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Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for House of Wills

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 747 words across 7 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 82001367, 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.

OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 2 County 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives Cleveland GesangVerein Hall; Cleveland Hebrew Institute 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 18. Style or Design 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays Side 9 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment Present Use brick & stone trim 35. Plan Shape 23. Ownership 36. Changes Private X Altered es 9. Coordinates in #42) 24. Owner's Name & Address, Moved - J. W. Wills Company 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference 25. Open to Structure - Building & Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? By What? 11. On National 27.

Other Surveys in Which Included Part of Estab. Yes - District Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and . 6 2 cu 42. Further Description of Important Features gabled roof with wall dormers. Windows divided by stone mul- brick buttresses, shed-roof dormers, and small square wind- ows. Stone courses articulate each floor level. hall 1937-1941; and the House of Wills, leading black funeral home of J. W. Wills Located on a major north-south city street, adjacent to the 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization Russell H. Davis, Black Americans in Cleveland (Wash., 1972) 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1900 masonry 1981 Easting Front Cuyahoga Exterior Underway? good architecture Johannesen Zone Preservation Site brick WRHS Register? Cleveland Northing Yes Addition Long. Scovill Avenue Eclectic gable/shingle 3-1/2 Eligible? Lat.

Cleveland Building Permits Interior Frontage on Road (Explain Funeral home Ohio Historic Preservation Office Brick building with front reception room and rear hall.Steep Ohio Historical Center German social hall Cleveland South Cleveland City Directories Shiloh Baptist Church and opposite school playground. lions.Double-story psired windows on facade. Rear wing with This building documents changing social patterns of the city.Erected for Cleveland Hebrew School and Institute 192l-1932;various black Baptist churches and a Masonic 4. Description of Environment and Outbuildings since 194l. Striebinger a major Cleveland eclectic Public Road? House of Wills 2491 East 55th Street if known Social; 20th cent. architecture Frederic W. Striebinger 15. Name of Established District 43. History and Significance 2491 4593220 Photo Cuyahoga County permanent parcel number 124-03-08.

Name resent United States Department of the Interior Entered 1. Morgan, Garrett, House 3. St. John's AME Church 4. Cleveland Home for Aged Attest Keeper Name Date/Signature State Continuation sheet Inventory-Nomination Form Page received dnr-11 Ohio Item number National Register of Historic Places Thematic Group Multiple Resource Area Black History Thematic Resources Shiloh Baptist Church Karamu House National Park Service Nomination/Type of Review Colored People NPS Form 10-900-a For NPS use only 5.House of Wills Substantive Review National Register Entered In the (7-81) EVALUATION / RETURN SHEE House of Wills (Black History TR) Fed. Reg. Date: - RETURN Federal Agency: - Recom. /Criteria - Reviewer - -soo continuation sheet 1. Name Location Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7.

Description - unattered completeness clarity Date alterations/integrity summary paragraph Working No. Entered in the Discipline Action: Cuyahoga County resubmission 6. Representation in Existing Surveys nomination by person or local government boundary selection _substantive reasons discussed below .Nomination returned for: owner objection Check one - original site appeal technical corrections cited below ruins NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Roved good Specific dates Builder Architect justification of exception Quadrangle name 11. Form Prepared By _ state _local State Historic Preservation Otficer signature _ Date - clarity completeness Signed context checked Other Maps Photographs summary paragraph the resource relating significance to 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification relationship of integrity 8. Significance applicable criteria 9.

Major Bibliographical References Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Xo. Geographical Data UMT References Aroes ef Significance-Check and Justity below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The evalusted significance of this property within the state is: -national Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Verbal boundary description and justification justification of areas IN MEMORY OF HOUSE WILLS HOUSE OF WILLS FUNERAL Eight Black History Resources looking SE Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio North and West elevations, House of Wills E. Johannesen 1981 WRHS Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000610 Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the for this property