MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Mary Emma Harris and Ruth Mills Robinson, The Proud Heritage of Cleveland Heights (Cleveland Heights, 1966), 75-76. O GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY - QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION No. 684-11-1. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Eric Johannesen, Preservationist 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 CHIEF OF REGISTRATION 1978 216-721-5722 CODE DATE COUNTY NORTHING TELEPHONE EASTING STATE East Cleveland LOCAL Ohio 1:24,000 ATTEST: SHPO Less than one As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I GPO 921-803 10825 East Boulevard ORGANIZATION ZONE Western Reserve Historical Society This property consists of the lot identified as Permanent Parcel 14,519.512,7,0 - i historian Inventory - National Register Write-up Re-submit 7./7,79 KEEPER OTHER HAER Entered TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Maps CONTROL Photos Review BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 Send-back 12.8.78 Working Number,.
26. 28. 3 424 8.28.78 OK 6.29.28 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN IN T:2106- 74 State 11.28.78 UTM Reference(s): _ Description: Photographic Coverage: STATE Certification: Other: Date: IS RESUBMITTED. Map Coverage: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for Thank you for your attention to the above items. Geographical Data -- Acreage: Chief, Branch of Registration Verbal Boundary Description: clarification of the information indicated below. PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION on the National Register staff, telephone - United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 9.17 Form No. 10-300 REV.
(9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUN 2 6 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 22 - Charles A. Vanik PRESENT USE X PUBLIC X UNOCCUPIED AGRICULTURE X BUILDING(S) STRUCTURE _WORK IN PROGRESS -EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE LIN PROCESS _YES: UNRESTRICTED -SCIENTIFIC XOTHER Vacant OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS.ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 035 039 Superior School BOTH Cuyahoga Cleveland DATE CODE Cleveland Heights COUNTY DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION STATE HISTORIC PARK CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY Ohio OWNERSHIP PRIVATE RECEIVED 1219 Ontario NAME _ENTERTAINMENT East Cleveland District 9 School COURTHOUSE, PUBLIC ACQUISITION City of Cleveland Heights BEING CONSIDERED Cuyahoga County Building STATUS _GOVERNMENT 2953 Mayfield Road 14391 Superior Road _COMMERCIAL TITLE SURVEY RECORDS _INDUSTRIAL - MILITARY -RELIGIOUS FOR NPS USE ONLY _OBJECT - MUSEUM XNO 7 DESCRIPTION _ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE CONDITION RUINS UNALTERED GOOD FAIR DETERIORATED CHECK ONE frame construction was added thirty-three years later than the first masonry. The windows are rectangular with sandstone sills and lintels.
frame construction.The narrow front of the building faces southwest on Superior Road.The lower story is constructed of sandstone ashlar room on each floor.The walls and ceilings are plastered. The _EXCELLENT storage by the City of Cleveland Heights.The windows are boarded up. This is a small two-story schoolhouse building of sandstone and wooden construction as the lower story.The interior consists of one large story.Its exterior sheathing is narrow wooden lap siding.On the - UNEXPOSED of the building is a small (15 feet by 15 feet) room of the same stone The entrance steps are slabs of sandstone. roof was slate, but new roofing was put on in 1976.To the rear woodwork is very plainly finished.The building is being used for roof isa small square belfry with a pyramidal roof.The original The second story of DATE.
AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC LARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE RELIGION SCULPTURE X ARCHITECTURE SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN ART X1900- _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1882; 1915 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 1700-1799 1400-1499 Heights. INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ECONOMICS SCIENCE CONSERVATION PERIOD This is a rare example of a nineteenth century rural schoolhouse, THEATER ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE AGRICULTURE _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS MUSIC Because the first portion of the building was unusually solid in School is a significant local historic place. XEDUCATION _COMMERCE of very substantial construction, surviving in a metropolitan area.
_TRANSPORTATION _1500-1599 At present it is used as a storage building by the City of Cleveland construction;the addition shows the adaptation of the building to 1940s and 1950s it was used for classes for slow-learning children. Township in 1882. It was the third school building on the site, replacing value.Must be rebuilt. The frame second story of the existing classes until 1925. It stood vacant for years, then in the late _PHILOSOPHY The school was built as the District 9 school of East Cleveland 1853 stated that a still older building was 'an Old House of little X1800-1899 _1600-1699 the increasing needs of the community;and the survival of the building in a large metropolitan area is unusual, the District 9 municipality in 1901.The Superior School was used for regular an earlier brick building.
