original At the northeast corner of the building, store #1 (11824 Buckeye) was partitioned into four spaces sometime after 1978 dark and cluttered basement whether the orchestra pit and organ chamber remain intact. hangs from the plaster ceiling. The interior wood door has a multi-pane window. Stairs to the second floor lead to a original fixtures, including built-in kitchen and storage cupboards, bathroom tile and fixtures, and gray asphalt floor tiles altered the Moreland's plan or spaces. Some of the plasterwork in the theater lobby and auditorium has been damaged and especially the offices retain the quality woodwork and cabinetry that were commonplace in the 1920s but rare today.

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions.) for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our ETHNIC HERITAGE/EUROPEAN Property is associated with the lives of persons Property embodies the distinctive characteristics represents the work of a master, or possesses high Period of Significance artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Owned by a religious institution or used for religious removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave.

a reconstructed building, object, or structure. Braverman and Havermaet, architects F a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) 1927-1961 ARCHITECTURE history. Criteria Considerations Architect/Builder ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION Property is: individual distinction. Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Dates Cultural Affiliation a cemetery. Period of Significance (justification) significant in our past. (Expires 5/31/2012) of a type, period, or method of construction or functioned as a movie theater and performance venue for the Buckeye neighborhood.

The theater was closed in 1962 The Moreland Theater Building was constructed in 1927.It appears that 1961 was the last year that the theater and was remodeled in 1963 as a dinner theater intended to attract a broader clientele from outside of the neighborhood. purposes. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph Moreland was built, and for many years after, Cleveland was home to the second largest community of Hungarians in the world, and most of them lived in the Buckeye neighborhood. Not only the theater, but also the businesses in the schools.

As a theater, the Moreland is also significant under Criterion C, again as one of Cleveland's few surviving examples of the once common theater and commercial building type. The Moreland Theater Building is being nominated at the local level of significance. The Buckeye Neighborhood Avenue. As the community grew, it expanded eastward along Buckeye Road. Hungarians opened stores, taverns, real estate agencies, and other businesses. They established churches, benevolent organizations, and cultural groups, such about 35,000 of them were Hungarian. Cleveland Theaters both vaudeville and motion pictures or for motion pictures alone. In Cleveland, the grand Hippodrome (1907, demolished) (demolished) on Euclid at E. 12® Street was built in 1916 as Cleveland's first theater exclusively for motion pictures.

The designed for movies and vaudeville - and the Allen - for movies exclusively - also opened in 1921. The Palace was built and neoclassical designs using exotic woods, marble, rich fabrics, and gilded and painted plaster adorned with murals, tapestries, and crystal chandeliers. Usually these theaters were not freestanding, but rather located within commercial and office buildings. 5 Ibid., 227. (Expires 5/31/2012) role in the social and cultural life of the Hungarian community centered on Buckeye Road in Cleveland. When the Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) west side, but the largest number lived on the east side, clustering in the vicinity of E. 79" Street south of Woodland community.

Although the Buckeye neighborhood was overwhelmingly Hungarian, there were smaller numbers of other The 1920s was the golden age of movie theaters, when theaters were built in record numbers, and picture palaces gave new meaning to the word opulent. Movies gained supremacy over vaudevilleas the most popular form of theatrical theater district developed at Playhouse Square in the early 1920s covered all of the theatrical bases. The Hanna and in 1922 for vaudeville, adding motion pictures four years later. These were Cleveland's picture palaces, ranging in size entertainment/recreation as one of a small number of extant neighborhood theaters in Cleveland. Before World War II, between Hungary and the U.S. The Hungarians who stayed in Cleveland purchased homes and became U.S. citizens. The Hungarian business district along Buckeye Road expanded eastward beyond East Boulevard (now Dr.

Martin Luther from one thousand to well over three thousand seats. These palatial theaters interpreted Roman, Renaissance, baroque, King Jr.Boulevard) all the way to E.13oth Street. Residential streets extended north and south from Buckeye.Seven United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) The Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State Like the downtown theaters, Cleveland's neighborhood theaters were often built for both vaudeville and motion pictures. They were smaller than most of the downtown theaters, with anywhere between five hundred and two thousand seats.

