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Nomination for Heights Rockfeller Building

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,749 words across 21 pages, filed in 1986. 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 86001058, 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.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior date entered and or common street & number _not for publication city, town - vicinity of - county X state - unoccupied - agriculture X building(s) X private X commercial _ work in progress X private residence - yes: unrestricted . government _ scientific -military courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. has this property been determined eligible? - yes _ local depository for survey records 1977 both 039 code date Category entertainment transportation educational museum structure Ownership site Accessible 3. Classification Status industrial other: received 5. Location of Legal Description object 2. Location park 4.
Owner of Property district religious being considered National Register of Historic Places historic Cleveland Heights Columbus Cleveland title Ohio Historical Society Inventory-Nomination Form Public Acquisition 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Ohio Historic Inventory Heights Rockefeller Building Cuyahoga County Administration Building Type all entries-complete applicable sections Nighttowm Inc. Present Use Ohio National Park Service (3-82) in process See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms NPS Form 10-900 1219 Ontario 2479 Lee Boulevard 1. Name For NPS use only X no street & number 3091 Mayfield Road public Cuyahoga APR 17 1986 5-15-86 _ excellent A unaltered : original site . moved Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The building contains shops at ground level, and apartments and oftices the Bolton-Lee corner of the building, which contains the apartment 1s oi concrete, brick, and tile construction, and has a Iull basement with A paved parking area 250 feet long and 50 feet wide, located between the Of particular merit inside is the original second-floor bank, reached by 7. Description Condition entrance. date unexposed fair concrete block foundation.There are metal casement windows throughout. The Heights Rockefeller Building is located at a busy commercial cross- The Heights Rockefeller Building is a large J-shaped structure located apartments remain virtually unaltered while many of the offices have concealed behind hipped parapets of slate; skylights admit light and air a hipped roof of slate, and hipped-roof dormers. contained in a recessed Tudor arch of sandstone.
signage on the Mayfield Road wing was added later. incorporate brick laid in English bond, tapestry brick with oak half- fireplace, and virtually all of its original furnishings, including Check one northeast corner of the parcel is a brick 15-car garage with caretaker's been remodeled, as has the main lobby. to hallways and the apartments of the Lee Road wing) bathrooms.Pro- Road,70 on Bolton Road, and two 39-foot diagonal sections at the corners. _ruins and setback, giving it the appearance of a Norman village. beamed ceilings, iron chandeliers, oak woodwork, banking tables with their slag-glass lamps. Elsewhere inside, the deteriorated great visual variety.
The building is French Norman in style,freely interpreted.It consists with the irregular roofline and rich use of materials, give the building The building a broad stairway from a small ground-floor lobby.It features hand-painted, courtyard with paved circular drive and a small parking area.On the street and the building on Mayfield Road,is an original feature of the on the northeast corner of Mayfield and Lee roads.It has a total street and,in the Mayfield Road wing,to the second-floor bank.These, together The main block,at the Mayfield-Lee a steep hipped roof a large carved stone There are also apartments on the ground floor of of slate with hipped-roof dormers, stone quoins, and a gabled entrance on the upper floors. frontage of 579 feet,of which 193 feet is on Lee Road,238 on Mayfield NPS Form 10-900-a OMB NO.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Heights Rockefeller Building, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Item number 7 Item Number 6 -- continued 1976 - Local 2953 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1972. The New York Times, July 27, 1965. 1932): 125-136. Page Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet received (3-82) Cleveland Heights Landmark east side. City of Cleveland Heights date entered Lee intersection,while a modern office building occupies Goulder, Grace. Price, Matlack. For NPS use only "Vr. Rockefeller Returns to Cleveland." Fortune, July 1931, pp. 30-31+. roads. same style) occupy the southeast and southwest corners of the Mayfield- the northwest corner.
Two commercial buildings of the same period not of the Heights.A parking lot and home for the aged adjoin the building on the Areas of Significance - Check and justify below exploration settlement .transportation other (specify) Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Built in 1930 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the Heights Rockefeller Building development, located on the site of his family's longtime summer home. and apartment houses were also envisioned, all in the French Norman style. by the original tenant, is particularly notable. Corporation under the direction of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960). Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland and gradually added to it until he had days at Forest Hill, where he developed his lifelong love of nature. ownership of the Forest Hill estate was conveyed to the younger Rockefeller. communications 1600-1699 1400-1499 1500-1599 History 1800-1899 1700-1799 commerce education philosophy industry invention engineering literature music science theater Period -politics/government prehistoric law humanitarian sculpture summer home. archeology-historic 8.
