Nomination for Cawood, Richard L., Residence

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Cawood, Richard L., Residence 2. Location street & number N/A not for publication city, town N/A vicinity 3.

Classification Ownership of Property x private x building(s) Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register - State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: J See continuation sheet. determined eligible for the National determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) Date of Action 029 43920 Noncontributing object Date REGISTER public-State public-local state structure site Total public-Federal district National Register. RECEIVED Ohio Registration Form entered in the National Register.

other names/site number historic name National Register of Historic Places removed from the National Register. Category of Property East Liverpool Number of Resources within Property zip code National Park Service Signature of certifying official (Rev. 8-86) and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets 2600 St. Clair Avenue Register. See continuation sheet. In my opinion, the property county Columbiana NATIOAL for Completing National Register Forms(National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking"x"in the appropriate box or by entering National Register of HistoricPlaces and meets the procedural and professionatrequirements set forth in 36 CFRPart 60. 6.

Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) walls - view, except for an entryway opposite the main residence, which is framed by The Italian Renaissance Revival residence, built 1923-24, is a stucco-covered section consists of a central entrance hall with a large living room, In the late 1920s and 1930s, the residence was extended by a series of Spanish Lx See continuation sheet Iron Tile roof other Architectural Classification Stucco DOMESTIC/SINGLE DWELLING central rectangular section from which various additions extend to the south Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival the second floor are a series of bedroom suites, with bathrooms elaborately Describe present and historic physical appearance.

features a massive intricately carved stone fireplace mantel.Above the tiled.A first floor bathroom features a carved onyx sink. Italian Renaissance (enter categories from instructions) doorway from the dining room to the kitchen is a terra cotta panel of Italian residence,a two story masonry structure which attaches toa one story chapel Eclectic additions.In 1929,the kitchen was built out to the south anda include a carriage house which is two stories in height, and the main north.On the ground floor are tall arched windows; smaller rectangular hall is a spacious dining room with a kitchen behind it.The living room by means of a covered passage. stairway moves through a series of arches, almost like a small courtyard.On acres in size, which is L-shaped and is located on a major street in the city of East Liverpool.

It stands on a rise a few miles north of the downtown, on stable/garage stands atop a small hill. Other buildings on the property masonry structure, two stories in height, which is crowned by a massive hip 1and which is sloping generally from north to south, toward the Ohio River masonry piers. The land slopes upward markedly to the east, where a brick columns supporting a small balconet with iron railing above. The wooden foundation Concrete shrubbery.An embankment about six feet high extends along St. Clair Avenue entrance doors are massive and deeply carved.The interior of this main The nominated property consists of a landscaped residential tract, about six and west.The central rectangular section has a five bay facade which faces NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Cawood, Richard L., Residence, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., Ohio its center.

On the opposite side, facing the courtyard, is a loggia supported on the west end, by the south wall of the main house on the north side, and by Statuary and architectural objects adorn the courtyard, giving it a highly brick exterior with a gable roof, although Spanish tile is used to cover the property.

Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places the shrubbery and extends south from the main residence past the chapel stable.A stucco masonry retaining wall runs along the south end of the 1935,plans were prepared for the most extensive additions which would domed ceiling which has an elaborate frescoe scene representing the sky with To the south of the residence is a courtyard enframed by the loggia and chapel National Park Service story stucco covered structure capped by a hip Spanish tile roof, thus United States Department of the Interior residence, thus redirecting the focus of the house from the north to the west fireplace framed by two carved wood confessional booths on the west end.On through rows of large hemlock trees to a fountain structure in the distance.

wall south of here facing the street is pierced by a broad arched opening in the east end is a large Palladian entryway. crowned by a shallow conical tile roof with a weathervane a 15th toa chapel.The chapel is a tall rectangular block capped by a shallow hip Section number _ 7 The tower contains a central doorway accented by stone quoins. Above courtyard and is screened from view by the hemlocks. Located along the sloping grounds so that a three-car garage is exposed at the base of the west only is exposed.

This upper floor is an apartment originally used by Page picturesque appearance.Winding through the porte cochere into the courtyard the main tower and a smaller square tower capped by a masonry finial.A broad Extending south from the tower is a porte cochere spanning the space between driveway south of the main residence is the carriage house.This isa two twenty feet in diameter, was constructed at the southwest corner of the the entrance is a round arched window with a small iron balcony.The tower is roof.It has two doors in front and seems to have originally been built as a atop a small hill.This isa smaller and much simpler structure and has a red and then eastward is the driveway.It turns south along the outer edge of the 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Mocally Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Significant Dates Richard L. Cawood Peterson & Clark Livingston, J.W. (1935) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.

Revival house with a large round tower, a porte cochere, a courtyard, and a Richard Lawrence Cawood was born into a middle class family in Belpre, Ohio in developed a library on European architecture, particularly that of Italy and the time, Patterson made machinery for the porcelain and pottery industries, worked his way up from an employee earning 83 cents a day, to the company X See continuation sheet 1935 Industry Architecture Architect/Builder The Richard L.Cawood Residence is significant as a highly personal and Significant Person He put aside this interest in architecture to study mechanical drawing and unusual interpretation of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture with character from classic Italian Renaissance Revival form to perhaps the Cultural Affiliation Architecturally, the residence features a rectangular Italian Renaissance Spanish eclectic additions, reflecting its owner's interest in design and his architecture, this building bears a direct association with one of the leading 1882.As a youth he developed an intense interest in architecture and most remarkable building in the community.Because of its unique evolved over a period of more than ten years, changing the building's Period of Significance distinctive features to be found in a residence in a small Ohio city.

reflected in the development in this house.The design for this building went to work at Patterson Foundry in East Liverpool on January 1,19oo.At which by then were becoming the major local industry.By 1920,Cawood had business.In 1930,he opened a steel mill while continuing to operate the 1923-24; 1929; Applicable National Register Criteria president, a post he held until his retirement from Patterson in 1956. Cawood statewide the Mediterranean. The additions are unusual and Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) expanded the firm and further developed its relationship to the pottery chapel in the Spanish Eclectic style. nationally Cawood had what he characterized late in life as an 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Cawood, Richard L., Who Is This Fellow Cawood? (A History of the Cawood Family) East Liverpool, Ohio: Richard Lawrence Cawood, February 1962, PP. 97-125 Gates, William C., Jr., The City of Hills and Kilns: Life and Work in East 1984, p. 272. Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) X State historic preservation office Other State agency previously determined eligible by the National Register Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description 11. Form Prepared By Steve McQuillin, Preservation Consultant May street & number. city or town - _ state Northing Zone Easting date organization Cleveland maintain historic integrity.

Local government Boundary Justification Federal agency telephone University Ohio Specify repository: See continuation sheet recorded by Historic American Buildings has been requested UTM References previously listed in the National Register The boundary includes the house with additions, the carriage house, stable/garage designated a National Historic Landmark Other 3515 Archwood Avenue name/title Primary location of additional data: (216) 749-3515 Lot #42 (Maplewood Subdivision) Record # Acreage of property - and grounds that have historically been part of the Cawood Residence and that _ zip code 44109 Six acres 1451991100] 1513,610,00] NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Cawood, Richard L.

Residence, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., Ohio provides a rare, detailed account of the life of a successful businessman, and world travels, which covered all of Europe, North Africa, and South America, 1929; designer J.W. Livingston of Salem, Ohio, who designed the tower, chapel and gardens in 1935; and architect Robert Fisher Beatty of East Liverpool, who thus seems likely to assume that Cawood himself was deeply involved in the Architecturally, the house is distinguished by elaborate Spanish Eclectic was extended by several additions in the Spanish eclectic style, reflecting Continuation Sheet design of the residence and must have had some difficulty working with of the largest industries in East Liverpool.In addition to his business different periods of construction, as verified by the surviving drawings.