The minutes of the Board of Education in building was added in 1915.Cleveland Heights became an independent Mary Emma Harris and Ruth Mills Robinson, The Proud Heritage of Cleveland Heights (Cleveland Heights, 1966), 75-76. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA QUADRANGLE NAME QUADRANGLE SCALE - L4,519,512,7,01 ZONE EASTING VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION No. 684-11-1. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: 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 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER KEEP ER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OF REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 1978 216-721-5722 COUNTY CODE ORGANIZATION DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING East Cleveland Ohio 1:24,000 LOCAL Western Reserve Historical Society This property consists of the lot identified as Permanent Parcel 10825 East Boulevard UTM REFERENCES Eric Johannesen, Preservationist ATTEST: hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES SHPO ZONE 6/12/ Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUL 2 6 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE ENTERED INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM East Cleveland District 9 School CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 reveals one other in all of northeastern Ohio. It is this stone construction of a "little red schoolhouse," and because it is an unusual variant of vernacular building, that the architecture is significant. The second story substantial construction, but to the fact that it was used continuously PAGE Sterling School on the National Register). frame construction.(The other is Florence Township School, an octagon.) Victorian Gothic, and Queen Anne styles (one will probably be demolished The survival of the school is significant because the country school special purpose education for slow learners.
The school is educationally significant not only because it was a local the area older than the Superior School.Two are one-room brick The Superior School is the only schoolhouse in Cuyahoga County constructed second story) is unique in all of northern Ohio, and probably in the state. The architectural configuration of the school (stone ground story, wood district school, but because it was adapted in its declining years for until 1925 and then adapted for use again in the 1940s and 1950s; and residential or other uses.
There are five schools of some integrity in today to the fact that it is recognized locally as one of the community's remained ona city lot while an entire upper middle-class residential metropolitan area whose integrity has been altered by conversion to Cuyahoga County , ohio neighborhood grew up around it.The survival is not credited to the of sandstone, and the current state of survey work (4,034 properties) of frame construction was added for functional reasons ina style which There are perhaps a half dozen l9th century schools in the Cleveland few links with the 19th century (the community of Cleveland Heights). FOR NPS USE ONLY by the Board of Education;one is now a parochial school;one is the harmonizes but does not try to duplicate the earlier structure.
RECEIVED It is precisely because it does not fit the traditional stereotyped image schoolhouses; the other three are large public city schools in the Italianate, Photos - Inventory - Send-back - Re-submit - KEEPER OTHER Maps ARCHEOLOGIST HAER HISTORIAN Review Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF CONTROL 7.24.29 Photographer: Eric Johannesen, August 1973 Cleveland, Ohio JUN 2 6 1978 1085 JUL 26 1979 Negative: Western Reserve Historical Society, View of west corner of building looking east. DOE Photographer: Eric Johannesen, August, 1973 Cleveland, Ohio JUN 2 6 1978 View of east corner of building looking west. Negative: Western Reserve Historical Society, DOE Cleve. Hts. SHARON DENNIS PHOTC *- Cuyahoga Co.
Cleveland Heights (Superior) School East Cleveland District 9 (216) 932-7559 3of5-looking SE. JUL 17 JUL 1 7 1979 East Cleveland District 9 East end, looking north. (Superior) School JUL 2 6 1979 (D0() Cleveland Heights Cuyahoga Co. JUL 2 6 1979 DOE JUL 17 1979 5075 looking Sw. East and north elevations, East Cleveland District 9 (Superior) School Cuyahoga Co. Cleveland Heights Cleve. Hts. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EAST CLEVELAND QUADRANGLE East Cleveland District 9 School UNITED STATES JUN 2 6 1978 RECEIVED Cleveland Heights, 17 452/540 East JUL 26 1979 Barker, Judge Joseph, Jr., House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Dr. Thomas H. Smith Honorable Clarence. J.
Brown Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Ironton Marquart-Mercer Farm Director Newport vicinity Cuyahoga County Washington County STATE Name Columbus Date Entered Clark County Cleveland Heights Springfield vicinity East Cleveland District 9 School Rankin Historic District For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-640l. Also Notified Corps of Engineers Honorable John Glenn Honorable Clarence Miller Lawrence County State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Samuel L. Divine Franklin County Mr. Richard Leverty, Honorable Charles A. Vanik Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Old Port Columbus Airport Control Tower ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Ohio Historical Society 7/31/79 OHIO
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