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NPS Form 10-900-e Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 3. 2141 Overlook Carriage House 4. 2171 Overlook 4.
State/Federal Agency Certification CURRENT Continuation Sheet Page Section number 2141 Kenilworth AS LISTED Overlook Road Carriage House District National Register of Historic Places Cleveland Heights as follows: State or Federal agency and bureau Official street numbers and addresses have been changed by the City of National Park Service United States Department of the Interior #1 Herrick Mews date Approval of State Historic Preservation Officer (8-86) Section number _ Cuyahoga Co., OHIO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION APPROVAL Page Continuation Sheet Overlook Road Carriage Hause District National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPS Form 10-900-e WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET FEB 22 1988 Fed. Reg.
Date:_ Date Due: - nomination by person or local government - REJECT - Federal Agency: - -appeal L sample L NR decision Reviewer's comments: -see continuation sheet _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description J excellent - unaltered -original site -moved Accessible Category resubmission yes deteriorated dates Status ruins alterations/integrity Ownership Discipline unexposed 74001449 completeness RETURN Action: clarity Working No. Cuyahoga County Substantive Review: boundary selection ADDITIONADNINFORMATION owner objection Public Acquisition Has this property been determined eligible?
summary paragraph Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Overlook Road Carriage House District Present Use Nomination returned for: Check one Condition ("R" June 1984) fair good L request Recom./Criteria 8. Significance Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By _national State Historic Preservation Officer signature . Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet context completeness Date clarity Builder/Architect Signed title UTM References summary paragraph Photographs applicable criteria Maps state relating significance to the resource Specific dates local Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relationship of integrity to significance Quadrangle name 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Verbal boundary description and justification justification of areas checked justification of exception The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev.
6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAY 6- 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: ( see continuation CLASSIFICATION (Check One) - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Transportation - Comments LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal D Local: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: APR 2 3 1974 035 039 LOCATION Cuyahoga STATE Religious ACCESSIBLE Government Site Commercial District CATEGORY COUNTY Cleveland DATE OWNERSHIP Private sheet) Military Restricted STATUS NATIONAL Educational Agricultural Entertainment Yes: Structure Both Multiple private ownership Private Residence Ohio Public Unoccupied Museum CODE Being Considered Building Industrial Cleveland Heights Park Public Acquisition: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Scientific Object COMMON: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Cuyahoga County Building NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 1219 Ontario OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: ENTRY DATE OWNER'S NAME: TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) NAME Herrick, Gordon, Hinds and Johnson Carriage Houses 22 - Charles A.
Vanik MAY REGISTER Overlook Road Carriage House District ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION X Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site southernmost, has any pretensions to the style of the principal by today's standards, and all have been adapted for present-day in the Gordon stable, most of the original spaces, including a main floor area some 40 feet by 50 feet, have been retained, and much APR 2 3 1974 CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins Moved with distinct character. Fair carriage and stable spaces is planned. only occupied at present on the second floor.Renovation of the tall Ionic pilasters beneath a dormer pediment, and three large This building is slightly separate from the other four, which of the original woodwork, especially the vertical tongue-and-groove grouped around an undeveloped street and an alley.
Only one, the second story with wooden exterior siding, a reconstruction following great strength.The enormous gabled roof of the M. Johnson stable Each of the buildings is large enough to make a major residence with a hipped roof, and a series of dormers and cupolas with (Check One) thus create a visual interest disproportionate to the size of the area. carriage doors.The end gable has a Palladian window. group of related forms and constitutes a natural unit.The spaces living.The interiors are as varied as the exteriors.For example, This is a set of five brick stable buildings of various styles make a tall, visually articulated space.
DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known)PHYSICAL APPEARANCE They do not represent any style, although their forms suggest elem- The most architecturally interesting is a long rectangular block is framed by two-story pier buttresses which give a feeling of The Herrick stable is RECEIVED two-story building with a gambrel roof.The entrance facade has between the buildings have been designed to provide open courtyards tends to loom over the whole group. The H. Johnson stable has a a fire.In spite of the differences, the buildings form a compact form a compact group facing one another across the narrow alley.
pyramidal roofs.The carriage door of the Hinds stable(see map) houses with which they were associated.It is a Georgian Revival Good (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM ENTRY NUMBER Kenilworth, and 2187 Overlook Carriage House, to the point of APR 2 3 1974 GPO 921.724 beginning. Overlook; COUNTY DATE Cuyahoga NATIONAL STATE REGISTER Ohio (Continuation Sheet) Road. arbitrary and inadequate numbering system.
