Nomination for Mount Adams Public School

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Form No. 10-300 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 2 LOCATION STREET & NUMBER _NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Ist Willis D. Gradison, Jr. - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE _WORK IN PROGRESS *EDUCATIONAL PRIVATE RESIDENCE SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS XYES: RESTRICTED _BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY 230 E. 9th Street 5 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

6 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 061 Hamilton CODE OBJECT BOTH Cincinnati GOVERNMENT COUNTY DATE UNOCCUPIED TITLE ENTERTAINMENT SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE CATEGORY OWNERSHIP TRANSPORTATION STATE INDUSTRIAL NAME PARK MILITARY COURTHOUSE. AGRICULTURE PUBLIC STRUCTURE STATUS Cincinnati Historic Inventory _COMMERCIAL Court Street Hamilton County Court House Miami Purchase Association Ohio XPRIVATE OTHER: XBUILDING(S) August 1978 MUSEUM Cincinnati Board of Education SURVEY RECORDS 1125 St. Gregory Street _DISTRICT FOR NPS USE ONLY -RELIGIOUS DATE ENTERED NOV 24 I980 (Rev. 10-74) SEP 2 2 1980 FEDERAL STATECOUNTY XLOCAL RECEIVED DESCRIPTION X ORIGINAL SITE _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

room school house to seat 450 pupils, it is still being used as a have bracketed pilasters. The rear elevation facade is similar to the front, excluding an entrance. The North and South elevations are identical with eleven but not ornate. Three small 1/1 windows are displayed in the top-gable tion of the building combinded new technology, with the use of steel I CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR XUNALTERED risers.The floor plan of the interior contains a central corridor extensive dormers, and richly detailed main entrance.The steeply work revisions. gable contains corbelled panelling beneath third story windows which and rear elevations with wire screen coverings.

chimneys and pedimented dormers enhance the roof line.Each elevation The building is distinquished by its asymmetrical fenestration, contains a gable and wall dormer.The front elevation contains seven egg and dart molding and dentils and bears the inscription "Mt.Adams measure.The latest alteration occured in 1972 with some electrical Art Academy of Cincinnati.

semi-circular leaded glass window with #3) Stone belt CHECK ONE the tablets is an entablature with ofamandatory enclosing of the stairs in 1917 asa fireproofing district of Mount Adams.The steep hillside required the lot to be as encompasses the 1intels and sills.The windows are double hung 2/2 X.EXCELLENT pitched hip gable roof is covered with slate.Two massive corbelled on the corner of St.Gregory and Monestary Streets in the business Public School A.D.1894."The double door entrance is surrounded bya the lot. The school is a rectangular plan 2 1/2 story brick building, graded, thus there is a 25 foot grade from the front to the rear of -RUINS -GOOD bays with an elaborately decorated arched main entrance in the central bay.

Above the entrance in stone work are two inscribed tablets which state: "W.F.Hartzel - Trustee, Henry Klein - Sup't of Buildings" and "Building Committee - Jacob E.Cormany, Chas. Weidmer, Jr., H.W.Albers, on both elevations, whereas there are similar openings in the front and stairs to the North and South sides of the building. The construc- DATE woodwork and wainscoting and stairways with decorative pierced iron bays openings.Both contain an entrance similar to the main.entrance, The interior of the Mount Adams School retains the original lights capped by a stationary window with egg and dart molding.

The and string coursing mark the horizonal divisions on the facades as well school.The Cincinnati Board of Education has leased the school to the wood joists for the classrooms.Alterations to the building consisted beams in the central old the use of built1894,ata cost of 1,2)Designed as an eight AREAS OF

Statement of significance

features, the asymmetrical fenestration, extensive dormers and elabor- several schools: Fairview, 1888; Lincoln 1898; and Columbian, 1898. W.H. Morgan, Superintendent of Schools, noted on the completion of the Mount Adams Public School, that it was a departure fom the old plans Winton Place; A.H.Hinkle townhouse residence on Pike Street, demolished; C.H.Duhme residence, Clifton; Lincoln Inn Court; Charles Fleischmann residence, Walnut Hills; Fleischmann Distillery, Riverside; United 1500-1599 1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 ART community.

ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING PERIOD SCULPTURE SCIENCE THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT PREHISTORIC 1900- MILITARY INDUSTRY SIGNIFICANCE MUSIC buildings and residences including: Episcopalian congregation chapel, _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT one of the few remaining nineteenth century Romanesque school buildings que architecture. The school is situated in a prominent position in LITERATURE Building; Farmers National of Mansfield, German National, Covington, locations than any other school in the city. of school buildings and more in harmony with prevelant architecture in Cincinnati designed by Henry E.Siter.The school's main stylistic and numerous private residences.

