Nomination for Hessler Court Wooden Pavement

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (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) MAR 3 1 1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 21 - Louis Stokes (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC I In Process - Preservation work - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: DEC 31 1974 NATIONAL 035 039 LOCATION Cuyahoga Both Religious STATE ACCESSIBLE Transportation Commercial NAME District REGISTER Site CATEGORY Government Educational OWNERSHIP CLASSIFICATION Private Entertainment DATE Restricted Structure Cleveland Ohio Museum STATUS Agricultural Industrial Unoccupied Federal COUNT Private Residence Scientific Yes: Cuyahoga County Building Public Local CODE Building City of Cleveland CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Park Being Considered Public Acquisition: Military 1219 Ontario Object STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 601 Lakeside N.E.

PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Hessler Court Wooden Pavement DESCRIPTION X Good - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered NATIONAL CONDITION REGISTER Excellent RECEIVED Ruins This is a section of street pavement approximately 275 Portions of the pavement have been repaired with con- grain of the blocks forms the surface of the pavement.The paving is intact. feet in each dimension.Nevertheless, 95% of the original blocks laid ina pattern like common brick courses.The end individual blocks measure 4.5x9".Thus the paving consists of an estimated 19,000 blocks. (Check One) Fair DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (ifknown)PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

DEC3I 1974 Moved feet long and 19.5 feet wide, constructed of rectangular wooden Original Site PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian| - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Other (Specify) 7 Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

The significance of this street comes from the fact that DEC31 1974 1906 Commerce Avenue was previously existing in Cleveland. Engineering Military Architecture losophy Science Communications SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Education Conservation REGISTER Aboriginal Literature Prehistoric Cuyahoga County Atlas of 1892. In addition, another Heisley Invention RECEIVED Landscape Sculpture Political Music before the street was platted, Echo M. Heisley, a Cleveland Agriculture Social/Human- paved with brick.The residences on both Hessler Road and Little information can be found concerning the construction short early twentieth century fashionable residential street, Hessler Court are now largely inhabited by university students. The street is a one-way outlet for Hessler Road, a very Religion/Phi. apparently a corruption of the name of the owner of the land in the city of Cleveland.

Industry AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art it is an extremely rare section of wooden pavement surviving itarian of the street, except that it was built in 1906. Its name is Cleveland Directories, 1906-1907. (Chicago, 1892).

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINI OF A PKOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 4595 440 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES FORM PREPARED BY DA July 1974 STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation 039 Degrees LONGITUDE Seconds Cleveland National LATITUDE COUNTY ORGANIZATION Name Ohio Title Minutes Local ATTEST: STATE CODE CORNER RECEIVED MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Western Reserve Historical Society Degrees Minutes Seconds REGISTER LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Date Cram's Atlas of Cuyahoga County and The City of Cleveland As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: Less than one CITY OR TOWN: STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: Hopkins' Plat-Book of the City of Cleveland (Philadelphia, 1912).

forth by the National Park Service. The recommended * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-1 DEC3T1974 Keeper of 10825 East Boulevard PERIOD (Chock One or More aa Appropriate) - Pro-Columbian! -] 16th Century - - Education - Political - Prehistoric Engineering L Religion/Phi. Agriculture 1) Science [l Sculpture Social/Human- O Literature - Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The significance of this street comes from the fact that of the street, except that it was buiht in 1906. Its name is apparently a corruption of the name of the owner of the land The street is a one-way outlet for Hessler Road, a very 8-3/4 miles of wood block paving. In the 1880s the wooden pavements was demolished in 1939. construction, it is possible that the pavement was an even older of wood block pavement in the city of Cleveland.

William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 371, 432, 489, 953. 1906 platted Revised Ohio-Cuyahoga 1/14/75 Communications Avenue was previously existing in Cleveland. Cuyahoga County Atlas of 1892. In addition, another Heisley SIGNIFICANCE losophy Music REGISTER Aboriginal so far as is known, Hessler Court is the only surviving segment Architecture the first brick pavement in Cleveland was constructed.The viaduct before the street was platted, Echo M.Heisley, a Cleveland Viaduct over the Cuyahoga River was paved with wooden blocks, short early twentieth century fashionaole residential street, Hessler Court are now largely inhabited by university students.

In 1870 Cleveland had 10-1/2 miles of stone pavement and paved with brick.The residences on both Hessler Road and were gradually replaced with Medina sandstone.In 1888 the Central NATIONAL Since the city's platting date of 1906 is late for this type of Industry Invention in the city of Cleveland. Conservation Urban Plonning Landscape X 20th Century AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) CY Other (Specity) Hessler Court Wooden Pavement itarian Art private drive which was acquired by the city in 1906. In any case, it is an extremely rare section of wooden pavement surviving ACCEPT :END OTHER Entered HAER CONTROL Maps Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER Re-submit Photos 5-6-75 TECHNICAL Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF I think this is great!

