Nomination for Stager-Beckwith House

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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 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY.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 21 - Louis Stokes CLASSIFICATION - PRESENT USE DISTRICT STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY University Club of Cleveland, Inc. 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

Cuyahoga County Recorders Office REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR Ohio Historic Preservation Office , Ohio Historical Society 035 DATE OWNERSHIP UNOCCUPIED CATEGORY BOTH Columbus LOCATION TITLE ACCESSIBLE Cuyahoga RELIGIOUS Cleveland SCIENTIFIC COUNTY Ohio HISTORIC SITE PUBLIC STATE INDUSTRIAL MILITARY NAME PARK GOVERNMENT Ohio Historic Inventory XPRIVATE STATUS OBJECT COURTHOUSE. November 1975 Stager-Beckwith House University Club DATE ENTERED 1219 Ontario Street PRIVATE RESIDENCE XBUILDING(S) SURVEY RECORDS _BEING CONSIDERED -ENTERTAINMENT 38l3 Euclid Avenue - EDUCATIONAL _TRANSPORTATION FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED DEC 12 1977 APR 2 0 1978 COMMERCIAL CODE club AGRICULTURE MUSEUM DATA SHEET PH0357715 XORIGINAL SITE LRUINS DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

has a convex mansard roof with curbing along its upper edge, hipped gable The bracketed cornice with its wide frieze continue uninterrupted beneath The interior is in good condition with a large central hall, a straight-run stair- CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED DATE DETERIORATED EXCELLENT XALTERED DESCRIPTION brackets above the sidelighted entrance.The main roof repeats the mansard architectural integrity. windows on the ground floor have a small iron balcony.Recent alterations cornice, and a projecting molding at the third level which accents the pointed segmentally-arched with individually carved floral ornament which serves as for the round-arched windows in these gables, all of the other fenestration is The rear wing is an irregular mass of gabled forms with a light grey stucco and porte-cochere; and the elimination of the iron cresting along the roof.

dormers with round-arched windows and scalloped surrounds, a wide bracketed style.It is of masonry construction with a white stucco surface and is attached pair of segmentally-arched windows and a balcony with corner urns and carved outdoor tennis courts through large round-arched windows.Although the rear arched hoodmold and central window with its plate tracery.Below this are a include the removal of the front porch, with its paired columns, segmental arches, the barrel-vaulted dormers and the hipped gables on the side elevations.Except CHECK ONE clustered Gothic columns flanking many of the doors and windows.

toa rear wing which contains an athletic club.The central entrance tower surface.It contains a variety of athletic facilities, gyms, and squash courts, wing is quite bulky, the mansion still dominates the site and maintains its - MOVED -FAIR X.GOOD hoodmolds and supports for the projecting window sills. The paired facade case, generous rooms with high ceilings and thick Italianate moldings, and as well as private rooms and a large dining hall.This overlooks a set of The Stager-Beckwith house is an early example of the Second French Empire AREAS OF

Statement of significance

It is also an important landmark in Cleveland's social life, once the residence since 1845. He became associated with Frederick Sterling and George Welch, forming the Beckwith, Sterling and Company and specializing in carpeting and possession of the house until 1909. its activities. Its membership of the city's leading educators, businessmen, and professionals made the club a focus of Cleveland's social life, renting it 1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 COMMERCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT XARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE RELIGION MILITARY THEATER INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION X1800-1899 LITERATURE SCULPTURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT is an interesting cross between the Italianate and Second French Empire styles. streets in the country.

_COMMUNICATIONS T.Sterling Beckwith.Mr.Beckwith had operateda dry-goods store in Cleveland XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This threat only underscores the importance of the Stager-Beckwith house as mansions that gave Euclid Avenue the reputation as one of the finest residential has made the house's future uncertain. While the University Club still occupies the property, declining membership and offices in the North during the Civil War.In 1869,he sold the house to incorporated in 1898, with its original 140 members representing 40 educational and later the club of its leading merchants and scholars.

In 1913,the house was converted into the University Club.The organization was As the last remaining 19th Century mansion from the period when Cleveland's of the Western Union Telegraph Company and directed all of the telegraph lines Euclid Avenue was known as "Millionare's Row",the Stager-Beckwith house an early example of its architectural style and as the last of the late 19th Century _ECONOMICS _PHILOSOPHY -1900- -MUSIC INVENTION The house was built for Anson Stager in 1863. He was the general superintendent institutions. The club, however, was as. much recreational as intellectual in out for dances and making its private rooms available to visiting college students. interior decorating.Beckwith died in 1876,although the Beckwith family kept

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Schofield, Landmark Architecture of Cleveland, 1976, Pg. 127. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 5.1 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE May 1977 STREET & NUMBER 10825 East Blvd. CITY OR TOWN Ohio 44106 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY GPO 888-445 721-5722 ORGANIZATION DATE NORTHING TELEPHONE COUNTY LOCAL Cleveland ZONE EASTING acre site.

UTM REFERENCES Western Reserve Historical Society - Regional Office Cleveland City Directories and Atlases CODE Tom Fisher - Regional Preservationist Rose,Cleve1and,1950,Pg.201,298,344,374,472,589,617,793. 4-12-78 On the north side of the street at 3813 Euclid Avenue, occupying at 5.1 LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I ZONE Ohio ATTEST: C. Wade CONTROL Photos _ OK- 12.13.27 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - APR 2 0 1978 OTHER KEEPER TECHNICAL HAER Entered Send-back Maps Re-submit Review HISTORIAN Property Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up State REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF 2.6.78 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 ARCHEOLOGIST Cuyahoga 2/15/78 T.

Fisher, June 1977, Facade, looking North DEC 12 1977 APR 2 0 1978 Stager-Beckwith House PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER T. Fisher, June 1977 Side Elevation, looking West DEC 1 2 1977 APR 2 0 1978 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Stager-Beckwith House Western Reserve Hist. Society Cleveland, Cuyahogahio Cleveland, CuyahogaÇoughio DEC 12 1977 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Stager-Beckwith House Rear Elevation, Looking South Western Reserve Hist. Society T. Fisher, June 1977 BEC 1 2 1977 CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND NORTH 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC Cleveland, Cuyahoga TAPR 2 0 1978 ROAD CLASSIFICATION RECEIVED UNITED STATES 3813 EUCLID AVENUE - CLEVELAND.

OHIO 44115 August 10, 1977 DEC 1 2 1977 I-71 and 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 home of the University Club) is being considered for listing in Western Electric Company, the Bell System's manufacturing arm. 1915. While the University Club added substantially to the build- ings on the site, much of the original house remains as originally HCH/gf NATIONAL REGISTER Gentlemen: RECEIVED Ohio Historical Center Architectural Historian & Administrator Cleveland's Euclid Avenue. of the successful design of telephone quipment adopted by the National Register of Historic Places.We encourage this structed for Anson Stager then an official of the Western Union listing and we believe that this property qualifies for it.

premises of the University Club in Cleveland since approximately constructed and would lend intself quite favorably to restoration Alexander Graham Bell and he was eventually president of the informing us that the site of the Stager-Beckwith House (now the Telegraph Company.Mr. Stager later was one of the developers representative of the elegance that once was the hallmark of BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board as an example of the architecture of the period and would be very At a later date one of Cleveland's well known merchants, Yours very truly, The original house dates to the 185o's and was con- This will acknowledge your letter of June 27,1977 Attention: Ms. Judith Kitchen, Sterling Beckwith, occupied this house. It has been a part of the APR 2 0 1978 Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. De. Thomas H. Smith Hon. Donald J. Pease Hon. Charles A.

Vanik Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Mott Maumee STATE 4/26/78 Cuyahoga County Name Erie County Birmingham Chagrin Falls Lucas County Starr-Truscott House Also Notified Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Cleveland ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Stager-Beckwith House Hon. Thomas L. Ashley State Historic Preservation Officer Hon.

Louis Stokes March, George, House Date Entered Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Director, The Ohio Historical Society Reed, Henry Jr.,House OHIO 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: APR 2 0 1978 (12 SOURCE of NOMINATION Doriginal site - SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Dexeellent D NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown -unexcavated Z OO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain "first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION - 12 - LITERATURE - 17 D SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH- 27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS - 9 C INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 C PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION-25 8 functions a master builder: 5landscape architeet / garden designer: ") interior decorator: @artisan: EVENTS : IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE CONDITION ASSOCIATION Cuyahoga date PERSONAL: FEDERAL STATE ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: artist: Cleveland historic events: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION CURRENTLY: builder/contractor: COMMERCE-6 WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: LOCAL major alterations : University Club Stager-Beckwith House Ddeteriorated NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP vicinity of architectural style(s): ADMINISTRATOR: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ENGINEERING-11 SAVED?YES URBAN PLANWING-31 county code: as it appears on federal register: 3813 Euclid Ave.

if state who prepared form? Oaltered Omoved GNPS REGION: @engineer: 6 LOCATION street & number 11)CONGRESS. DISTRICT 21st 17) features: Ireviewers initials. 2 ACREAGE - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -POLITICS/ GOVT.- 21 ETHNIC GROUP dates of initial construction: city/ town Ofair Oruins Dgood