Nomination for Whitney, George W., House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) OCT 2 2 1974 Whitney, George W., House AND/ OR HISTORIC: 23 - William Minshall - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments OWNER'S NAME: 330 S.

Rocky River Drive LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal SEP 3 0 1974 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 035 LOCATION Site Commercial Berea NAME Cuyahoga Religious Ontario DATE ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Educational Government CLASSIFICATION County REGISTER Ohio Park Restricted CATEGORY STATUS Private Cleveland District Entertainment Agricultural CODE Structure Being Considered Private Residence Building Museum NATIONAL Both Unoccupied Yes: Scientific Public Cuyahoga County Building Industrial Object COMMON: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public Acquisition: OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: ENTRY DATE TO THE PUBLIC (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) Eugene J.

Gilroy Military DESCRIPTION * Excellent - Deteriorated - Unaltered - Moved DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

part of the facade is stepped back, not enough to make a true "ell," SEP 3 0 1974 CONDITION interior. REGISTER NATIONAL cupola and veranda.There have been no major alterations to the architectural character of the exterior. forms Baldwin Lake reservoir. The property adjoins the Rocky River where it flows into and rectangular plans were modified to give freer space in the second The interior is also remarkably intact. A central hall divides the floor.Massive framing supports the square belvedere or cupola. room.Inlaid walnut forms various rectangular motifs in the corners RECEIVED The basement has stone walls supporting the upper floor partitions.

are characteristic of the more affluent versions of the style, the frieze with molded panels and frieze windows, the cornice with dentils The third-story attic is mostly unfinished; two small rooms have This is a large three-story brick house in the Victorian Italian- feature is the parquet flooring, which has a different pattern in each The interior partition walls are of masonry.The door and window pieces remain. from which gas fixtures hang.Seven of eight original marble mantel- ate style.It is characteristic of the way in which earlier square or Fair the house, and a large single-flight staircase rises from the hall.

one would expect one of two alternatives, either a completely flat and large double brackets, the stone window hoods, and the bracketed woodwork is deeply molded.Perhaps the most notable interior have been modernized, there have been no major alterations to the There is evidence that the house had a central furnace at the time of its construction, and it is known that it had a water supply; the cupola at the center of the hipped roof.All of the decorative elements half of the nineteenth century.The facade is both symmetrical and (Check One) Good - Ruins - Unexposed * Original Site wall, or a projecting center element for the entrance. Here, however, of each room. One room has alternating 3" floor boards of walnut and oak.Two of the rooms retain sculptured plaster ceiling rosettes been partitioned.

The small frieze windows are about four feet above unsymmetrical.It has the same evenly spaced five-part fenestration as earlier houses, with a center entrance. With a symmetrical front but so that three windows are forward and two back.There isa PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) - Literature STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

the post-Civil War period, in this case that of one of the leaders built by men of wealth in the period, and the good preservation owner, E. W. Poole. named in 1836, as the postoffice for Middleburgh, after the Biblical SEP 3 0 1974 1868 Commerce Communications Transportation Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Military Aboriginal REGISTER Religion/Phi Architecture Theater NATIONAL Prehistoric losophy Music Landscape Science itarian Conservation Agriculture Political Sculpture which made it suitable for grindstones were discovered very early. Social/Human- the Victorian Italianate style which expressed the new wealth of of its architectural features provides insight into their style of of the Berea sandstone industry. commemorated by his imposing mansion.

Industry This house is one of a vanishing number of lavish homes in south side became building stones, sidewalk flagging, paving blocks, other industrialists, and they founded the Berea Stone Company. burgh Township is uncertain, but Whitney began some time in the annually, plus various kinds of building stone, and owned forty Middleburgh Township was first settled in l809. Berea was 1840s.In 187l he consolidated his interests with a number of Invention The house was built in 1868 by George W.Whitney. According Between the early 1840s and the end of the century Berea became the"sandstone capital of the world.Millions of cubic feet of Berea' Berea in Acts, XVIl,10-ll.The sandstone and the abrasive qualities AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) to Holzworth, the sequence of opening the stone quarries in Middle- living.