Their lobbies and auditoriums were highly decorated in the same eclectic styles as the downtown picture palaces, the older theaters had closed, yet many new theaters had been built, including the Commodore, Garden, Granada, designed the building in the baroque style that was popular for theaters at that time.The theater was designed for both established as a successful theater operator. At various times he had operated the Strand, Orpheum, Corlett, and Busch, November 7, 2010 - Marsh, "New Film Theater Opens." entrepreneur A.T.(Adolph) Wallach(1881-1959)was at the head of the Buckeye-E.119th Street Company that built and also contained stores, offices, and/or apartments. They were second-run theaters - new films opened first at the Regent Theater, built that year on Buckeye at E. 117" Street. By 1928, when the Moreland Theater opened, the owned the Moreland.

Born in Austria, Wallach came to Cleveland in 1907. His real estate investments included both new Fuller Cleaning & Dyeing Company (11818), Cort Shoes (11816), and Julius Goldman's men's furnishings (11810). By 1929, two physicians, a dentist, and a lawyer occupied the offices upstairs, and one of the apartments was leased. But Gusdanovic operated the Moreland and Regent theaters jointly. The stock market crashed less than a month later. The Moreland Theater closed in December, then reopened showing Hungarian films, then closed again. In November 1930 although they were relatively restrained in comparison. Neighborhood theaters were located in commercial buildings that downtown theaters and then came to the neighborhood theaters, usually thirty-five days later. By the end of 1920, the The Moreland Theater Building was built in 1927 on Buckeye Road at the corner of E. 119t Street.

Real estate vaudeville and motion pictures. The below-stage area was equipped with an orchestra pit and organ chamber, which seating capacity at 1,296, about average for a neighborhood theater at that time. In a press release for the new theater, projection machines, in a fireproof booth, and every facility and resource to contribute to the complete enjoyment of its blocks away and well-established in the business. Norwood theaters. In 1927 Gusdanovic acquired a partnership interest in the Regent Theater. After October 1, 1929, to keep the theater open an average of two days a week between September and May. But Hollywood films were not the usual bill of fare at the Moreland. Instead, Gusdanovic showed Hungarian films and rented the theater for Hungarian W.

Ward Marsh, "Lubitsch Changes Style for 'The Student Prince;' New Film Theater Opens,' Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 12 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State Hollywood movies. would be a long-term tenant, remaining until 1960. The second-floor offices were more fully occupied than in 1929, with apartment A. on Shaker Square with its elegant Art Moderne lobby, the newest equipment, and parking, which enabled it to attract meetings. the Regent offered more to its customers. G.& P. appealed, but in 1954 the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the district Meanwhile, the other businesses and professionals in the Moreland Theater Building fared better than the theater.

In 1938 Alex Wolovits purchased the recently-opened Wolovits Jewelry at 11818 Buckeye from his cousin. Wolovits would http://oh.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%2FFDCT%2FNOH%2F1952%2F19520908 0000035.NOH.htm/ax; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1929-1937. 12 Ibid.; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 'Remodeled Moreland Will Reopen Oct 9;' October 6, 1937. 13 G. & P. Amusement Co.v. Regent Theater Co. 14 Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1937-1949 Freed," November 18, 1954. FindACase, court's decision. NPS Form 10-900 performing drama and light opera twice a week. The Buckeye neighborhood was a Democratic stronghold, and political meetings and rallies often took place at the Moreland.

But these programs were not sufficient to make a profit for the comparison, during the same interval he lost $15,000 at the Regent Theater, which continued to show second-run introduced a radical change in Moreland Theater programming: daily double features of Hollywood movies. To this end black glass façade (figure 2) was installed on the theater at this time. The Moreland Theater was now in direct appears that it often obtained the more desirable films. Nevertheless, through the late 1930s and 1940s the Moreland booked films for 140 Ohio theaters including the Regent; and four Hollywood film distributors. G.& P. alleged that films and costing the Moreland $175,000 in lost revenues. The suit was still awaiting trial when the Moreland Theater Szabadság, "Theater and the Arts: Moreland Theater in New Hands," October 6, 1937. Translated by Andrea Meszaros. theater.

Gusdanovic would later testify that from October 1929 through the end of his lease in 1937 he lost $80,000. By The onset ofthe Depression brought closings and turnover among the other tenants of the Moreland building, but by the mid-1930s the storefronts were again fully occupied. Marshall Drug remained at 11824, a dentist occupied 11818, S. C. Wagenman Paint Stores Company occupied 11816, and Louis Davis's dry goods store was at 11810. Davis Dry Goods Amusement Company filed a lawsuit in federal district court against Gusdanovic; Cooperative Theaters of Ohio, which The judge opined that the Buckeye neighborhood could not support two movie theaters in such close proximity, and that March 16, 1949; Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Film Rivalry Suit Opens Here Today," September 17, 1951; Ted Princiotto, "U.S.

