Nomination for Temple, The

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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 (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AUG 3 0 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: East 105th Street and Silver Park Silver Park 21 - Louis Stokes - OWNERSHIP (Check One) ] In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IH EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 035 039 NAME LOCATION Religious Cuyahoga Cleveland STATE ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION Government Ohio Site District Unoccupied Both NATIONAL Yes: Restricted Private Educational Entertainment Park Museum CODE Structure REGISTER Private Residence STATUS COMMON: COUNTY: Being Considered Public Scientific Agricultural Industrial Military 1219 Ontario Tifereth Israel Society Public Acquisition: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: University Circle at Silver Park OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES TO THE PUBLIC ENTRY DATE CITY OR TOWN: EODE X Building PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Federal DATE Object ENTRY NUMBER Cuyahoga County Building DESCRIPTION - Excellent D Deteriorated - Unexposed X Unaltered X) Original Site supported on Romanesque columns and capitals, framed by a single form a park) and East 105th Street, accommodating educational, entrance contains the ark, an elaborately carved structure of walnut, abstract patterns.

The Byzantine and Romanesque derived arches provide the basic motif for all the forms of the interior, both is a gray, heavy, sombre richness, illuminated only partially by building in the 1960's, but there have been no significant alterations OCT 1 6 1973 CONDITION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins RECEIVED the clerestory windows, but depending largely on artificial light. structural and decorative.The overall impression of the interior eclectic elements of the Byzantine and Romanesque styles.It stands the heptagon.The great dome is roofed with yellow-buff tile.The are of concrete block, some of them precast in Near Eastern the main sanctuary stretches between Ansel Road (now closed to contain balconies, also framed in large arches. The interior walls The sanctuary occupies the entire interior of the domed heptagon. same architectural character as the main sanctuary building.

are five round-headed lancet clerestory windows in each side of This is a large domed masonry religious structure, with some Itis reached through a low rectangular lobby completely faced in museum and social facilities.Itis consistently treated with the entrance facing the acute angle of the site consists of three arches on a narrow triangular site originally formed by the intersection of A new educational unit was added to the north of the original dark vari-colored marble.The side of the sanctuary opposite the to the original building. (Check One) Good - Moved Partly because of the site, the building is seven-sided. The exterior is of Indiana limestone, cut large arch which echoes the dome. Flanking the entrance are two There Fair Ansel Road and East 105th Street.

PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian | SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning STATEMENT OF SiGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

it has been a real landmark, in the sense of a prominent feature, The architect of the Temple was Charles R. Greco, who also OCT 1 6 1973 1923-1924 forms. Commerce Architecture losophy Communications NATIONAL Engineering Aboriginal Prehistoric Conservation REGISTER Theater Science Transportation SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Literature Music nue. itarian Political Industry Cleveland Heights. in the religious, educational and cultural activities were welcomed. Sculpture Religion/Phi- of the Wade Park-University Circle area since its completion.

Invention This feature has contributed largely to the fact that in 1850,the congregation split from the oldest Jewish society The Temple is primarily significant as an unusual work of East 105th Street is the third building of the congregation Landscape gations in Cleveland.To a student of design it is especially home of one of the oldest and most progressive Jewish congre- succeeding the first one of 1855 on Huron Street, and the building 20th Century interesting as a set ofvariations on circular and geometric While at 55th Street, the synagogue became recognized as in Cleveland, formed only four years earlier.The Temple on The $l,350,000 structure was erected in 1923-1924.The Temple designed the Temple on the Heights (1925)on Mayfield Road, occupied from 1894 to 1923 on East 55th Street and Central Ave- Social/Human- Military AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other the first "open temple" in the world, where all people interested Art RECEIVED modern eclectic architecture, but it is also important as the is the synagogue of the Congregation Tifereth Israel.Formed

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: OCT 1 61973 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 evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GPO 931-894 039 Degrees LONGITUDE Seconds ORGANIZATION Cleveland DATE COUNTY LATITUDE NATION Name Ohio Local STATE ATTEST: REGISTER Title CODE Minutes Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds CORNER 10825 East Boulevard NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION less than one STREET AND NUMBER: National Register.

