Nomination for Detroit--Warren Building

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior 1. Name and or common street & number 14801-13 Detroit Avenue _ not for publication city, town .vicinity of - state x district - occupied - agriculture X private * commercial - park X work in progress - private residence . religious in process X yes: restricted _ scientific - yes: unrestricted has this property been determined eligible? _ yes X - federal - .local 1974 Accessible code date educational government entertainment both Category county Lakewood transportation structure industrial Ownership site museum Inventory-Nomination Form Columbus Cleveland other: Status building(s) object being considered Akron title National Register of Historic Places Ohio (3-82) public 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Ohio Historic Inventory Public Acquisition Present Use 5.

Location of Legal Description date entered 3. Classification Type all entries-complete applicable sections 2. Location National Park Service 4. Owner of Property See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms For NPS use only Ohio 43211 military Max Ratner, Partner street & number Centran Building, Suite 621 159 S. Main Street courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. street & number depository for survey records Ohio Preservation Office state Ohio 44308 035 Cuyahoga County Recorder Commercial Development Company of Lakewood 1985 Velma Ave. 1219 Ontario Street - unaltered X original site X good) X altered - moved date Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The Detroit-Warren Building is an eclectic, five-story commercial style building with west facades of unadorned commercial grade brick, red in color. variants of the cornice rosettes, a different variant per story. All details are repeated Detroit Avenue, a major mixed-use strip running from one end of Lakewood to the other, contain- ment, the Detroit-Warren Building is distinguished, its carefully crafted features giving it Condition ruins deteriorated 7. Description unexposed fair excellent neo-classical cornice and pilasters and enriched spandrels.Its two street-facing painted wooden frames and meeting rails. The building stands on the southwest corner of a commercial district featuring buildings stature as the most impressive building in this portion of Lakewood.

ever, are not as disfiguring as those found on other buildings in the area of the same nine paired window bays extends across the length of the facade, each rank framed by spandrels above the storefronts are blank, some of the storefront windows have been infilled Check one In contrast to the upper story enrichment,the first story is virtually unadorned.The facades are of light grey brick with white glazed terra cotta detailing; the rear and with brick, and others have been replaced with new glazing. The changes to this story, how- date This district is similar to others found along vintage.

The entry, a simple framed opening in the north facade, is distinguished from the dating from the 1920's through the 1960's.T Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - agriculture other (specify) Criterion C architectural firm of Lehman and Schmitt, a partnership spanning 50 years which produced by the time the building was designed, the oldest and most respected architectural practice design major commercial, religious and municipal projects, including the Roman basilica-like medical offices, this compact building is like its neighbors in scale, but its enrichment provides stylistic:"weight" to what had been the historic center of Lakewood, a bedroom The area's 20th century history reveals, largely due to the impact of the trolley line the municipal center of Lakewood, commercial development has scattered, strip-fashion, along to anchor the core, and it became, instead, part of the linear configuration of Lakewood's 1700-1799 1923 1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 8.

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Significance humanitarian transportation invention commerce conservation engineering philosophy communications archeology-historic industry 1800-1899 education exploration/settlement theater art science literature Period music Xarchitecture prehistoric social/ sculpture law -economics representative of the evolution of Lakewood's municipal and commercial development. development as a streetcar suburb.

Warren Building on the Mars Wagar farmstead.By the time Rockport became the hamlet of 1975).The Detroit-Warren Building demonstrates the ease with which Lehman and Schmitt -politics/government Specific dates early fire station remain along Warren behind the Detroit-Warren Building at what was once home, built on the Detroit-Warren Building site in 1884,had become Lakewood's first city as it is, the medical office function of the Detroit-Warren Building lacked sufficient draw early commissions were residential buildings, but by the early 1890's they had begun to Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) The building is a late and accomplished piece of work by two architects whose firm was, school building in Lakewood (now the Board of Education Building),a post office and an western edge.Lakewood grew out of a 19th century fruit farming community(Rockport") along Courthouse(1912),part of the Burnham/Carrere/Brunner Group Plan of civic structures (NR Sheriff Street gothic and castellated Central Armory fourth mayor Lakewood's incorporation as a city in 1911,the Tegardine family military in Cleveland. Born in the 1860's,Israel Lehman and Theodore Schmitt were the sons of ×-1900- community planning employees in architect George Smith's office, they formed their partnership in 1884. Their some of the Cleveland area's most distinctive buildings.

It is also an important structural Community of worker housing and one Garden City development (Clifton Park) on Cleveland's along Detroit, a tendency towards decentralization. One critical step was the removal of archeology-prehistoric religion hall. landscape architecture Warren property had by then been purchased and passed down to Mars Wagar's granddaughter, Warren intersection in the 1870's.Jacob served as Lakewood's postmaster, councilman and adapted the grander themes of their larger projects to more modest purposes. Lakewood in 1885,the Wagar family had multiplied in both numbers and holdings.

The Detroit- the Detroit toll road whose toll booth stood across Warren Road from the site of the Detroit- the city hall to a site one mile east along the north side of Detroit.And while the first Built to house Having met as fellow the Romanesque Temple Tifereth 1974) and the Bailey and Company Building Eric Johannesen, Cleveland Architecture 1876-1976 (Cleveland, WRHS, 1979) Acreage of nominated property UT M References _ state November, 1985 street & number city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: *local 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature Chief of Registration GPO 894-785 date county Easting Northing code organization 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Lakewood Zone Attest: name/title national Quadrangle scale 1:24, 000 10. Geographical Data 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Cleveland Heights, 11. Form Prepared By Publishing Company, 1910). Historic Preservation Services Cleveland Architecture Club Catalogue, 1908 telephone 216/932-9794 Quadrangle name Verbal boundary description and justification List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries less than one 2560 Stratford Road Samuel Peter Orth, The History of Cleveland, Vols.II and S.J.Clark For NPS use only Permanent Parcel #: 314-4-007, City of Lakewood Mary L. Reeb, Preservation Consultant Ohio 44118 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Naffonal Park Service.

As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only Detroit-Warren Building, Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Continuation sheet Item number 8 In this, they belong to the vast majority of "master"architects whose works are listed 1890's, they had begun to design major commercial, religious, and municipal projects, in- Brunner Group Plan of civic structures, (NR 1978). building was thus prominently placed to accommodate its several populations, along the Detroit Avenue trolley line leading to downtown Cleveland, two blocks from the nearest hospital.

National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form The Detroit-Warren Building is significant as an example of the architectural work of received the Lehman-Schmitt Company.A late and accomplished piece of work, the Detroit-Warren represent design methods typical of larger firms like this one in which several firm In this way did neighborhood strips provide localized shops and services which transformed principally designed by Charles Morris, an alumnus of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and that ition, typical of Lehman-Schmitt's known architectural practices, the building may also vided in neighborhood-accessable locations in gracefully designed specialized structures.The is the Beaux-Arts Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912),built as part of the Burnham/Carrere/ immigrants, the former trained in drafting by tutors and apprenticed in architecture at Building is one of only a few remaining structures in Cleveland known to have been de- in the National Register.

ducer of some of Cleveland's most distinctive buildings.It exemplifies their work in design of the 1920's in downtown suburban Lakewood, and that it represents the best of what being 61 in 1923) it is certain that the Detroit-Warren Building was the best commercial of first rank local architects of their period. the late 19th and early 20th century architectural practioners who, in the words of Eric building replaced Lakewood's first city hall, the homestead of Jacob Tegardine, the fourth principal designer of the Detroit-Warren Building (Lehman having died in 1914 and Schmitt date entered communities like Lakewood into specialized satelites of adjacent larger cities in the 1920s.

