Nomination for Stockbridge Apartment Building

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 National Park Service date entered AUG -8 1985 1. Name 2. Location street & number : 3328 Euclid Avenue _ not for publication city, town 3. Classification - unoccupied Xx building(s) XX private . work in progress - in process XX yes: restricted yes: unrestricted 4. Owner of Property James Stack street & number state Ohio 44115 5. Location of Legal Description has this property been determined eligible?

- yes x no depository for survey records 035 museum both date educational historic county Accessible Category Stockbridge Hotel entertainment religious district commercial structure object Status federal transportation government industrial state military Cleveland being considered park Public Acquisition site Ohio public private residence local Ownership Stockbridge Apartment Building agriculture Type all entries-complete applicable sections title scientific Inventory-Nomination Form 6. Representation in Existing Surveys See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms National Register of Historic Places Present Use vicinity of 3328 Euclid Avenue received JUL 1 2 1985 United States Department of the Interior For NPS use only and or common (multi-family) -code resi- (3-82) 7. Description - excellent X original site .fair Condition driveway. ruins unexposed origin.

incorporating the window sills of the regularly spaced double-hung,8/1 windows typical of pets, and three stucco stepped-gabled dormers with three windows apiece.A metal fire escape projecting bays of the second-third of the main building on the east and west facades. has double-hung fenestration inserted, as interior plans dictate, into arched openings. The story beneath the attic story features a corbelled stone belt course running under and rehabilitate the interior apartments, most of which have been cut up into smaller units, none of which retain their original architectural features. story of the front third is of flush granite veneer surmounting a ribbed stone base.The ornamentation at railing height, are of yellow plaster to match the dormers and the two some irretrievably altered, some renovated.

The present owner of the Stockbridge plans to story which have been lately enclosed and faced with anodized aluminum veneer.The first sided broad-arched top level with articulated pilasters, and a ribbon of colorful, shield-like This arrangement is original.The fire escapes on the east and west facades are of recent Check one virtually no fenestration east:a single vertical bay of windows; the west: no windows at all).These associated buildings stand amid an array of cleared land, parking Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

north or Euclid Avenue facade featuring a steep slate gabled roof with stone coping, para- railing runs the width of the building at this story. Xaltered All balconies are open, and subsequent ones have iren railings except those of the first lots, and modest structures, a two-story motel (ca. 1954) opposite, recent low-rise office - moveddate Ave.

facade forms an unadorned background for a pair of five-story balcony "towers' that _ unaltered Thereafter, the skin of the Euclid X good deteriorated structure of red brick and stucco built in an eclectic combination of Georgial Revival, The Stockbridge Apartment Building isa two-part,6 1/2 story polychromatic residential new look of aluminum and plate glass) is round-arched with stone voussoirs, a scrolled key- structure, features almost no ornamentation whatsoever.The east and west facades have surround of the neo-classical entry (originally of stained glass and oak, now featuring a buildings, and an occasional structure from the late 19th century hey day of Euclid Avenue, of brick ornamentation laid up in a herringbone pattern. The belt course at this level surmounts a band all the fenestration on the main structure.

stone, and flanking pilasters.A detached aluminum canopy extends over the entry and The 1923"annex",a modest five-story building immediately to the south of the 1911 X architecture - theater _ transportation X other (specify) 1911, 1923 Criterion B & C It is also significant as partof the career of the Cleveland architectural firm of George H. 201") who began his business life in Cleveland in 1877 as an oil refinery worker, rising to roster of residents of the Stookbridge from a 1915 Blue Book lists F. F. Prentiss, a cultural leader, H. A. Sherwin, founder of Sherwin-Williams, banker H. C. Wick, and lawyer James R. 1700-1799 1800-1899 1600-1699 commerce 1500-1599 1400-1499 communications conservation engineering education philosophy invention archeology-prehistoric humanitarian Period science Steffens.

music art military literature prehistoric exploration/settlement social/ agriculture Specific dates sculpture The Stockbridge Apartment Building and annex are significant for their association with social history/lifestyle law company resist the inevitable blandishments of Standard Oil that it did not become a subsid- career was founded was a significant one for Cleveland industrialists, particularly of the Miller Block, does elaborate his eclecticism and his willingness to accommodate the notions archeology-historic community planning Garfield, son of the assassinated president and Secretary of the Interior under Theodore The main portion of the structure was a mature product of George H. Steffens, a designer X1900- 8.

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Significance wealthy, the building served as a winter residence for Canfield and others like him.A century phase of the history of Euclid Avenue, once Cleveland classiest residential resisted by Canfield until Canfield Oil's first merger with Penn Petroleum of Coropolis, Pa. Areas of Significance-Check and justify below fineries in operation in the '7o's, with more than a third of the nation's oil region being The building was commissioned by George R.Canfield, an oil executive Oil--"Can= Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) one of only three between E. 30th and E. 40th Streets, including Fern Hall (1903) and the iary until 1945. -_economics Oil, was created out of the man's penchant for buying up small local refineries, a trend Builder/Architect George H. Steffens; Walker and Weeks oil man and real estate investor George R.

Canfield, and, through this association, a 20th religion L-shaped configuration that landscape architecture The Stockbridge was Canfield's only real estate venture (even his summer residence on the ofa number of cultural, residential and municipal projects in Cleveland at the turn of the It was built on a site leased in 1910 by Canfield from another Cleveland magnate, Samuel century, three of which are listed on the National Register, the Bohemian National Hall, 1897 belt courses, and its ribbed base suggest some of the elements of the Miller Block; its incorporate his own business ten years later at the age of 28.The decade in which Canfield's row' had begun to give way to a few multi-family structures, the Stockbridge being two large suites per floor without having to worry about huge homes and large staffs of ser- in 1901.

Canfield's successful corner of the market was petroleum jelly and ointments, and Roosevelt.All were men of Canfield's generation, and were, like him, seeking a quieter life- Griswold Hotel (1918), both demolished. Built to reflect the changing lifestyles of Cleveland's "heights" having been erected by someone else and purchased later -- in i912 -- by Canfield). Mi1ler B1ock, 1906-8 (NR, 1984), and the Hruby Conservatory,1917 (NR,1980).

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References "Cleveland, Its Architecture" in The Interstate Architect, June, 1902, P. 20 Ella Grant Wilson, Famous Old Euclid Avenue (Vol. II). Privately printed, 1937, PP. 95-96 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - UT M References Parcel #103-07-015-019,, City of Cleveland - state 11. Form Prepared By date June, 1985 (216) 932-9794 street & number X local GPO 894-788 code county Easting date Zone Northing Attest: telephone national Cleveland Heights title 2560 Stratford Road State Historic Preservation Officer signature Verbal boundary description and justification Chief of Registration List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries less than one 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register 665),I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify thatit has been evaluated National Regieter For NPs use only city or town Entered in the Catalogue of the Cleveland Architectural Club, Cleveland, F. W. Roberts Co., name/title Mary L. Reeb, Ph. D. Ohio 44118 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National.Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 415 914 51610 Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Rark Service. OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Stockbridge Apartment Building, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Item number 8 itecture.

The unassuming annex, a connected structure to the rear of the Steffens por- and the Post Office (1934). apartment buildings contemporary with the Stockbridge disappeared, leaving the structure received Page (3-82) Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places tion, is an early pragmatic building by the firm of Walker and Weeks, which became the patterns of Cleveland's Four Hundred.

United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a the Cleveland Public Library (1925),the Cleveland Board of Education Building (1930), Far NPS use only date entered Discount Building Federal Reserve Building Hall premier Cleveland architectural firm, responsible for such buildings as the Cleveland the only remaining example for 50 blocks or more of a short-lived phase in the living gables, dormers and bays, the dominant revivalism of its own period in Cleveland arch- WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET JUL 12 1985 Fed. Reg.

Date: Date Due: nomination by person or local government - REJECT - Federal Agency: - -sample Jrequest Lappeal Reviewer - - see continuation sheet _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7. Description J excellent - unaltered -original site -moved resubmission dates ruins Category completeness deteriorated good Cuyahoga County Status clarity fair RETURN Action: owner objection Working No. boundary selection Substantive Review: Condition Present Use Has this property been determined eligible? Stockbridge Apartment Building summary paragraph Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Discipline.

Nomination returned for: Check one Reviewer's comments: Accessible NR decision Recom.Criteria alterations/integrity 85001693 Public Acquieition unexposed ACCEPT Entered in tho 2.4.86 8. Significance Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By _national _local Signed Date context title Builder/Architect completeness Photographs Maps Period Phone Specific dates state applicable criteria relating significance to the resource UTM References State Historic Preservation Officer signature relationship of integrity to significance Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: summary paragraph Areas of Significance-Check and justify below justification of areas checked justification of exception Verbal boundary description and justification Quadrangle name Acreage of nominated property STOP Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo: M. Reeb Stockbridge Apartment Building West and north facades from Euclid Date: 3328 Euclid Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo: M. Reeb Stockbridge Apartment Building Date: North and west facades, front protion, main building 3328 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Stockbridge Apartment Building Date: North facade from Euclid 3328 Euclid Ave. Photo; M. Reeb Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo: M.

