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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 FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JUL 2 4 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 21 - Louis Stokes 3.
CLASSIFICATION (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC - District X Building - Structure In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 035 039 LOCATION Cuyahoga Bratenahl STATE NAME Religious Commercial Site ACCESSIBLE Cleveland OWNERSHIP COUNTY CATEGORY REGISTER Both Ohio Educational Government Entertainment Private Transportation Unoccupied Restricted Agricultural NATIONAL Yes: Scientific STATUS Museum CODE Park Public Being Considered Industrial COMMON: Public Acquisition: Private Residence CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 1219 Ontario Military REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: JAN 151974 OWNER OF PROPERTY 11505 Lake Shore Boulevard Object CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) ENTRY NUMBER - Federal Fred J.
Ball et al. DATE Cuyahoga County Office Building House DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site gables on each side. ants' dining room, kitchen and butler's pantry. JAN 1 5 1974 CONDITION framed between two short gabled wings projecting from the REGISTER NATIONAL Moved Ruins The second floor has seven bedrooms with connecting baths, and detail. The boulevard entrance has a stone Tudor archway, The interiors Revival Style. are characterized by much wood paneling, with Ionic pilasters hall is 12 feet by 22 feet. On the main floor there are a large elevation a large central gable is flanked by three smaller system was rebuilt in 1933,but there have been no substantial in the main hall, and early Renaissance detail on the staircase. ornamental detail is handled with exquisite taste. The evenly spaced casement windows have facade.
As in most McKim, Mead and White buildings, the This is a large three-story brick mansion in the Jacobethan alterations to the structure or character of the mansion. Erie.The exterior elevations are very symmetrical and class- living room, a reception hall, a library, a dining room, a serv- the stone frames and mullions of the style.Some of the ground house and a covered pergola on the west.The main rectangular story windows have flat Tudor arches.The lake front porch, The interior plan is a central hall type.The main transverse ical in appearance in spite of the architectural idiom.There is (Check One) DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE