Nomination for Bay View Hospital

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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) AUG 2 7 1974 Bay View Hospital AND/ OR HISTORIC: 23 - William Minshall (Check One) - Unoccupied - In Process X Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: AÚG 2 7 1974 DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 035 039 LOCATION COUNTY CLASSIFICATION STATE OWNERSHIP Ontario Religious Site Commercial CATEGORY NAME Cuyahoga District REGISTER Both Yes: Government Museum Cleveland Private STATUS ACCESSIBLE Entertainment NATIONAL Structure CODE Agricultural Being Considered Park Public Industrial Cuyahoga County Building RECEIVED Public Acquisition: 23200 Lake Road Object Educational CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Private Residence NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: Scientific CITY OR TOWN: Bay Village LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION TO THE PUBLIC FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio * Other (Specity) DATE Building COMMON: Cleveland Osteopathic Hospital, Inc.

Military ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION * Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

stone, steel and concrete. Despite the materials, the general mass of color, as the walls are yellow brick and the roof is red tile. the south facade there is an octagonal tower, the east one of two stories, the west of three. They have steep pyramidal roofs. A facade. Its piers have carved Romanesque foliated capitals. A at the turn of the century is notable, although this building is by JUL 2 NATIONAL - CONDITION REGISTER Ruins the original residence. The general line of the house is predominantly horizontal, even no means unique.The interior rooms have been almost completely This is a large three-story building constructed of brick, The interior structure of the walls and floors is entirely of zoning restrictions, the basic exterior aspect of the original mansion hallway is partially preserved, and a mahogany panelled dining room of the building is marked by tall chimneys.

from Lake Road is virtually intact.The nomination includes only added to the north side of.the house. However, because of intelligent though there is a tall hipped roof.The roof is punctuated with wide porte-cochere projects from the east end of the building. loggia of three Romanesque arches is west of the center of the steel and concrete.The residential application of these materials modified since 1946 for the needs of the hospital.The main interior Fair is nearly intact.The oak staircase with turned balusters in a Neo- (Check One) Good - Moved [X Original Site various dormers and gables, all tile-roofed. At each corner of This leads to the present main entrance. Finally, the silhouette is Richardsonian Romanesque.The first striking impression is one Colonial manner has been preserved.A large patient wing has been PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

- 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Political - Prehistoric - Religion/Phi- - Other (Specify) - Literature - Military - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

eland, which had been formed five years earlier by another assoc- consolidated over twenty carbon and battery companies. Their products included electrodes, brushes, flashlight batteries, radios, however, until 1946, when it was acquired by the Cleveland Osteo- 1898 Commerce Communications Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Conservation losophy Architecture NATIONAL REGISTER Aboriginal innovative. Science Education itarian Agriculture Theater pathic Hospital. Sculpture Washington H. Lawrence was originally associated with Charles Social/Human- eclectic architecture in its own right, as well as being structurally Lawrence organized the National Carbon Company, taking over the hearing aids and related products. While many of Cleveland's late nineteenth century industrial- F.Brush as superintendent of the Brush Electric Company.

In 1886 was built in 1898 and designed by the noted Cleveland architectural iate of Brush.In a dozen years National Carbon had bought and One was Washington H. Lawrence, founder and president of the plant of the Boulton Carbon Company on East 55th Street in Clev- Lawrence had had a smaller lakeshore summer residence in ists went east to Bratenahl or west to Lakewood for their summer mansion was the residence ofmembers of the Lawrence family, Invention Dover Bay Park (Bay Village) from 1883-1897.The existing house of a type built by a certain class, but is a spectacular example of Industry Landscape. JUL 2 Music firm of Coburn and Barnum. Unfortunately Lawrence died in 1900, so that he did not live long to enjoy the use of the house.The 1950), 476. Cleveland City Directories, 1893-1900. Bay Views, XXII, No. 10, October, 1973, 1-4.

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 LATITUDE LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION Degrees National Local Seconds COUNTY REGISTER DATE STATE Title Minutes ATTEST: Name CORNER Cleveland CODE Ohio Western Reserve Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Degrees Minutes Seconds National Register. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NAME AND TITLE: April 1974 CITY OR TOWN: DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PKOPERTY APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: JUL 2 1974 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended ~Keeper of The National Regi: Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Less Less than one 592 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY AUG 2 7 1874 8.

Significance Register of Historic Places) and the Park Building, completed in In addition, the building enjoys a park-like site which fronts 1950), 564, 642. GP O 921-724 COUNTY Cuyahoga STATE DATE NATIONAL REGISTE Ohio RECEIVED residential dwelling six years earlier is extremely significant, espec- The fact that he anticipated this structural usage in a suburban (Continuation Sheet) in Cleveland to utilize floor slabs of reinforced concrete.

(Number all entries) directly on Lake Erie, and this setting further conveys the feeling William Ganson Rose, ially as the earliest known use of reinforced concrete in the United 1904,a nine-story office building called one of the first buildings ENTRY NUMBER Frank S.Barnum was the innovative member of the architectural and association of the style of living of the very wealthy at the turn iating a modern era" in functional, fireproof, utilitarian school cons- Form 10-300a of the century. States seems to have been in 1892-1893. truction.He also designed the Caxton Building (190l-1903) (National Cleveland: The Making of A City (Cleveland, firm. In 1895 he was made the official public school architect, (July 1969) Bay View Hospital (Lawrence, Washington H., Residence) STATE Ohia CONTROL REVIEW HIS TOR IAN to Rowland.