level of significance of this nomination is: 4595130 NAME AND TITLE: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES FORM PREPARED BY in the National Register and certify that it has been CITY OR TOWN: William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, Eric Johannesen, Preservationist forth by the National Park Service. The recommended : 1973 RECEIVED August, Keeper of The National Register Cleveland, Ohio FEB 1 1 1974 1923 NATIONAL REGISTER Congregation Tifereth Israel THE TEMPLE Schematic Drawing MAIN ENTRANCE BUILDING RECEIVED ADDITION STATE CLiO 10.16.73 3782 Send-back - Re-submit - AUG 3 0 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST MAPS TECH REVIEW National Register Write-up Federal Register entry WORKING NUMBER BRANCH CHIEF Cuyahoga REVIEW UNIT CHIEF HISTORIAN 10.17 PHOTOS 2 hold hi'll Jan due to 5oyrs. 2. Location. 3.

Classification. - 4. Owner of Property. . 5.. Location of Legal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. _ 7. Description. Statement of Significance. _ 9. Bibliography.. 10. Geographical Data. Je be off by about Acreage. _ _1l. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. SIGNED: Name. Photographic Coverage. Other. Please check. Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation Map Coverage. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for clarification of the information indicated below. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register criteria in full.

NAME OF PROPERTY Longitude and Latitude Coordinates.Longitude (or Latitude)appears UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NAME INUMERIC CODE (Asaigned by NPS) AUG 3 0 1974 2. LOCATION - Cuyahoga 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. OCT 1.6 1973 GPO 932-009 1967 Cleveland TOWN Ohio DATE COUNTY STATE COMMON Martin Linsey REGISTE The Temple NATIONAL Cleveland Museum of Art AND/OR HISTORIC PHOTO CREDIT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM East 105th Street and Silver Park PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC 2. LOCATION 3.

PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. OCT 1 6 1973 GPO 932-009 1967 Cuyahoga Ohio Cleveland TOWN COUNTY Martin Linsey COMMON NAME STATE Entrance facade of Temple, looking North. The Temple PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) Cleveland Museum of Art East l05th Street and Silver Park CODE (Aselgned by NPS) DATE REGIST UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME 2. LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE SOURCE U. S. G.S.

OCT 1 6 1973 GPO 932.010 1970 Cuyahoga Ohio STATE Cleveland COUNTY COMMON TOWN NATIONAL REGISTER SCALE The Temple STREET AND NUMBER East Cleveland Quadrangle Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM AND/OR HISTORIC (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) East 105th Street and Silver Park DATE 1:24,000 RECEIVED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE 41° 30' 28" UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO. EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO 10825 East Boulevard - Cleveland, Ohio 44106 - (216) 721-5722 February 6, 1974 Meredith B. Colket, Jr. Jairus B. Barnes Ms. Jan Thorman Siegfried F. Buerling Hale Farm & Village Washington, D.C. 20240 Harold R. Cullop Dear Ms. Thorman: Kenneth B. Gooding Kermit J. Pike Frederick C.

Crawford It is a solid stone wall, treated exactly like the exterior interior, where the difference between 1923 and 1963 is Alfred M. Rankin Parenthetically, I have found that my own personal David W. Swetland David S. Ingalls, Jr. A. Dean Perry EJ: jh FEB 1 1 1974 nomination. OFFICERS Treasurer Director Secretary NATIONAL REGISTER Historical Museum Business Manager Auto-Aviation Museum integrity are stricter than those of some of the National National Register of Historic Places Morris Everett standards for eliminating structures on the basis of Eric Johannesen Scott Mueller Vice President north that it does not show.I enclose a schematic plan. to photograph the educational addition to The Temple obviously more apparent, but the subtle handling of the National Park Service Register people I have spoken to.

walls of the original building.I had inspected the exterior explains why I did not note it in the original Manager of Operations, THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Chief Librarian Chief Curator, The only exterior wall that shows is indicated by shading. You may find this hard to believe, but it is impossible Curator, WRHS Sincerely yours, RECEIVED from the exterior.It is so close to the hospital on the The Temple (Tifereth Israel Hon, Robert Taft, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location STATE Cuyahoga County MMott/row 9/3/74 Date Entered ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Cleveland State Historic Preservation Officer Society) Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. Mr. Daniel R. Porter The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Regional Director, Midwest Region Hon. Louis Stokes AUG 3 0 1974 Name Director and Silver Silver ParK. instrad of East (Tifereth Israel