Nomination for Wheatley, Phillis, Association

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Form No. 10-300 REV. (9/77) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AUG 2 4 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HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN - VICINITY OF 21 - Louis Stokes PRESENT USE _WORK IN PROGRESS PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS X YES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY Contact: Mrs. Tommie Patty 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC.

6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS 1976 039 DATE Columbus LOCATION BOTH DISTRICT ENTERTAINMENT Cleveland HISTORIC CODE STATE CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Ohio STRUCTURE MUSEUM Cuyahoga County Building AGRICULTURE PARK SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL NAME MILITARY TRANSPORTATION Ohio Historical Society CLASSIFICATION Ohio Historic Inventory COURTHOUSE. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT _COMMERCIAL Phillis Wheatley Association RELIGIOUS STATUS TITLE 1219 Ontario OTHER: Cedar Avenue _PUBLIC _BEING CONSIDERED PRIVATE RESIDENCE DATE ENTERED -EDUCATIONAL FOR NPS USE ONLY - UNOCCUPIED _OBJECT XBUILDING(S) X_PRIVATE -SITE COUNTCuyahoga FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY LOCAL 035 RECEIVED 44103 7 DESCRIPTION *ORIGINAL SITE DETERIORATED GOOD _MOVED DATE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

with two stories below ground. The structural framework is steel, the are embraced by an arcade, whose recessed arches are connected feature, together with the plain brick walls, is reminiscent of the A two-story structure of concrete block, brick, and glass was CONDITION RUINS FAIR CHECK ONE residence tower is a large two-story auditorium-gymnasium wing flaring coved brick cornice instead of a classical entablature.This EXCELLENT residence floors of the main tower were remodeled and combined light fixtures and decorative plaster moldings are intact.

of the first seven stories are plain rectangles.The upper two stories _UNEXPOSED The main part of the building is a nine-story residential tower, floors and roof are of reinforced concrete, and the exterior curtain separate the office and elevator areas for security.The original center of the ground story facade has an arched tympanum and above entrance connection.In 1972 the individual sleeping rooms on the into suites with private kitchens and baths.

steel frame and brick walls.The wooden roof deck is supported with windows on the long sides and only three on the ends.The windows This caused no alteration to the original building except for the ita square stone balcony on console brackets.The roof line hasa connected to the southeast corner of the building in 1957.It houses open metal trusses.There is a stage at the south end of the hall -UNALTERED residence is unaltered except for a glass partition wall installed to XALTERED bya continuous stone band at the eighth story.The entrance in the walls are brick.The tower is very narrow, having fourteen ranks of measuring approximately 50 by 85 feet.It is constructed with a aday-care center on the first floor and music school on the second. anda balcony at the north end.The interior lobby area of the AREAS OF

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SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW PREHISTORIC -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE X SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1911; 1927 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Phillis Wheatley Association was founded by Jane Edna Hunter, who music department, handicraft and dance classes, clubs, discussion groups and inspirational programs. his entire pledge. The architects, Benjamin S. Hubbell and W. Dominick Benes, also designed the Cleveland Museum of Art, the YMCA, the West Side 1400-1499 1600-1699 1800-1899 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE PERIOD INDUSTRY LAW THEATER SIGNIFICANCE COMMERCE MILITARY MUSIC XARCHITECTURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INVENTION Hampton Institute.She conceived the idea of organizing an institution which community in Cleveland. The Phillis Wheatley Association building is the home of the organiza- poetess, the organization purchased a three-story apartment with rooms the committee approached the Rockefeller Foundation. John D.

