Nomination for Bingham Company Warehouse

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) NOV 2 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 3. CLASSIFICATION (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC - Preservation work PRESENT.

USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Agricultural - Transportation - Comments *xCommercial - Other (Specity) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 035 039 Religious STATE LOCATION Cuyahoga Site Cleveland NATIONAL Government District DATE ACCESSIBLE Both REGISTER Ohio Structure Private NAME Restricted Building Ontario STATUS CATEGORY Unoccupied Public CODE COUNTY: Museum Educational Scientific Being Considered Entertainment Private Residence OWNERSHIP Yes: Cuyahoga County Building Industrial Park CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Public Acquisition: COMMON: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Object 1278 West 9th Street TITLE OF SURVEY: STREET AND NUMBER: Military OWNER OF PROPERTY DATE OF SURVEY: FOR NPS USE ONLY In Process 20 - James V.

Stanton NOV DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed X Unaltered - Moved 2 Original Site The ground story has open.display windows, with the entrance CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER RECEIVED This is a large eight-story wholesale warehouse building of steel, principal elevations are grouped in vertical ranks, with the vertical framed in a rectangular patterned treatment which is somewhat The offices of the company are in the ground floor section. concrete and brick construction in the Commercial Style.Itis "L" facing east on West 9th Street, and the base of the L" on facade is enclosed ina plane projecting slightly from the main mass OCT1.1973 (Check One) DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

It is brick piers emphasized and the spandrels recessed, as in the Sullivan- L-shaped in plan, with the main entrance at the long end of the Wrightian. A heavy band between the first and second stories Fair consists of open storage areas with supporting posts. The concrete of the building.The flat projecting cornice consists of brick corbel- Excellent ing. warehouse floors are built to carry loads up to 6oo lbs.per square the depth of the building over 40o'.The windows on all of the Good

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Prehistoric - Science - Social/Human- | Literature - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

of the Commercial Style in Cleveland, although the style was much more commonly used for office buildings than warehouses. (1905), except that elaborate decorative detail was omitted and the color and texture of brick are used as the esthetic elements. The Hall.

Unlike these, the Bingham building is not a prestige building, hardware companies of Cleveland, founded in 1841 by William Bing- ham, who arrived in Cleveland from Massachusetts in 1837 at the miners, and Bingham's grew into one of the largest hardware patron, promoter of the city waterworks, a director of the Cleveland monument, as he died ten years before it was built, but that of 1915 Commerce Conservation losophy Communications Architecture Engineering Aboriginal Agriculture Music Military itarian Invention Education Sculpture Industry the designers were inspired by the earlier Rockefeller Building Cleveland Public Library, the Federal Reserve Bank and Severance Landscape the company he founded. Urban Planning neighborhood of undistinguished utilitarian buildings because of by unusually subtle refinements of proportion and detail.

vertical rectangle construction of a building in a manner clearly appropriate to its function.In this regard it demonstrates the The building was built by the Bingham Company, one of the pioneer Library Association, and a founder of the Western Reserve Historical 20th Century Political Religion/Phi. According to an appraisal in Historic Preservation magazine (l972), warehouse was constructed in 1914-1915,and the architects were Other (Specify) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) age of 20. He sold hardware to lake men, lumbermen and ore the unusual quality of its design. It is one of the finest examples but as Baker states, "The warehouse is an early example of the Art The primary significance of the Bingham Company warehouse is Walker and Weeks.

This notable Cleveland firm produced a number businesses in the Midwest.Bingham was a public servant and of Cleveland's best buildings between 19ll and 1949,including the Society.However, this building is not properly William Bingham's

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Architectural Revue of the Mississippi Basin, I, No. 1, Summer, 1930, entire issue devoted to Walker and Weeks. Preservation, July-Sept., 1972, 15-17. 1950%, 171, 182, 311, 371, 387, 433, 534. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PRO-ERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 3 acres National O FORM PREPARED BY 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law Nationa 1 Register.

89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: Associate Director, Professional NOV 2 GPO 931-894 039 Seconds Degrees LONGITUDE DATE Services LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Minutes Name COUNTY STATE August, Local Ohio REGISTER Cleveland CORNER Title ATTEST: CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds Western Reserve Historical Society OCT11973 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 10825 East Boulevard RECEIVED N4594160 HISTOR IAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register Write-up .

NOV 2 KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Send-back Federal Register entry WORKING NUMBER MAPS BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW Re-submit REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 10.1.733705 Cuyahoga 10-2- FORM 10-301 A (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NAME INUMERIC CODE (Asaigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE August, 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. DATE TOWN Western Reserve PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Historical Society Cleveland COUNTY COMMON NOV21973 Eric Johannesen STATE Cuyahoga Bingham Company Warehouse AND/OR HISTORIC PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM North and east elevations, looking 1278 West 9th Street NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NEGATIVE FILED AT STREET AND NUMBER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (6/72) GPO 932-009 Ohio OCT 1 1973 REGISTE NATIONAL RECEIVED FORM 10-301 A 1 NAME 2. LOCATION 3.

PHOTO REFERENCE August, 1973 IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. East facade, looking northwest. REGISTER GPO 932-009 1973 Historical Society TOWN Cuyahoga DATE Eric Johannesen COUNTY COMMON Title: Cleveland STATE Bingham Company Warehouse PHOTO CREDIT AND/OR HISTORIC Western Reserve PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. RECEIVED NEGATIVE FILED AT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1278 West 9th Street PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Ohio (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) (6/72) NUMERIC CoDE (Assigned by NPS) OCT 1 NATIONAL Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3.

MAP REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: NOV 2 1973 GPO 932.010 1970 TOWN Cuyahoga STATE DATE COUNTY COMMON SOURCE SCALE Ohio PROPERTY MAP FORM Bingham Company Warehouse AND/OR HISTORIC Cleveland NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (July 1968) 1:24,000 STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) 1278 West 9th Street REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE Warehouse CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO 81° 42' 06" DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bingham Company GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 41° 29° 55* STATE ORIO NOV 2 1973 Huskingum County State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. William B. Saxbe Mr. Daniel R. Porter Ion. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. James V. Stanton Hon. Clarence E.

Miller Coluabus, Ohio 43211 Director, Northeast Region Location Name PHR Director ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cuyahoga County Also Notified Date Entered Zanesville The Ohio Historical Society Bingham Company Warehouse Cleveland MMott 10/31/73 Y Eridge NOV OHIO