Judge Finds United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State This younger group of refugees tended to assimilate more rapidly than those who came after World War II. showing of Life and Miracles of Mother Cabrini, and St. Stephen's Sport Club showed a film on the 1954 world By 1960, however, events at the Moreland Theater were few and far between. In March 1960, eight-year-old Frank Hohn year and was demolished soon after.In 1963 three theater professionals determined to give new life to the Moreland Playbill-East Theater. But in 1965 the theater was vacant again. moved it to suburban South Euclid. NPS Form 10-900 included leeches.

Wolovits Jewelry and Red Cross Pharmacy were anchors of the Buckeye business district, serving the from the new Soviet regime. Unlike the late nineteenth-century immigrants who were mostly laborers, the new in 1954 the controversial Group 16 film club showed uncensored movies at the Moreland. The theater remained a venue after hours. In March, a fire reportedly gutted the lobby. The fire did not, however, destroy the original plaster By the early 1950s, the Moreland Theater had company in its failure, as many of Cleveland's older movie theaters closed managed by A. T. Wallach and his son Edward, an attorney. Butprogramming was sporadic,consisting mostly of Hungarian films or films of interest to the Hungarian community. For example, St. Margaret School's PTA sponsored a homes.

They remodeled the Moreland auditorium, leveling the floor and adding a terraced area in the rear for tables and decrease in property values, and there was tension between the Hungarians who remained and the blacks who moved in. 1968; a Hadassah resale shop later moved into the space. In 1969 an attempted robbery of Wolovits Jewelry made front Nevertheless, there were efforts among both blacks and Hungarians to create a stable, integrated neighborhood. One United States Department of the Interior OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State the neighborhood as well as serve its current residents. Significance within the Buckeye Neighborhood The Moreland Theater holds a unique position in the history of the Buckeye neighborhood.

No other venue hosted performed early on at the Moreland, it was, ironically, the Moreland's failure as a commercial movie theater that led to it imposing. There is likely a historic commercial district that encompasses the Moreland; nevertheless, the Moreland Theater Building is significant on its own. Significance among Cleveland Theaters 1920, but he does not appear in the Cleveland City Directory as either a resident or an architect until 1923, when he was Moderne Brantley marks the transition in Braverman's work from historical eclecticism to the modernism of his later work. (Expires 5/31/2012) NPS Form 10-900 Association. In June 1969 the association presented its first Buckeye improvement awards, including an award to Alex the walls were decorated with murals of Hungarian dancers in traditional costume. For the next few years Déryné But in 1974 the theater was vacant again.

The storefront where Wolovits had been was vacant, and there was only one although he actually maintained his law office elsewhere. In 1975 the theater reopened for a short time as the Festival 1970, the BADC is a not-for-profit communitydevelopment corporation serving the Buckeye-Woodland neighborhood. BADC plans to rehabilitate the Moreland as the Buckeye Cultural Center, which will be a catalyst for the revitalization of Elizabeth's Magyar Roman Catholic Church on Buckeye at E. 90t* Street is listed in the National Register of Historic Braverman immigrated to Pittsburgh with his family, earning a B.S. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1917. He Braverman papers, which date predominantly from the 1940s and 1950s, make no mention of Havermaet or their architect, and Havermaet disappears from the directory.

From 1932 to 1935 Braverman was assistant and then acting National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form named for a famous Hungarian actress. The fire damage was repaired, seats were installed again in the auditorium, and that, the theater was used as a worship space. The church used some of the retail and office space for its activities and rented out the other. In 2007 the Buckeye Area Development Corporation (BADC) purchased the building. Founded in Places. Asa commercial building, the Moreland building was hometo the Red Cross Pharmacy and Wolovits Jewelry, Buckeye. The National Register-listed Weizer Building across the street is one of very few on the street that is more living at the Hotel Sovereign on East Boulevard and practicing architecture in partnership with Kurt Havermaet.

The Havermaet first appears inthe city directory in 1923, residing at 11310 Superior Avenue. Havermaet had recently partnership continues to appear in the city directories through 1928, but in 1929 Braverman is listed individually as an 21 Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Buckeye Improvement Awards Are Won by 6," June 29,1969 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State After World War II Braverman gaineda national reputation for Jewish religious architecture. He designed more than forty favoring terra cotta on the former and blending Romanesque, gothic, and other historical motifs for the latter.Among their apartment buildings were the Edgecliff Manor on Lake Avenue in Lakewood; the New Shelton Club, a bachelor hotel on E.