aphase in the development of Lakewood asa suburb during which essential services were pro- Central Armory Romanesque Temple Tifereth Israel 1974), Page 1 Johannesen, "provided shelter with practicality, economy, and good design at a consistent level of quality [and who brought to this practice] a higher degree of imagination and taste." Born in the 1860's, founders Israel Lehman and Theodore Schmitt were sons of German Thus, while it is not certain who was the story commercial material contemporaneous with it, the Detroit-Warren Building represents cluding the Roman basilica-like Sheriff Street Market (1891), the Gothic and castellated The In its use as a medical building, and its placement at this central site among modest two- (3-82) scale, its cornice and enriched spandrels demonstrating Lehman-Schmitt's graceful accom- The building stands in the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Detroit Avenue its interiors were by Charles Schweinfurth.T signed by Lehman-Schmitt, the oldest firm in Cleveland at the time of its design and pro- The founders of the Lehman-Schmitt Company were not masters in the art-history sense of prophetic form-makers like their contemporaries, Sullivan and Wright.They were among Built to house medical offices, the Detroit-Warren Building is like its neighbors in the eclectic idioms of the '2o's, and represents architectural practice methods typical and Warren Road at what was at the time the historic commercial and civic center of Lake- wood,a streetcar suburb of nearly 42,000 in 1923 on Cleveland's western edge.The mayor of its history as a hamlet.

WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET APR 17 1986 nomination by person or local government - REJECT - -appeal -sample - NR decision Date Due: _ Nomination returned for: - -technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7. Description J excellent J unaltered LJ original site -moved yes Accessible completeness Condition Cuyahoga County ruins Status resubmission Category Ownership Recom./Criteria alterations/integrity unexposed Reviewer Discipline request Action: RETURN deteriorated fair boundary selection Detroit--Warren Building Substantive Review: see continuation sheet summary paragraph Working No.

Reviewer's comments: owner objection Federal Agency: Public Acquisition 8600105-5 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance Check one clarity good National Hegistom 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 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 Historic Preservation Officer signature Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet context Builder/Architect Date title national state applicable criteria Period Maps clarity completeness UTM References Specific dates Photographs Quadrangle name relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance summary paragraph Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) justification of areas checked justification of exception _local Photo: M. Reeb, 1985 Detroit-Warren Building North and east facades Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio PRINTING Photo: M. Reeb, 1985 North facade Detroit-Warren Building Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo: M.

Reeb, 1985 Detroit-Warren Building South facade Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio Photo; M. Reeb, 1985 East and south facades Detroit-Warren Building 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC LAKEWOOD QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LAKEWOOD, OHIO UTM:17 433240 4592680 UNITED STATES N4122.5we145/7.5 RECEIVED JAN 2 3 1986 ANTHONY C. SINAGRA January 20, 1986 W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 14801-13 Detroit Avenue WOOD Dear Mr. Luce: supports the nomination of the above property to the National the nomination. MAYOR area.

ACS/bsm Very truly yours, RE: Detroit-Warren Building We are pleased that this time because it is located in the center of our downtown 216/521-7580 We appreciate any assistance you can provide in completing Register of Historic Places as discussed in the December 17,1985 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 April 2, 1986 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior 1100 L Street, N.W. note that we have received letters walving their right to comment from the Barr Hotel (amendment to Lima Multiple Heights-Rockefel ler Building St. Joseph's Catholic Church St.

Philip's Episcopal Church Layman, Christopher C., Law Office State Historic Preservation Office SOCIETY 614/466-1500 Sandusky HISTORICAL County Cuyahoga Sincerely, Columbiana Perry Enclosures Pickaway Church of the Ascension Dear Carol: New Submissions Detroit-Warren Building give a substantive review to St.Joseph's Catholic Church. everything possible to expedite the listing of these two nominations.Please Resource Area) Allen WRL:bp Please contact me if you have any questions. Washington, D.C. 20240 property owner and the City of Lima for the Barr Hotel and the property owner Enclosed are seven new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate W.Ray Luce