Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Goldsmith, Jacob, House

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,481 words across 10 pages, filed in 1978. 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 78002039, 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 No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVED CT 2 0 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM MAR 8 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS Goldsmith, Jacob, House AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 21 - Louis Stokes PRESENT USE PUBLIC X BUILDING(S) _PRIVATE STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS X EDUCATIONAL -PRIVATE RESIDENCE - ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT X YES: RESTRICTED _IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 035 039 Cuyahoga OBJECT BOTH Cleveland TITLE HISTORIC CODE COUNTY DATE CLASSIFICATION Ohio LOCATION UNOCCUPIED DISTRICT MUSEUM AGRICULTURE Cuyahoga County Office Building SCIENTIFIC CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATE INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC ACQUISITION Universal Negro Improvement Association GOVERNMENT 1219 Ontario DATA SHEET c/o Mason Hargrave NAME _BEING CONSIDERED MILITARY 2200 East 40th Street STATUS DATE ENTERED COURTHOUSE. -TRANSPORTATION FOR NPS USE ONLY - RELIGIOUS - COMMERCIAL _OTHER: -SITE _PARK X_ORIGINAL SITE X GOOD X ALTERED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

cut stone, forms a rectangle approx. twice as deep as it is wide. The CONDITION DATE DESCRIPTION geometrical design, continue throughout the house, often concealing FAIR and spindled chimneypieces of wood or marble in the Eastlake style. window moldings, delicately ribbed with carved corner blocks of paneled shutters. Foliated chandelier rosettes are extant in several rooms. The central staircase, connecting the first and second floors,.has an This massive Victorian Eastlake structure, executed in red brick and carved stone pediment and flanking stone pinnacles, surmounts an attic several storage rooms with segmentally-arched doorways. The interior is organized by parallel bearing walls and a central _EXCELLENT - DETERIORATED frieze of deep-set windows separated by corbel blocks. This spacing in remarkably good condition.
crested hip roof rises from a wide eaves cornice and several paneled four-story staircase. The basement contains a wide central hall and stair hall.The main rooms on both levels contain elaborate carved porch.However, the original fabric of the house remains intact and by continuous stone lintels and sills that are cut and beveled around the is repeated in the lower projecting brick piers.These are in turn united through a hall at the southwest corner, has metal casement windows and The south front parlor boasts a full length mirror.The door and intermediate landing with access to a rear servants' wing and a narrow full height, double-hung windows and the central, transomed double doors. deep consoled beams.There is also a badly deteriorated enclosed rear - UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE - UNALTERED - MOVED LRUINS chimneys with stone chimney pots.
The Dutch gabled dormer, with its A one-story rectangular brick auditorium, linked to the main house AREAS OF

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING " -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE - 1 500-1599 X ARCHITECTURE X1800-1899 _COMMERCE _OTHER (SPECIFY) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PHILOSOPHY ART PERIOD AGRICULTURE LAW _ECONOMICS BUILDER/ARCHITECT INDUSTRY LITERATURE SIGNIFICANCE INVENTION MUSIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _TRANSPORTATION mansions in Cleveland on the scale of those which formerly lined famous Herman Rosenberg as superintendant. This Orthodox home had been established it subsequently housed the Jewish Infants Orphan Home and later the Cleveland interior finish.It is also extremely significant as one of the few remaining pre-school age children. The auditorium at the southwest corner of the house branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. absorbed by the Welfare Association for Jewish Children.
This superb example of Eastlake style architecture is one of the few because of the complex articulation of the facade and the richness of the _COMMUNICATIONS great mansions of.masonry construction remaining in the inner city from the Company,wholesale clothiers founded in 1873,and a continuation of the Architecturally the house is an unusually fine example of its style _CONSERVATION - POLITICS/GOVERNMENT States.Its purposes were l) to promote unity among all Negroes regardless _SCULPTURE Negro states and communities in Africa;4) to found Negro businesses and Euclid Avenue. XEDUCATION _MILITARY firm of Koch, Kauffman and Loeb established in 184l. The successor firm great age of Cleveland's growth.Built by a rich Jewish clothing merchant, -1400-1499 In l9o8 the house was occupied by the Jewish Infants Orphan Home, with -1700-1799 Association.
Founded in 19ll by Marcus Garvey, a Negro.nationalist and _RELIGION -1600-1699 _ENGINEERING _THEATER X1900- *SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN Jacob Goldsmith was a partner in the firm of Koch, Goldsmith, Joseph reformer from Jamaica, the UNIA established thirty branches in the United commercial enterprises. of nationality;2) to improve their living conditions;3) to found independent The mansion is still owned by the UNIA. of Joseph Weiss still exists on West 53rd Street in Cleveland.Goldsmith was added for the use of the Home.Later the Infants Orphan Home was "to provide shelter and care for homeless children," and.cared primarily for moved into this mansion in 1880.He died in New York City in William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City (1950), 183. (New York, 1969), 299-300, 367. (Cleveland, 1937), 13.

