Nomination for North Presbyterian Church

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY OCT 2 9 1974 NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: 20 - James V.

Stanton (Check One) X] Building - in progress * Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments OWNER'S NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: JUL 2 035 039 1974 Cuyahoga LOCATION Commercial Religious Local DATE Cleveland Site Educational CATEGORY Government Ontario Entertainment District ACCESSIBLE Federal Structure STATE Military Unoccupied Being Considered Agricultural Transportation Ohio Private Museum Private Residence CLASSIFICATION REGISTER Both OWNERSHIP Scientific NATIONAL Industrial Public Park Yes: CODE STATUS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: North Presbyterian Church COMMON: County Public Acquisition: Cuyahoga County Building Object OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 400l Superior Avenue LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS STREET AND NUMBER: ENTRY DATE TITLE OF SURVEY: TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) DESCRIPTION E Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site story above the building, is solidly Romanesque.

The rear wall tall room with.. . walls entirely of glass." (Pevsner) On the interior, however, it is discovered that the windows to the right and left lead to the second, or main floor, and the the apsidal-shaped ends of the room. The ceiling is partially JUL 2 CONDITION NATIONAL Excellent REGISTER Ruins Moved fortress and rest on slightly battered ground story walls.The Fair contains elements of both the Romanesque and Gothic revivals. which buttresses and flying buttresses give to classic Gothic Natural illumination comes from small clerestory windows in do not illuminate the sanctuary, but two floors of Sunday school mighty compact block without any of the elaborate articulation of the building is nearly windowless.The unusual combination contain iron columns supporting the floor of the auditorium. there have been no major structural alterations.

frame construction, basically a large rectangular block with a southeast end of the building open into the auditorium in the rooms are architecturally undistinguished, except that they with pyramidal finials. The tower over the central entrance, one brilliant interior. The piers between the windows are capped defined by radiating ribs.At present the entire auditorium is auditorium is to the rear of the building. It is a full two stories painted a uniform pale green. The Sunday school rooms of the ofelements suggests that the architect might have been attempting nine two-story windows are Gothic in shape and imply a large high and its tall roof may be seen rising above the building from (Check One) The corners of the building are rounded like the towers ofa a synthesis of the cathedral at Albi, which appears...as a DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

the exterior. The auditorium is oriented lengthwise in the building, with the pulpit, choir and organ along the rear side. short tower centrally placed on the long facade.The design well-known Akron plan. The ground floor social and meeting rooms.The main entrance opens into a vestibule where stairs The only changes on the interior have been of the cosmetic type; interiors,"and the Sainte Chapelle in Paris,"designed as one PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Prehistoric Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

It is an interesting fact, if one of peripheral significance, more than its share of distinguished buildings, including the by Calvin Hoadley, was still the earliest in Cuyahoga County; the Old Stone Church (National Register) and Second Presbyterian Church, both designed by Charles Heard; and the Miles Park The architecture of this building, by the arrangement of the increasing numbers of Slovaks, Croatians, Serbians and Romanians, egic place in cosmopolitan life. " 1887 Conservation Education Architecture Engineering Science Aboriginal losophy Landscape Communications Commerce REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Transportation Military Industry Theater itarian Literature Agriculture Music Presbyterian Church of Newburgh. century eclectic idioms.

later started two other Sunday school missions.The present Social/Human- Sculpture This building is a remarkable example of nineteenth century that the Presbyterian Church in Cleveland seems to have erected Political church architecture, especially unusual in its adaptation of eclec- on the exterior, clearly proclaims its primary concern with old Euclid church, whose original building was the first in the In addition, the twentieth century saw the church serving Urban Planning Sunday school rooms around the sanctuary and their expression Invention and does so with an extremely creative handling of the nineteenth building was erected in 1886-1887,and was specifically designed in 1859.The school entered a church in 1867,and the church Religion/Phi tic styles to the specific needs of the individual church.

