Nomination for Trinity Cathedral

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries complete applicable sections) JUN 4 1973 AND/ OR HISTORIC: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: : (Check One) - In Process X Restricted - Preservation work - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Lakeside Avenue, N.E.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DATE OF SURVEY: 7 Federal 039 035 LOCATION 011 ACCESSIBLE CLASSIFICATION STATE Commercial REGISTER Cuyahoga Religious OWNERSHIP Transportation Agricultural District NAME Washington Site Both CATEGORY Private Government Louis Stokes DATE Unoccupied STATUS Scientific Private Residence CODE COMMON: Ohio Entertainment Being Considered Educational Public Cleveland Museum Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Trinity Cathedral Park Yes: Public Acquisition: Library of Congress Structure Cuyahoga County Court House Industrial Military Building STREET AND NUMBER: Episcopal Diocese of Cleveland 2230 Euclid Avenue NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES June,1967 Euclid Avenue at East 22nd St.

OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC TITLE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: Object PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) MAY PyLocal JUN NATIONAL RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER X Excellent - Unexposed X Unaltered - Moved 5 Original Site located on the property. At the crossing a large tower, forty feet square, extends upward to a narthex which then opens into the sanctuary, one of Cleveland's most The exterior is of buff, smooth sawn Indiana limestone throughout gothic ornament. - panel vault form with ribbed sections, purlins and ridge member using MAY 2 4 1973 CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER DESCRIPTION Ruins Deteriorated richly designed interior spaces. Fair vertical. developing academic area surrounding Cleveland State University.

a vigorous balustrade of vertical motifs.A three-portal entrance system altar the stone reredos is extensively carved into tiers of religious The ceilings are constructed in English Oak and are of a modified the southeast corner of Euclid Avenue and East 22nd St.in the figures over which a particularly fine window closes the south end of The building is designed in a personalized interpretation of the elaborate canopied hoods over the stalls for the clergy.Behind the the choir.

English Gothic of the Perpendicular Period.In numerous ways-via Trinity Cathedral occupies a major location in downtown Cleveland at isplaced above steps close by Euclid Avenue.This leads to an ample butresses, strong usage of finials, ribbed wall planes and the window A baptistry is located at the west transept.In the choir area are height of one hundred thirty seven feet overall and is crested by (Check One) DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

while the interior combines the limestone with russet colored brick RECEIVED infill of panels between the massive columns and decorative bands of to a parish house at the rear which in turn borders a small park *] 20th Century - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Trinity Cathedral, built 1901-1907, was the last of the great downtown of the Euclid Avenue scene, once dominant but now countering more excelled, and the equally fine maintenance of the building, its 1901-1907 Conservation Commerce Transportation Communications Art Landscape Architecture Aboriginal Engineering Science Theater Education Pre-Columbian itarian Agriculture Literature Music Social/Human- Military Industry of construction and workmanship, qualities in which Schweinfurth SIGNIFICANCE churches in Cleveland which have survived to this day.Its architect, Political Sculpture Trinity Cathedral is considered one of the architect's finest works.

Invention significant churches, institutional and residential projects, Charles F.Schweinfurth,1856-1919,is regarded as one of the city's Its importance asa commanding piece of architecture and the Religion/Phi- PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) most important practicioners over the years.\ One of many of his losophy visual dominance is still strong

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Campen, Richard, Architecture of the Western Reserve. Cleveland, Ohio Historic American Buildings Survey, Cleveland Project, 1967, Photo-data Survey. Western Reserve Historical Society. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: MAY 2 4 1973 FORM PREPARED BY Park L. Rankin Robert C. Gaede City Hall, Lakeside Avenue, NE STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa 1 Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Pp GP 0 931-894 one Degrees Seconds LATITUDE servation COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE Name LONGITUDE Local ATTEST: N41 National Minutes CORNER STATE CODE 28.5 W81 Cleveland Landmarks Commission Degrees Minutes Seconds LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- level of significance of this nomination is: Cleyeland NAME AND TITLE: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES April 1973 CITY OR TOWN: 18 may 1973 RECEIVED 039 Ohio Press of Case Western Reserve University,1971,pp. 48, 233-234.

Photos 2 Federal Register entry _ JUN 4 Entered Maps HISTORIAN KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit PROPERTY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW 73001420 National Register write-up CONTROL REVIEW 5.24.73.2985 BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 5-25 8-7-73 991- 1599 SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO 44122 18310 SCOTTSDALE BLVD. PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN LINSEY 991 -1599 SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO 44122 18310 SCOTTSDALE BLVD. PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN LINSEY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUM BER: U.S.G.S, 7.5' Quadrangle MAY 2 4 1973 1963, revised 1971 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

035 039 COUNTY Cuyahoga NAME DATE REGISTER STATE 1:24000 CODE COMMON: LOCATION Trinity Episcopal Church REQUIREMENTS SCALE: Trinity Cathedral Ohio Cleveland MAP REFERENCE Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER SOURCE: AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) NATIONAL Euclid Avenue at East -2nd St RECEIVED CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION UNITED STATES TRINITY 443720 CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO 4 1 hio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432ll/telephone (614) 469-466 MAY 2 3 1973 Dr. William J. Murtagh, Keeper 18th and C Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Of the nine applications, one, the Hancock Historical Museum, is Wade Memorial Chapel, Rockefeller Building, Rowfant Club Building, Daniel R.

Porter Sincerely, reasons: Director The other eight applications are emergencies for the following private development. national convention of the National Trust in Cleveland. preservation attention in these two rural counties upon these National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Enc. DRP/eg Site Preservation Advisory Board and owners have been informed EMERGENCY for the reasons cited in the original submittal. of our intent to register. prominent buildings and thereby other county landmarks.

Lichliter Mound and Village Site and a corrected version of an earlier submittal.It remains an and Trinity Cathedral,all Cuyahoga County -- to obtain registra- Logan County Courthouse and Knox County Courthouse --to focus tion of representative Cleveland landmarks prior to the fall Interstate 7l and I7th Avenue Dear Bill: Wolf Creek Mound, both Montgomery County -- in jeopardy from application forms.All have been approved by the Ohio Historic Transmitted herewith are nine (9) completed National Register Mr. Daniel B. Porter Hon. Clarence J. Brow NRow1and: pcl 6/13/73 Location Logan County STATE Licking County Name PHR Date Entered Cuyahoga County Logan County Courthouse Haraony Township Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Director Trinity Cathedral Cleveland Franklin County State Historic Preservation Officer Clark County Bellafontaine The Ohio Historical Society Hon. John H.

Ashbrook Newlove Works Dixon Mound Director, Northeast Region Hon. Louis Stokes Columbus,Ohio Snith, Benjamin, House JUN Hon. Chalmera P. Wylie Hon. Robert Tait, Jr. CHIO