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Nomination for Hruby Conservatory of Music

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,629 words across 15 pages, filed in 1979. 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 79001807, 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. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED BCT & 5 1979 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF 20 - Mary Rose Oakar PRESENT USE -UNOCCUPIED PARK STRUCTURE -WORK IN PROGRESS -PRIVATE RESIDENCE ENTERTAINMENT -IN PROCESS - YES: UNRESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.
REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 035 1976 039 Columbus BOTH CODE LOCATION Cuyahoga DATE Cleveland OBJECT CLASSIFICATION COUNTY ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC LOCAL SCIENTIFIC OWNERSHIP PUBLIC SITE Ohio Historical Society Ohio STATE CATEGORY 1219 Ontario _DISTRICT PUBLIC ACQUISITION Hruby Conservatory of Music NAME _TRANSPORTATION MILITARY Cuyahoga County Administration Building Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Demmy _GOVERNMENT Ohio Historic Inventory STATUS _INDUSTRIAL COURTHOUSE. DATE ENTERED - EDUCATIONAL 5109 Broadway Avenue 5417 Broadway SURVEY RECORDS TITLE XNO X_PRIVATE Ohio 44127 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - COMMERCIAL OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES - RELIGIOUS XBUILDING(S) FOR NPS USE ONLY XOTHER Vacant AGRICULTURE MUSEUM _FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY XUNOCCUPIED 7 DESCRIPTION EXCELLENT DETERIORATED * GOOD _MOVED DATE.
DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

This is a two-story masonry structure in the Renaissance revival style. cornice, and parapet are all executed in terra cotta and surmounted CONDITION recital hall. RUINS FAIR spaces which display no architectural distinction. The Conservatory CHECK ONE entablatures and surrounds of terra cotta in a brick wall. The spacing small office, meeting, and dressing rooms. A hallway runs the The same second-story treatment continues on the south facade, which length of the building and opens into a series of ten instructional On the interior, the ground floor is divided into three commercial windows.The second story has three rectangular windows framed with the large recital hall, whose ceiling frieze has restrained classical floor, and the roof line is gabled instead of a flat parapet.
The second entrance leads to a grand flight of stairs to the second floor containing story of this bay has three windows framed by arches on pilasters wall of the building, is modest and unpretentious. There are some another commercial store front with its own entrance on the ground The depth of the building is three times as long as the street front the entrance is a large bay treated as a separate block.It contains - UNEXPOSED faces a side yard.There are five windows, beneath the last of which by a series of finials. of the windows is further articulated by terra cotta quoining.A frieze, (28x 90 feet),and in effect the building has two facades.The street XUNALTERED XORIGINAL SITE ornament. The recital platform, which projects beyond the rear studios. The building has a full basement.
is the major entrance to the Conservatory on the second floor.Beyond and grouped within a rectangular panel.The windows open into the AREAS OF

Statement of significance

students from throughout Cleveland, thereby making it one of the few ethnic months. Hruby, along with his father, five brothers, and two sisters formed revival structures in this former Czech neighborhood, it is the only one 1917 1700-1799 1600-1699 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION RELIGION ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS EDUCATION ART SIGNIFICANCE CONSERVATION THEATER TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT AGRICULTURE PERIOD MILITARY SCULPTURE The Conservatory was planned by Cleveland architects Steffens and Steffens LITERATURE operated until Frank Hruby's retirement in 1968--this being ample testimony building is an elegant small example of Renaissance revival architecture Frank J.
Hruby, founder of the Conservatory, was born in what is now of an important Czech-American musical family, the Conservatory attracted XARCHITECTURE structures whose use transcended neighborhood boundaries.In addition, the monumental structure. the neighborhood that physically denote Czech prominence in the arts and from the second decade of the twentieth century. Public Library (which housed a large collection of Czech literature and which societies, as well as recitals by professional musicians such as Jan Kubelik. _PREHISTORIC The Hruby Conservatory of Music occupied a prominent position in the a musical group that toured throughout the United States. The family's skills letters, the others being the Carnegie-built Broadway Branch of the Cleveland is located next to the Conservatory) and the Bohemian National Hall, situated to the vitality of the institution.
cultural milieu of Czech-American life in Cleveland for fifty years, but its which clearly conveys the cultural and commercial functions and the differen- largest Czech community in Cleveland. It is one of three major structures in The Hruby Conservatory is located in the center of what was the and Searles which had planned the Bohemian Hall in l896.The architecture of several blocks to the north. The Hall, which is listed in the National Register, Orchestra after its formation in 1918. The Conservatory was built in 1917 and -1500-1599 -ECONOMICS which attains a degree of taste and elegance that would befit a much more - PHILOSOPHY -1800-1899 (active 1902-1923).The elder Steffens was a member of the firm of Steffens XMUSIC X1900- -LAW -COMMUNITY PLANNING BUILDER/ARCHITECT Steffens & Steffens Czechoslovakia and came to Cleveland with his parents at the age of ten tiation between them.
Among the various commercial style and classic the Conservatory is an elegant expression of the Renaissance revival style ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC were of such an order that several members were performers in the Cleveland use was not limited to members of that ethnic group. Operated by the members 9