Continue northeast along the continuation of the south side of Proceed northeast along the north side of abandoned Kenilworth (Number all entries) Overlook Road Carriage House District Form 10-300a Road to the alley; Proceed southeast on a line parallel to the alley to the boundary property called (*) 2l87 Overlook Carriage House, and proceeds Proceed along the boundary lines of 2l4l Overlook Carriage House; Proceed along the boundary lines of the properties called 2l4l of the property called 2l4l Overlook Carriage House; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Proceed along the boundary lines of the property called 214l FOR NPS USE ONLY abandoned Kenilworth Road to a point 1oo feet northeast of the alley; northwest along the driveway easement line to abandoned Kenilworth MAY *The apparent duplication of address numbers is due to an PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) X) 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Political - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Invention - Science - Sculpture & Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE This set of suburban stables, built for the houses of five northwest of the alley, and were built between 1897 and 1898.
belonged to the house of Edward O. Gordon, broker. Across the APR 2 3 1974 1898-1900 Engineering Conservation losophy Landscape Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Architecture Religion/Phi REGISTER Military NATIONAL twentieth century. Education Literature itarian Communications Agriculture Music Industry Frank Meade and Alfred Hoyt Granger.The long stable with cupolas Pre-Columbian internationally known architect. on the present site of the Christian Science Church.The two eastern RECEIVED to France.It was designed by the important Cleveland architects The houses of the owners were located on Overlook Road alley was the stable of Howell Hinds, president of the United Mines H.Johnson, attorneys.
The latter was the father of Philip Johnson, most stables belonged to the houses of Melvin B.Johnson and Homer Herrick, banker, advisor to William McKinley, and ambassador Corporation: His house was on the west side of Overlook Road The land for the stableswas purchased in 1898 and 1899,so it well-to-do citizens, is a group unique in greater Cleveland to be found clustered together around a private alley and forming the Art may be inferred that the buildings were erected shortly thereafter. equivalent of a British mews. They clearly embody one aspect of the style of living among the wealthy class at the turn of the The Georgian Revival stable was built for the house of Myron T. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 1950), 861, 1037.
GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POIN I OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES APR 2 3 1974 National 1 FORM PREPARED BY Western - Reserve Historical Society March 1974 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 Nationa1 Register. 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 is: * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 COUNTY ORGANIZATION Degrees Seconds Cleveland STATE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Local DATE CORNER Name Minutes ATTEST: Ohio CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: 5East Boulevard 2.4 Acres Cleveland City Directories, 1897-1900. William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, Title Cuyahoga County Auditor's Records. RECEIVED CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAI June 4,1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Re-submit Federal Register entry MAPS WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF Cuyahoga 4.23.74.655 Col HISTOR IAN MAY 8 ' 1974 5-2-74 Form No.
10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: APR 2 3 1074 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Aerial view of district, looking south. * U.S GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III - 1 035 039 Cuyahoga NAME Ohio COUNTY STATE REGISTE Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland Heights CODE Eric Johannesen COMMON: IDENTIFICATION PHOTO REFERENCE DATE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM March 1974 PHOTO CREDIT: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY AND/OR HISTORIC: 2141 Form No.
10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NAME LOCA TION APR 2 8 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. H. H. Johnson, M. B. Johnson, and Edward Gordon Carriage * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III - 1 Cuyahoga 035 Ohio IDENTIFICATION COUNTY DATE Cleveland Heights Eric Johannesen PHOTO REFERENCE NATIONAL CODE REGIST COMMON: STATE (7/72) Overlook Road Carriage House District PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER March 1974 Houses. PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: CITY OR TOWN: ENTRY NUMBER NEGATIVE FILED AT: 039 Western Reserve Historical Society House and 2lll Kenilworth. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No.
10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: March, 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: and 2141 Kenilworth, formerly the M. B. Johnson and * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 -1 035 Cuyahoga Ohio DATE 039 MAY Western Reserve Historical Society COUNTY STATE REGIS Cleveland Heights NAME PHOTO REFERENCE COMMON: CODE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Eric Johannesen IDENTIFICATION PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (7/72) Edward Gordon Carriage Houses. FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1974 NATION RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.
* US. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/ 1446 II- 1 Cuyahoga 035 039 COUNTY Ohio DATE NAME STATE Cleveland Heights IDENTIFICATION PHOTO REFERENCE Eric Johannesen CODE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER (7/72) March 1974 PHOTO CREDIT: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) Edward Gordon Carriage house,looking southeast UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - Form No. 10-301a ENTRY NUMBER LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: APR 2 3 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Houses, looking south. * US.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/ 1446 III - 1 Cuyahoga 035 Ohio 039 MAY IDENTIFICATION NAME COUNTY Western Reserve Historical Society DATE STATE (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) CODE Eric Johannesen (7/72) PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER March 1974 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY Cleveland Heights CITY OR TOWN: Howell Hinds, M. B. Johnson, and Edward Gordon Carriage COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE 1974 CuyahogAATIONA Form No.
