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OMB NO.1024-0018 EXP. 12/31/84 1. Name street & number city, town - vicinity of _ state _ county - public - unoccupied - agriculture X building(s) X private - structure _ both - work in progress - private residence . religious . object _ in process - yes: restricted _being considered X yes: unrestricted - military 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. has this property been determined eligible? - yes X no _ federal _ local depository for survey records 035 039 entertainment Location Category museum Accessible government transportation code educational commercial site date Ownership industrial Cuyahoga Cleveland Same scientific district Status Public Acquisition park Louis Stokes historic Ohio title Present Use Type all entries-complete applicable sections Inventory-Nomination Form 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 3.
Classification Allen Memorial Medical Library Cleveland Medical Library Association National Park Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office National Register of Historic Places date entered and/or common (7-81) NPS Form 10-900 United States Department of the Interior 4. Owner of Property 1219 Ontario Street For NPS use only M/A not for publication X other: Library received OCT 18 1982 1l000 Euclid Avenue X excellent X original site _ moved date _ fair were treated as "fronts" The building is a rectangular structure sitting on an elevated section of land and with Indiana limestone. At the North side, which is the front entrance, twelve steps of pink or back, located at the center are two stairways descending, one east and one west, from Window placement is symmetrical as may be seen in the accompanying photographs.
The South- windows here are false and backed with stucco. of Hippocrates and Asklepios on either side of the frame. A pediment is decorated with a A window on the second floor level and immediately above the door is fronted with a bronze grille over about 1/4 of its height. A pediment above this central window features a large about 1/4 of the height of each window on the third floor. All grilles and balustrades The lobby of the building is faced with buff marble. A fine stairway rises in easy stages English university tradition, with Baroque pedimented doorways and Grinling Gibbons style The third floor has office space, special reading rooms, and a museum of medical history. auditorium entered from the Ist floor, West side of the building. Practically no alterations have taken place outside the building with the exception of the necessary to meet contemporary needs. carving.
Condition ruins unexposed in its original condition although the main reading room on the second floor was changed in 7. Description houses storage areas, work areas, meeting rooms, and is the lower exist of a 450 seat last change was made for better lighting and to create a ceiling that conforms more closely Check one side of this central window also feature the grille work.Ballustrades of bronze front are of cast and wrought bronze. door near the front of the building.
steel door are at the east end of this South side.The East Side has an emergency exit ×altered _ deteriorated The building is generally neo-classic in character and plan, inspired both by French and was designed to be viewed at a distance from all points and as a result all four sides marble, separated at the 8th step by a cement platform, rise to a revolving door of bronze of the marble at the 7th step, ascend to this entrance which is a glass and bronze double approximately one-fourth of the length and two-thirds of the width of the building. The Ornamental details are restrained. The revolving door at the North entrance is hollow bronze and glass and is set in a framework of cast bronze with details including the busts simple scroll design and flanked by two owls. A bronze grille work is above the pediment. to the second floor where the library reading rooms are located.
These rooms are in the Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance