Nomination for Pilgrim Congregational Church

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) MAR 17 1976 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 20 - James V.

Stanton (Check One) - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Ontario DATE OF SURVEY: - Federal NOV 5 039 035 1973 STATE Religious Cuyahoga NATIONAL Restricted ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Military LOCATION Private DATE Government CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Social Service NAME REGISTER Cleveland Ohio Entertainment Unoccupied Yes: Both STATUS Agricultural Site Structure Scientific Educational Private Residence Commercial CODE District Being Considered Museum Park COMMON: Public Industrial CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Cuyahoga County Building STREET AND NUMBER: designated Cleveland Landmark Public Acquisition: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY DATE Object DATA SHEET DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: TO THE PUBLIC REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS City Hall 2592 West 14th Street In Process TITLE OF SURVEY: Building CITY OR TOWN: COUNT Other (Specify) Pilgrim Cleveland Landmark Commission ENTRY NUMBER PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) COOE DESCRIPTION * Excellent Good - Fair - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

er one at the southeast. The towers have round-headed lancets, rose building is the Sunday school wing, which also has a gabled facade its depth, on Starkweather Avenue, is 120 feet, with a projection of floor, a total of 43 separate apartments, besides ample halls, vestib- ules, etc. Its cubic contents are 720, 000 cubic feet. The auditorium special services . .. feet; . . . a finely equipped gymnasium (since subdivided), 58x26-1/2 ceiling of the ground floor rooms is eleven feet high, the entire floor (continued) Ruins CONDITION by four great semi-circular arches. Originally these arches were A contemporary description summarizes the interior arrangements The large rectangular two-story Sunday school room which opens "The lower floor of the entire structure is given to the social classrooms.

Its interior finish is virtually intact, although the sliding with large rose windows in the gables facing east and north.The east in smaller arches forming ribbed pendentives at the corners.The favor of a more indirect lighting system.The four arches terminate windows, corner turrets and pyramidal roofs. The south side of the and large arched window on the east. being only two feet below the level of the ground. are separated from the church auditorium only by a sliding partition, Romanesque style.The main part of the church is basically square, and institutional work.It containsa reading room and library,30x30 and organ space,19 feet deep.The pulpit and chancel occupy the eight feet additional for the organ.

entrance is a semi-circular arch over 22 feet in diameter leading to serving room;ladies' parlor; beside engine and boiler rooms.The (Check One) Brigade armory,30x33 feet;kitchen,22-1/2x22 feet, with pantry and main ceiling culminates in a leaded glass dome 24 feet in diameter, the ground floor,12 rooms on the main floor, 15 rooms on the gallery The sanctuary(auditorium)itself is a lofty square space framed feet;recreation rooms, dining and social room,49-1/2x52 feet;Boys' "The extreme length of the building, on (l4th Street), is 132 feet, and studded with electric bulbs,but they were removed in the 1950sin X Original Site artificially illuminated from above. The west arch frames the chorus southwest corner of the sanctuary, and the seats are arranged in a fan-like pattern.Across the north and east sides stretches the gallery.

a tower approximately 150 feet tall at the northeast corner and a small- into the sanctuary on the south is an impressive architectural space, "The building covers 15,520 square feet.It contains 16 rooms on will seat comfortably...a total of l,250. The Sunday-school rooms with a coved ceiling and a gallery on three sides leading to additional

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) * Education - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) - Literature STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

architectural space and decoration, two-thirds of the original struc- school in University Heights, as the area was known, in 1854. The and Travel Clubs, a Literary Society, Boys' Brigade, Sewing School, keeping, business arithmetic, penmanship, piano and vocal music. Women's Suffrage, the community fund campaigns which developed program, Head Start classes and a senior nutrition program. 1893-1894 Commerce losophy Engineering Religion/Phi Art Architecture Military Aboriginal Conservation Transportation Theater Communications itarian Music Science Social/Human- Sculpture University Heights Congregational Church was organized in 1859.The al structure specifically designed for social and community work.

The church claims to be the first in Cleveland to participate The Pilgrim Congregational Church is an important early institution- While the exterior design is an excellent example of the Romanesque Industry Agriculture Political was designed by Elizabeth Parsons. Invention institutional church." Landscape building on the west side of the river in Cleveland to use electricity. ture is devoted to the educational, social and community work. At The first institutional work began in l873 with the establishment style and the sanctuary proper isa superior accomplishment in out of the saloons.