10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: 2187 Overlook CITY OR TOWN: NEGATIVE FILED AT: * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 Cuyahoga 035 039 Ohio COUNTY MAY IDENTIFICATION NAME STATE Cleveland Hoights REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CODE March 1974 Western Reserve Historical Society Carriage House, looking south. (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER (7/72) Eric Johanneson PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 2187 Overlook Carriage House, formerly Myron T. Herrick COMMON: Overlook Road Carriage House District Form No. 10-301 Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U. S. G.S.
East Cleveland 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 : 1973-729-148/1441 3-l 035 039 1970 NAME Ohio Cuyahoga REQUIREMENTS COUNTY REGISTER STATE NATIONAL CODE Cleveland Heights 1:24,000 MAP REFERENCE COMMON: DATE: SCALE: Overlook Road Carriage House District SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES LOCATION ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY 2141 Kenilworth, 214l, 217l and 2187 Overlook Road Carriage House Overlook Road UNITED STATES EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 41° 11" District 81° 35' 50" Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev.
7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY APB-2 3 1974 AND/OR HISTORIC: Herrick, Gordon, Hinds and Johnson Carriage Houses STREET AND NUM BER: 2141 Kenilworth, 2141, 2171, and 2187 Overlook Road CITY OR TOWN: TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1979-729-148/1441 3-1 035 039 hand-drawn MAY Cuyahoga Ohio COUNTY DATE REQUIREMENTS STATE NATIONAL REGISTER Cleveland Heights NAME COMMON: CODE SCALE: Overlook Road Carriage House District MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) PROPERTY MAP FORM Scale: 1" = 100' Approx. 2.4 Acres APR 2 3 1974 2187 Overlook Carriage House (Myron T. Herrick) 2141 Kenilworth (Edward O. Gordon) 2171 Overlook (Homer H. Johnson) 5. 2141 Overlook (Melvin B.
Johnson) NATIONAL REGISTER Overlook Road OVERLOOK ROAD CARRIAGE HOUSE DISTRICT RECEIVED 3.2l4l Overlook Carriage House (Howell Hinds) Road April 17, 1974 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper APR 2 3 1974 18th 'and C Streets, N.W. / Arledge Mounds I & II, Pickaway County. 2Dayton Power and Light Company Mound, Adams County. Baldwin and Whitney House District, Cuyahoga County. /Wams ley Village Site, Adams County. 15Stonelick Covered Bridge, Clermont County. enclosures Sincerely, building. NATIONAL EMERGENCY REGISTER National Park Service Benham Mound, Hamilton County. Department of the Interior The First Church in Oberlin, Lorain County.
State Historic Preservation Officer National Register of Historic Places presently being considered as a possible site for a new high-rise apartment NEW SUBMISSIONS Included in this transmittal are the following categories of applications: Martinsville Road Covered Bridge, Clinton County. Dunns Pond Mound, Logan County. Snead Mound, Clermont County. Dear Bill: Luthor List Mound, Pickaway County. Barnett-Hoover Log House, Wayne County. /Westervelt Hall, Lorain County. All have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue the ohio historical society/ohio historical center/columbus, ohio 432l1/telephone (614) 466-×668 Washington, D. C. Winegardner Village, Fairfield County. Daniel R. Porter, Director Transmitted herewith are seventeen (17) completed National Register forms. DRP: dal 20240 Zimmerman Kame, Hardin County.
Overlook Road Carriage House District, Cuyahoga County.The district is Board and owners of subject properties have been informed of our intent to MAY 6 1874 Hon, Charles A. Vanik Columbus, Ohio 43211 MMott/ row Location STATE Region Cuyahoga County 5/14/74 Name ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Regional Director, Midwest Also Notified Interstate 7l at 17th Ave. Cleveland Heights Overlook Road Carriage House State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. The Ohio Historieal Society Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Mx. Daniel R. Porter, Director District 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 February 18, 1988 Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 continuation sheet listing the old addresses as listed on the National W. Ray Luce WRL: ae FEB 22 1988 Sincerely, Department of Interior Dear Carol, HISTORICAL SOCIETY city maps.
National Park Service identical street numbers and two different street names. avoid the continued confusion of the five carriage houses having three National Register of Historic Places State Historic Preservation Officer SINCE 1885 have been officially changed by the City of Cleveland Heights.Attached is a 614/297-2470 Please contact me if you have any questions. Register nomination form/map, and the new addresses as reflected on current Ohio Historic Preservation Office the Overlook Road Carriage House District, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, We have recently been informed that the street addresses for the properties in OHIO None of these properties has been moved;the changes of address occurred to