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Decorative drawing: a row of tall apartment houses with bay windows. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Neff Apartments

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 953 words across 7 pages, filed in 1984. 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 84000231, 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 Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 OHIO HISTORIC. INVENTORY SINCE 1885 4. Present Name(s) 2. County 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes D PROSPECT AVENUE 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangular 23. Ownership Public Road? 36. Changes Private Ef Altered O 24. Owner's Name & Address in #42) Moved O if known R. Burroughs 37. Condition 9. U.T.M. Reference Cleveland North 5585 Brecksville Oval Interior unknown 17 44 4710 4 594410 Cleveland, OH 44141 25. Open to 38.

Preservation Structure O Building * Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 39. Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes O CIC-Prospect Avenue Survey 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and Prospect Avenue Historic District 10' x 60' 42. Further Description of Important Features (Continue on reverse if necessary) A four story yellow brick apartment building with rough face block foundation. Symmetrical facade with four story bay windows flanking each side of center entrance. Stone stringcourse below the second next door. Plain stone lintels above windows. Central bay has rounded fourth floor window. 43. History and Significance 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by Date 49.

Revision Date(s) 1976 1902 614/466-1500 1/84 brick Easting Front masonry Zone SOCIETY Keiser Neff Apartments residential-apartments Register? Site Cuyahoga flat Underway? HISTORICAL Northing Cleveland District (Explain Eligible? unknown Building Permit Frontage on Road This property is less than one acre in size. Exterior good Cleveland City Hall 1. No. Addition O Cleveland Landmarks Conmission The Neff Apartment Building is significant because of its architecture, and the fourth floor windows, that are continued from the Montana The Neff is a good example of early 20th C. Property parcel number 103-16-042 Side Organization common Photo Potent'? 50 House Type No. 53. Farmstead Plan 51. Historic Outbuildings and Dependencies Corn Crib or Shed O Smoke House, O Summer Kitchen or Ice House 52. Archaeological Site on Property?

Yes O Baeis for Information Owner Collection O Above Greund Earthworks or Mound - 54. Photo Cultural Materials Noted - 43. Lack of exterior ornamentation. The building is one of the apartment buildings dating The Neff compares favorably with the other apartment buildings from the turn of the on Propsect Avenue, including the Jennings Apartments 1898 (NR 1984) on West 14th Street, people. Type Other Name Spring House the Hilliard Apartments, 1900 on Sackett Avenue, and the Colonial Apartments, 190l. from the turn of the century when Propsect Avenue was the home of the city's wealthiest Carriage House Barn Type(s) Picture No(s). Code No. Silo 42. (Cont'd) Roll No. Exp. 10-31-8 United States Department of the Interior Entered Thematic Group Upper Prospect Multiple Resource Area Nomination/Type of Review 11. Neff Apartments 12. Ohio Bell Henderson-Endicott 14. Southworth House 16.

Templar-Farrell Motor 17. Trinity Cathedral Church 18. United Motor Service 19. Walker and Weeks Office Building Home Name Keeper Attest Date/Signature State National Register (3-82) National Register of Historic Places Tavern Club Inventory-Nomination Form Item number Exchange Building OMB No.1024-0018 Zion Lutheran Church Sales Building Plaza Apartments National Park Service Continuation sheet Entered in the Multiple Resource Area Substantive Review NPS Form 10-900-a Cuyahoga County, OHIO For NPS use only WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Fed. Reg.

Date: 2486 nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: - -appeal - sample _request Reviewer's comments: Reviewer _ _ 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 Check one J excellent I unaltered -original site - moved summary paragraph yes Accessible ruins Ownership Category completeness Condition Date Status resubmission REJECT Cuyahoga County Recom./Criteria deteriorated unexposed clarity Discipline alterations/integrity Substantive Review: Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance boundary selection Neff Apartments(Upper Prospect MRA) NR decision fair good OHIO 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph - applicable criteria J relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance Jjustification of exception - other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 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: _state _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 clarity completeness Builder/Architect Period title Signed context national Photographs Maps justification of areas checked UTM References Quadrangle name Specific dates Acreage of nominated property 6417 - - MAR I 1983 Cleveland, Ohio 1ooking southeast Neg.

loc.: Cleveland City Hall 15 of 31 EAST 6TH '& LAK SIDE AVENUE Telephone: (216) 664-2546 and 664-2547 Area Upper Prospect Multiple Resource 3606 Prospect Avenue W.Thomas March 1983 Please Credit CITY OF CLEVELAND CLEVELAND LANDMARKS COMMISSION (Neff Apartments) CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 CITY HALL BUREAU OF PHOTOCRAPHIC SERVICES Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000653 Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Please refer to the map in the