The origins of North Church were in a Sunday school begun church education has often been mistaken for a public school), Ohio Western Reserve, and whose second building of 18l6,built and "admirably adapted' for Sunday school work. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) JUL employed in mills and factories, and the church "occupied a strat- 1974 Art

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1896), 59-61, 137-140. worth, 5th Ed., 1957), 102, 109. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES JUL 2 FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 2. 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 National Register. 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: Keeper of The National Registe * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-I 039 Seconds Degrees ORGANIZATION LATITUDE LONGITUDE DATE COUNTY Name Local Minutes Title STATE ATTEST: CORNER Cleveland NATIONAL Ohio CODE REGISTER The Western Reserve Historical Society Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture (Hammonds- Degrees Minutes Seconds NAME AND TITLE: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION February 1974 less than one LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES 10.24. APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 10825 East Boulevard RECEIVEn 7. 2.74.1087 CONTROL REVIEW Send-back _ Re-submit _ OCT 2 9 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered PHOTOS ARCHEOLOGIST National Register Write-up MAPS Federal Register entry TECH REVIEW WORKING NUMBER BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Cuya hoga 12/3/74 Cole STATE ho 4. Owner of Property. 5.

Location of Iegal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. 11. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. Bibliography. Acreage Classification. Other. Name. Geographical Data. Photographic Coverage. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your Longitude and Latitude Coordinates. office for clarification of the information indicated below. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register preferably an original USGS, which allows us to check latitude-longitude. criteria in full. NAME OF PROPERTY Map Coverage.Please use a map bearing an identified system of coordinates, Location.

DATE: of our professional review.Correction of these technical errors does not Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) AND/OR HISTORIC OCT 2 9 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. JUL 2 1974 GPO 932-009 Cuyahoga Historical Society Cleveland Church DATE Ohio TOWN STATE COUNTY COMMON NATIONAL REGISTE North Presbyterian PHOTO CREDIT 400l Superior Avenue NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Western Reserve South facade of church, looking north west February 1974 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (6/72) NEGATIVE FILED AT STREET AND NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM E.

Johannesen (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) OCT 2 9 1974 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. JUL 2 GPO 932-009 Cuyahoga DATE Ohio TOWN Church Cleveland STATE COUNTY PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL COMMON 400l Superior Avenue REGISTER February 1974 North Presbyterian North and west elevations of church, looking southeast. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC (6/72) E. Johannesen (Type all entries-attach toor enclose with photograph) Western Reserve Hist. Soc. STREET AND NUMBER North Presbyteuan Cherch RECEIVED NEGATIVE FILED AT Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev.

7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY OCT 2 9 1974 STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G. S. Cleveland North Quadrangle JUL 2 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441,341 035 039 1970 Cuyahoga REQUIREMENTS Ohio Cleveland DATE NAME COUNTY STATE REGISTER NATIONAL CODE COMMON: PROPERTY MAP FORM 1:24,000 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: SCALE: SOURCE: MAP REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER 400l Superior Avenue (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) LOCA U. S. G. S. 1974 North Presbyterian Church DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO 41° 30* 51* CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO. OCT 2 9 1974 Jenkins-Perry. House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hon. Howard M.

Metzenbaum Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. John M. Ashbrook Hon. J. William Stanton Hon. Thomas A. Luken Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Charles J. Carney Regional Director, Midwest Region Youngstown Location Milan Newton vicinity Millersburg Mentor vicinity STATE Mahoning County Name Brightman House Sawyer-wayside House Cleveland Lake County 11/4/74 MMott/cha Hamilton County Neville vicinity Holmes County Cuyahoga County Clermont County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Hahn Field Archaeological District Also Notified Erie County North Presbyterian Church State Historic Preservation Officer The Ohio Historical Society Interstate #7l at 17th Avenue Hon. Charles A. Mosher Butler Institute of American Art Ferris Site Hon. William H. Harsha Hon. James V. Stanton