Send-back - Re-submit _ AUG 2 7 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST MAPS National Register Write-up WORKING NUMBER Federal Register entry TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF PHOTOS 2 JCT Dc+.11974 8-27.74 CONE Form No. 10-301a NUG 2 7 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. JUL 21974 South facade of the mansion, looking north west 035 039 DATE COUNTY Cuyahoga IDENTIFICATION REGISTE Ohio CODE STATE NATIONAL NAME PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Bay Village PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: E.

Johannesen (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE April 1974 FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUMBER: (7/72) DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: NEGATIVE FILED LOCA TION PHOTO REFERENCE Western Reserve Historical Society Bay View Hospital 23200 Lake Road UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUL 2 1974 039 Cuyahoga DATE COUNTY 035 looking southwest. Ohio NAME STATE CODE COMMON: Bay Village NATIONAL East and north elevations, showing modern hospital addition, ENTRY NUMBER Bay View Hospital PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM E. Johannesen NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES April 1974 PHOTO CREDIT: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: AUG 27 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

LOCA TION IDENTIFICATION PHOTO REFERENCE REGIST NORTH OLMSTED QUADRANGLE Washington Ho, NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO Bay View Hospital Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) AUG 2 7 1974 Bay View Hospital STREET AND NUM BER: U.S. G. S. North Olmsted Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. # U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-7292148/1441 3-1 1970 035 039 NAME COUNTY Cuyahoga STATE DATE Ohio REGISTER CODE NATIONAL LOCATION ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Bay Village 1:24,000 REQUIREMENTS MAP REFERENCE SCALE: SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: 23200 Lake Road PROPERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: JUL 2 1974 RECEIVED AUG 2 7 1S74 State Historic Preservation Officer ME. Daniel R.

Porter Hon. Wil1ian B. Minshall Regional Director, Midwest Region Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location STATE Cuyahoga County Director Name MMott/row Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified 8/27/74 Bay Village Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Bay View Hospital Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. OHIO Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. AUG 2 9 1974 FNP:WJand1:1ml:8/28/74 Bay Village, Ohdo 44140 has been altered somewhat, ve feel that the building has maintained government acting without Tederal Involvement. For nore infornation Charles A. Herrington (Sgd.) inc H34-PR Enclosure Sincerely yours, Acting Keeper of che National Register in the National Register.

Administrator, Bay View Hospital criteria for evaluation is enelosed.Although the original house consult conceraing the historic preservation program within the The Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer, whom you may wish to 23200 Lake Road 1974.A leaflet deseribing the National Register program and the Stat. 915) requirea Federal agency heads to allow the Advisory Section 106 of the National Historic Preservatfon Act of 1966 sufficient architectural and historical integrity to merit inclusion undertakings to be licensed, funded, or executed by their agencies Dear Mr. Rowland: address 1s 1522 K Street,N.W.,Suite 430, Washington, D.C. 20005. View Hospital to the National Register of Iistoric Places. Interstate $71 at bcc: Thank you for your recent letter concerning the nomination of Bay Mr.John A.Rowland State Historic Preservation Officer.

We hope this 1nformation will be useful to you.If you have further Council on Historic Preservation opportunity to comnent when questions,we suggest you contact the Advisory Council or the Ohio on the Advisory Council, we suggest you contact them directly.Their AREA CODE 216 - Phone 331-2500 23200 LAKE ROAD MEMBER AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION BAY VILLAGE, OHIO 44140 JOHN A. ROWLAND, Administrator August 7, 1974 Washington, D.C. Ohio State Preservation Officer, that the property of Bay View preservation and feel that it is commendable, our objections are involved, it is very likely that the hospital will be further All of the assets of the hospital are pledged to this In order to fulfill these obligations, it may be necessary government. Director United States Department of the Interior program which could be partially supported by the Federal its primary obligation.

we wish to respectfully object to being listed in the National Dear Sir: The Board of Trustees feels that the administrative require- National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Federal Government through its Medicare contract and through We have recently received notification from Mr.Daniel R.Porter, The hospital's primary obligation to the community under its grants under Hill-Burton. As the government becomes more Advisory Board as qualified for inclusion in the National Regis- Hospital has been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation purpose, and it must be paramount to all other considerations. Bay View Hospital is presently extensively involved with the tax-free status is to provide health services to the commun- ter of Historic Places. sary changes in order to continue to provide the health funded by Federal programs in the future.

based upon the following reasons: services to the community would be an unacceptable burden ments involved in an attempt by the hospital to make neces- that might hamper the progress of the hospital in fulfilling to demolish the present hospital in the near future under a Page 2 August 7, 1974 to a hospital, new wings have been added and substantial Daniel R. Porter, Director Administrator Respectfully yours, buildings clearly do not qualify for historic preservation; and due to the substantial remodeling of the original interior changes have been made to convert the structure to Ohio Historical Society Therefore, for all of these reasons, we would again like to Since 1948 when the original we assume is by the Ohio Historical Society. structure, it is very unlikely that any of them do. the one to be listed in the National converted hospital care facilities.

Therefore, some of the hospital Register of Historic Places and would appreciate it if you would JAR/1b