Nomination for Colonial and Euclid Arcades

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OMB NO. 1024-0018 street & number N/A vicinity of city, town X state - public - unoccupied - agriculture . museum * building(s) - park - private residence . religious - in process - yes: restricted - government 4. Owner of Property Joseph LaRonge, Agent courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. - yes -federal _ local 039 035 both code transportation Category county entertainment date educational industrial structure object October 1975 district site Status historic 2. Location other: Inventory-Nomination Form title Cleveland Cuyahoga County Administration Building Ohio 3. Classification being considered 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys Western Reserve Historical Society Public Acquisition Ownership National Park Service depository for survey records National Register of Historic Places work in progress Type all entries-complete applicable sections See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms N/A not for publication Accessible Present Use 1. Name Ohio Historic Inventory (3-82) has this property been determined eligible? 5. Location of Legal Description 520 Euclid Avenue United States Department of the Interior Colonial and Euclid Arcades For NPS use only date entered scientific and or common military NPS Form 10-900 1219 Ontario Street received MAR 2 6 1987 508, 600 Euclid Avenue Xprivate - commercial 10-31-87 Expires Cuyahoga 7. Description * original site X altered downtown Cleveland.

This nomination includes the Colonial Arcade, built 1898; the Euclid built 1898; and the Colonial Hotel, built 1898. The two story Colonial Arcade is 435 feet long, 2ø feet wide, and 28 feet high and 1929 interior alteration to the building. The original storefronts, evident on the west with the initials 'C.H. for the Colonial Hotel. The Euclid Arcade is 435 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 18 feet high, with stores to each Condition unexposed floors. deteriorated fair excellent unaltered include decorative railings, scrolled brackets above the second floor storefronts that story lobby for the former hotel.This room has a ceiling with stained glass windows. office space.Classical ornamentation includes a dentilled cornice, egg and dart has pink marble floors.On the west side of the Arcade on the Prospect side isa second the arcade's storefronts.

The arcade has both recessed entrances, which appear to be the The Colonial and Euclid Arcades are located between Euclid and Prospect Avenues in Under the lobby on the first floor is a former restaurant with stained glass insignias Check one elevator to the upper floors of the Hoyt Building. There is a staircase with a segmented Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance

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and ribs that divide the arcade's 24 storefronts.An interior cornice with modillions tops original concept, and flush storefronts.On the Euclid side of the arcade there is an side of the passageway.The arcade building varies from 65 feet in width on Euclid Avenue the Arcade's interior include white terra cotta and white marble that is highlighted bya three staircases between the first and second stories.Notable second floor features barrel vaulted ceiling with a gabled skylight roof above.The barrel vault terminated at entrance floor has a diamond shaped pattern completed in green and white marble. The bay has 2, two over two windows.

Medallions depicting men and serpents are between 2nd and and scrolled brackets that divide the interior's second floor storefronts.The arcade has each end in a semi-circular ribbed radiating design.The barrel vault has recessed panels, Kendall Block was renovated in l929 into a Modernistic style with a granite terra cotta rest on masks of men with demonic characteristics, and topped by masks of women with stories of the Colonial Hotel.The arcade has white marble floors.The Prospect Avenue angelic characteristics.Although the first story has linoleum floors,.the second story facade.The altered first story storefronts have a dentilled cornice.The building's5 bay round arched windows.Many of the first floor storefronts close to Euclid Avenue have been arch with a central keystone next to the elevator.There is no connection to the upper -moveddate a gambrel roof surmounted bya gabled skylight.The ends of the arcade terminate in large The building fronts 90 feet on Euclid Avenue and is 80 feet wide.

Built in l887 the feet in width.The arcade's first floor is retail space with the second floor used as to a width of lo0 feet toward the Prospect Avenue side of the building. Materials used in Arcade, built 191l; the Kendall Building, built 1887, renovated 1929; the Hoyt Building, exhibits elements of the Colonial Revival style.The arcade building varies from 80 to 90 side of the Prospect side of the arcade, have round arched transom windows. There are altered. The marble above and below many of the first floor storefronts was part of the 3rd story windows. Spandrels with zig zag designs are between 3rd and 4th, and 4th and 5th date ruins facade is divided by fluted piers that are topped by stylized Modernistic capitals. Each The five story Kendall Building acts as the Colonial Arcade's entrance on Euclid Avenue. OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.