Rockefeller, _1500-1599 the community.The activities of the Association were expanded with a _TRANSPORTATION continuing the custom of taking over secondhand buildings. The building thus offering-recreation for the residents and establishing an influence in _1700-1799 Renamed the Phillis Wheatley Association after America's first Negro -CONSERVATION commercial and public buildings in Cleveland. In 1922 fund-raising for the completely new building began.In 1924, need for constructing a building to fit the needs of the program rather than years following its founding in 19ll.Its founder explicitly pointed out the constructed in 1927 is a significant work of architecture and represents 1928. Although there was still a mortgage of $86,500,Rockefeller forwarded organization was patterned on the YWCA plan but was not affiliated with it.

would provide a wholesome atmosphere for single Negro girls not attached -PHILOSOPHY In 1972 the building was converted from a home for working girls toa - ENGINEERING secure the remaining $450,000 by February1,1928.The cornerstone was Market (NR),the Wade Memorial Chapel (NR),and numerous important -RELIGION -LITERATURE a last echo of the Chicago style idiom in Cleveland. -EDUCATION - ECONOMICS Association and in 191ll leaseda 23-room house to care for ten girls.The -SCIENCE COMMUNITY PLANNING X1900- tion which was the principal Negro social agency in Cleveland for many came to Cleveland in 1905 as a trained nurse after her graduation from to homes with a good environment. She organized the Working Girls' Home residence for the elderly.

In this capacity it continues to serve the black BUILDER/ARCHITECT -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Hubbell & Benes for 75 girls in 1917.In 1919 rooms for community activities were added, laid on June 19,1927,and the nine-story building was dedicated on April24, 10

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

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY QUADRANGLE NAME VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County. 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 - LOCAL X As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER CHIEF OF-REGISTRATION GPO 921-803 216-721-5722 ORGANIZATION COUNTY 259-260.

CODE DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING Cleveland Ohio less than one Cleveland South Western Reserve Historical Society UTM REFERENCES February 1979 ZONE EASTING The nominated property includes the lots 10825 East Boulevard MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Jane Edna Hunter,A Nickel anda Prayer Publ.Co.,1940),1l4-ll9. Russell H.

Davis, Black Americans in Cleveland (Washington, 1972), 195-196, L4,519,412,6,0 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service A[1,Z] 1414513,2,0 ZONE ATTEST: identifiedas permanent parcels no.103-25-15 and 103-25-71in the KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN OTHER Inventory KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Maps Send-back Re-submit HISTORIAN Review TECHNICAL National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 8.21.79 BRANCH CHIEF CONTROL United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Cleveland, Cuyahoga County facade, looking SW. JUL 17 1979 Phillis Wheatley Association East elevation and North 1978 E. Johanuesen4 WRHS East elevation, looking SW. Phillis Wheatley Association WRHS school addition. JUL 17 1979 Ohio Cleveland Cuyahoga Co. Ohio West elevation, looking SE. JUL 17 1979 right.

1979WRHS Auditorium wing at extreme Phillis Wheatley Association WRHS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE Phillis Wheatley 17 445/320 East 4594/260 North GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AUG 2 4 1979 Lawrence, William, House Pickands, Jay M., House Wheatley, Phillis, Association Burton Lisbon Location Bratenahl Logan County Bellefontaine Name STATE OHIO Cleveland Geauga County Date Entered Columbiana County Cuyahoga County ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Lisbon Historic District Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall Also Notified call the National Register at (202)343-6401. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Nicholson, James, House Coulby, Harry, Mansion Pretzinger, Rudolph, House Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Byers/bjr Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Dr. Thomas H.

Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dayton Director Lakewood Location Cincinnati STATE Hamilton County Name Montgomery County Scioto County Wickliffe Portsmouth Date Entered Honorable Clarence Miller Columbia-Tusculum Multiple Resource Area The Ohio Historical Society Honorable J. William Stanton Honorable Ronald M. Mottl Honorable Charles A. Vanik State Historic Preservation Officer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Louis Stokes Honorable Clarence J. Brown Honorable Tony P. Hall Lake County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Also Notified AUG 2 A 1979 Honorable Willis D. Gradison, Jr. 8/30/79 OHIO Cuyahoga County