Nomination for Summit County Courthouse and Annex

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

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

6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) OCT 15 1974 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 14 - John Seiberling (Check One) X Building - Preservation work - Transportation * - Comments .- Scientific OWNER'S NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: JUL 11 1974 039 153 LOCATION County Summit Akron CLASSIFICATION NAME ACCESSIBLE Site CATEGORY Government OWNERSHIP Religious Educational District Commercial Restricted CODE Federal NATIONAL Private Museum Unoccupied DATE Being Considered Both Entertainment Agricultural Structure Private Residence Ohio STATUS REGISTER Park Yes: COMMON: Industrial Public Summit County Courthouse and Annex CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: OWNER OF PROPERTY Public Acquisition: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 209 South High Street Military TO THE PUBLIC Object In Process CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) STREET AND NUMBER:O PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) County Building ENTRY NUMBER 72 South High Street DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved X Original Site annex a flat one.

- various offices, services and courtrooms are arranged along walnut and oak woodwork and decorative elements of a rather to the south. of the main building, and the demolition of the annex in about CONDITION REGISTER NATIONAL five years. Ruins characteristic of the simpler interpretations of the Renaissance Present long-range county planning calls for the restoration considerably adapted for modern use with partitions, new lighting lower ranks of steps were eliminated and the approach was terraced of both buildings have the dignity characteristic of the public completed sixteen years after the main building.The two are facing east and constructed in identical style and materials, was sombre version of the Italian Renaissance style.The interiors story of both units consists of rusticated arches.

The windows buildings of the period, in marked contrast to the relatively central lobby three stories high surrounded by balconies.The linked by two bridges at the second and third levels.The main and so on. But the majority of the rooms retain the heavy corridors from the lobby space.Several of the offices have been of the upper two stories are framed in vertical ranks between On the interior,the east and west entrance halls lead toa flat piers..The entablature, cornice and horizontal parapet are Revival style. The main building has a high hipped roof, and the as the west is no longer the main entrance.The annex building, (Check One) NUL 1 1 1974 DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

This is a large steel, concrete and sandstone-faced structure Excellent in the Second Renaissance Revival style.It consists of three main Fair Street isapproachedbya great flight of steps.In the1960's the Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century - Education X] Urban Planning - Historic Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

of the period, J. Milton Dyer. The buildings are important January, 1908. Cleveland from about 1898 to 1914. He had studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, longer than most American students. Register), the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Coast Guard Station, JUL 1 1 1974 1908 Commerce Communications Architecture Transportation losophy Aboriginal NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE Theater Engineering REGISTER Literature Landscape Invention Science Agriculture Music itarian Political Religion/Phi Social/Human- The Summit County Courthouse and Annex are excellent they still serve much of their original functions well. elements in the new urban planning of central Akron, and persistence and importance of the idiom. Indus.try element in a long-range projected government center.

Italian Renaissance-inspired influence of McKim, Mead and Among his important works are the Cleveland City Hall (National Conservation Sculpture and the U.s. Subtreasury Building in San Francisco. RECEIVED Flanked by the new city-county building on the south and The building replaced an earlier courthouse on the same site. The Summit County Courthouse is a clear example of the The plans for the main building were prepared in 1905.

of $238,250.The building was completed and occupied in an open park on the north, the courthouse is the central White and Richard Hunt.The fact that the Annex was designed The contract went to George W.Carmichael& Co.ata bid The architect J.Milton Dyer (1870-1957) was active in Military SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) Art house was designed by one of Cleveland's premier architects examples of the Second Renaissance Revival style.The court- Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Nov. 14, 1965, 22-23, 40-41.

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: JUL 1 1 1974 FORM PREPARED 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 level of significance of this nomination is: Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Keeper of The National Register GPO 931-894 039 February DATE COUNTY ORGANIZATION Degrees Name Title LATITUDE LONGITUDE Seconds Local NATIONAL Cleveland REGISTER Minutes ATTEST: STATE CORNER Ohio CODE Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Degrees Minutes Seconds

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES STREET AND NUMBER: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION GEOGRAPHICAL DATA NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: 10.11.7 Karl H. Grismer, Akron and Summit County (Akron, n.d.), 351-352 OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Western Reserve Historical Society Two acres BOUROARIESU PHOTOS 3 CONTROL REVIEW ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER Re-submit Send-back Federal Register entry MAPS INT:1538-73 74001625 TECH REVIEW National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF WORKING NUMBER REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Summit 12/3/74 10/11/ 7.11.74.