10-31-84 Far NPS use only Page 1 of 2 Euclid Avenue entrance has a terrazo floor. Prospect Avenue. The hotel fronts 235 feet on Prospect Avenue, and is 6Ø feet wide. The entrance is not noteworthy, except for the tile floor in the entrance.

Egg and dart received National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet Colonial Arcade entrance has dentilled classical triangular pediment.The Euclid Arcade pressed brick building with terra cotta ornamentation, fronts 65 feet on Euclid Avenue, National Park Service The six story beige pressed brick Colonial Hotel functions as the arcade's entrance on The sixth floor windows are round arched.The building is topped with an ornate frieze, cornice above 6th floor windows.Ocular openings above 7th floor windows.An entrance molding is used below the third story windows.The Colonial Hotel has a modillioned and modillioned cornice.The arcade has an entrance with aluminum and glass doors. with rosettes underneath.The second and third story windows have splayed brick lintels.

topped with stylized Ionic capitals.The second story is topped bya modillioned cornice The Hoyt Building is the Euclid Arcade's entrance on Euclid Avenue. This six story beige and is 65 feet wide. The building's facade is divided into three bays. The first story United States Department of the Interior slender cast iron piers that are topped with stylized Ionic capitals.The second story is NPS Form 10-900-a dale entered (3-82) 1 of 3 ,Ounitem number Colonial piers that are capped with Corinthian capitals separate the building's major bays. The canopy still marks the entrance for the Colonial Arcade. building's facade is divided into ll bays with three windows to each bay. Second story OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 Far NPS use only The Hoyt Building, built 1898, acts as the Euclid Avenue anchor of the Euclid Arcade.

The Rodgers Dry Goods Store, all were advertised were advertised with a Euclid Avenue address that went through to Prospect Avenue. Unable to find a tenant, the building was transformed into an arcade. Practical economically, arcade's offered more prime rental The Euclid Arcade, built in 1911, was the last of Cleveland's four downtown arcade's. In opt1clans, stamps, mens clothing, ladies hat shop, a barber, office machines, washing Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet Northern Ohio, and the Andrews Institute for Girls in Willoughby. retail space than conventional retail building's facing a single commercial street. terra cotta and marble interior.The Euclid Arcade was designed by architect Franz Warner.

machines, and restaurants.At this time the office building housed several offices, the Eagle and Barren Fork Coal Companies, and a variety of dentists and manufacturers National Register of Historic Places Early in his career Warner had been associated with architect's Owsley and Boucherle of Youngstown, and Frank L.Packard of Columbus.Warner had designed over thirty schools in agents.Architecturally the Euclid Arcade has a simple Neo-Classic style with a white United States Department of the Interior National Park Service date antered Goods Store, in 1903 the Kent Company Dry Goods Store, and from 1905-9 Williams and NPS Form 10-900-a Page 2 of 2 (3.82) received Hoyt Dry Goods Company, from 1899-1902 it housed the Hoyt,Kent, and Sefton Company Dry including the Ellsworth School of Beauty Culture, and the Ohio School of Cosmetic Therapy, 1929 the Euclid Arcade housed a variety of retail businesses including jewelers 8.

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Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below landscape architecture. religion - archeology-historic - agriculture - sculpture - music exploration/settlement _ X 1900- - politics/government Builder/Architect Colonial-George Smith; Euclid- Franz Warner Kendal1 - Walker and Weeks Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) Criterion C mixed use complex including an office building, a hotel, and two retail arcades. The The Kendall Building, built in 1887, functions as the Colonial Arcade's entrance on Euclid Modernistic style in the downtown area include the Ohio Bell Building, built 1925-7, and the Bing Building, built 1929. The noted local architectural firm of Walker and Weeks include the Cleveland Public Library, built 1925-7; the Municipal Stadium, built 193Ø; the Federal Reserve Bank Building, built 1923; and the Walker and Weeks Office Building, built buildings in the Modernistic style. Among the firms Modernistic building's are the Schulte-United 5 cents to 1 dollar to store. Following the success of Cleveland's Old Arcade, built 1888-1890; the Colonial Arcade was erected in 1898. It was the second of Cleveland's four downtown arcades.

The Colonial including jewelers, laundries, optometrists, restaurants, and barber shops. The second floor housed medical offices, and a few retail stores such as tailors and the Colonial along with John Eisenmann had been the architect of the Old Arcade. The Colonial Arcade include scrolled brackets, a dentilled cornice, the use of swag ornamentation, and with ornateness remaining from the Victorian era. George Smith. Other buildings designed by Smith include the Rose Building, built 190ø; the Old Arcade which was designed in partnership with John Eisenmann, built 1888-90; and the 1600-1699 engineering 1700-1799 education 1500-1599 architecture transportation commerce industry humanitarian Period theater prehistoric X1800-1899 literature -conservation _communications story piers, and a dentilled cornice below seventh story windows.

was designed in an ornate Neo-Classical style.Significant features of this ornate Arcade Rockefeller's favorite hotel.Architecturally the Colonial Hotel was designed in a were sound real estate ventures because they increased the amount of leasable retail space The Colonial Arcade and Euclid Arcades are significant as two of Cleveland's three Commercial style with elements of the Neo-Classical style.These elements include the designed the building's.1929 exterior and interior renovation.Examples of the firm's work in a building.The Colonial Arcade's first floor housed a variety of retail stores, hotel was not one of the city's fanciest hostelries,it was said that it was John D. --economics 1400-1499 arcade's connect two busy downtown retail streets, Euclid and Prospect Avenues. Hotel's lobby.George W. Smith was the architect of the Colonial Arcade.George Smith 192o.

While the firm was best known for its Neo-Classical buildings, it also designed some social/ The Colonial Hotel on Prospect Avenue was also built in 1898 and designed by architect White Motor Company Factory, built 19l0. The Colonial Hotel had 150 rooms.Although the bay windows topped by round arched windows.Renovated in 1929, the building is now one of military - other(specify) - science --art .invention a few examples of the Modernistic style in downtown Cleveland. Good examples of the remaining downtown arcades, reflecting the nation's late 19th and early 20th century Rosettes.

This Arcade is an early example of the then fashionable Neo-Classic architecture ornate pediment above the Colonial Arcade's entrance, ornate capitals that top second 1887-1929 philosophy archeology-prehistoric Specific dates Avenue.The building originally displayed elements of the Commercial style with ranksof arcade movement.Developed between 1887 and 1929 the Colonial and Euclid Arcade's area law built 1948 (demolished).After its1929 remodeling the Kendall Building housed the .._community planning 9.

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Major Bibliographical References Cuyahoga County Permanent Parcel Number 101-26-041, 101-27-023 _ state 11. Form Prepared By John Cimperman, Director Robert Keiser, Preservation Planner Drew Rolik, Researcher rev. August 23, 1986 601 Lakeside Avenue, Room 519 street & number _ national State Historic Preservation Officer signature GPO 911-399 county code Easting date organization Northing Zone Cleveland Attest: Verbal boundary description and justification Quadrangle name See Continuation Sheet The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 10. Geographical Data Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 UTM References Ohio Cleveland Landmarks Commission Chief of Registration 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification name/title List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National-Park Service. city or town telephone (216) 664-2531 Alocal 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated SHPO less than one acre As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 Public Law 89- For Nps use only OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 1 of 1 Colonial and Euclid Arcades Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Avery, Elroy; A History of Cleveland and It's Environs; (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1918); V III, P 345.

Lower Euclid Avenue"; October 27, 1929 Miller, Carol Poh; Habitat "Architects of Today Can Learn Lessons From Old Arcades"; November 15-21, 1985 Painesville Telegraph, 1911 Schofield, Mary Peale; Landmark Architecture of Cleveland; date entered Page Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places (3-82) Cleveland City Directories Cimperman, John D.; Cleveland Landmarks Files #148; (n.p., n.d.) received For NPS use only National Park Service City of Cleveland Building Permits Continuation sheet 3 of 3 Cleveland Plain Dealer "The Modernizing Job Sets Pace for United States Department of the Interior (Pittsburgh:0ber Park,1976),p.94-5 NPS Form 10-900-s WASO Form - 177 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET MAR 2,6 1987 Fed. Reg.

