Nomination for White, Henry P., House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC & Building - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as.Appropriate).

- Comments # Commercial OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 1 6 1973 LOCATION 035 OWNERSHIP Cuyahoga Government Site ACCESSIBLE Educational STATE Entertainment DATE CLASSIFICATION District Military CATEGORY Private Restricted Both Unoccupied Yes: NATIONAL CODE REGISTER Transportation Museum Agricultural Structure Public STATUS Temple Memorial COUNTY: Cleveland Private Residence Scientific COMMON: Public Acquisition: Cuyahoga County Courthouse Ohio Industrial Being Considered 039 Northwest corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9oth Street Temple Memorial Funeral Home Object Louis Stokes Euclid Avenue and East 90th Street 1 Lakeside Avenue OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: Park Religious DATE OF SURVEY: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: Other ENTRY NUMBER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 21St 110 DESCRIPTION * Good - Fair - Deteriorated - Unexposed X Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The first floor windows, as the rest of the windows, ase shape, and are unornamented. A porch is located on the south (front) The interior is in original condition, no doubt owing 1s composed of richly carved hardwoods, the mantels are inlaid with mosaic tile, and there is an oriel window overlooking JUL 2 1973 CONDITION REGISTER Excellent NATIONAL Moved Ruins generally varied in form and presents many interesting shapes redevelopment of downtown Cleveland. severity of the predominately rectangular frames.The roof is on the east side. the house. It measures approximately twenty by thirty-five well-preserved and in excellent condition. The second floor is little different from the first.

measures approximately sixty by forty-five feet.The house is Both the Henry P.White House and the carriage house are ashlar bonds.The building rests on a stone foundation, and story house is constructed of rock-faced stone laid in random and capped with rounded, smooth stone. type of houses that wealthy Clevelanders built during the early and west sides of the house, and a porte-cochere is provided a two and one-half story structure built in the same style as To the north of the house is the carriage house.It is White House that was built circa 1901.The two and one-half Cloveland architect Frank B. Meade designed the Henry P. to the eye. (Check One) gabled, and has multiple gable ends.

RECEIVED two gables on the east and west sides.The gables are stepped They are rectangular in Fair 190os.Few of these houses have survived the expansion and Chimnies rise from An occasional arched window at this level helps to break the excellent examples of their type. They are indicative of the to its excellent adaptive use as a funeral home.The woodwork arranged in groups of two and three.

Statement of significance

Henry P. White was a noted Cleveland industrialist was constructed. White employed architect Frank B. Meade White, who passed from the scene during the 1930s, station. Conservation losophy Architecture Commerce Transportation Engineering Aboriginal REGISTER Military Theater Landscape Science Religion/Phi Communications Agriculture Music Many were sacrificed needlessly--even the former home of Literature itarian Industry Social/Human- Invention did not live to see the spreading commercialization along Fortunately the White House has survived, and is The owners of Temple Memorial realize its historic significance Sculpture Euclid Avenue, and the wholesale razing of former mansions to design and construct this excellent structure.The mansion stately mansions along both sides of the street.But Political and are attempting to preserve it as best they can.

Education among only a few of its type remaining on Euclid Avenue. took nearly two years to build. whose fortune reached a peak about the time this house during the 1930s and 1940s many of these homes were destroyed. John D. Rockefeller was razed to make way for a filling Pre-Columbian1 Other PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) built circa 1901 1973 NATIONAL Art to make way for new developments.At one time Euclid Avenue was known as #Millionaires' Row because of the lines of

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY Deg APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 1 acre LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNT FORM PREPARED BY March 10, 1973 CITY OR TOWN: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- 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 in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set GP0 931-894 039 1973 ORGANIZATION Columbus Title Seconds LONGITUDE LATITUDE COUNTY ATTEST: CORNER Local Minutes NATIONAL REGISTER Ohio STATE CODE Larry Alan Beers PATE Date NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Degrees Minutes Seconds 9.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES STREET AND NUMBER: RECEIVED 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 1932 Forest Village Lane NAME AND TITLE: National Register, London,1971,Press of Case Western Reserve University.pp. 48 G 49. level of significance of this nomination is: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES N 410 W 810 37 - 24 Name Campen, Richard N.,Architecture of the Western Reserve, Cleveland and Photos 3 acceptable foca and copied ever by Beers. National Register write-up Federal Register entry 16 1973 HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps Re-submit Send-back PROPERTY WORKING NUMBER KEEPER REVIEW UNIT CHIEF CONTROL REVIEW TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF Cuyahoga 7-1073 STATE hio is no doubt that this form was wrrtten by the funeral home owner PLEN PARK PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Title: Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc.

Hause PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Loc. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) 1. NAME 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE 1963; Photorevised 1970 REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: JUL21973 Cuyahoga TOWN REGISTER JUL NATIONAL Cleveland 24,000 COUNTY Cleveland Quadrangle RECEIVED Euclid Avenue and East 9oth Street STREET AND NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) sUs&5 7t Series, East SCALE DATE COMMON NUMERIC CODE Temple Memorial by NPS) EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PH 0034649 JUL 1 6 1973 Mil1ville vieinity Hon. Willian B. Saxbe Ion. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon.

Louis Stokes Location Name STATE 7/17/73 Date Entered Cuyahoga County 43211 Also Notified Butler County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHR Cochran Fazm Cleveland Director,Northeast Region Hon. Walter E. Povell Perry-Payne Bullcing OHIO Hon. Jenes V. Stanton Columbus, Ohlo Mott;jal Mre.Daniel R.Porter.Director