When the Church Institute was organized asa a Gymnasium for men, boys, women and girls, and classes in book- begun in 1893 and dedicated in 1894.It became Pilgrim Church at department of the church in 1894,it maintained Fine Arts, History an exhibit was sent abroad and praised as the finest example of an Itcontinues this historic tradition today with a Police Athletic League The architect was Sidney R. Badgley, who was active in Cleveland of recreation rooms for the young men in the vicinity to keep them The church traces its origins to the establishment ofa Sunday the time it was called "an epoch-making church building.

In 1899,at the request of the commissioners of the Paris Exposition, first building was erected in 1865-1870.The present building was that time.The structure cost about $l50,0o0,and it was the first from1887 to 1916.The contractor was Jacob Schade.The glass dome in or to initiate a Visiting Nurse program, the organization of into the Community Chest, and teen-age canteens during World War II.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (Cleveland, 1896), 90-97. DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 17 442/230 East 4591/730 North ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES - State FORM PREPARED BY tional 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 c-iteria and procedures set National D] Keeper of The National Registe Date 3-16-7L * U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 LATITUDE Degrees DATE LONGITUDE COUNTY ORGANIZATION Name ATTEST: Cleveland Title CORNER CODE Cleveland City Directories. Local Cleveland Landmarks Commission.

Degrees Minutes Seconds Historical Sketches of Our Twenty-five Churches and Missions NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES March 1975 UTM: STREET AND NUMBER: As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION CITY OR TOWN: 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA level of significance of this nomination is: NAME AND TITLE: Acting 0t.301975 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 10825 East Boulevard Nationa 1 Register. Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 7, 1893, and November 22, 1894. Seconds Minutes Ohio Western Reserve Historical Society Our First One Hundred Years -Pilgrim Church (Cleveland, 1959),5-8. Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMPER (Number all entries) 7.

DESCRIPTION Apart from redecoration, the sanctuary and the institutional NOV 5 GP0 921-724 COUNTY Cuyahoga STATE Ohio (Continuation Sheet) Pilgrim Congregational Church RECEIVED space over the sanctuary the cables and pulleys for lifting the partition a new gymnasium, shower rooms and bowling alleys was added to the partition has not been opened for years.In the great framed attic windows have been repaired over the last five years.Much of the In l920 a large but architecturally nondescript Community House with south of the original structure. can be seen, as well as the upper surface of the glass ceiling dome. mechanical equipment, which was advanced for its still in use.

(July 1969) NATIONAL Inventory _ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF IN T:2106 - 74 OTHER KEEPER Re-submit ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICA HAER CONTROL Send-back Maps Review Photos Property HISTORIAN Ohio Federal Register Entry State Accept BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Working Number 11.5.75.1967 4-6-26 Pilgrim Congregationa1 Church Unsted Church of Christ) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 ARCHITECTURAL HISTQRIAN NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: Form No. 10-301g NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MAR 17 Pilgrim Congregational Church - United Church of Christ DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 035 1975 Cuyahoga Cleveland NAME COUNTY PHOTO REFERENCE STATE IDENTIFICATION REGISTER Ohio CODE Western Reserve Historical Society LOCATION Eric Johannesen RECEIVED ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COMMON: (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) PHOTO CREDIT: AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 2592 West 14th Street STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) 039 NATIONAL East facade, with 1920 addition at left, looking northwest. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Title: Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Pilgrim Congregational Church - United Church of Christ LOCA TION 2592 West 14th Street 3. PHOTO REFERENCE DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

East facade and north elevation, looking southwest 039 Cuyahoga 035 Cleveland NOV51975 DATE STATE COUNTY Ohio NATIONAL NAME REGISTER IDENTIFICATION RECEIVED MAR CODE Western Reserve Historical Society PHOTO CREDIT: COMMON: Eric Johannesen PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) STREET AND NUMBER: AND/OR HISTORIC: CITY OR TOWN: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY NOV 5 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 876.1 67 1976 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number m Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) Pilgrim Congregational Church - United Church of Christ LOCA TION West 14th Street CITY OR TOWCleveland DATE OF PHOTO: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 035 039 Cuyahoga IDENTIFICATION COUNTY NOV51975 STATE REGISTER NAME Ohio RECEIVED PHOTO REFERENCE CODE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM COMMON: PHOTO CREDIT: Eric Johannesen NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND/OR HISTORIC: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY 876-167 EGATIVE FILED AT: 2592 Western Reserve Historical Society STREET AND NUMBER: PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER NPS Number Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) DATE OF PHOTO: NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 035 Western Reserve Historical Society Cuyahoga COUNTY NAME Eric Johannesen DATE REGISTER STATE NOV51975 Ohio RECEIVED NATIONAL LOCATION CODE PHOTO REFERENCE Interior of sanctuary, looking northwest.