It is street furniture just as fine as cast-iron BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up HISTORIAN State THAW IS A PAINTING. 1.10.75 LEBOVICH CONFERENCE Colz stones, plantings and textured pavements - the little amenities that make Review Working Number /2.31.14.2252 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Cuyahoga out that we.accepted the first concrete pavement in Bellafont, Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION CITY OR TOWN: DEC31 1974 DATE OF PHOTO: July 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

NAME 039 DATE NATIONAL COUNTY IDENTIFICATION Eric Johannesen Cleveland COMMON: RECEIVED CODE STATE Cuyahoga REGISTER Ohio PHOTO REFERENCE Detail of pavement surface, showing wooden blocks PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY (7/72) MAR 2 1 1975 Between Hessler Court Wooden Pavement PROPERTY OF THE NATONAL REGISTER Form No. 10.301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MAR 3 1 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: July 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Pavement, looking southeast. U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 876 - 1 67 035 DATE COUNTY NAME Cuyahoga STATE IDENTIFICATION CODE COMMON: RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO REFERENCE REGISTER Eric Johannesen Cleveland PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Ohio CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) 039 NATIONAL Western Reserve Historical Society Hessler Court Wooden Pavement STREET AND NUMBER: NEGATIVE FILED AT: Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 3 1 1975 AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION July 1974 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Pavement, looking northwest.

035 DATE 039 Cuyahoga COUNTY Eric Johannesen STATE NATIONAL NAME REGISTER COMMON: PHOTO REFERENCE Western Reserve Historical Society RECEIVED PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM CODE IDENTIFICATION (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER: ENTRY NUMBER NEGATIVE FILED AT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Between Bellflower Road and Hessler Road, at ll33o East. DATE OF PHOTO: PROPERTY OF THE NAT:OMAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT: FOR NPS USE ONLY Ohio (7/72) U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: Pavement Hessler Court Wooden Pavement 876.167 Form No. 10-301 Rev. 7-72 MAR 3 1 1975 NAME STREET AND NUM BER: 1:24, 000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. NATIONAL 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-148/1441 3-1 035 039 1970 DATE Cuyahoga Cleveland Ohio STATE CODE REQUIREMENTS COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: LOCATION SCALE: Hessler Court Wooden Pavement NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: PROPERTY MAP FORM Between Bellflower Road and Hessler Road, at ll330 COUNTY FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: REGISTER RECEIVED (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE U. S. G. S. East Cleveland Quadrangle EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE Hessler Court GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 81° 20* 41° 30' 39" UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - Nyandot County Eon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Louis Stokes Eon. John M, Ashbrook Hon. Ternyson Guyer copy to Mr.

Crecco Location Date Entered STATE Mott/bsh 35460 ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Name Also Notified Huron County Cieveland MAR 3 1 1075 Acting Director 43211 Regional Director, Midwest Region Hessler Court Wooden Pavenent 4/1/75 Upper Senduaky vieinity Pike Couaty Plketon Vicinity Vanneter Stone louse end Outbuildinga 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 11330 E between Bellflower and Hessler Rds. (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION ) ACREAGE 1S CONDITION O deteriorated Dexcellent Oruins Omoved 9 NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Dunexcavated 20 NOT APPLICABLE -7 TWES - Unrestricted - No Access SAVED?

-YES J AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : @ENGINEERING-11 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 CLAIMS: explain -RECREATION -28 CARCHEOLOGY- prehistoric-2 'first'O C LAW-16 C RELIGION- 22 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE-17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest'O - ACRICULTURE -3 L CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 CO MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY-13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - TRANSPORTATION-25 3 functions major alterations : 2 master builder: @engineer: ©landscape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: 3 artisan: EVENTS : _date.

TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 035 Midwest ASSOCIATION 3-3-75 Cuyahoga PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 FEDERAL Cleveland INSTITUTIONAL: CURRENTLY: SETTLEMENT-29 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 URBAN PLANNING-31 historic events: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP LOCAL Hessler Court Wooden Pavement WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? Dunexposed Daltered iewers initials HIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? vicinity of Qoriginal site NAMES give role & date NAME as it appears on federal register: STATE GNPS REGION: 4county code: 'only' 5 LOCATION street & number city / town 17 features: Oreconstrueted BO UNKNOWN-4 IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes/Ono - COMMERCE-6 - COMMUNICATTONS -1 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY-20 3architectural style(s): @builder/contractor: artist: YES-Restricted if state who prepared form?

YES.NAME Dgood OVER Clevelaud .