Date 23/ Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: _ Lappeal L sample Reviewer - - see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description Jexcellent -unaltered - original site - moved J unexposed J boundary selection Category dates completeness Ownership request Condition alterations/integrity ruins fair Status deteriorated REJECT Discipline OHIO clarity Action: Working No. RETURN Substantive Review: 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Cuyahoga County Colonial and Euclid Arcades resubmission Public Acquisition summary paragraph owner objection Check one Present Use Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance 3.

Classification Reviewer's comments: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Accessible NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NR decision ("R" June 1984) - yes 87000660 5-8-87 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Jsummary paragraph l applicable criteria J relating significance to the resource J justification of exception - other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11. Form Prepared By GPO 918-450 clarity context Builder/Architect Date Period Signed completeness local Maps title national state Photographs Phone Verbal boundary description and justification justification of areas checked UTM References Quadrangle name State Historic Preservation Officer signature relationship of integrity to significance The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Specific dates DENT IST: ARCADE RITE AID PHARMACY COLONIAL Department, Cleveland City Hall July 30, 1986 #1 of 5 Colonial Arcade Photographer: Warner Thomas Looking southwest Negative on file at Photography Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 600 Euclid Avenue 8769 - - JUL 30 1986 ORDERS TO.CA THE BUILDING HANNA PARKING FOURTH PROSPECT PIZZA DAVE'S DOV Department, Cleveland City Hall July 30, 1986 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Warner Thomas 501-609 Prospect Avenue (Colonial Hotel) Colonial Arcade Negative on file at Photography #2 of 5 #°8769 - - JUL'30 1986 COLONIAL LUNCHEONETTE THROUGH DAVE'S ARCADE TO EUCLID elry&Diamon Coca-Cola Photographer: Warner Thomas Department, Cleveland City Hall July 30, 1986 #3 of 5 Arcade) Negative on file at Photography 609 Prospect Avenue (entrance to Colonial Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Colonial Arcade Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, ohio Photographer: Warner Thomas #4 of 5 Cleveland City Hall Colonial Arcade Interior Colonial Arcade Negative on file at Photography Department, Department, Cleveland City Hall July 30, 1986 #5 of 5 Interior Colonial Arcade Colonial Arcade Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Warner Thomas Negative on file at Photography 8769 - - JUL 30 1988 Cookie Co.

ARCADE Photographer: Donn Nottage August 20, 1986 #1 of 2 Euclid Arcade Negative on file at Photography Department CITY OF CLEVELAN 508 Euclid Avenue Cleveland City Hall Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio July 30, 1986 #2 of 2 Euclid Arcade Negative on file at Photography Department Photographer: Warner Thomas Interior Euclid Arcade Cleveland City Hall 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC UNITED STATES CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 41081 06-TF-024 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 March 20, 1987 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O.

Box 37127 MAR 2 6 1987 Montgomery Enclosures SOCIETY Fulton County 614/297-2470 Fayette Cuyahoga Erie Fairfield Long-Mueller House Department of the Interior Pickaway National Park Service HISTORICAL John Artz Farmhouse Franklin Jones-Read-Touvelle House Colonial and Euclid Arcades Dear Carol: National Register of Historic Places George J. Doerzbach House Robinson-Pavey House State Historic Preservation Office William McCafferty Farmhouse The Old Peace Lutheran Church am asking for a substantive review for the Scioto Township District #2 New Submissions Schoolhouse, Pickaway County. Scioto Township District No. 2 Schoolhouse Ohio Historic Preservation Office Please contact me if you have any questions. SINCE 1885 WRL:bp Washington, D.C. 20213-7127 Sincerely submissions.

Due to a dissenting vote by one of our review board members I appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new Enclosed are nine new National Register nominations. All of the