Form Prepared By organization Stark Co. Regional Planning Commission July, 1981 street & number Ohio 44702 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification _ national - local 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 I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register county Northing date code Zone name/title less than one Keeper of the National Register Attest: Verbal boundary description and justification Zone Easting Chief of Registration The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries State Historic Preservation Officer signature 10.
Geographical Data Quadrangle name Canton East 51l County Office Building For HCRS use only SHPO name/title Mary L. Reeb, Regional Preservation Officer Heald,E.T.,The Stark County Story County Historical Society,1952) according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Fed. Reg. Date: REJECT Recom. / Criteria - see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: Yechnical corrections cited below Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description - unaltered _original site .
ruins resubmission dates Name alterations/integrity completeness photos Discipline clarity Reviewer summary paragraph owner objection maps Action: _substantive reasons discussed below Federal Agency: boundary selection nomination by person or local government United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES National Park Service Date Due: Status deteriorated Ownership Check one EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET good Working No. Present Use RETURN G8Z justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References 11. Form Prepared By Signed checked Maps context completeness clarity Photographs summary paragraph applicable criteria Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to justification of areas 2.State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Other the resource 10. Geographical Data 8.
Significance - netional - local relating significance to relationship of integrity Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet receivedAPR 2 7 1982 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common street & number - not for publication city, town - vicinity of - county - 3. Classification - public - unoccupied - agriculture _ museum * building(s) X private - park .structure X work in progress X educational - private residence .site . entertainment . religious .object - in process -government . scientific yes: unrestricted - transportation - military _ other: 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Stark County Office Building has this property been determined elegible?
- yes date June, 1981 _federal x state - 039 both Location commercial Accessible Category Canton code Ownership industrial Status Public Acquisition Stark district state date entered Inventory-Nomination Form being considered 6. Representation in Existing Surveys National Register of Historic Places Pottorf Educational Center Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service congressional district x-yes:restricted Ohio 4. Owner of Property Present Use Type all entries-complete applicable sections McKinley Life Care Center c/o Robert Gastman For HCRS use only United States Department of the Interior 16th (Regula) 800 North Market Street FHR-8-300 (11-78) _ local Ohio 43211 historic Old McKinley High School 7.
Description X unaltered L original site X good Old McKinley High School is a massive Neo-Classical structure housing, in its 271,540 square feet of floor space, a cafeteria, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 1,812, approximately 175 additional rooms, including two gymnasiums, and a 26 by 62 foot swimming pool. Approximately square in total configuration, its plan features Of buff unglazed brick and stone, its unadorned roofline surmounts a modillionated have been infilled with brick. elderly featuring a pharmacy, gift shop, and additional support facilities, providing Condition unexposed court. excellent fair Check one modillionated entablature are supported by six doric columns and two square comfort in the structure that launched them.
stone entablature supported by an attic story whose window bays are defined by corner members.The rear--or auditorium--entry features arcading (view 4). three structural bays on the south and north elevations (view 3) and an open interior Old McKinley High School dominates an area which once featured the elegant mansions 1,2l4 windows'multi-lighted sashes have been replaced with single-sash 1ights;some - moveddate Situated eight blocks north of Canton's Central the Public Square), slender classical pilasters, a theme repeated in the first two stories where the structure's chief embellishment is its fenestration. Over time, some of the original been replaced by a Civic Center Complex, a new Stark County District Library, and Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance assorted other cultural-use structures.
Plans call for the adaptive reuse of the McKinley High School building as an extended care and residential complex for the deteriorated ruins Canton's aged--some of whom were undoubtedly alumni of Old McKinley High--with The main entry (view l) features a one-story portico whose brick pediment and Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below _ archeology-historic _ conservation - law _ science _ agriculture _ economics _ literature - sculpture _ architecture X education .social/ .music _ theater X 1900- - industry -other (specify) Builder/Architect George F.
Hammond (1855-1938) Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) the comprehensive character of its curriculum; its style, the nobility of the social that city, and, later the Ohio Bell Building, the First Christian Science Church, and Clearly interested in the relationship of architectural design and building use, he the "Pavillion Plan," promoting a "semi-isolated" structure whose fenestration admitted the maximum of fresh air and sunshine, both for illumination and to promote High School, as is the fact that it was intended as the flagship of a growing fleet population, in the numbers of schools built, and in the number of temporary measures Named for Anna, President Mckinley's sister and a Canton teacher for 30 years, to hold 4,000 students, it had 150 classrooms to the 29 of its nearest local competitor.