The house is also known locally by the name of a later Art RECEIVED By 1879 this company was producing 3,000 tons of grindstones curbstones and grindstones.Whitney's role in this industry is acres and had 100 employees.Whitney's house was one ofa type 27, 70, 149. Cuyahoga County Tax Records, 1860-1869.

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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 PRODERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POIN I OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: SEP 3 0 1974 FORM PREPARED BY 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 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 forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination ist Keeper of The National Regisfe * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 Seconds Local ORGANIZATION COUNTY Name LATITUDE LONGITUDE NATIONAL STATE ATTEST: Cleveland DATE CODE REGISTER CORNER Ohio August 1974 4578630 Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES National Register. NAME AND TITLE: T2.

STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUN Title 4 Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Degrees Minutes Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard Less than one INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit PHOTOS Send-back WORKING NUMBER MAPS TECH REVIEW Federal Register entry National Register Write-up HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 4.25 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN OCT 2 2 1974 7.19.74 9.30,74 The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your _ 1. Name. 2. Location. __ 3. Classification. _ 4. Owner of Property. - 5. Location of Legal Description. . 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. - 7. Description. - 8. Statement of Significance. 9. Bibliography. 10. Geographical Data. a. Longitude and Latitude Coordinates. 11.

Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. _preferably an original USGS, which allows us to check latitude-longitude. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register Thank you for your attention'to the above items checked. SIGNED: Photographic Coverage. criteria in full. office for clarification of the information indicated below. of our professional review. Correction of these technical errors does not Acreage. PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE PROPERTY IS RESUBMITTED. NAME OF PROPERTY Cuya hoga HISTOR IAN Send-back - Re-submit _ OCT 2 2 1974 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST PHOTOS National Register Write-up MAPS Federal Register entry WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 10. 1, CONTROL REVIEW 12/3/74 Form No. 10-301g AND/OR HISTORIC: SEP 30 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

039 035 COUNTY NAME Cuyahoga STATE CODE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE Eric Johannesen ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: PHOTO CREDIT: South and east elevations, looking northwest. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY IDENTIFICATION PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) August 1974 Whitneye CITY OR TOWBerea House George LOCATION Western Reserve Historical Society PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NEGATIVE FILED AT: Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION 330 S. Rocky River Drive SEP 3 0 1974 E PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

Northeast corner, looking 039 035 NAME COUNTY DATE IDENTIFICATION Cuyahoga Berea CODE STATE REGISTER Eric Johannesen NATIONAL Western Reserve Historical Society PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR August 1974 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER: DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) OCT 22 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: House PHOTO CREDIT: 876-167 Form No. 10-301a LOCA TION SEP 9 0 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Whitney House on left, showing neighboring house, looking 039 035 NAME Berea COUNTY Cuyahoga Eric Johannesen PHOTO REFERENCE CODE COMMON: southeast.

ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER STATE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Western Reserve Historical Society FOR NPS USE ONLY IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Ohio AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE December 1973 PHOTO CREDIT: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF PHOTO: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) STREET AND NUMBER: 330 S. Rocky River Drive U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: DATE 876-167 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: 330 S. Rocky River Drive CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Berea Quadrangle 1:24, 000 SEP 30 1974 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-1 035 1970 039 NAME Berea Cuyahoga Ohio REQUIREMENTS REGISTER DATE COUNTY STATE CODE NATIONAL MAP REFERENCE COMMON: SCALE: AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) SOURCE: PROPERTY MAP FORM LOCATION RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BEREA QUADRANGLE NORTH ROYALTON BEREA, OHIO PARMA HEIGHTS 81° 51' 07" 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OHIO 22 1974 Eon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Pratt Ben. Charles J. Carney Hon, Charlea A. Van1k Columbue, Ohio 43211 /PR MMOTT: 1 10/24/74 Location Berea Mahoning County Date Entered Name Cuyahoga County Rayen School ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Carroll County Courthouse Acting Director Carrollton Regional Director, Midwest Region The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Howard M.

Metzenbaum Shaker Heights Whitney, George W., House Carroll County Also Notified Youngstown State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Wayne L. Hays Interstee 7l at 17th Avenue