The rest of the file

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665),F criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE DATE 10/13/77 FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 888-445 216-721-5722 TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION DATE CODE Cleveland COUNTY NORTHING STATE Ohio October 1976 Eric Johannesen and Tom Fisher, Preservationists Western Reserve Historical Society Less than one 10825 East Boulevard ZONE EASTING UTM REFERENCES At 2200 East 40th St.,midway between Central and Cedar Aves.,Cleveland.
Cleveland City Directories and Plat MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 14.519.40.5.0 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEPER-OF-THENATIONAL-REGISTER THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: ZONE State Historic Preservation Officer Cleveland Jewish Centennial Committee, The Jewish Community of Cleveland Photos 3 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - MAR 8 Send-back - ARCHEOLOGIST Entered OTHER Maps HAER TECHNICAL CONTROL Review Re-submit HISTORIAN National Register Write-up State Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Working Number 10.
20.77.1667 3-7- 78 IN T:2106-74 1978 Property United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Cuyahoga 78002039 4.4.78 Jewish Infants Orphan Home; UNIA OCT 2 0 1977 MAR 8 1976 Johannesen WRHS PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER South & East elevations Goldsmith, Jacob, House looking northwest.I e3 Jewish Infants Orphan Home; UNIA Cuyahoga Cº.Ohio 1970T 2 0 1977 Johannesen Cleveland WRHS PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER looking southwest. Goldsmith, Jacob, House MAR 8 Goldsmith, Jacob, House Jewish Infants Orphan Home; UNIA 1976 Johannesen WRHS PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER East facade, looking west.
(Jewish Infanta Orphan 4594/050 North GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Home; Universal Negro 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC House Improvement CLEVELAND SOUTH, Goldsmith, Jacob, RECEIVED 17 445/1@0 East STATE ORIO MAR 8 Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaura Hon. John H, Glenn, Jz. Hon. John W. Stanton 880 Location 3/14/78 Name Also Notified Mott/js ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Cuyahoga County Greena Tomship Center Regional Director, Midwest Region Date Entered Director,The Ohio Historical Society Hon. Louis Stokes Trumbull County State Historic Preservation Officer Goldamith, Jacob, House Cleveland North Bloomfield vicinity 1978 Goldsmith, Jacob, House 2200 E. 40th St.
12 SOURCE Of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - LOCAL - déteriorated Daltered 1 features: O NOT INTACT -O -reconstructed - Unknown SO UNKNOWN-5 -unexcavated - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?
Oyes Ono - AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain 'first' O - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW- 16 C RELIGION - 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 C ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE -17 - SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC- 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 C PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 5 landscape arohiteot / garden designer: M interior decorator: EVENTS : _date ASSOCIATION Cuyahoga PRIVATE ORGANIZATION Cleveland builder/contractor: PH0506192 PERSONAL: INSTITUTIONAL: historic events: vicinity of STATE artisan: artist: Universal Negro Improvement Association ENGINEERING-11 CURRENTLY: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP if state who prepared form?
master builder: dates of initial construction: Barchitectural style(s): 4county code Dunexposed as it appears on federal register: Dexcellent Doriginal site Oruins SAVED? YES Omoved GNPS REGION: city / town ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 C POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 2) functions major alterations : ANAMES give role & date IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE @arohiteot: CONDITION engineer: GROUP COMMERCE-6 UNKNOWN-4 ETHNIC SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 OTHER(SPECIFY) Dgood MAR 8