1700-1799 1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 1800-1899 engineering Period humanitarian military prehistoric population nearly tripled in that time),with a corresponding growth in the school-age 8. Significance necessary until they were built, from instituting half-day sessions to building experiment that has consistently underscored America's approach to education. $6,473,953. at the time, the country's most advanced educational ideas.Its massiveness reflects invention published A Treatise on Hospital and Asylum Construction in 189l in which he advocated minute hands jumped, too."2 of educational structures.1900-l920 marked Canton's greatest growth period Lakeside Hospital.Others of his Ohio projects include the Zanesville Post Office Board of Education in 1914,his reputation as an architect of important buildings had model in his Treatise.
bells[rang],and every time the minute hand on the master clock...jumped,136 -commerce and a Master Plan and five buildings for Kent State University in Kent. - communications - archeology-prehistoric . community planning - landscape architecture _ religion - philosophy - politics/government _ transportation Specific dates 1916-1921 Old McKinley High School is a monument to theories about form and use advocated by its been well established. An MIT graduate, he practiced briefly in Boston before coming This design principle of linking form and use is clearly evident in Old McKinley Between 1906 and 1921 Canton built 15 schools at a total cost of to Cleveland in 1885 to design the Hollenden Hotel, the first fireproof building in United States.
According to one proud Cantonian, "every time a period [ended] 144 art exploration/settlement "portables." At construction time it had the largest single heating and ventilating system in the healing.His 19th-century Canton projects included the remodeling of the Stark County the world,"l its significance resides in its being designed to accommodate what were, Courthouse and Aultman Hospital Pavillion Plan is used asa 9. Major Bibliographical References Hammond, George F., A Treatise on Hospital and Asylum Construction, Cleveland, 1891 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - Parcel 83486, Canton City 11. Form Prepared By organization Stark Co. Regional Planning Commission date July, 1981 street & number 511 County Office Building Canton East Ohio 44702 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: - national _ local I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register code Easting county Northing date Zone name/title Attest: Chief of Registration Verbal boundary description and justification ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED State Historic Preservation Officer signature UMT References List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89- National Register city or town Heald,E.T.,The Stark County Story (Canton:Stark County Historical Society,1952) Keeper of the National Register For HCRS use only less than one Xstate Industries of Cleveland, Board of Trade pamphlet, 1888 [415|116| 800/ according tothe criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.
telephone 216/454-5651, Ext. 264 GPO938835 Quadrangle name Canton East Entered in the SHPO A17]468800 United States Department of the Interior For HCRS use only Continuation sheet Item number 8 the children of immigrants. In structures like Canton's O1d McKinley, to the extent it ever did, the pot actually melted, at least for the four years successive McKinley High School be built. The old building continues to be used, however, indestructable, representing the hope, still current, that America can be better Stark County Story, Vol. III, P. 515 received Page Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service The post-War movement to the suburbs has since required that a new (and bigger) date entered clusters of kids worked within its massive walls. 2Heald, op. cit., p. 515 National Register of Historic Places if we can all learn together under the same roof.
- FHR-8-300 (11-78) More significantly, the comprehensive curriculum reflected its comprehensive plan. In addition to the traditional subjects, students could take "salesmanship," printing, pattern making, commerce and industry, "Americanization," and normal (or teacher) E. B. Bryan, former President of Ohio University, quoted by Heald, E. T., - RETURN - REJECT Recom. /Criteria - - see continuation sheet - technical corrections cited below 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7.
Description dates resubmission Name completeness clarity alterations/integrity Discipline Entered in the boundary selection Reviewer Action: _substantive reasons discussed below owner objection summary paragraph moved nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: ruins National Register NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Stark County, Nomination returned for: Old McKinley High School, Date Due: deterioratod Fed. Reg. Date: Check one EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET - sample _ NR decision -__ original site appeal Working No.- unaltered good Ownership 127182-1181 2:1.83 justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification - Date - Phone: 202 272 -3504 Signed checked context clarity completeness Maps summary paragraph relating significance to Photographs applicable criteria the resource relationship of integrity 8. Significance Other Verbal boundery description and justification justification of areas Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet netional Bullder Arehiteet Cuedrangie name ON RED TURN J.L.G. POTTORF EDUCATIONAL Old McKinley High Sc. Canton, Stark, Ohio Photos: M. Reeb Date: June, 1981 Front elevation View 1 View 2 Old McKinley High Sc. Canton, Stark, Ohio Photos: M. Reeb Date: June, 1981 Front elevation View 3 Old McKinley High Sc. Canton, Stark, Ohio Photos: M. Reeb Date: June, 1981 South elevation View 4 Old McKinley High Sc. Canton, Stark, Ohio Photos: M.
Reeb Date: June, 1981 East elevation CANTON EAST QUADRANGLE High School GEOLOGICAL SURVEY June 1, 1982 Ms. Carol Shull 440 G Street NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Ms. Shull: by your staff for technical corrections. W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer WRL/das Ohio Historic Preservation Office Acting Keeper National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Enclosed is the National Register form for the McKinley High School returned Please let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500 TELEPHONE REPORT DATE: 9/23/82 MacDougal ADDRESS: DIVISION: of schools.He specifically proposed this method of construction for PROJECT: period since the nomination did not specifically address it. tokaddress the newly discovered information about the construction.
She stated that sinfe the nomination was prepared she has conducted additional research and has found that the building was constructed in distinct phases REPORT: OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION Iasked about the evolution of the biilding during the construction the Clinton School.The first phase was completed about 19l6 and the auditorium according to a theory of the architeat relating to"unitized"construction She will be at the appeal. STAFF MEMBER: was completed in 1920.I suggested that she might want to ammend the nominaion 216-932-9794 PHONE:
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