Significance Specific dates 1930 Xarchitecture Jr.'s generous support of conservation projects stemmed from his boyhood is significant for its association with an unusual chapter in the develop- It stands on a portion of Forest Hill, the Rockefeller family's longtime acquired several hundreds of acres stretching from East Cleveland into in New York in 1884,he returned with his family to Cleveland every spring ment of suburban Cleveland and because it represents one period's vision -agriculture In 1873 John D.Rockefeller, Sr.purchased a large tract of land bordering 1965),Rockefeller undertook a large housing project on that portion of the Forest Hill houses, which are not included in this nomination.) (Note:The Heights Rockefeller Building is geographically separate from military "community store building"were built before the project was abandoned as Designed by New York architect Andrew J.Thomas, Forest Hill was conceived In the late 1920s, in collaboration with architect Andrew J.
Thomas to serve as the commercial heart of Rockefeller's Forest Hill real estate social/ to live at Forest Hill until late fall.It is said that John The Heights Rockefeller Building was erected in 1930 by the Abeyton Realty Only 81 houses nearby in East Cleveland) and this so-called --conservation -_economics X1900- A community planning landscape architecture of advanced standards of community planning: as a model village of 600 homes. An inn, country club, business block, Builder Architect Andrew J. Ihomas art archeology-prehistoric The building was intended Building is significant as a fine example of French Norman architecture, Under his custody, the estate was broken up, portions of it providing . religion The Rockefeller summer house was destroyed by fire in 1917,and in 1923 File No.

The rest of the file

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

Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Approz. 2 UT M References 11. Form Prepared By date November 15, 1985 street & number 2940 Somerton Road telephone (216) 321-3940 Keeper of the National Register U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1983 0 - 419-311 code date organization county state local Easting Northing Attest: State Historic Preservation Officer signature "Cleveland-Rockefeller Tract" 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Cleveland Heights,Ohio. under contract with John Barr/ Verbal boundary description and justification Ohio clipping file, History Department. Chief of Registration 9. Major Bibliographical References Carol Poh Miller, Historic Preservation Consultant I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register name/title The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: city or town Nighttown Inc.
Quadrangle scale 1:24000 deep.h As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966(Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated For NPS use only Nationa according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. Zone The nominated property consists of the lot identified by Cuyahoga County This boundary represents the original parcel on which Abeyton Realty Quadrangle name East Cleveland Cleveland Public Library. Cleveland,Ohio. 5-15--86 OMB NO. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior County, Ohio Item number tion, with James C. Jones serving as local manager, supervised the finally announced to the public.
a 75-year career, he designed model projects in Bayonne, N.J-,_Long a failure, "not because it is badly planned, but because it is a New York (March 1932): 133. Cuyahoga Page National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form (3-82) Continuation sheet Streich Pharmacy occupied a store in the Mayfield Road wing of the substantial portion of the building, including several storefronts, Financially, Rockefeller's Forest Hill project was less than successful.
without too much insistence on any period or nationality, and because it designed millions of dollars worth of (mostly low-income)housing projects reportedly were still under way, and city directories confirm that a garages built out of sight in the foundations of the houses, and under- Andrew J.Thomas's vision of a model village included curving streets, Shop (still in business there)and a branch of the Kroger grocery store. for a village containing 6oo middle-priced homes in the French Norman National Park Service date entered received By July1931only five of the development's 81 homes had been sold and Far NPS use only NPS Form 10-900-a Heights Rockefeller Building Cleveland Heights, 8 cedar siding, hand-split shakes, and slate- for John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and popularized the garden apartment. Island City, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx. The Forest Hill During project.
affords a ready opportunity for the use of permanent and interesting Thomas drew up plans and produced models The architect is said to have developed a special development is believed to be his only work in Ohio. the estate east of Lee Road. Ameritrust) Company, early tenants included the Jack Frost Beauty in combination with Ohio sandstone, solid oak half-timbering, wavy-edged building materials."T $750,ooo Heights Rockefeller Building under construction, the project was building beginning in the late closed only recently.) In September 1930,with 81 houses finished or under way and the NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 National Park Service Item number 8 architectural charm into the community," Architectural Record reported 12 apartments are occupied, while business tenants include an architect, photography studio, accountants, attorneys, medical and advertising 69 (April 1931): 346. National Register of Historic Places Page received Inventory-Nomination Form development of Shaker Heights.3 and those who could afford them saw greater architectural diversity and Continuation sheet the day did not. more accessible public transportation in the Van Sweringen's nearby Yet if Fortune judged Forest Hill a failure, architectural journals of acting as trustee for the Medusa Salaried Pension Fund (Medusa Portland Road wing. Mr.Thomas with his ability as a designer has put as the Heights Rockefeller Building" beginning in the 1930s.
