Decorative drawing: a one-room schoolhouse with a bell cupola. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Berea District 7 School

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,618 words across 11 pages, filed in 1975. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 75001355, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

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 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) Berea Fine Arts Club, Inc.
AND/ OR HISTORIC: Berea District 7 School 323 East Bagley Road (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC X Building - Unoccupied - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments Commercial X Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: NOV 22 1974 ^ 035 039 Ohio Berea 1975 Cuyahoga Site REGISTER LOCATION ACCESSIBLE NAME Both CLASSIFICATION Private APR Religious DATE Restricted Government Cleveland CATEGORY Educational Structure Entertainment CODE Museum STATUS Federal Park NATIONAL Yes: OWNERSHIP Public Agricultural Industrial Being Considered COMMON: COUNTY: Military Private Residence CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: DATA SHEET Public Acquisition: Object REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Scientific 1219 Ontario OWNER OF PROPERTY STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 23- William Minshall PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) District Woman's Club DESCRIPTION (Check One) X Good O Fair - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The main facade of the Berea District Elementary School (Berea Fine Arts Club) faces south on Bagley Road. Built in 1913, the structure height, rectangular in plan and has a hipped roof of slate tiles. There are double, arched windows to either side of the entrance change in the exterior is a wing across the back of the building on in 1935 the large sliding door which separated the two rooms was re- moved. A stage was added across the east side and a cloakroom was and floors remain. NOV 2 2 1974 CONDITION REGISTER Excellent Deteriorated RECEIVED installed to either side of the entrance.The wooden walls, ceilings NATIONAL' - Moved The brick school is one-story in houses the main entrance. " This bay is gable roofed with a semi- open belltower above the entrance which has an intersecting gable the north side. This wing was added in the early 1950's and contains a kitchen and two restrooms.
When the Fine Arts Club took over the building bay (these have been bricked in). The east and west facades each Few changes have been made to the interior. The original building was Original Site retains its original appearance. a two room school. PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - Prehistoric STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

schoolhouse, common in the early part of the twentieth century. The two-room school was, at the time it was built, an early improvement remains in good condition, with very little major alteration, and is Art classes, ballet, Little Theater of Berea and church groups Brookpark and Middleburg Heights) the third largest school district in NOV 22 1974 for. SIGNIFICANCE Conservation losophy Commerce Military Engineering Music Aboriginal Science Communications REGISTER Architecture Theater itarian Agriculture RECEIVED Landscape NATIONAL Industry Education Political Sculpture Religion/Phi. Cuyahoga County. Transpogtation Urban Planning Literature Social/Human- needs of the community of Berea and remains well-used and well-cared used almost daily.
18th Century on the one-room schoolhouse of the nineteenth century.The building Berea District 7 School is a good example of the two-room district Invention The Berea District 7 School has served as the Berea Fine Arts Club Other (Specify) SPECIFICDATE(S) (It Applicable and Known) there monthly. The schoolhouse has adapted itself well to meet the 1913 AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Township), Berea News, 1970. Berea News articles .

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES .. FORM PREPARED BY Mrs. Joseph Bishop 323 E. Bagley Rd. 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 Nationa 1 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 APR 2 GP0 931-894 LATITUDE Degrees DATE Seconds ORGANIZATION Berea LONGITUDE Local ATTEST: Name COUNTY REGISTER STATE CODE CORNER 039 Minutes Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ohio NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation Cleveland Plain Dealer articles.
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES March 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: Record of the Berea School District. Berea Fine Arts Club NAME AND TITLE: Scrapbooks and Documents of the Berea Fine Arts Club. level of significance of this nomination is: NATIONAL DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PKOPERTY CITY OR TOWN: Holzworth, Walter. APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: forth by the National Park Service. The recommended NOV 22 1974 Title RECEIVED Men of Grit and Greatness.(A History of Middleburg 4580260 11.23 X ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Re-submit Send-back Cuyahoga Maps Photos Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF TECHNICAL Entered APR 3 Working Number11. 22. 74., 2059 Cole 3/75 IN T:2106 - 74 State 2. Location. 3. Classification. . 4. Owner of Property. - 5.
Location of Legal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. - 7. Description. 9. Bibliography. 10. Geographical Data. te be off by about 11. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. Other. Name. SIGNED: Map Coverage. School architecturally significant? Photographic Coverage. Acreage. The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation office for clarification of the information indicated below. necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register criteria in full. Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. Please checl. NAME OF PROPERTY Longitude and Latitude Coordinates. Longitude (or Latitude) appears The significance of this building is not made Statement of Significance. Form No, 10-301a Berea Fine Arts Club, Inc.
LOCA TION Berea Fire NOV 221974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 1974 035 NAME Cuyahoga COUNTY DATE CODE STATE Ohio APR81975 IDENTIFICATION COMMON: PHOTO CREDIT: South and west facades. PHOTO REFERENCE ENTRY NUMBER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 323 East Bagley Road NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STREET AND NUMBER: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC: FOR NPS USE ONLY NEGATIVE FILED AT: Berea District 7 school CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) APR 3 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 87 6- 1 67 NATIONAL RECISTER Form No. 10-301a NAME LOCA TION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 035 039 1974 Berea DATE Cuyahoga COUNTY CODE REGISTER NATIONAL PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Ohio ENTRY NUMBER STATE COMMON: South and east facades.
PHOTO CREDIT: RECEIVED AND/OR HISTORIC: FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IDENTIFICATION STREET AND NUMBER: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) Berea District 7 School NEGATIVE FILED AT: Berea Fine Arts Club, Inc. 323 East Bagley Road CITY OR TOWN: PROPERTY OF THE NAT:ONAL REGISTER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE OF PHOTO: (7/72) - Property of - PHOTO REFERENCE Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES APR 3 AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: U.S.G.S. 7.5' Berea 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 3-1 035 1963 030 LOCATION Berea COUNTY Cuyahoga NAME DATE STATE 1:24000 REQUIREMENTS NATIONAL REGISTER CODE COMMON: Ohio SOURCE: SCALE: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY MAP FORM RECEIVED MAP REFERENCE FOR NPS USE ONLY Berea District 7 School 323 East Bagley (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) Berea Fine Arts Club Inc 1975 NOV22 1974 P BEREA, OHIO BEREA QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PARMA 4580 260 UNITED STATES OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Berea Fine Arts Club Inc APR S 1975 Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Mr. Charles C. Pratt, Acting Director Hon. Ronald M.
Mottl Regional Director, Midwest Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Berea STATE Region 4-3-75 Name MMott/cha State Historic Preservation Officer Date Entered The Ohio Historical Society ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Cuyahoga County Berea District 7 School Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue LOCATION street & number 12 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL 15 ACREAGE L (S CONDITION - deteriorated Omoved GO NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Qunexcavated E- NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access -ENGINEERING -11 -RECREATION -28 @CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 C LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 -O SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY-historic -1 - LITERATURE- 17 - SCIENCE- 23 - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION -8 C HEALTH -27 - MILITARY - 18 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 -EDUCATION-10 - TRANSPORTATION -25 & functions 2dates of initial construction: 5 arch itectural style(S): @master builder: D landseape architect / garden designer: Martisan: _date.
IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 1913 ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: STATE CURRENTLY: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ARCHITECTURE-4 URBAN PLANNING-31 vicinity of PRIVATE ORGANIZATION COMMERCE-6 YES.NAME SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-3 county code: ADMINISTRATOR: SAVED?YES Dexcellent historic events: if state who prepared WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? Ounaltered LOCAL DNAME as it appears on federal register: GNPS REGION: Dunexposed Coriginal site city / town OINO CONGRESS. DISTRICT Tleatures: IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
DyesDm 2AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - COMMUNICATIONS -7 *oldest'O - INVENTION -14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 1 Interior decorator: @artist: @builder/contractor: IS ACCESS -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 L POLITICS / COVT.: 21 ETHNIC YES-Unrestricted NBEREA 3NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP UNKNOWN-4 Dreconstrueted ITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? Druins 19505