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Nomination for Cleveland Home For Aged Colored People

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,508 words across 12 pages, filed in 1982. 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 82001366, 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.

The nomination, in full

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

Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 2. County 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People 16. Thematic Category 6. Specific Location 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes O 4807 Cedar Avenue 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material Carnegie Bird. 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, if apparent residence - elderly home 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use Halfway Hous e cedar Ave. 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition & Private X 9. Coordinates in #42) 24. Owner's Name & Address, 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference 459H 320 25. Open to Structure O Building X Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27.

Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes O District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and 25' x 50' front such as pedimented dormers and modillion brackets. There are some diamond panes. A two-story wing to the rear was added the leadership of Eliza Bryant. It occupied two smaller frame buildings, which do not survive, and moved into this house in 1914, where it remained until 1967. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings not far from the Phillis Wheatley Association and the Lane Metropolitan CME Church 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by E. Johannesen 47. Organization 1972), 192-193. 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1914-1967 1981 Side good Moved Front Easting Social stone Register? Zone Northing brick Cuyahoga Preservation Exterior WRHS Lat. 2-1/2 Underway? Long. hip Ohio Historical Center 445420 Eligible?

Cleveland Home (Explain Interior Frontage on Road projecting bays on both side elevations.Double-hung sash with Ohio Historic Preservation Office Altered Cleveland North Fresh Start Halfway House OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY awning is temporary and reversible. Public Road? for more residential space for the home.The metal porch Victorian house with some features of the Colonial revival, The house occupies a narrow city lot (50'x190') in an old inner-city neighborhood, Victorian - Colonial Revival 15. Name of Established District 43. History and Significance Cleveland for 53 years and evidences late 19th and early 20th century social cons- Legal description: Cuyahoga County permanent parcel #103-18-31. if known ciousness. The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People was founded in 1895 under Fresh Fresh Start Inc. Cleveland atlases and city directories (1892-1967).

Black Americans in Cleveland_(Washington, This building housed the oldest social institution for blacks in People Russell H. Davis, Potent'l? Multiple Resource Area Nomination/Type of Review 3. T St. John's AME Church 5. House of Wills 6. Shiloh Baptist Church Attest Karamu House Name Date/Signature Keeper Continuation sheet received Page Thematic Group Colored People State dnr-11 National Register Item number Inventory-Nomination Form (7-81) National Register of Historic Places United States Department of the Interior Black History Thematic Resources Cleveland Home for Aged For NPS use only NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Entered in tho Entered 1. /Morgan, Garrett, House Substantive Review Ohio Subgtantive Revler 12/12k Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People (Black Working No Date Due: /2/2/82 - REJECT- Federal Agency: Recom.

/Criteria Reviewer - .eoo continuation sheet -substantive reasons discussed balow 1. Name 2. Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7. Description - unattered completeness clarity Cuyahoga County alterations/integrity Discipline appeal RETURN Action: owner objection History TR) 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Date boundary selection summary paragraph nomination by person or local government resubmission NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES 3. Classification .Nomination returned for: EVALUATION / RETURN SHEE Fed. Reg. Date: - NR decision original site sample ruins technical corrections cited below Substantive Review: National Park Sorics deteriorsted 12.17-82 Chock Builder Architect justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References ge of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By .. state .

loca State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - Phone: 202 272 - 3504 completeness clarity context Signed checked Maps Other Photographs summary paragraph applicable criteria 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 8. Significance relating significance to UMT Reterences the resource Xo. Geographical Data nationa! Verbal boundary description and justification Statement of Slgnificance (In one paragraph) Specific dates Aroas of Significance Check and justity below Quadrangle name Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relationship of integrity justification of areas FRESH START 4807 E. Johannesen 1981 WRHS. Colored People Cleveland Home for Aged South facade, looking North. Black History Resources Cleveland, .

Cuyahoga Co,, Ohio WRHS Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: _64000610 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property APR 07 FRESH START, INC. April 5, 1982 4807 CEDAR AVENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO 44103 Mr. W. Ray Luce I-71 and 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Luce: Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio presently owned by Fresh On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Fresh Start, Inc., of 1966.. RLJ : 1v The Honorable George Voinovich Mayor, City of Cleveland Mr. Robert T. Dorsey Enclosure 431-4979 Chairman Board of Trustees House Administration Committee conditions of the National Historic Preservation Act National Register of Historic Places. for our records.

Ohio Historic Preservation Office in the National Register pursuant to the terms and State Historic Preservation Officer we concur in the nomination to have the property listed advising that the proprty located at 4807 Cedar Will you please send a copy.of the nomination letter This will acknowledge your letter of March l,1982 "HALF-WAY HOME" Start, Inc. has been nominated for inclusion in the Sincerely, A FRESH START I am a alcoholic. Color me blue. Add red for the resentments I have known. White, for the face of fear with which I have been confronted for too many of my days. America, that it has doubled industry's dollar loss, due to alcoholism, in five short years. But now, at the very end of the road, there appears in black AND white, a signpost reading: holism may at last be effectively controlled. The story behind it is this On the Long Road .. despair.

Add blackto the color scheme...it used to mean It's an important sign that the sickness of alco- -shades of a sickness spreading so fast in people look you straight in the eye, and ask, And you say that you will, because you're "sick and tired of being sick and tired."You talk to hear directly from them that they have been "there". They tell you that what made them sick, understand that if A.A. keeps them sober that it Step one may be to rebuild your health, with You're sober now .. clear-minded. But for how long? And it's at that address, a day at a time, that you hear guest speakers, and view films which tell ALCOHOLISM IS A DISEASE.. and it is YOU who must take the first steps to control Maybe then, for the first time, you learn the true meaning of FAITH and HOPE. Don, Pat, Amby, George, Jim, and Leon. You You've just come in from nightmare alley.

The "If we help you, will you help yourself? "First things first, they say." sessions at the Homes. they say. will keep you sober. you again and again.. also made you sick. You then begin to hospital care."You may do it the hard "A day at a time,"they tell you, in the early For the first time in a long time eyes clear, hands steady, and you go to the job they obtained for "MEETINGS, MEETINGS, MEETINGS!" You can't get it out of your head :. so you go to their meeting.. and it's fun! "with" you about the wonderful things you now can have. . SOBRIETY and SELF-RESPECT. 4807 Cedar Avenue 2219 Payne Avenue ED HOPE .. A non-profit organizaton. you. trade. Two shining possessions .. but now where to do You start for the meeting room door, a little un- Pretty soon, it's quitting time. There's a pay- certain. Then they put an address in your hand.

But this time, you walk on by, in tempo to a crazy little chant they passed on to you, FRESH START check now...and down the block...a bar. you take them? You've never known a home ..a A calling card for COMPANIONSHIP and RENEW- They're not just talking "at" you now ..but Here's the first Halfway House for Alcoholics, the place you learn that pride is not a thing that ings, clean clothes, clean IDEAS, clean PURPOSE? Members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who walked the same dark mile as you, and came out with STRENGTH, COURAGE, FAITH and PERSEVER- Working with them are private citizens and groups like the Harry Ratner Foundation, which made possible the first Halfway House, Also, Cuyahoga County's Alcoholic Rehabilitation Unit. More people are needed, of course, to make FRESH START grow. They'll step forward. . you know. the place that's halfway home. House ANCE.

drinks people under the table, but a thing that grows in fellowship. It's a lesson in FAITH you learned at Halfway