Nomination for Mather, Flora Stone, College District

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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 (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: 21 - Louis Stokes (Check One) * Private - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments ]. Commercial - Other (Specity) OWNER'S NAME: 5.

LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: DEC 1 31973 035 039 STATE Cleveland Site Religious CLASSIFICATION Government Cuyahoga CATEGORY Agricultural Educational Both Entertainment Restricted Yes: District STATUS ACCESSIBLE REGISTER Federal Unoccupied Building CODE Military Museum Ohio Structure LOCATION Scientific Private Residence OWNERSHIP Being Considered Park COUNTY: Public Industrial RECEIVED Case Western Reserve University COMMON: Cuyahoga County Building Public Acquisition: 1219 Ontario CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: ENTRY NUMBER Object ENTRY DATE STREET AND NUMBER: OWNER OF PROPERTY TO THE PUBLIC 2040 Adelbert Road REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS In Process CITY OR TOWN: FEB 15,1974 College for Women, Western Reserve University Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet NAME DATE NATIONAL /Flora Stone Mather College District PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Kygcal DESCRIPTION (Check One) .

Good - Fair - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered [X Original Site building is largely unaltered inside and out. Harkness Memorial Chapel is a Late Gothic Revival building of stone south, increasing its capacity by about 25 percent. On the second floor is a great lecture hall, formerly the chapel, with ethan Revival style, constructed of red brick and sandstone. The with Clark Hall, it has some of the same Queen Anne features, but is more classicized, with Palladian windows, low-relief ornament, and -ory late Medieval English elements, constitute a natural visual unity. CONDITION Guilford Hall is a four-story brick dormitory residence.Contemporary boundaries are described on Form 10-300a.Mather Memorial faces Halls face northwest, and Guilford Hall faces northeast.

The five buildings, grouped on Bellflower Road and all having Gothic interior has Gothic windows and large hammerbeam arches support- the original rooms and their golden oak woodwork are intact. north toward the corner of Bellflower and Ford.The four older arrangement of many rooms of different sizes, shapes and heights. buildings are oriented to face a green fronting on Bellflower. along Bellflower and Ford are brick with stone trim.The wing run- Mather Memorial is a stone and brick building with elements of the has suffered from lack of adequate maintenance. a classical doorway and veranda.The southeast wing was added in 1894. Excellent - Moved and has a number of gable projections. flat roof line is crenellated. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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Jacobethan and Late Gothic Revival styles. Its entrance is a 60 foot ing the ceiling. In 1918 the body of the chapel was expanded to the pointed oaken arches and a large traceried window. Nearly all of onal corner turrets and an arched Gothic entranceway.

The interior The Haydn Hall is a three-story office-classroom building in the Jacob- entrance to Harkness Chapel faces southwest, both Clark and Haydn Clark Hall is a three-story classroom building of sandstone and buff The interior is an ingenious This is a district comprising three and two-thirds acres and includ- construction.A 16 foot square entrance tower faces southeast.The square stone tower with Tudor turrets at the corners.The wings The center projecting block has octag- brick in a variant of the Queen Anne style.It is irregular in mass Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER FEB 1 5 1974 From the south corner of Bellflower Road and Ford Drive, generally southernly direction, to a point approximately 10' edge of this walk to Bellflower Road, then along the midpoint DEC 1 3 1973 GP0 921-724 Location Cuyahoga DATE COUNTY STATE REGISTER Ohio NATIONAL (Number all entries) (Continuation Sheet) behind Haydn Hall, continuing south until it intersects the or Bellflower to the point of beginning.

FLORA STONE MATHER COLLEGE DISTRICT southeast along the midpoint of Ford Drive to the mid-point of southwest side ofa stone walk approximately 20'beyond the the alley approximately 15'beyond the southeast wing of Mather (July 1969) Memorial. Proceed southwest along this line, proceeding in a RECEIVED PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) ) 19th Century X Education Urban Planning - Political - Engineering - Religion/Phi- Other (Specify) - Science - Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

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designed by Cleveland's noted architect, Charles F. Schweinfurth. 1902. Haydn Hall, named for former president Hiram C. Haydn, was Conservation losophy Commerce Military Aboriginal Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Music Communications Literature Agriculture Prehistoric itarian Landscape was designed by Charles Hopkinson after Schweinfurth's death.In Sculpture the college, although she always refused the designation while she Industry four-year controversy over coeducation.It was the fifth separate This district consists of five original buildings of the College for The buildings and their green on Bellflower Road constitute an hist- Reserve campus, where continuous expansion, chaotic accretion and Invention The Florence Harkness Memorial Chapel was dedicated on March 30, Mather College, after Mrs.

Samuel Mather, the chief benefactor of oric and architectural unity that is unique on the Case Western itects Coburn and Barnum. Pre-Columbian college for women in the United States, after Vassar, Wellesley, Women of Western Reserve University, built between 189l and 1912. used asa student social and recreational hall,with some dormitory was alive. essential to close the green on the southwest and complete a quadrangle. Mt.Holyoke anda college for women in Baltimore.The College 193l the name of the College for Women was changed to Flora Stone 1891-1892.Clark Hall and Guilford "Cottage"were dedicated in Oct- The next two buildings were constructed in 190l-l902,and both itect, Richard M.