Reeb East facade showing annex Stockbridge Apartment Building Date: 3328 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo: M. Reeb West and north facades from Euclid Stockbridge Apartment Building Date: 3328 Euclid Ave. Stockbridge Apartment Näx Building Photo: M. Reeb Date: 3328 Euclid Ave. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO Stockbridge Apartment Building GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, MAYOR ALL-AMERICA CITY ROOM 28 - CITY HALL CLEVELAND LANDMARKS COMMISSION 601 LAKESIDE AVENUE CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 JOHN D. CIMPERMAN (216) 664-2531 Mr. Ray Luce Ohio Historic Preservation Office I 71 & 17th Avenue Columbus,Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Luce: I will waive that waiting period in order to move this nomination forward.

Cimperman, Director FEB41985 DIRECTOR JDC/mjy Ohio Historical Society Register of Historic Places of the Stockbridge Apartment Building concerns in a meaningful way for many years. Their history is important Its occupants have contributed to Clevelands social and humanitarian to Cleveland and this city will be proud to have the Stockbridge Apartment Please accept this letter as support for the nomination to the National I urge the Ohio Historic Preservation Advisory to proceed with this I am aware of the provision of the 1980 Historic Preservation Act that nomination as expeditiously as possible. The Stockbridge Hotel isa significant structure of Cleveland. requires a 60 day waiting period for comment by the chief elected official. Building on the National Register January 21,1985 (Stockbridge Hotel) at 3328 Euclid Avenue.

FEB FEB 71985 AN APARTMENT HOTEL FOR 3328 Euclid Avenue - Phone, 881-2700 CLEVELAND, OHIO 44115 January 29, 1985 Columbus, Ohio 43216 Re: Stockbridge Hotel Dear Mr. Luce: State Historical Preservation Office simultaneous basis. THE STOCKBRIDGE Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. John Cimperman PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT GUESTS on the National Register be waived. I have been in contact with Mr.John Cimperman of the Landmark's This letter will serve as an official request that the comment Commission of the City of Cleveland relative to local designation 1985 Velma Avenue 3328 Euclid Avenue W.Ray Luce,Ph.D. period following initial review of my application for placement and it is my hope to proceed with both applications ona FEB 71985 *Morton L. Mandel *Thomas H. Roulston Roulston & Company, Inc. February 4, 1985 *G. Robert Klein George R. Klein News Company Mr. W.

Ray Luce State of Ohio *John C. Cunin Bearings, Inc. *John H. Hubbard Dear Mr. Luce: *David F. Leahy *Frank H. Porter Jr. James H. Baker Claude B. Banks John H. Carson *Jerry M. Goldberg D. O. Summers Company Timothy F. Hagan Rev. Charles L. Helton *Albert M. Higley The Albert M. Higley Company fore, Mid-Town Corridor requests a positive review of the William A. Kerrigan Hamilton F. Klie *David S. Knapp Julius Kramer G. Richard Lezius Margaret L. Murphy Robert P. Madison Jack N. Mandel Joseph C. Mandel Charles O. Mathews *Kenneth W. McGovern University Circle, Inc. William J. Morton Jr. Cleveland Canvas Goods Mfg. Co. Frank T. Murray Margaret L. O'Neill Robert L. Payne *Alan R. Schwartz Thomas J. Welo Harold L. Williams Cheryle A.

Wills Premier Industrial Foundation 4614 PROSPECT AVENUE - CLEVELAND, OHIO 44103 - Phone: (216) 391-5080 Trustees Treasurer Secretary Sincerely, Postmaster YWCA Vice-Presidents Vice-Chairman John Cimperman Lancer Restaurant Executive Committee Jim Stack Executive Director Landmarks Commission Ostendorf-Morris Company Cuyahoga County Commissioner Visiting Nurses Association Carpenters District Council Regional Transit Authority Sebastian Lupica Huntington National Bank Madison-Madison International The Lezius-Hiles Company Electronic Technology Institute and the upgrading of a historic landmark structure. Carpenter Reserve Printing Co. assists in the revitalization of the Euclid Corridor; Central Cadillac Company Ronald Meredith The Stockbridge has been a historic cornerstone in Stockbridge Hotel's Application. The Blonder Companies Stockbridge Hotel to the Historical Register.