1134 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN OCT 1 5 1974 Entered PRESENT CONDITION (altered, covered, ruins, deterforated--archeological): SURVEY RECORDS (is form correct?): DESCRIPTION: PROPERTY: WRITE-UP COMMENT STYLE OR CULTURE: NAME: SHEET (leave attached to nomination) SIGNIFICANCE (specify Paragraph or line): the write up, please indicate them below. -DATE "AND INSTICATOR (bullder, architect, group, engineer, etc.): LOCATION: If there are comments(negative or positive)which will affect COMMENTS: HOUSE COURT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION SUMMIT DO. 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT C. Pongracz III 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

JUL 1 1 1974 GPO 932-009 Akron TOWN COMMON Summit County COUNTY DATE Ohio NAME STATE Courthouse and Annex NATIONAL REGISTE Main facade of Courthouse, looking East. 209 South High Street Sheriff's Office PHOTO BY SUMMIT COUNTY SHERIFF PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM January 1974 PHOTO CREDIT (6/72) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER STREET AND NUMBER Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER LOCA TION JUL 1 1 1974 CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/ 1446 III- 1 Akron DATE COUNTY NAME STATE REGISTE Summit NATIONAL COMMON: CODE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE Western Reserve Historical Society 209 South High Street Eric Johannesen PHOTO CREDIT: PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Third floor lobby, showing balcony around central court. (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: (7/72) February 1974 Ohio 039l Summit County Courthouse and Annex Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHO SUMMIT 00. (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) NAME LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: JUL 1 1 1974 CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

* US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/1446 II - 1 Akron 039 IDENTIFICATION COUNTY DATE 153 STATE CODE NATIONAL Eric Johannesen PHOTO REFERENCE Western Reserve Historical Society OPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER South and east elevations of courthouse and Annex, looking PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 209 South High Street PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Ohio (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY February l97l 1.5/1974 Summit County Courthouse and Annex UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: U. S. G. S. 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 1967 039 153 Akron Summit COUNTY Ohio DATE NAME REQUIREMENTS LOCATION STATE REGISTER NATIONAL MAP REFERENCE COMMON: Akron West Quadrangle CODE 1:24.000 SCALE: SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES If this means "courthouse, the map AND/OR HISTORIC: This map shows the building to the PROPERTY MAP FORM CITY OR TOWN: north of the courthouse labeled C H. (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) is in error. Rev. 7-72 Summit County Courthouse and Annex 209 South High Street DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AKRON WEST, OHIO UNITED STATES AKRON WEST QUADRANGLE ROAD CLASSIFICATION Summit County GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OHIO 1 5 1974 Kimball, Lemuel (II), House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Delbert L.

Latta Columbus, Ohio 43211 Sandusky County 10/18/74 Location MMott/row Gatch Site Name Director Date Entered Lake County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Mull Covered Bridge Clermont County Summit County Courthouse and Annex Burgoon vicinity State Hlstoric Preservation Officer Regional Director, Midwest Region Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaurn Interstate #7l at 17th Ave. Milford vicinity Mr. Charles W. Pratt Hon. John F. Seiberling Hon.J. William Stanton Summit County Hon. Willian H. Harsha Akron Madison J. Carano Adupted SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1976 J.Firestone-Welf. Dept. Commissioners Cole, Stephens & RICHARD E. SL UISER cal Places,U.S.Dept. of DON M.STEPMENS AT 1134 NORTH AVENUE, MUNROE FALLS, OHIO, FORMERLY KNOWN It was moved by Slusser and seconded by Cole, that this toric Places of the U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

protect the site or building from demolition or harm from On roll call Stephens voted yes, Cole yes and Stephens yes. File COMMISSIONERS G.S.McFadden-Administrator Italian-American Society HISTORICAL SITE Board of Summit County Commissioners authorize the Summit County Slusser Administrator to make application to the Ohio Historical Society Ohio Historical Society Summit County Historical Soc ADMINISTRATOR TO MAKE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY using federally funded or licensed program. AS SUMMIT COUNTY HOME AS for qualification for inclusion in the National Register of His- National Register of Histori APPLICATION TO PLACE ON Distribution to place the building formerly known as SUMMIT COUNTY HOME, Bummit County Cummissioners Interior, Washington,D.C.

located at 1134 North Avenue, Munroe Falls, Ohio, on the register This is to certily that this is a true and exact copy of the SEP 9 SEP 14 1976 DATE REC'D INITIALS