Hunt, and is his only work in Cleveland, and AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (I Applicable and Known) The latest building, Flora Stone Mather Memorial, was constructed architecturally distinguished. Guilford Hall, while less so, is 1891-1912 and classroom facilities. possibly in Ohio.Guilford Cottage was designed by Cleveland arch- The College for Women was first opened in 1888 after a sustained opened in the Ford homestead on Euclid Avenue.The construction Four of the buildings are ober,1892.Clark Hall was designed by the nationally known arch- crowded space have left little order. of new buildings was made possible by gifts of land and money in 1950), 435, 488, 894, 627. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ÁCRES - acres DEC 1 3 1973 PREPARED BY August, 12.

STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GPO 931.894 039 LATITUDE DATE LONGITUDE Degrees Seconds ORGANIZATION STATE COUNTY Cleveland Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER CODE CORNER Degrees Minutes Seconds ATTEST: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: I hereby certify that this property is included in the evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set 10.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA National Register, in the National Register and certify that ithas been NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PKOPERTY CITY OR TOWN: MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES written Ms., 1947-1952), 37, 60, 148-150, 314-315. APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. Minutes Name Local William Ganson Rose, Western Reserve Historical Society 10825 East Boulevard The recommended ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES PHOTOS 4 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Re-submit 2./2.74 FEB 1 5 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back MAPS TECH REVIEW HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register entry Cuyahoga 12.19.

1-24-74 4-2-74 COlE National Register Write-up 3-20-74 12.2- The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination forin is being returned to your 2. Location. 3. Classification. 4. Owner of Property. . 5. Location of Legal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. 7. Description. Bibliography. _ 10. Geographical Data. _ 11. Form Prepared By. Other - Thank you for your attention to the above items checked.' SIGNED: Photographic Coverage. Statement of Significance. Longitude and Latitude Coordinates. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register criteria in full. office for clarification of the information indicated below. NAME OF PROPERTY 1. Name. - _ preferably an original USGS, which allows us to check latitude-longitude. of our professional review. Correction of these technical errors does not Acreage.

Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME FEB 15 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE August, 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Harkness Chapel, looking east. Mather Memorial in background.

DEC 1 3 1973 GPO 932-009 Cuyahoga Society DATE REGIST TOWN STATE Western Reserve Historical Eric Johannesen COUNTY Flora Stone Mather COMMON Cleveland NATIONA Ohio Western Reserve University College District PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM College for Women, AND/OR HISTORIC Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT NEGATIVE FILED AT (6/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 1 5 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Clark Hall and Haydn Hall, looking southeast.

DEC 1 3 1973 Society TOWN Cuyahoga REGIS DATE COMMON COUNTY District STATE Ohio Western Reserve Historical Western Reserve University Cleveland RECEIVED PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet Flora Stone Mather College AND/OR HISTORIC NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries-attach to or en close with photograph) Eric Johannesen August 1973 College for Women, PHOTO CREDIT STREET AND NUMBER NATIONA! UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (6/72) GPO 932-009 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) FEB 1 5 1974 3. PHOTO REFERENCE DEC 1 3 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

Society Cuyahoga TOWN DATE STATE COMMON REGIST 2.LOCATION Eric Johannesen Western Reserve University College District Flora Stone Mather Cleveland COUNTY Western Reserve Historical Ohio College for Women, Mather Memorial Building NATIONAL (Type all entries-attach to or en close with photograph) (6/72) PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER Aug. Bellflower Road at Ford Drive -see GPO 932-009 NEGATIVE FILED AT Corner Ford Drive and Bellflower Road, looking south. Flora Stone Sheet UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NAME AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT Sept. 1973 IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Guilford Hall facade, looking southwest.

GPO 932-009 Society Cuyahoga DATE COUNTY COMMON TOWN Western Reserve Historical STATE Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio Flora Stone Mather College District PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Eric Johannesen (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (6/72) Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FROPETY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DEC 1 3 1973 College for Women, RECEIVED NATIONAI Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S. 7.5' East Cleveland Quadrangle DEP 1 3-1973 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

035 039 1970 Cuyahoga NAME DATE STATE COUNTY REQUIREMENTS 1:24000 NATIONAL COMMON: Ohio CODE Cleveland SCALE: MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Flora Stone Mather College District LOCATION College for Women, Western Reserve University PROPERTY MAP FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) REGISTER ENTRY NUMBER EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE College District UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 81° 27" Flora Stone Mather OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO. N4130 - W8130/7.5 41 * 'Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY FEB 1 5 1974 STREET AND NUM BER: 1" = 100' TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

039 035 COUNTY DATE NAME Cuyahoga STATE CODE COMMON: REQUIREMENTS September 1973 LOCATION Cleveland SCALE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio SOURCE: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM MAP REFERENCE AND/OR HISTORIC: Bellflower Road at Ford Drive - see continuation sheet (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: Hand drawn, Eric Johannesen FEB College for Women, Western Reserve University Scale: 1" = 100' Arrow North Haydn alley Clark Acres Bellflower Road NATIONAL stone walk Ford Drive Mather Memorial Chapel FLORA STONE MATHER COLLEGE DISTRICT Hall DEC 1 3 1973 REGISTER Guilford Harkness FEB 1 5 1974 Davis, Samuel, House Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Tennyson Guyer Columbus, Ohio 43211 Ion. James V. Stanton Hon.

Louis Stokes Director, Mid West Region STATE Location Name Director Columbus Cleveland Also Notified Franklin County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Flora Stone Mather College Cuyahoga County The Ohio Historical Society Montgonery County Date Entered Germantown vicinity District Hon. Robert Taft,Jr. Plaza Hotel (old Favorite Hotel) Carlisle Fort Union Club OHIO Miami County Hon. Chalmers P. llylic Piqua Mr.Daniel R.Porter