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1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives Joseph Ireland House 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes O 2074 East 36th Street 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer attributed to Joseph Ireland 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays Front 3 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shaperectangular 23. Ownership Public Road? 36. Changes Private X Altered - 24. Owner's Name & Address, in #42) Moved D if known Ohio NV Corporation 37. Condition 9. U.T.M. Reference Cleveland North 4 4680 Cleveland, OH 44115 Exterior fair 25. Open to 38.
Preservation Site O Structure O Building R Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 39. Endangered? Cleveland Landmarks Conmission By What? 11. On National 27. Other Surveys in Which Included CIC-Prospect Avenue Historic Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and Prospect Avenue Historic District Frontage on Road 42. Further Description of Important Features (Continue on reverse if necessary) Italianate house with oversized double bracketing at cornice, and a frieze with 'eyelet' windows. Double door entrance to the front of the house. Side entrance to the house is now used as the main entrance. There are bay windows to both sides of the house. noted local architect, and as one of the important residences in the Upper Prospect MRA dating from the post Civil War era. The Ireland House was built about 1874, and was originall the home of Joseph Ireland.
Ireland was the architect of Adelbert Hall (NR 1973), the Geauga 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings This property is less than one acre in size. 45. Sources of Information Johannensen, Cleveland Architecture, 29 46. Prepared by Cleveland City Directories. County Land Records 47. Organization 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) 614/466-1500 brick 1/83 stone residence County District Register? Northing Keiser Cuyahoga Zone SOCIETY Underway? Eligible? 4594350 HISTORICAL Cleveland Italianate Side (Explain OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY residence-fraternity house AVENUE CLC Property parcel number 103-15-031 Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Ohio Historic Preservation Office Cleveland City Hall C.1874 EAST unknown Addition O 13. Part of Estab. Yes & 40. Visible from 15. Name of Established District CIC (local) 43.
History and Significance The Joseph Ireland House is significant because it was the home of a Present common hipped 36TH Name(s) Potent'? PROSPECT Photo 5Q House Type No. 53. Farmstead Plan 51. Historic Outbuildings and Dependencies Corn Crib or Shed O Smoke House, D Silo D Summer Kitchen O or Ice House 52. Archaeological Site on Property? Yes O Basis for Information Owner Collection - 54. Photo Above Greund Earthworks or Mound D Cultural Materials Noted D OAI No. Name Other The house is also a significant example of residential Italianate architecture, locally, because of its brick construction, its bracketed cornice, and window treatment. Picture No(s). Spring House Carriage Hous Roll No. Code No. 43.practiced in Cleveland from 1865 to 1885.In 1885 he returned to his native New York. Bam Type(s) 42. (Cont'd) Barn Type(s) OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior Inventory - Nomination Form Item number Cuyahoga County , OHIO Nomination/Type of Review / Keeper Intered in the = 3. Cleveland Packard Building 4. Cook Building 5. Dixon Hall Apartments 6. Ensworth, Jeremiah, House ?. Gaensslen, Phillip, House 8. Gifford, Dr. William, House 9. Ireland, Joseph, House 10. Montana Apartments Date/Signature Attest Name State dnr-11 date entered National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet National Register Thematic Group Upper Prospect Multiple Resource Area Multiple Resource Area National Park Service 1. Benedict, Sarah, House 2.
Central YMCA NPS Form 10-900-a For NPS use only (3-82) WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Ireland, Joseph, House (Upper Prospect MRA) Date Due: /0/18/84 -1114/84 nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: _ - sample Lrequest JJappeal - NR decision _see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7.
Description J excellent -unaltered -original site -moved summary paragraph Accessible resubmission Ownership completeness REJECT yes Category Status Date Recom./Criteria unexposed Discipline alterations/integrity Reviewer Condition fair RETURN Action: clarity deteriorated boundary selection ruins Cuyahoga County Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance Check one ("R" June 1984) Working No._SEP 2 0 1984 ACCEPT Fed.Reg.Date:2 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) l applicable criteria justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Date - Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - - Phone: Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect Period context state Maps completeness Signed Photographs title justification of areas checked summary paragraph clarity Specific dates relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance national ( Ireland-Robison House ) 6417 - - MAR 1 1983 Cleveland, Ohio W. Thomas 1ooking: southwest 30 of 31 CITY HALL, ROOM 5 Telephone: (216) 664-2546 and 664-2547 Area Please Credit CITY OF CLEVELAND CLEVELAND LANDMARKS COMMISSION BUREAU OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES Upper Prospect Multiple Resource 2074 East 36th Street March 1983 Neg.
loc.: Cleveland City Hall EAST 6TH & LAKESIDE AVENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000653 for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the The Western Reserve story is frequently told in terms of its early New England settlers and its native sons, but temporary sojourners also made many of the im- of these was Joseph Ireland, a New Yorker came to Cleveland in 1865 to establish an architectural was the first headquarters of the Western Reserve Historical Society on Public Square. Ireland came from the office of R. G. Hatfield, a New York architect who specialized in institutional ing was the first of his designs in Cleveland of which there is a record. It was built for the Society for Sav- ings in 1866-1867, and when the Historical Society was organized the same year, it occupied the third floor of the building.
After the Society for Savings moved into its new building on the corner of Ontario, the Historical Society purchased the building in 1892. Ireland drew the plans for another bank in 1867, the National Bank Building on Superior and West 9th Street (present site of the Brotherhood of Railroad Society for Savings Building, 1867, later The Western Geauga County Courthouse, Chardon, 1869-1870. Trainmen Building). Three members of the building committee were Joseph Perkins, Amasa Stone and Daniel P. Eells, all of whom were later pivotal in Ire- land's career. In 1876 the author of Cleveland Illus- trated remarked that whereas the banks of Cleveland in architectural display," these two buildings marked more convenient arrangements" in bank design.
A newspaper account of the construction of the Society building stated that "what attracts the greatest notice are the ornamental caps on the pillars on the front of the structure." The two buildings contained Gothic and Italianate style elements, but it is more significant land, having floors and roofs of brick arches on iron In 1868 a disastrous fire in Geauga County des- including forty businesses, offices, meeting halls, and August, 1982. Western Reserve Profiles: Joseph Ireland Reserve Historical Society. portant contributions of the nineteenth century.
One land's Cleveland career.The Historical Society build- troyed the entire business section of Chardon village, "the first start toward improved architecture and buildings;this experience was to be decisive in Ire- 1885,when he returned to the East.Among the nota- that they were the first fireproof structures in Cleve- practice and worked in the Western Reserve until ble structures which he left during those twenty years were not generally "distinguished for their indulgence the first Geauga County Courthouse. At a citizens' is gone but the institution continues as Amasa Stone meeting held immediately after the fire, great empha- sis was laid upon the need for fireproof construction The patronage of Perkins, Stone, and Eells is evi- in the rebuilding of the village. Joseph Ireland was dent. In 1876 Ireland was commissioned to design Daniel Eells' own residence on Euclid Avenue.
One of nerstone was laid in 1869, and the building, a distin- the spectacular homes of "Millionaires' Row," the guished essay in the Romanesque revival style, was Eells residence was a tall, narrow Gothic-Eastlake- completed and occupied in 1870. Mansard structure of stone. And in the same year Ireland designed another important building out- that it was built, another fire and the association with side of Cleveland in 1870. This was the home of Eells brought Ireland another opportunity. In Henry B. Perkins, the younger brother of Joseph October 1876, the Second Presbyterian Church on Perkins and Simon Perkins, Jr., founder of Akron. Superior Avenue was destroyed by fire (see May-June His home, a splendid Italianate bracketed mansion, News). Eells was an elder of the church and superin- was erected on Mahoning Avenue in Warren, the tendent of the branch Sabbath school.
A new sânctu- original county seat of the Western Reserve. It ary seating 1300 persons was planned immediately, remains today adapted for use as the Warren City and Ireland designed a picturesque, many-towered Hall, and it is of special interest because Ireland's Victorian Gothic edifice which was completed in 1878 original drawings for the house were recently discover- on the northwest corner of Prospect Avenue and East ed among a set of architectural drawings donated to the Joint Architectural Archives Project of the His- It remained for Amasa Stone to build Ireland's last Cleveland building of which there is a record at pres- In the 1870s Ireland's experience in Hatfield's firm ent. This was the first building of Western Reserve was rewarded by commissions for institutional build- College when it removed from Hudson, Ohio, to ings.
These included The Retreat, "an asylum for Cleveland in 1881. Stone offered $500,000 to the col- fallen women," which was housed in a large Italianate lege on the conditions that Cleveland citizens provide the site for its location and that the name be changed largely the gift of Joseph Perkins. A four-story to Adelbert College as a memorial to his son. Stone Gothic structure was built in 1876 for the Home for then commissioned and supervised the erection of the Aged Gentlewomen on East 46th Street. It was made building himself. For many years it was thought that possible through a gift of Amasa Stone; the building the architect was John Eisenmann, architect of Case Front elevation, H. B. Perkins House, by Joseph Ireland. H. B. Perkins House, Warren, 1870. (Cuyahoga County Archives) obtained as the architect for the courthouse.The cor- torical Society and the Cuyahoga County Archives.
residence erected in 1872on St.Clair Street and was House on East Boulevard. 30th Street. School and one of the architects of The Arcade. However, the original plans for Adelbert College were discovered in 1976 by Mary-Peale Schofield and established that in fact Joseph Ireland was the archi- tect. Adelbert College was completed in 1882. Some of the architectural details are very similar to those on the Eells house. Once again the building is a fireproof construction with stone exterior walls, partition walls of brick, and floors of masonry arches on iron girders. The building was somewhat altered in 1901, and portions of thé interior have recently been The career of Joseph Ireland while in the Western Reserve demonstrates the impact that can be made by a temporary resident of twenty years.
Although his life in New York before and after his sojourn in Ohio has not been investigated here, this account offers intriguing hints of how an accomplished practitioner could move among the most important leaders of the community, introduce technical innovations, and create a body of work to house individuals, busi- nesses, government, and a variety of institutions in a growing industrial region. Adelbert College, 1881-1882. (Case Western Reserve The Jared Kirtland House in Poland, Ohio, was one of six home restorations Preservation Week in May. The missing staircase was reconstructed through scholarly detective work by homeowner and preservationist Rebecca Rogers. Preservation Officer University Archives) discussed at two seminars during