102°d Street in Cleveland; and The Traybird Apartments at E.97" and Chester. A list of Braverman's works that he designed during Braverman's partnership with Havermaet. In Lakewood, a suburb to the west of Cleveland, the Hilliard Allen Theater on S. Main Street in Akron, later renamed the Astor, has been demolished. in the Gordon Square Historic District. The theater was built in 1912 for vaudeville, but it showed foreign films for a few W. 65th Street and Detroit also contributes to the Gordon Square Historic District. Located in the Gordon Square Building, and the LaSalle, are most similar to the Moreland Theater. The Variety Theater at W. 118 Street and Lorain Avenue with ten storefronts and twelve apartments. The theater is highly intact, with its original seats and most of its decorative and a friends group is working on its rehabilitation. The LaSalle Theater on E.

185t Street has undergone a few more Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio; Jane Busch Mouri, "Apartments in the Moderne Style," Western Reserve February-March 1986), 44-46 Dealer, April 1, 2009; Loje, telephone conversation. 2http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c35%2c3%2c- Heights. 1&catpageindex=20&catpagesize=25&ProductID=31963 NPS Form 10-900 (Expires 5/31/2012) Square Theater contributes to the National Register-listed Gordon Square Historic District. The CapitolTheater (1920) at following historic rehabilitation that divided the theater into three screens while retaining its historic character. On Cleveland's east side, The Metropolitan Theater (1913) at E.

50* Street and Euclid Avenue was built as an opera was one of Cleveland's largest neighborhood theaters, with nineteen hundred seats, located within a commercial building 2http://cuyahogafallshistory.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=24&page=1 During their six-year partnership, Braverman and Havermaet designed a number of commercial and apartment buildings, Square Theater on Hilliard Road is quite similar to the Moreland. Built in 1927, the two-story brick building with stone trim 2009. The modest two-story, Craftsman-style brick commercial building has two storefronts flanking the theater.? The that proliferated during the 1920s and were so important in the social and cultural life of the day. Yet the vast majority of these theaters have been lost. In 1945there were sixty-eight neighborhood movie theaters in the city of Cleveland in house but began showing moving pictures early on.

The Metropolitan underwent several changes in use before the Agora Theatre and Ballroom occupied the building in 1985.The Mayfield Theater (1923) on Mayfield Road in Little Italy alterations than the Variety, but most of its historic fabric remains, including the original box office and marquee. The planning to rehabilitate the building. The LaSalle has been designated a Cleveland landmark, and it is listed on the that are extant and retain integrity. The oldest is the Gordon Square Theater (1912)at W.64t Street and Detroit Avenue United States Department of the Interior National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property County and State National Register of Historic Places.

(NR11000365)° Lastly, the Colony Theater (1937) on Shaker Square is most the lobby retains its Art Moderne design and details. The Colony Theater contributes to the National Register-listed Shaker Square Historic District. The Colony, LaSalle, Variety, Mayfield, Metropolitan, Capitol, Gordon Square, and social phenomenon. Conclusion NPS Form 10-900 Moreland theaters are a small proportion of the neighborhood theaters that existed in Cleveland during the movie theater The Moreland Theater Building is significant for its unique and prominent role in the social, cultural, political, and significant as one of Cleveland's few surviving examples of a neighborhood commercial and theater building, a distinctive architectural type that was integral to neighborhood business and social life. United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.

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Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.) Borzy, Lou. Interview by Jane Busch, January 2011. Cleveland City Directory. Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Company, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1936, 1943- 44, 1955, 1965. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1927-1995. 8, 1952. FindACase, http://oh.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%2FFDCT%2FNOH%2F1952%2F19520908 000003 5.NOH.htm/qx Mihaly, Ernie. Interview by Jane Busch, January and March 2011. Naylor, David. Great American Movie Theaters. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1987. Real estate appraisal records for 11810-11824 Buckeye Road. Cuyahoga County Archives, Cleveland, Ohio. Sande, Ted. "The Weizer Building." National Register of Historic Places nomination. Washington, D.C.: National Register of Historic Places, 2002.