CORRIDOR Burrell's Restaurant opportunity to enhance the historic quality of Midtown; Gloria Pace King of the Mid-Town Corridor. East 55th Business Association Premier Industrial Corporation *Shelley Roth American Red Cross I am writing to you to endorse the application of the Samuel Crayton Jr. Sussen Incorporated This designation is important because it offers an United Labor Agency Inc. United Way Services Daniel C. Sussen Ohio Sanitary Supply Company Lane Metropolitan CME Church The Bendix Corporation Hough Area Development Corp. our community,providing good housing toa multitude of AI Jablonski 1985 Velma Avenue The Illuminating Company Smith and Oby Company Gary Rand Pierre's French Ice Cream Cleveland AFL-CIO *Henry L.

Zucker There- David Bloomquist Upper Prospect Association State Historic Preservation Office *Juanita Dalton Ohio Knitting Milis 2201 SUPERIOR AVENUE, ROOM 201 CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 February 6, 1985 Governor Richard F. Celeste Columbus, Ohio 43215 In Re: Stockbridge Hotel - Cleveland, Ohio FEB 19 1985 3328 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44115. The telephone number is (216) 881-2700. Mr. Stack is currently trying, because of the hotel's age and of Historical Places, and has an application before the State O. H. S. PHONE 621-0995 JEM/ch RECEIVED Service, Hospital, Nursing Home Sincerely yours, most certainly worthy of becoming a historical building. condition,to have the Stockbridge placed on The National Register DIRECTOR'S OFFICE I have been personally acquainted with this property for many Preservation Office.

Dear Governor Celeste: James Stack was on the staff of Local #47 for approximately ten State of Ohio Office of the Governor HIS and Public Employees Union, Local 47 Joseph E. Murphy President, Local 47 years and is the present owner of the Stockbridge Hotel, located at years and it has been a viable landmark on Euclid Avenue which is 8 1985 GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, MAYOR ALL-AMERICA CITY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT VINCENT J. LOMBARDI CITY HALL CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 February 5, 1985 Mr. Ray Luce, Preservation Officer Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Luce: of the Stockbridge Hotel, 3328 Euclid Avenue, for inclusion of his Today, the Stockbridge is located in the Mid-Town corridor, which is undergoing a concerted redevelopment effort which includes both pri- with the overall development plans outlined by this Department. COMEBACK with CLEVELAND...make your neighborhood No. 1!

DIRECTOR FEB Sincerely Charles Ramsey VJL:atp designation and rehabilitation plans for the Stockbridge are consistent Ohio Historic Preservation Office I encourage your office to consider favorably the request for de- naires Row". Iam writing in support of the request by Mr.James 1985 Bilma Avenue was constructed in 1911 in the section of Euclid Avenue known as Million- vate and public investments towards revitalization. The proposed historic signation of the Stockbridge Hotel as a historically significant structure. Lombard FEB 28 1985 GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, MAYOR ALL-AMERICA CITY February 20, 1985 Mr. Ray Luce 1-71 & 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 Dear Mr. Luce: City of Cleveland Mayor Ohio. Sincerely, The owner is planning extensive improvements to the building and the preservation act. Ohio Historical Society order to expedite the nomination.

State Preservation Officer Register of Historic Places of the Stockbridge Hotel (Stockbridge Please accept this letter as support for the nomination to the National Ohio Historic Preservation Office would like to take advantage of the tax incentives available through Apartment Building)which is located at 3328 Euclid I am writing to suggest that the 6o day waiting period be waived in 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 June 25, 1985 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 1100 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Carol : Be l mont Miller, Frederick, A., House Lunkenheimer, Frederick, House South Ridge School house 614/466-1500 SOCIETY County Champaign HISTORICAL Cuyahoga Enclosures State Historic Preservation Officer Dilger Store Cleveland Worsted Mills Company Ohio Historic Preservation Office Mechanicsburg Multiple Resource Area Please contact me if you have any questions.

New Submissions SINCE 1885 National Park Service the Stockbridge Apartment Building,Cuyahoga County nominations.Please do National Register of Historic Places from the property owners and elected public officials waiving their rights to everything possible to expedite these two nominations. Barnesville Baltimore and Ohio comment have been received for both the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company and Sincerely Railroad Depot Fairfield Franklin WRL:bp Lorain Stockbridge Apartment Building Department of the Interior Hamil ton W. Ray Luce Enclosed are eight new National Register nominations. All of the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.Letters