PHOTO CREDIT: COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER IDENTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (7/72) MAR 17 1976 Pilgrim Congregational Church - United Church of Christ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 87 6- 167 835 Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Rev. 7-72 FOR NPS USE ONLY MAR 17 1976 STREET AND NUM BER: 2592 West 14th Street U. S. G. S. Cleveland South Quadrangle 1:24, 000 NOV 5 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

035 1975 039 1970 Cuyahoga NAME COUNTY DATE Cleveland STATE NATIONAL REGISTER Ohio CODE LOCATION ENTRY NUMBER SCALE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAP REFERENCE PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) REQUIREMENTS SOURCE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: CITY OR TOWN: RECEIVED COMMON: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE Congregational Church 4591/730 North 17 442/230 East MAR 17 1976 Cincinnati Hamilton County Butler, Cyrus, louse Eon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. louis Stokes INT: 2950-75 Location Name STATE Cuyahoga County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Date Entered Perry County Cleveland Pickaway County Mahoning County Hon.Robert Taft,Jr. Church of Christ) Mot Erie County Bellevue Interstate7lat 17ch Avenue Ion. Janes V, Stanton Non. Charles J.

Carney Shawee Historie District Austintow vicinity Kingston vicinity Pilgrin Congregational Church 3/25/7 Birninghaa vicinity Hon.Willis D.Gradison ONAME as it appears on federal register: 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: ) county code: ® ADMINISTRATOR : U)CONGRESS. DISTRICT (12) SOURCE OF NOMINATION (15 ACREAGE NITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? - deteriorated @SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-L Mexcellent Druins Omoved OO NOT INTACT-O - Unknown Dunexcavated EO NOT APPLICABLE-7 - No Access PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Qno I AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 C LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 D LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING -31 C AGRICULTURE -3 C HEALTH -27 C MILITARY - 18 C ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY- 13 CO MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D DART-5 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 2 functions major alterations : 2master bullder: D landscape architeot / garden designer: G) interior decorator: ®artist: 1 bullder (contractor: religions, educational and social community center.

IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE county CONDITION ASSOCIATION engineer: historic events: PERSONAL: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION EVENTS: STATE FEDERAL WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: ENTERTAINMENT-26 CURRENTLY: COMMERCE-6 vicinity of eviewers initials ENGINEERING-11 ARCHITECTURE-4 SAVED?YES YES.NAME LOCAL Ounaltered UNKNOWN-6 Dunexposed Doriginal site RITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 GNPS REGION: if state wha prepared form? Cgood Clevelan Bad (10 FUNDED? COYES 1leatures: Oreconstrueted Ounknown )ACCESS - COMMUNICATIONS-1 -EXPLORATION -12 C CONSERVATION -8 E EOUCATION-10 _date @architect:3 Jacob Schade 2dates of initial construction: ETHNIC GROUP YES-Unrestricted 3-17-76 Ofair Chri'st 035 NAME as it appears on federal register: 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: (12) SOURCE of NOMINATION SITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT! - YES.

NAME 8 ACCESS - deteriorated Vfeatures: Sexcellent Omoved OO NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown Dunexcavated EO NOT APPLICABLE-7 - No Access EI AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain CARCHEOLOGY-prehistoric -2 - LAW- 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 CARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 L ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY-13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D D ART-5 @ EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 C TRANSPORTATION -25 3 functions major alterations : 2gmaster builder: @artist: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP - TIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSER CONDITION ASSOCIATION ENGINEERING-11 PERSONAL: FEDERAL historic events: STATE EVENTS: ACREAGE ENTERTAINMENT-26 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 CURRENTLY: COMMERCE-6 vicinity of ARCHITECTURE-4 PRIVATE ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATOR: LOCAL dates of initial construction: SAVED?YES Ounaltered Doriginal site if state who prepared form?

4county code: RITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? Parsons GNPS REGION: Clevelans NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 5)LOCATION street& numbe 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT Oreconstructed UNKNOWN-4 NYES -Restricted [YES -Unrestricted IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Qno © landscape architect / garden designer: A interior decorator: D LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.- 21 ETHNIC GROUP reviewers initials NAMES give role & date SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) architect:3 Ofair 3artisan:gkss Badg