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United States Department of the Interior See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms and/or common street & number 3503 E. 93rd St. - not for publication city, town - vicinity of - State - county - - public - unoccupied . building(s) . commercial . structure work in progress . object in process - government yes: unrestricted - military .other: Fred J. Cermak courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. has this property been determined elegible? - - yes date ca. 1977 _ federal _ local 2. Location both 6. Representation in Existing Surveys transportation Accessible museum Category code Ownership Inventory-Nomination Form entertainment educational agriculture district site historic park industrial Cleveland Columbus religious private 5. Location of Legal Description Status 3.
Classification National Register of Historic Places South Euclid Cuyahoga County Recorder Public Acquisition 1. Name private residence being considered scientific Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Cermak Building 1219 Ontario Street Present Use congressional district 21st (Stokes) 4. Owner of Property Type all entries-complete applicable sections For HCRS use only 1599 Laclede Road FHR-8-300 (11-78) received SEP | 9 1984 depository for survey records Cuyahoga date Ohio Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society X unaltered X original site .ruins - moved _fair Each of the oriels is enriched with a tripartite tent, tiled roof, two ranks of double- ally, in threes about the oriels.
Overall, the building is I-shaped with an unembellished by painted panels, most notably at the cornice line where the embellishment breaks out into underneath, and arguably, since the building has been under the same ownership since it was built nearly 80 years ago, its present storefronts could be interpreted as another element one half block north, and in the recently constructed library building, a new structure to pick out themes in the buildings of the intersection, both St. Catherine's and the Cermak An application to the National Trust's Inner Cities' Ventures Fund is pending. 7. Description Condition Block. rear aspect.
building's storefront has undergone a series of modest revisions, principally the instal- structural embellishment is the three-story polygonal corner turret, whose tiled tent roof center serving the surrounding residential area.At the same time, the environment is suf- arranged in pairs on the flank and threes between the oriels; on the Union facade, asymmetric The Cermak Building has been identified by the local development corporation that is rises above the roof line, which shelters the corner entry of the drug store on the ground lation of vertical wood panels over the original window openings, intended, it would seem, Check one visible facades contain two floors of double hung windows with stone lintels and sills, on the site of the original Union Branch library, designed by Collins and Reimer of Cleveland that surmounts the storefront story.A single such oriel breaks the Union In addition to the brick work on the street sides and the paneled oriels, the principle unified by a continuous belt course on both stories.On the 93rd St.facade these windows are mounts a coursed and corbelled cornice, a feature broken, on the west or E.
93rd St. facade, hung windows, and carved wood panels, painted polychromatically. The flat surfaces of these fering the effects of a developing urban decay. Efforts to revitalize the neighborhood are date unexposed deteriorated The Cermak Building is a three-story commercial structure of black and red brick ar- working in the neighborhood as an anchor in the eventual revitalization of its commercial floor and punctuates the intersection as a whole.Like the oriels, this feature is enriched The neighborhood retains some features from its early 2oth century history as a commercial a fringe of polychrome arched features that lighten the facade and attract the eye. in evidence in the high quality maintenance of the St. Gatherine's Church and School complex by two, two-story structural polygonal bay- or oriel windows that extend to a stone molding in the building's lifeline.
Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - archeology-historic - agriculture - sculpture _architecture _military - social/ .art - music - commerce _ exploration/settlement _theater _ communications - politics/government - transportation his enterprise, the corner drug store. 1600-1699 1700-1799 1800-1899 1400-1499 1500-1599 conservation education invention engineering industry Builder/Architect humanitarian Period science prehistoric literature urban development X1900- notice that this would become a significant neighborhood center. James Cameron panding Cleveland street railway system at the city limits, the place the horse-drawn cars of the American Pharmaceutical Association, establisher of the neighborhood's first along Broadway one-and-a-half miles west. Were rotated for the return trip downtown.
The car line brought several ethnic groups into ing a medical practise there, and James Cameron, a newly minted architect for whom this was and president of the Associated Savings and Loan, a neighborhood enterprise whose Criteria A and B 8. Significance action of neighborhood, small business and the built environment in the spread of cities like gist, organizer of the Woodland Hills Businessman's Association, president of the Northern In 1903, the Union-E.93rd intersection was the end of the line for two spurs of the ex- Statement of Significance