Indiana University Press, 1996. http://ech.case.edu/index.html 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 Local government designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # X Other recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Name of repository: Buckeye Area Development Corporation recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey # Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): CUY-968-10 University requested) (Expires 5/31/2012) Previous documentation on file (NPS): National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Feasibility Report: The Moreland Theater Building, Cleveland, Ohio." Cleveland: GSI Architects, 2004. Van Tassel, David D.

and John J. Grabowski. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Bloomington and Indianapolis: G. & P. Amusement Co. v. Regent Theater Co. U.S.District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, September Papp, Susan. Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1981. Wallach, David.Interview by Jane Busch, November 2010, January and March 2011. previously determined eligible by the National Register Braverman and Havermaet."Theater& Office Building to be erected at corner of Buckey[sic] Road &East 11gth Str.for United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property 10.

Geographical Data (Do not include previously listed resource acreage.) (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.) The property consists of Cuyahoga County parcel number 129-18-013 Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.) This is the current and historical parcel containing the Moreland Theater Building. 11. Form Prepared By date April 4, 2011 street & number P.O. Box 18525 state Ohio 4592065 449872 Northing Zone e-mail buschi@att.net Easting zip code 44118-0525 telephone 216-321-0985 County and State UTM References city or town Cleveland Heights (Expires 5/31/2012) Acreage of Property 0.54 acres name/title Jane C.

Busch, consultant organization For Buckeye Area Development Corporation United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) Moreland Theater Building Cuyahoga County, OH Name of Property or larger. Key all photographs to the sketch map. Name of Property: Moreland Theater Building City or Vicinity: Cleveland County: Cuyahoga State: Ohio Photographer: See below Date Photographed: See below Description of Photograph(s) and number: 1 of 14. Front (north) elevation, looking southwest, Jane Busch, January 2011 3 of 14. Entrance to second story, looking south, Jane Busch, January 2011 4 of 14. East elevation, looking southwest, Jane Busch, January 2011 5 of 14. South(rear) elevation, looking northwest, Jane Busch, November 2010 6 of 14.

West elevation, looking northeast, Jane Busch, January 2011 7 of 14. Theater lobby, looking north, Garnell Jamison, January 2011 8 of 14. Theater lobby detail, looking west, Jane Busch, November 2010 9 of 14. Theater corridor, looking southwest, Jane Busch, January 2011 10 of 14. Theater auditorium, looking south, Garnell Jamison, January 2011 11 of 14. Theater auditorium, looking southwest, Garnell Jamison, January 2011 12 of 14. Theater auditorium detail, looking west, Jane Busch, November 2010 14 of 14. Reception room and office, looking north, Jane Busch, November 2010 (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) Mr. John Hopkins, Executive Director, Buckeye Area Development Corporation street & number 11802 Buckeye Road city or town Cleveland instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Office of Planning and Performance Management. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1849 C. Street, NW, Washington, DC. name Photographs: telephone 216-491-8450 Property Owner: NPS Form 10-900 County and State benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.460 et seq.). 2 of 14. Buckeye Road streetscape, looking southeast, Jane Busch, January 2011 13 of 14. Store #4 (11810 Buckeye) interior, looking north, Garnell Jamison, January 2011 44120 zip code NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Name of Property Cuyahoga County, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number_Additional Documentation BUCKEYE CULTURAL CENTER Page Continuation Sheet Moreland Theater Building County and State (Photo views) National Register of Historic Places ORCHESTRA LEVEL PLAN DIAGRAM - EXISTING PROGRAM Reed NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Name of Property Cuyahoga County, Ohio County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number Additional Documentation Photo Views Upper Level Page Continuation Sheet Moreland Theater Building National Register of Historic Places Leskosky NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Name of Property Cuyahoga County, Ohio Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number Additional Documentation Page Continuation Sheet County and State Moreland Theater Building National Register of Historic Places BUCKEYE CULTURAL CENTER NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Name of Property Cuyahoga County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number_Additional Documentation ARSHALL DRUG co Figure 1. Moreland Theater, July 5, 1928. Courtesy of Cleveland Landmarks Commission. Page Moreland Theater Building ORPHANS OE Continuation Sheet County and State THE TORM SUN MON THE BIG PARADE NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No.

1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Name of Property Cuyahoga County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number_Additional Documentation Page Continuation Sheet WOL Moreland Theater Building Figure 2.Moreland Theater,1940s.Courtesy of Buckeye Area Development Corporation.

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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 1994 Produced by the United States Geological Survey USGS BEACHWOOD AUG 0 5 2018 July 28, 2011 Ms. Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places 1201 Eye Street, NW (2280) Washington DC 20005 Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations for Ohio. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new nomination submissions. NEW NOMINATION Edward Drummond Libbey High School If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000.

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