Nomination for Lyceum Village Square And German Wallace College

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OCT 2 8 1975 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _ VICINITY OF 20-James V. Stanton PRESENT USE _PUBLIC - -WORK IN PROGRESS PRIVATE RESIDENCE -IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 039 035 CODE OBJECT COUNTY LOCATION DATE TITLE Cuyahoga Ohio ACCESSIBLE Berea COMMERCIAL CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY HISTORIC STATE Cleveland AGRICULTURE OWNERSHIP SCIENTIFIC GOVERNMENT MILITARY Cuyahoga County Building ENTERTAINMENT RELIGIOUS NAME PARK STRUCTURE BOTH Seminary Street INDUSTRIAL Baldwin-Wallace College SITE XEDUCATIONAL MUSEUM STATUS 275 Eastland Road PUBLIC ACQUISITION COURTHOUSE. DATA SHEET DATE ENTERED -TRANSPORTATION OTHER: 1219 Ontario BUILDING(S) - UNOCCUPIED FOR NPS USE ONLY Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College 7 DESCRIPTION X EXCELLENT DETERIORATED _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The building at the northwest corner, Kohler Hall (l), is the oldest and the original building, and the south wing is an addition. At that time it was rooms. In 1940 the building was further renovated inside, and original veran- Gothic style, with a frontage of 85 feet and built in 1899. The west facade is very steep gable, probably in imitation of German architecture. The entrance CONDITION RUINS FAIR (continued) CHECK ONE style variant. The interior was completely renovated and modernized in 1953.

round-arched openings, and an octagonal spire which also suggests a Germanic Berea sandstone in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.Basically rectangular and third stories are rectangular, and the third floor windows are set in the north.The large semi-circular arch of the entrance contains a fanlight bay has a tall Gothic arch with a beveled glass window.Three Gothic lancets basement which houses offices, classrooms and a parlor. The side elevations Romanesque entrance and bay, except for one cylindrical tower off center to dormers on the end elevations.The west facade is symmetrical with a large above the entrance are placed diagonally to follow a stair.There are two divided into five parts by corner pavilions and a center entrance.

The roof, kinds of dormers, Gothic on the corner pavilions and smaller versions of The southeast building isa large three-story classroom and administra- hipped roofs.In 1905 the building was enlarged and refaced with Berea sand- XORIGINAL SITE a single tower axially placed on the west facade. It has corner buttresses, modernized with heating, plumbing and electricity.

It contains 62 dormitory whose eaves are bracketed, begins with a shallow pitch and changes to a _UNALTERED This is an open quadrangle approximately 350 by 400 feet, bisected north and stone.The north wing with its small dormer gable on the south elevation is The center building on the east side of the quadrangle is Lindsay- with beveled glass lights.On the roof ridge stands a wooden tower and cupola the main roof in the center.In 1935 the dormitory was remodeled as an Crossman Chapel(3),built in 1872 in the Romanesque Revival style.It is - UNEXPOSED piece.The windows of the second story are arched while those of the first tion building, Marting Hall ll6 by 65 feet and constructed of on the site in the 1850s.After 1866 it was rebuilt as a three-story structure. das on the east and south side of the "ell" have been removed.

X ALTERED Directly opposite, on the northeast corner of the quadrangle, is Dietsch also a sandstone structure, the church sanctuary being raised over a high in plan, it has a five-part facade marked by end wings and a center frontis- DATE south by Seminary Street and containing five buildings. has the most interesting architectural history.A two-story building was built have six bays articulated by vertical bands of non-rusticated stone.There is Hall (2), a three-story building of Berea sandstone in the High Victorian administration building, and in 1970 as a classroom building. This was a brick building in the Italianate style with bracketed cornices and -GOOD Form No. 10-300a (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AUG 1 9 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OCT 2 9 1975 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM (South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College) Berea, Ohio ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE one .roof. The interior of this building is the best preserved of the four older The remaining building on the southwest corner, Merner-Pfeiffer Hall (5%, was built in 1939-1940, but it completes the quadrangle and harmonizes with the steep gabled roofs of the three more recent buildings, relating to providing classrooms, offices, practice rooms, a library, lounge and On the west side of the quadrangle, on the axis of Marting Hall, 1. Kohler Hall 2. Dietsch Hall 3. Lindsay-Crossman Chapel 4. Marting Hall 5. Merner-Pfeiffer Hall parking lot Scale: 1" = 200' driveway property alley line RECEIVED reception areas.

Cuyahoga County the central business district of Berea. CONTINUATION SHEET with four small corner turrets and an open arcaded octagon with a pyramidal DATE ENTERED 1890s.The corridor is lined with paneled oak wainscoting. The building buildings.The suite of offices opposite the entrance is reached through an their German or Alpine flavor. Originally built as a women's residence, 3.2 Acres in a simplified modern version of a late medieval eclectic style. It has the older buildings. It is a three-story L-shaped building of brick and stone Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College FOR NPS USE ONLY there is a gateway leading to a few steps which go down (west) toward Seminary Street School Street lot contains classrooms and offices, plus an auditorium on the second floor.

oak-framed enclosure with seven bays of leaded glass in the style of the itis being remodeled (1975)as an annex to the musical arts building AREAS OF

Statement of significance

Massachusetts in 1826. In 1838 Josiah Holbrook, a leader in the movement, tried to establish a lyceum village and model seminary in Berea, Ohio. The square the study of Latin, mathematics and the natural sciences. German Wallace concentrated on Greek, French, music, and German language and literature. building of German Wallace, Memorial Hall. The architect was Godfrey Fugman LAW ART INVENTION AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING X1800-1899 SCIENCE INDUSTRY PERIOD MILITARY LITERATURE This square carries associations with important movements in American PHILOSOPHY Lindsay-Crossman Chapel in 1953. X1900- SIGNIFICANCE Baldwin-Wallace College. Memorial Hall became the administration building. XARCHITECTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT The lyceum was a popular national adult education movement begun in and in l949 the college came into full possession of the building.

It was renamed buildings serve as evidence of the commitment to preserve national religious needs of the German Methodist Church. For fifty years the two institutions of Cleveland. The Gothic dormitory was built in 1899 and named Dietsch Hall XEDUCATION The administration building was built in 1895-1896 as the main classroom excellent examples of their respective architectural styles. created as part of the Lyceum movement of the early nineteenth century. Later acquired by German Wallace College and then Baldwin-Wallace College, its _OTHER(SPECIFY) _COMMUNICATIONS _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN worked in a cooperative and complementary fashion.Baldwin University offered -1600-1699 It placed stress on "maintaining and cultivating the classical German. was the center of the Lyceum Village. _RELIGION -1400-1499 renamed Kohler Hall in 1940.

department of Baldwin University(chartered in1855), to serve the educational college in 1872.Later the church housed the First Methodist Church of Berea, the land was acquired by German Wallace College in 1866. This building was -1700-1799 -1500-1599 _THEATER German Wallace College had been established in 1864,growing out of a in 1940. - MUSIC strains in American education. In addition, the four oldest buildings are all renamed Marting in 1938. Merner-Pfeiffer Hall is named after its donors ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Kohler Hall.It housed the first Methodist Children's Home and was there when The chapel was erected jointly by the German Methodist Church and the education over a period of 137 years. It was first laid out as a village square after its principal donor.

In 19l3 the two colleges merged under the name The Lyceum failed only four years later, and the land was acquired by XCOMMUNITY PLANNING

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (Cleveland, 1944), II, 38. Bulletin of German Wallace College, 1905, 1912. Catalog of Baldwin-Wallace College, 1917. LO GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY - NORTHING VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Street, and the Baldwin Wallace College property line to the west of Semin- LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE March 1975 STREET & NUMBER 216-721-5722 Ex.

36 CITY OR TOWN 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the E SIGNATURE August 15, 1975 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTYIS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OCT 2 3 1975 KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE LOCAL CODE TELEPHONE Cleveland ZONE STATE Ohio EASTING Western Reserve Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer The northern boundary is School Street.The eastern boundary is the center UTM REFERENCES ern boundary is the driveway south of Marting Hall to the east of Seminary 10825 East Boulevard ary Street.The western boundary is the alley to the west of the quadrangle line of the parking lot to the east of Dietsch and Marting Halls.The south- 12-8-1 Crisfield Johnson, History of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, 1879), 202-203.

criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service Elbert Jay Benton, Cultural Story of an American City--Cleveland 14,517,917,8,0J THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: Eric Johannesen, Preservationist Photos - OK- 8.21.75 Inventory OTHER KEEPER Entered Maps Send-back CONTROL HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Review Property Re-submit TECHNICAL HISTORIAN United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 National Register Write-up Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College Working Number8.19.75.1583 State ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Ohio Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Cole ACT 2 9 1975 IN T:2106- 74 Accept 9-30-75 Cuyahoga OBRANCH CHIEF Title: NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER HENRY M.DARR BEREA, CHIO Loc. Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College CITY. TOWN Berea COUNTYCuyahoga _VICINITY OF DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET No. 1 f8 Kohler Hall, looking north 1971 LOCATION HISTORIC Ohio IDENTIFICATION STATE Baldwin-Wallace College Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College PHOTO REFERENCE NAME DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO RECEIVED AUG 19 1975 OCT 2 9 1975 PHOTO CREDIT Henry M. Barr BEREA, OHIO NPS Number HENRY M.BAR Form No. 10-301a (Pev.

10-7*) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM OCT 2 9 1975 AND/OR COMMON C South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College COUNTY Cuyahoga STATE Ohio _VICINITY OF CITY. TOWN Berea DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT, GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET No. 2 f8 1971 LOCATION IDENTIFICATION Baldwin-Wallace College NAME PHOTO CREDIT Lindsay-Crossman Chapel, looking north. PHOTO REFERENCE Henry M. Barr DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS PHOTO NO HISTORIC Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College BUILDING DIETSCH ADMINISTRATION HALL BALDWIN-WALLACE NPS Number Title: Loc. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER HENRY M.0 R2 BEREA, GUTO 23% RIVERSIDE DAIN Cuyalogalb NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Form No.

10-301a (Pev. 10-7+) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED AUG 19 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM OCT 2 9 1975 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS AND/OR COMMON South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College COUNTY Cuyahoga _VICINITY OF STATE Ohio DATE OF PHOTO NEGATIVE FILED AT DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET No. 4 8 1974 IDENTIFICATION Berea LOCATION HISTORIC Western Reserve Historical Society NAME Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College Marting Hall, looking northeast. PHOTO REFERENCE DATE ENTERED PHOTO NO. CITY.

TOWN Eric Johannesen PHOTO CREDIT NPS Number - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: May 1971 CuyalagaCo NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 10/29/75 NPS Number - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cuyalogaço, Form No. 10-301a (Pev. 10-7%) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRECEIVEDAUG 1 9 1975 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM DATE ENTERED _VICINITY OF DATE OF PHOTO OCT 2 9 1975 NEGATIVE FILED AT PHOTO NO. No. DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET IDENTIFICATION Ohio HISTORIC STATE Western Reserve Historical Society and Lindsay-Crossman Chapel. The quadrangle, looking north. Left to right: Merner-Pfeiffer, Kohler, Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College NAME PHOTO REFERENCE SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS COUNTY Cuyahoga CITY.

TOWN Berea LOCATION Title: ZM PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cuyalioga, o NPS Number 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 4579/780 North BEREA QUADRANGLE 17 428/760 East BEREA, OHIO AUG 1 9 1975 YORTH ROYALTON College Lyceum Village GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR German Wallace N15W8145/7.5 Form No. 10-301 (Rev. 10-74 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP AND/OR COMMON South Campus Group, Baldwin-Wallace College CITY TOWN _VICINITY OF U. S. G. S. Berea Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES 2. NORTH ARROW 3.

UTM REFERENCES INT: 34 64 - 75 1970 LOCATION Cuyahoga COUNTY Berea STATE DATE HISTORIC Ohio SCALE 1:24,000 REQUIREMENTS SOURCE NAME Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College MAP REFERENCE FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED AUG 1 9 1975 SCT 2 9 1975 Gaskins-Hialany House Lyceun Village Square and German Wallace College Hon. Will1as H. Harsha Hon. Jauas V. Stanton Regional Director, Midwest Region PR MMOTT: p1 11.13.75 INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Name Date Entered Berea Cuyahoga County Kirker Covered Bridge West Union State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Locust Corner vicinity Director,The Ohio Historical Society Clernont County Adana County Interetate 7l at l7th Avenue Dr.Thomas R.

Smith 3 date of entry: ) county code: if state Cuyahoga County SOURCE OF NOMINATION - FEDERAL - LOCAL - deteriorated Ounaltered Omoved 9O NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed WO UNKNOWN- - No Access - RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING-11 "first'O - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY -18 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER (SPECIFY) C ECONOMICS - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - INVENTION - 14 PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 18505, 1899,1872, -artist: EVENTS : 035 Midwest Berea 1939-1940 ASSOCIATION Seminary St.

ETHNIC INSTITUTIONAL: EDUCATION ADMINISTRATOR major alterations ENTERTAINMENT-26 Coriginal site vicinity of NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Cexcellent SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-3 Dunexcavated Oruins Bartisan: SAVED? YES Dgood GNPS REGION: OCATION street & number O NOT APPLICABLE - 9 S-Restricted [YES -Unrestricted IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? O yes AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : @builder/contractor: who prepared form? - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT." 21 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE- 6 - enginger: 10-29-75 CONDITION GROUP CURRENTLY: PERSONAL: reviewers initials REGISTER DATA SHEET PRIVATE ORGANIZATION NAME as it appears on federal register: URBAN PLANNIN Lyceum Village Square and German Wallace College ARCHITECTURE-4 OHER NAMES: Ofair Dreconstructed