Nomination for Telling, William E., House

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1 State (Rev.

6-72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: - In Process X Restricted - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: MAY 1 3 1974 035 039 County Cuyahoga NAME Religious Government CLASSIFICATION LOCATION Site CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE Memphis Military NATIONAL REGISTER 44144 Commercial Private OWNERSHIP CODE Cleveland Educational District Structure Unoccupied STATUS Being Considered Entertainment Agricultural Ohio Yes: Both COMMON: Federal Private Residence Scientific Park Public Museum Cuyahoga County Building Public Acquisition: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Industrial Mayfield Road REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS OWNER OF PROPERTY 1219 Ontario TO THE PUBLIC NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY DATE STREET AND NUMBER: Object DATE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: Local (Check One) 22 - Charles A.

Vanik X Building CHRISTOPHER DEVAN OCT 1 6 1974 PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) DATE South Euclid ENTRY NUMBER Telling, South Euclid Branch Library RECEIVED 7. DESCRIPTION - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

This is a twenty-six room mansion designed in an eclectic on the north (garden) elevation, while the main floor is at the grade way to the west, the gardener's house, a cylindrical tower with conical roof, is connected to the main house by a porte-cochere of exposed beams and rafters, and a small stairway leads to an there is great attention to ornamental detail in iron fixtures, hard- floor tile and book shelving have been installed, but there have been MAY 1 3 1974 CONDITION Moved Excellent NATIONAL REGISTER no other structural alterations apart from the conservatory.

idiom derived from country houses in the north of France, specif- ceiling with molded plaster signs of the zodiac.The living room by irregular polygonal and turreted shapes which suggest the more Having been adapted as a library since 1950,modern lighting main entrance and circulation area of the present library.One of leaded windows. The large rectangular living room has an unusual The entrance hall opens into the house in three directions through pointed Gothic arches with carved wooden doors.A stone with plaster or stucco. The main south entrance is framed by an ware, carved woodwork and molded plaster.

At the northeast corner of the house is a two-story study, the most opens into a sizable wing to the south which was formerly a glass- ation, while the two upper stories are of a half-timbered style faced (Check One) level on the Mayfield Road facade.The lower level is a stone found- Good open timbered and gabled porch. The north garden facade is marked staircase also leading from the entrance hall is illuminated by tall the most interesting rooms is the breakfast room, a small octagonal area with a shallow domed ceiling whose plaster ornament consists Deteriorated Ruins imposing chateaux of Chambord or Chenonceaux. Across the drive- covered conservatory.This has been closed and roofed to form the and covered service wing. ically Normandy.Built ona sloping site,the ground floor.is exposed Fair PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

- 18th Century - Urban Planning - Religion/Phi- - Science - Sculpture - Social/Human- - Literature - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

the first in Cleveland to pasteurize milk, to deliver milk in glass bottles, and to have its own bacteriological laboratory. Telling Conservation Military Engineering losophy REGISTER Commerce MAY131974 Aboriginal Communications Theater Music NATIONAL itarian Prehistoric Education SIGNIFICANCE Architecture Invention site in a manner which creates a striking image from the north. .1928-1930 Library.The building has been very successfully adapted as a fearful that the county administrators may receive a commercial Political first commercial ice-cream plant in Cleveland in 1897.In 1915 public library, and retains much of its original feeling and associa- a French provincial style, especially notable for its interior offer which they cannot refuse.

This is one of the last surviving large industrialist's.mansions Landscape ornamental detail, and the house was set into a sloping 23-acre in its community. It is an excellent example of eclectic design in itmerged with the Belle Vernon Dairy Farms.This company was is zoned for commercial use, and local friends of the library are Agriculture The mansion was built in 1928 by William E. Telling, president $700,ooo. Telling occupied the mansion for less than ten years, The Telling company was organized in 1895,and operated the was succeeded as president in l929,and evidently built the mansion Industry Other(Specify) AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) It is presently used as a county public library, but the property for his retirement. Telling died in January, 1938.

RECEIVED of the Telling Belle Vernon Company.The architect was John S. Kelly.The whole complex was completed in 1930 ata cost of

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 1950), 567-568, 731. (pamphlet, n.d., n.p.). 10.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 41 0 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES MAY 1 3 1974 tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law NATIONAL REGISTER 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register GP0 931-894 039 Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees Name DATE LATITUDE COUNTY ORGANIZATION Local Ohio ATTEST: Degrees Minutes Seconds CORNER STATE CODE NATIONAL February 1974 The Western Reserve Historical Society REGISTER Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, Cleveland I hereby certify that this property is included in the William Ganson Rose, STREET AND NUMBER: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: CITY OR TOWN: FORM PREPARED BY evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set in the National Register and certify that it has been T2.

STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Six (6) Acres forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Title Minutes RECEIVED Marguerite Passan and Richard N. Campen, South Euclid Library 10825 East Boulevard 457210 NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Form No.10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED NOV 1 4 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER 4; 7; 8 PAGE 1 7. Description Residence, but omitted from the original nomination, is the Gatehouse Located within the designated acreage of the William E. Telling roofs are of tile.

There is a large rectangular chimney on the east wall, Telling estate, and the original relationship between the residence and The Telling Gatehouse was the first building erected on the Telling Gatehouse stands at the entrance drive of the main house.Although under DATE ENTERED and was used for security purposes while the construction of the main CONTINUATION SHEET one with a hipped roof oriented north-south, and a one-and-a-half story one 8. Significance placed on either side of the east chimney and in the south elevation. The estate, and was designed by the same architect, John S.Kelly, in a cottage and another on the ridge of the west block Small windows are symmetrically 4629 Mayfield Road FOR NPS USE ONLY marked by a used brick wall. of the estate. separate ownership, it shares the same western property line, which is running east-west. The corners are emphasized with brick quoins.

The Owner: William E. Telling Residence It is a brick structure consisting of two blocks, a two-story the Gatehouse is still preserved. James H. and Dorothy Bonner interior has six rooms with a recreation room and two fireplaces.The South Euclid, Ohio 44121 Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM William E. Telling Residence ITEM NUMBER 4; 7; 8 PAGE 1 7. Description Residence, but omitted from the original nomination, is the Gatehouse separate ownership, it shares the same western property line, which is 8. Significance Telling estate, and the original relationship between the residence and the Gatehouse is still preserved. The Telling Gatehouse was the first building erected on the Telling CONTINUATION SHEET interior has six rooms with a recreation room and two fireplaces.

The Gatehouse stands at the entrance drive of the main house.Although under and another on the ridge of the west block Small windows are symmetrically running east-west.The corners are emphasized with brick quoins.The and was used for security purposes while the construction of the main DATE ENTERED roofs are of tile.There isa large rectangular chimney on the east wall, estate, and was designed by the same architect, John a cottage Located within the designated acreage of the William E.Telling placed on either side of the east chimney and in the south elevation. The FOR NPS USE ONLY 4629 Mayfield Road 8,21. RECEIVED AUG 21 1979 South Euclid, Ohio 44121 residence was being completed. The Gatehouse is an integral part of the one with a hipped roof oriented north-south, and a one-and-a-half story one It was completed in 1928 version of the same style as the main house.

marked by a used brick wall. 5.13. 74, 767 HIS TORIAN Conference OCT 1 6 1974 INT: 1538-73 KEEPER Entered PHOTOS ARCHEOLOGIST WORKING NUMBER Send-back Re-submit MAPS National Register Write-up Cuyahoga BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 5.17 Federal Register entry 12/3/74 Ret Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION , Mayfield Road CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAY 1 3 1974 * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 039 035 COUNTY Cuyahoga Residence DATE South Euclid NAME NATIONAL Eric Johannesen STATE CODE REGISTER (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) COMMON: IDENTIFICATION PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM ENTRY NUMBER Study and balcony Trophy room.

February 1974 (7/72) Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY 9CT 16-1974 EGATIVE FILED AT: Western Reserve Historical Society South Euclid Branch Library PROPERTY OF THE NATI STREET AND NUMBER: Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: 4645 Mayfield Road CITY OR TOWN: PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

MAY 1 3 1974 035 039 Residence NAME Living room area COUNTY IDENTIFICATION DATE STATE Eric Johannesen Cuyahoga CODE PHOTO REFERENCE COMMON: Ohio (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) South Euclid (7/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER February 1974 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY OCT 1 6 1974 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTÉTONAL Western Reserve Historical Society UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OCT 1 6 1974 NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: Western Reserve Historical Society DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

* US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 III-1 IDENTIFICATION 039 COUNTY DATE STATE Cuyahoga PHOTO REFERENCE REGISTE South Euclid Eric Johannesen CODE COMMON: Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT: (7/72) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY MAY131974 Residence West elevation and porte-cochere, looking East. South Euclid Branch Library February 1974 035 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY NAME LOCA TION PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: Western Reserve Historical Society MAT 1 3 1974 * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1973-729-152/1446 III - !

035 DATE COUNTY Cuyahoga IDENTIFICATION CODE STATE Eric Johannesen NATIONAL RECEIVE COMMON: South Euclid Mayfield Road South Euclid Branch Library PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) REGISTER ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: PHOTO CREDIT: Gardener's lodge and wing, looking North. Ohio February 1974 (7/72) CITY OR TOWN: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC 039 Residence 4645 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY OCT 16 1974 , Mayfield Road DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: MAY 1 3 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. North Garden elevation, looking South.

* US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - | 039 035 DATE COUNTY South Euclid NAME NATIONAL Residence STATE REGISTE Cuyahoga LOCATION COMMON: CODE PHOTO REFERENCE Eric Johannesen IDENTIFICATION PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM PHOTO CREDIT: ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) (7/72) February 1974 AND/OR HISTORIC: Ohio CITY OR TOWN: Western Reserve Historical Society?).T8 Telling South PROPERTY OE THE NATIONAL REGISTER Vath Gav deu eleva house at left and Residence at right, looking North. Estate entrance, with Gate PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Telling, William E., Residence J. H. Bonner J. H. Bonner South Euclid 1978 house at left and Residence Telling, William E., Residence PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NOV 141978 Estate gateway, with Gate at right, looking NW. So.

Euclid Cuyahoga AUG 2 1 1979 Estate, looking North. Telling, William E., Residence So. Euclid Gatehouse and Entrance to M. Schulte CUYAHOGA COUNTY SOUTH LIBRARY EUCLID PUBLIC LIBRARY M. Schulte So. Euclid AUG 2 1 1979 Telling, William E., Residence Residence, Looking NW Gatehouse and Main gate to South Euclid Cuyahoga Co. Ohio E. Johannesen 1978 AUG 2 1 1979 WRHS Telling, William E., Residence looking West. South Euclid Cuyahoga Co. Ohio Gatehouse, east elevation, South Euclid Cuyahoga Telling, William E., Residence Gate House, looking west. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER -16-78 NUV 1 41978 Ohio Tom Fisher 1978 W.R.H.S. Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ICT 16 1974 AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: MAP REFERENCE U. S. G.S. East Cleveland Quadrangle 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS MAY 1 3 1974 1.

Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. 035 1970 039 Cuyahoga REQUIREMENTS DATE COUNTY NAME REGISTER Ohio STATE CODE South Euclid COMMON: SCALE: PROPERTY MAP FORM ENTRY NUMBER SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES LOCATION 4645 Mayfield Road (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) FOR NPS USE ONLY South Euclid Branch Library U.S. G.S. UNITED STATES EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Branch Library EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO 7/457 210 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY South Euclid OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO. 81° 30 41° 14* 1 6 1974 Ohmer, Nicholas, House Hathavay, Lot, House Lake Ridge Island Mounds Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Hx. Charles C. Pratt Hon. Charles W. Whales, Jr. Hon. Charles A. Vanik Interstate #71 at 17th Avenue Bon. Clarence J. Brown, Jt.

PR MMOTT: p1 10.24.74 Dayton Location Sandusky Logan County STATE Name Geauga County South Euclid House Also Notified Date Entered East Claridon Springfield Cuyahoga County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Trumbull County Acting Director Pickaway County Russells Point vieinity Mad River Block Montgonery County Regional Director, Midwest Region Newton Falls Covered Bridga Luthor List Mound Erie County Newton Falls The Ohio Historical Society Circleville vicinity Clark County Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Mariemont Eabankment and Village Site Hon. Thomas A. Ltuken Hon. J. Will1an Stanton Columbus, Ohio 43211 Arcade Hotel State Hlstoric Preservation Officer Mariomont Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper NOV 1 4 1978 18th & C Streets, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20240 Dear Dr. Murtagh: Stuart's Opera House, Athens Co. Keeler, Diadatus House, Delaware Melville-Milne, William Gordon House, Erie Co.

Beech Avenue Cluster, Hamilton Co. Church, School and Rectory of the Immaculate Church, Hamilton Co. Columbia-Tusculum Historic District, Hamilton Co. Wellston City Hall, Jackson Co. Hanna, Leonard Estate, Lake Co. Unionville District School, Lake Co. Rankin, Reverend John Residential Historic District, Lawrence Historic Resources Along the Wellington-Huntington Road, Lorain Co. Lorain Lighthouse, Lorain Co. Matthias Gast House and General Store, Mercer Co. Belville, John House, Montgomery Co. Kearn, George and Edward House, Muskingum Co. Ritter, William House, Richland Co. Mountain House, Ross Co. Boneyfiddle Commercial District, Scioto Co. Main Street Grade School, Seneca Co. Sidney Waterworks & Electric Light Building, Shelby Co. Bair, Joseph H., House, Stark Co. Timken Barn, Stark Co. William E. Telling Gatehouse, Cuyahoga Co. (William E.

Telling House, listed in 1974) Director, Ohio Historical Society THS : cw Ohio Historical Center I-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 Sincerely Ohio Historic Preservation Office RECEIVED Twenty-Five Regular New Submissions Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service State Historic Preservation Officer National Register of Historic Places ADDITION TO EXISTING NOMINATION an addition to an existing National Register listing. Thomas H. Smith Heter Historic Farm Grouping, Seneca Co. Department of the Interior Wesley Chapel, Ross Co. NATIONAL the owners have been informed of our intent to nominate them.Also enclosed is October 31, 1978 ont, Shet Mendon Town Hall, Mercer Co. Transmitted herewith are twenty-five completed National Register nominations forms. They have been approved by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board and 11.