_PHILOSOPHY The Mount Adams Public School is significant as an embodiment of _TRANSPORTATION _CONSERVATION ately detailed arched main entrance make it a fine example of Romanes- the business district of Mount Adams and forms an intregal part of the _COMMUNICATIONS XEDUCATION plans.Prior school designs were critically considered and ill adapted The Mount Adams School has had a total of five locations before a rented house on Hatch Street, a rented building on St. Gregory, its location on its present site.In 1885,the residents of Mount to school houses.Siter was noted for his designs of other public Kentucky; Citizens Bank, Sidney; Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church; Henry for the Cincinati Board of Mount Adams School has been used as a school and currently the Board of Education has leased the building to the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

-SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _COMMERCE of the school in 1894.The Mount Adams School is known to have more _ECONOMICS Adams petitionded the Board of Education to locate the school at the top of the hill, thus alleviating the overcrowded conditions of the INVENTION BUILDER/ARCHITECT Henry E. Siter a shoe factory on Sycamore Street;two patrol and one engine house; - LAW History of Snhools in Cincinnati, John B. Shotwell, 1902 10

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE STREET & NUMBER 513/961-3618, 381-5558 CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 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 criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Servi STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION ATTEST KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892- 453 TELEPHONE CODE DATE ZONE ORGANIZATION COUNTY STATE February 1980 NORTHING UTM REFERENCES Maryanne Benson ZONE EASTING Mount Adams Preservation Association UTM NOT VERIFIED ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED Fred Barber, Cincinnati Board of Education 1009 Jerome Street Annual Report of the Board of Education -Cincinnati,1895-96 Parcel 25,26,27 and 28 in Timothy Kirby Subsivision of Mount Adams MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Cincinnati, Ohio A[16| L71,7|31,0 THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: Acting SHPO 105.67'x100' ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - KEEPER HAER OTHER TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL Send-back HISTORIAN Photos Review Re-submit Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service REVIEW UNIT CHIEF NOV 2 4 1980 Entered 2-2=82 SEP 2 2 1980 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio February, 1980 South and eastelevations, looking N-Nw NOV 2 4 1980 Maryanne Benson Miami Purchase Association Photograph #1 1125 St.

Gregory Street MT. ADAMS SCHOOL publie SEP 2 2 1980 MT. ADAMS SCHOOL 1125 St. Gregory Street Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio February, 1980 NOV 2 4 1980 Miami Purchase Association Maryanne Benson West and south elevations, looking NE Photograph #2 SEP 2 2 1980 MT. ADAMS SCHOOL Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio February, 1980 NOV 2 4 1980 Maryanne Benson Photograph #3 Miami Purchase Association 1125 St. Gregory Street Main entrance, east elevation, looking W MT.

ADAMS PUBLIC SCHOOL I.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) STATE OF KENTUCKY 4331 NEWPORT, KY.-OHIQ) SEP 2 2 1980 16/716310/4331600 UTM REFERENCES: 716 NEWPORT QUADRANGLE NATIONAL ROAD CLASSIFICATION RIVER KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202 Office of the secretary * Ohio Historical Center I-71 and 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Places - Rebecca Schott, Secretary City of Cincinnati, Hitoric Preservation Office Cincinnati Public Schools, Department of Buildings Sincerely, THE MT. ADAMS CIVIC ASSOCIATION, INC. Dear Sir: We consider it significant not only for its Romanesque architecture Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Mt.Adams Public School to the National Register for Historic The Mt.Adams Civic Association endorses and supports the nomination We urge you to support its placement on the National Register.

MAY 23 1980 but for the focal point that it creates in our hilltop community. SEP 22 1980 RECEIVED NOV 2 4 1980 REGISTER NATIONAL June 16, 1980 L. MONTY ERB - CHAIRMAN ESTELLE B. BERMAN - VICE CHAIRMAN DIRECTOR OF CITY PLANNING SAMUEL T. BRITTON ROOM 222. CITY HALL STEVEN F. BLOOMFIELD ROBERT J. BRODBECK CINCINNATI. OHIO 45202 THOMAS B. BRUSH ERWIN E. HOFFMAN ADMINISTRATOR SYLVESTER MURRAY Mr. David Brook I-71 & 17th Avenue Dear Mr. Brook: cc: Fred Mitchell Equal Opportunily Employer ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Ohio State Historic Preservation Office Sincerely, This is to inform you that the Cincinnati City Planning Commission has reviewed the Nomination to the National Register City Planner June 13,1980 meeting voted to support both nominations.

ELLSWORTH LOVE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION Adele Cramer LAND USE AND ZONING PHONE 352-3471 the Mount Adams Public School,1l25 St.Gregory Street and at its AC:bag HERBERT W. STEVENS of the Reuben R. Springer Building,213-215 W.Ninth Street and Columbus, Ohio 43211 NOV 2 4 1980 RECEIVE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE OHTO NOV 2 4 1980 Strong, John Stoughton, House Franklin County Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. Dellas H. Harder Honorable Willís D. Gradison, Jr. Columbus, Ohio 43211 Location Strongsville Rushville Name Byers/bjr/12/8/80 Cincinnati Date Entered Fairfield County Rushville Historic District Welsh Presbyterian Church The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Ronald Mottl Also Notified Acting State Historic Preservation Officer Hamilton County Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Mount Adams Public School Honorable Clarence E.

Miller Cuyahoga County Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable Samuel L. Devine ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER