(in one paragraph) Criteria C Doan School is an unusually fine example of turn-of-the-century 2nd Renaissance Revival public place at the time in natural lighting of school classrooms. The building is distinguished from other schools of the same period in Cleveland and elsewhere by its highly fashionable styling and its extensive amount of ornamentation. The building also represents a significant work by the prolific architect Frank S. Barnum, who during this turn-of-the-century per iod served as the principal architect of many Cleveland Board of Education school buildings. Doan School is located on East 105th Street, formerly Doan Avenue, for which the school was named originally. It stands near the junction of Superior Avenue and Rockefeller Park, which famous Cultural Gardens are located nearby. Many fashionable houses and apartment buildings were built here before 1900.
Doan School was planned at a time when the area was at its height in terms of desirability and the distinctive, highly ornate design of Doan School reflects the original character of the neighborhood. School buildings erected in Cleveland during the late nineteenth century tended to be massive tower and gables. About 1900 the school board adopted a policy of constructing only fireproof school buildings and massive roofs and towers were dispensed with because their wooden structures were, of course, flammable. Frank Barnum was retained by the board to design a number of schools according to these new strict standards of fire safety. Most designs were like Fruitland School, constructed in a minimal amount of sandstone trim around the main entrance and the windows. It has a fairly monotonous square plan and profile which is unrelieved by pictureque towers or roof gables.
In Doan, Barnum realized the first monumental styling and architecturally pleasing design under the new constraints. By using setbacks, he is able here to create a more interesting five-part facade. The building's exterior is further enlivened by arched openings and by a profusion of terra cotta ornament. The absence of a prominent roof is successfully resolved visually by a conspicuous and highly de- two floors constructed and then two years late, the third floor. Because of the harmonious relation- ship of the facades, Barnum must have planned for the eventual addition of an upper floor in the initial design. However, the third floor corner classrooms lack windows on both sides as on the of a classroon. All subsequent school buildings in Cleveland reflect this change in policy, evidently designed in response to new improved electrical lighting available for classrooms.
Thus, Doan is in the effects of modern lighting in the classrooms. It also seems apparently that Doan's new monumental style, which evidently must have gained the acceptance of the Cleveland Board of Education, was used as a model for other school buildings. Barnum's design for Memorial School, as a school but as a memorial to the many students and teachers who perished in the fire which destroyed its predecessor. 1600-1699 1800-1899 1700-1799 1500-1599 commerce communications 1400-1499 conservation economics built in 1908-1910, seems to owe a great deal to Doan School for its inspiration. In this instance, archeology-historic industry philosophy 8.
Significance transportation engineering theater humanitarian literature archeology-prehistoric Period invention science music prehistoric Barnum was called upon to design an avowedly monumental structure which would serve not only law sculpture agriculture social/ tailed classical cornice. Remarkably enough, Doan School was built in two stages, with the first able to show the transition taking place in school design both in terms of fireproof construction and 1904, the same year as Doan School. Fruitland is a plain building with large rectangular windows, -communityplanning military ---politics/government X_1900- _art landscape architecture Frank S. Barnum school architecture. It also displays, through its - two-stage construction, the transition taking otherwise blank space.
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