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 1:24, 000 QUADRANGLE NAME . UTM REFERENCES 14,519 0 17,1 PJ VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE _ I 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: LOCAL V 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 KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 216-721-5722 Cleveland ZONE DATE ORGANIZATION NATIONAL CODE TELEPHONE Cleveland South NORTHING COUNTY Ohio SHPO John Grabowski, ethnic archivist Western Reserve Historical Society ZONE EASTING hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the June 1979 10825 East Boulevard The nominated property consists of the lot known as permanent parcel QUADRANGLE SCALE CHIEP OF REGISTRATION ATTEST: FOR NPS USE ONLY ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY _ GPO 921-803 number 125-24-13 in the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County. less than William G.Rose,Cleveland:The Making of a City (1950),344,463,739,767.
A[1 7] 44,515,7,0 Working Number /0-25.79.2599 Photos _ Inventory _ TECHNICAL Maps Send-back OTHER HAER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER Re-submit Review HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 11.27.29 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN TAX SERVICES AVEN Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio Hruby Conservatory of Music 1. West and South facades, OCT 25 1979 :looking NE. OCT 2 5 1979 East. Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio 2. West Facade, looking Hruby Conservatory of Music Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio 3. South facade of auditorium, Hruby Conservatory of Music 1ooking NE-OCT 2 5 1979 John Roush, 1258 Euclid. NOV 29 1979 looking NortbCT 2 5 1979 Hruby Conservatory of Music Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio 4.
Main entrance to auditorium, 1979 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RECEIVED CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES 17 445/570 East OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO OCT 25 1979 REGISTER 4590/710 North 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO Seven Hills October 18, 1979 Mr. Charles Herrington, Acting Keeper Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service 440 G Street, N.W. Dear Mr. Herrington: approved by the state review board and the owners have been informed of our intent to nominate. Boesel, Adolph, House Maltby, Henry, House Otterbein Mausoleum Thomson, Peter G., Residence Adams, George W. House Rider, Adam, House Anderson, William M., House St.
Peters Church Licking County Pickaway Cuyahoga County Seneca County Athens County Muskingum County Hamilton County Franklin County Lincoln School Jackson County Metropolitan Block Mahoning County Knox County Warner Theater Richland County NATIONAL Medina County Butler County Shepard Street School Crawfis Institute Michaels Farm Ross County Auglaize County Hock-Hocking Wine Cellar Allen County Hruby Conservatory of Music Herron Gymnasium Athens Governmental Buildings hio Historic Preservation Office Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Pennsylvania Railway Station Fairfield County Courthouse Center Keystone Furnace Department of the Interior Higby House National Register of Historic Plcees Parmelee House Mill Road Bowstring Bridge RECEIVED Madam Fredin's Eden Park School Washington, D. C.
20243 io Historical Center 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 REGISTER Enclosed are 3l regular nominations and 2resubmissions.All have been Mr. Charles Herrington Page 2 Loew-Define Grocery Store & Home Elmwood Place Lee, Samuel, House David L. Brook State Historic Preservation Officer Sincerely, enclosures Resubmissions Washington County Union County Coshocton County was relocated) Montgomery County Wayne County Home Stark County Mason House DLB:CW Waernicke-Hille House & Store Let me know if we can provide any additional information. Deed's Barn (listed property that STATE OHIO NOV 29 1979 Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. David Brook .
Columbus, Ohio 43211 Byers/bjr Location Navarre Richland County Westerville Newark Parmelee House Franklin County Gahanna Stark County Hruby Conservatory of Music Cleveland 12/3/79 Cuyahoga County Honorable Ralph Regula Wooster Wayne County Home Name Otterbein Mausoleum Valley City Mansfield Also Notified Courthouse Center The Ohio Historical Society Date Entered Shepard Street School (Gahanna Nursing Home) Honorable John M. Ashbrook Honorable Mary R. Oakar Honorable Samuel L. Devine Pennsylvania Railway Station State Historic Preservation Officer Licking County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loew-Define Grocery Store and Home Medina County Honorable Donald J. Pease Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue St. Peters Church