MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Bay Village Historical Society, Bay Village: A Way of Life, (Bay Village, 1974). Cuyahoga County Portrait and Biographical Record, ( Chicago, 1894). Rose, William Ganson, Cleveland - The Making of a City, (Cleveland,1950). 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY March 1978 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 921-803 44106 216-721-5722 DATE ORGANIZATION NORTHING TELEPHONE Cleveland COUNTY CODE Ohio ATTEST: Western Reserve Historical Society NAME/TITLE 10825 East Boulevard The nominated property is located in Huntington Park, Cleveland Metropark Eric Johannesen - Preservationist System, 35 feet south of the shoreline of Lake Erie and 250 feet north of ZONE EASTING UTM REFERENCES CHIEF OF REGISTRATION Randall, Emilius O., History of Ohio, Vol. VI(New York, 1915).
LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I QUADRANGLE SCALE 1: 24,000 ZONE 14.519.314,2,0] Photos _ Send-back 12,8, 78 Re-submit 1,24.79 KEEPER Entered OTHER HAER TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Maps HISTORIAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Working Number8. 11.78.383 8 Inventory H 11.29.78 IN T:2106- 74 OK 8.15.28 CONTROL Property State United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office fc Geographical Data -- Acreage: on the National Register staff, telephone 202-343-640/ Thank you for your attention to the above items. DeL. 8 Date: - Certification: Other: Photographic Coverage: Map Coverage: IS RESUBMITTED.
UTM Reference(s): Verbal Boundary Description: Bibliography: clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATi United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.8 Geographical Data -- Acreage: UTM Reference(s): _ Dec. 8 Other: Certification: Map Coverage: Photographic Coverage: Bibliography: Verbal Boundary Description: Chief, Branch of Registration IS RESUBMITTED. Thank you for your attention to the above items. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.8 INT:2105- 74 STATE Date: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office fo clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATi Form No. 10-300 REV.
(9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVERUG 1 1 1978 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 23 - Ronald Mottl - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X UNOCCUPIED AGRICULTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS EDUCATIONAL -PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE _RELIGIOUS IN PROCESS _YES: UNRESTRICTED SCIENTIFIC 4 OWNER OF PROPERTY 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 035 039 OBJECT 44113 Columbus COUNTY BOTH Cuyahoga DATE LOCATION CODE ENTERTAINMENT CLASSIFICATION Cleveland PRIVATE Ohio ACCESSIBLE INDUSTRIAL CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATE Bay Village Cuyahoga County Administration Building 1219 Ontario Street 28600 Lake Road _TRANSPORTATION COURTHOUSE.
BUILDING(S) _DISTRICT Cleveland Metropark System Ohio Historical Society NAME September 1977 _GOVERNMENT PUBLIC ACQUISITION 55 Public Square STATUS _COMMERCIAL XPUBLIC _BEING CONSIDERED DATE ENTERED XNO XPARK XSTRUCTURE - MILITARY - MUSEUM Ohio Historic Snventory _OTHER: 43211 FEB 1979 TITLE XORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE_ DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED The John Huntington pumping tower is a six-story wooden tower approxi- UNALTERED XALTERED CHECK ONE rank on the south elevation, and two on each of the other three sides. All supported by four central wooden posts which surround a three-inch metal DESCRIPTION and beam structure has diagonal bracing and is covered with horizontal roof which shelters the concession stand windows.
shiplap siding and corner boards.There are five windows ina vertical railing around the top and a one story lookout with vertical board and The treads are in poor condition, so access to the upper stories attached to the east side of the tower's base.It has an overhanging gable the windows are shuttered or boardedup.The square interior stair is _RUINS is prohibited.At the top of the tower there is a wide overhanging cornice XFAIR -GOOD mately 65 feet tall.
The sides are tapered with a platform and lookout at the top giving the tower the appearance ofa lighthouse.The interior post batten siding and a pyramidal long one-story addition has been supported by Eastlake brackets, seven on each side.There is a balustered AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LAW SCIENCE X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN PHILOSOPHY -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and railroads. From 1859 to 1873 he was an influential member of the Cleveland years the carriage house was used as the Huntington Playhouse, but it burned 1700-1799 1500-1599 ART INVENTION ENGINEERING ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD AGRICULTURE SCULPTURE XARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE CONSERVATION MILITARY THEATER _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMUNICATIONS TRANSPORTATION estate still standing.
LITERATURE MUSIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _1600-1699 The Huntington pumping tower is an unusual utilitarian structure of the late City Council, and introduced the resolution for the construction of the first ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC he formed the John Huntington Benevolent Trust for the benefit of numerous high level bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley, the Superior Viaduct. In 1889, 19th century, and an important remnant from the estate of John Huntington, educational and cultural institutions. Mechanically inclined, he obtained patents for several improvements in the pumping machinery and was probably intentionally disguised as a lighthouse. John Huntington was born in England in 1832. He moved to Cleveland in 1853, one of the most important citizens of Cleveland in that period.
_PREHISTORIC Huntington acquired Adolphus Geuder's loo-acre farm in Bay Village some _EDUCATION oil refining process, and later became very wealthy from his stock in water to surrounding vineyards and orchards until 19l7. Huntington's estate John Huntington died in 1893.The pump house continued to be used to convey with Clark, Payne and Company, a forerunner of Standard Oil in 1863. in 1970,making the pump house the only major structure from Huntington's was sold to the Cleveland Metropolitan Park System in 1927.For several where he started his own roofing business in 1857. He became associated _RELIGION -1400-1499 _1900- -COMMERCE time between 1874 and 1880.The pumping tower was built to house water _INDUSTRY X1800-1899 Standard Oil. Huntington was also involved in lake shipping, stone quarrying, Randall, Emilius O., History of Ohio, Vol.
VI ( New York, 1915) 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY - Less than one acre UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 1 FORM PREPARED BY STREET & NUMBER 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST GPO 921-803 44106 216-721-5722 ZONE ORGANIZATION DATE TELEPHONE CODE COUNTY Cleveland NORTHING STATE Western Reserve Historical Society LOCAL Ohio NAME/TITLE 10825 East Boulevard Eric Johannesen - Preservationist The nominated property is located in Huntington Park, Cleveland Metropark March 1978 CHIEF OF REGISTRATION ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES System, 35 feet south of the shoreline of Lake Erie and 250 feet north of Bay Village Historical Society,Bay Village:A Way of Life,(Bay FOR NPS USE ONLY Rose, William Ganson, Cleveland - The Making of a City, (Cleveland, 195).
LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES and is 100 feet by 100 feet in size. THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: Cuyahoga County Portrait and Biographical Record, ( 14519.314.2.0 Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE RECEIVEGAN 2 4 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 2 1979 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER 8 privately-built mechanical contrivance, but the machinery is no PAGE Cuyahoga County CONTINUATION SHEET As stated above, the tower is the only significant structure still standing Huntington, John, Pumping Tower only remaining site connected with Huntington during his lifetime, although of the fact that the utilitarian structure was ornamented with a bracketed DATE ENTERED intentionally disguised as a lighthouse.The tower may have significance longer there. there are extant buildings erected as a result of his philanthropic trust. places it some time between 1874and 1880,which is consistent with the FOR NPS USE ONLY The land itself is a public park.The site which includes the tower is the architectural style.
The structure is architecturally significant by virtue The exact date of the tower is unknown, but the development of the estate cornice and balustrade in the taste of the period, and that it was probably FEB 2 Re-submit - Inventory KEEPER OTHER Entered TECHNICAL Photos HISTORIAN Send-back HAER Maps CONTROL National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN State ONio Huntington, John, Pump ing FEB 2 1979 AUG 1 1 1978 Tower W.R.H.S. Bay Village Cuyahoga Co. Ohio 1. Facade, looking NE T. Fisher 1978 T. Fisher AUG 1 1 1978 FEB 2 1979 1978 Tower Huntington, John, Pumping W.R.H.S. T. Fisher 3. Facade and West elevation, Looking NE Tower Huntington, John, Pumping Bay Village Cuyahoga Co.
Ohio NORTH OLMSTED QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 55 Public Square Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 621-1054 August 28, 1978 Mr. William J. Murtaugh U.S. Dept. of the Interior Re: H32-NR Dear Mr. Murtaugh: ing the nomination of the John Huntington Pumping Tower, which is owned Stephen D. Coles Board of Park Commissioners G. Stanley Mottershead, President Eleanore B. Kapel, Vice President Lee C. Howley, Vice President Harold Schick, Director/Secretary Lou E. Tsipis, Deputy Director Metroparks Sincerely, Heritage Conservational Recreation Service structure and anxiously await word of your disposition of this nomination. Cleveland Metroparks System Park Planner by this agency to the National Register of Historic Places.
Washington DC 20240 FR 8-29-28 This letter is in response to your requests for comments regard- I wish to inform you of our support for the listing of this AUG 31 1978 INITIALS THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE / C. ATTACHED) 9-5-78 FEB 2 Huntington, John, Pumping Tower Keeler, Diadatus, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 1979 Location Director Lancaster Name Hopetown Fairfield County Wesley Chapel The Ohio Historical Society Ross County Delaware County Cuyahoga County Lancaster West Main Street Historic District State Historic Preservation Officer Bay Village Muskingum County Honorable Clarence E. Miller STATE OHIO Zanesville Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Honorable Samuel L. Devine Honorable William H. Harsha Date Entered Galena vicinity Also Notified For further information,please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.
ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Kearns, George and Edward, Houses Byers/bjr 2/12/79 2 OTHER NAMES: )date of entry: Huntington, John, Pumping Tower COUNTY Bay Village 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - deteriorated Oaltered Dexcellent Oruins Omoved 9O NOT INTACT-O Ogood Ounexposed - Unknown -unexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE-7 - No Access AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.
21 -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain C LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE - 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 C CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH - 27 C MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 C ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 'only' D C ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION -25 3 functions @dates of initial construction: major alterations : 2 architectural style(s): @master builder: landscape architect / garden designer: () interior decorator: EVENTS : NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP Breviewers initials date IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED.
NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 035 1979 Midwes Cuyahoga ASSOCIATION engineer: CONDITION ENGINEERING-11 STATE FEDERAL INSTITUTIONAL: artisan: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 CURRENTLY: LOCAL historic events: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 vicinity of ADMINISTRATOR: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: Doriginal site SAVED?YES URBAN PLANWING-31 Dfair if state who prepared form? 28600 Lake Rd. as it appears on federal register: GNPS REGION: 4 county code: 5 LOCATION street & number city / town 17)features: -reconstructed 5O UNKNOWN-6 ACCESS IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? OyesOno CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -EXPLORATION -12 @bullder/contractor: 11) CONGRESS. DISTRICT ETHNIC GROUP YES-Unrestricted artist: COMMERCE-6 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ACREAGE WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANOMARK? YES.NAME
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