Heights Rockefeller Building, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio United States Department of the Interior sold and completed between 1940 and 1950 ina contemporary style. in 1954 to Jay W.Barber Inc.; and in 1968 to the Cleveland Trust Company date entered Far NPS use only building in 1984. John Barr, president of Nighttown, is a prominent offices, a florist, bank, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. A new (3-82) The development was eventually of Rockefeller's venture at Forest Hill.
project located in Cleveland"; young executives at whom Forest Hill was Forest Hill represented "the architect's able contribution to advanced targeted, the magazine explained, could find better values elsewhere in of the period referred to the building generically as the community store houses in Forest Hill were priced out of reach of Cleveland's middle class, 1939 the Heights Rockefeller Building was sold to Elizabeth G.Augustus; WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Working No. _ Date Due: - nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: . -appeal - sample -request - NR decision _ see continuation sheet .substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7.
Description J excellent -unaltered - original site J moved -fair resubmission Ownership ruins completeness Category alterations/integrity dates REJECT Status deteriorated Reviewer Recom./Criteria unexposed Cuyahoga County RETURN Nomination returned for: boundary selection Has this property been determined eligible? Substantive Review: 86001058 Reviewer's comments: Accessible technical corrections cited below 6. Representation in Existing Surveys summary paragraph Heights Rockefeller Building Condition Present Use Check one clarity Public Acquisition NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance Discipline NATIONAL PARK SERVICE good 5-15-86 APR, I L 1986 Fed. Reg. Date: 2/38 Entered in +Action: yes OHIO _ACCEPT Natienal Regleter 8.
Significance - summary paragraph - completeness L clarity - applicable criteria -relating significance to the resource - relationship of integrity to significance J justification of exception - Other 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By L Photographs GPO 918-450 Date context Builder/Architect Period title Signed local national state State Historic Preservation Officer signature Maps Specific dates justification of areas checked UTM References 9. Major Bibliographical References 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Quadrangle name The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Verbal boundary description and justification Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Acreage of nominated property Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Phone: - 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov. 1985 Neg- property of John Barr, 2479 Lee Blvd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Facade. looking northeast. Photograph #1 of 9 Heights Rockefeller Building 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Neg- property of John Barr, 2479 lee Blvd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Main block, looking northeast.
Heights Rockefeller Building Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov.1985 Photograph #2 of 9 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov. 1985 Biva., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Photograph #3 of 9 Heights Rockefeller Building property is located. context in which the nominated Neg. property of John Barr, 2479 Lee Mayfield Road. Photo shows the 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov._1985 Neg- property of John Barr, 2479 Lee. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Facade, Mayfield Road wing, looking northwest. Heights Rockefeller Building Photograph #4 of 9 CAVAN 3099 Mmentrust 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov. 1985 Blvd., Cleveland Heights Detail, Mayfield Road wing, showing Heights Rockefeller Building Ameritrust (formerly Cleveland Neg.
property of John Barr, 2479 lee Photograph #5 of Trust) Bank,looking north. 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Blvd., Cleveland Heights Facade, Lee Road wing, looking north- Photograph #6 of 9 Heights Rockefeller Building east. Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov.1985 Neg- property of John Barr, 2479 lee 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov. 1985 Blvd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Rear elevation, main block and Mayfield Heights Rockefeller Building Road wing, looking southwest. Photograph #7 of 9 Neg. property of John Barr, 2479 lee 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov.
1985 Neg- property of John Barr, 2479 lee Blvd., Cleveland Heights garage and caretaker's apartment Heights Rockefeller Building Rear elevation, Lee-Bolton corner, with in foreground, looking northwest. Photograph #8 of 9 3091 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Blvd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio Photograph #9 of 9 Heights Rockefeller Building Carol Poh Miller photograph, Nov. 1985 Interior, Ameritrust Cleve- Neg. property of John Barr, 2479 Lee land Trust) Bank. N4330-W8130/75 EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO UTM Reference: 17/452520/4596000 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief 1100 L Street, N.W. New Submiss ions Col umb iana St. Joseph's Catholic Church St.
Philip's Episcopal Church Layman, Christopher C., Law Office SOCIETY 614/466-1500 County Sandusky Cuyahoga HISTORICAL Sincerely, Perry WRL:bp Enclosures Pickaway Detroit-Warren Building April 2, 1986 Resource Area) Church of the Ascension State Historic Preservation Office Heights-Rockefeller Building National Park Service give a substantive review to St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Dear Carol: Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Allen note that we have received letters waiving their right to comment from the Please contact me if you have any questions. Barr Hotel (amendment to Lima Multiple Washington, D.C. 20240 property owner and the City of Lima for the Barr Hotel and the property owner notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.Please Enclosed are seven new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate W. Ray Luce