It architects, as at least three and possibly more were involved in the design of National Park Service are associated with the building, as obtained from surviving plans, are: National Register of Historic Places architects Peterson and Clarke of Steubenville, who designed the rear wing in two other owners since. United States Department of the Interior in 1937 prepared plans for a new kitchen.The original plans are missing and house featuresa rectangular plan with first floor arched windows and smaller it is not known who designed the original building;Cawood does not mention Section number - Liverpool and also in nearby Pittsburgh. Toward the end of his life, Cawood wrote a detailed autobiography, which he had published as a 150-page book. It hipped roof tops the building. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the house unique work of architecture as his residence.

As initially built in 1923-24, which was carved in Italy. The house was essentially a rectangle, to which in and a chapel. As a result, the original front of the house became the side, Page Cawood devotes two chapters in his book to this residence.His extensive interests, Cawood was active in many social and public organizations in East dramatic additions made to the residence, additions which would completely this residence.Cawood lived in this house for over forty years.It has had These consisted of a large tower, the house was not so remarkable, although its spacious rooms contained crafted The entrance is enframed by the owner's intense interest in architecture and his continued success in change its orientation and character.

combined with his early interest in architecture to inspire him to create a with the large tower as the central focal point.Three different design firms series of enclosed porches and sun rooms with iron balconets below each OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Cawood, Richard L. Residence, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., Ohio Section number - Spanish eclectic additions included a port cochere and a chapel, all in stucco Eclectic residential architecture. East Liverpool has no other landmark As the grounds are well landscaped, they contribute to the architectural construction/significant additions.

Page with tile roofs.The decorative features of this house combine with its The boundaries for this nomination were chosen to include the original Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service significance of the residence by providing it with a harmonious setting.As has a domed ceiling with fresco detailing complete with cherub figures.Other unusual form to make this property a locally outstanding example of Spanish constructed on this site, so this land has been excluded from the nomination. integrity, having suffered no alterations since its original United States Department of the Interior window.In 1935,the most dramatic addition was made:a 20 foot diameter as Cawood had them planned originally.

NPS Form 10-900-a stained glass windows grace the lower tower room, while the upper tower room the original property was sold some years ago and a modern residence much as can be determined, the plantings and landscape features survive much (8-86) WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Cawood, Richard L., Residence DEC 22 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government - REJECT - owner objection Federal Agency: _ Lappeal -sample -request L NR decision _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 7.

Description J excellent J unaltered -original site - moved summary paragraph Category resubmission yes dates fair Condition Status Accessible completeness alterations/integrity Columbiana County unexposed deteriorated Discipline Reviewer Ownership clarity Recom./Criteria boundary selection Working No. Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Public Acquisition Nomination returned for: Reviewer's comments: Has this property been determined eligible? Substantive Review: Present Use Check one good Action: ruins 87002502 RETURN ACCEPT 12188-2588 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) I summary paragraph Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature _ Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect Date title Signed Period context completeness national state Maps applicable criteria Photographs local UTM References justification of areas checked Verbal boundary description and justification 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification justification of exception relating significance to the resource Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Quadrangle name Specific dates clarity relationship of integrity to significance Richard L. Cawood Residence 2600 St.

Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 north and west sides, looking southeast RLCR-1 negatives in photographer's collection Columbiana County Steven McQuillin, photographer 2600 St. Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 Steven McQuillin, photographer east and south sides, looking northwest RLCR-2 Columbiana County negatives in photographer's collection Richard L. Cawood Residence Richard L. Cawood Residence 2600 St. Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 chapel (left) and courtyard, looking north RLCR-3 Columbiana County negatives in photographer's collection Steven McQuillin, photographer Richard L. Cawood Residence 2600 St. Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 Steven McQuillin, photographer interior - living room, looking southwest negatives in photographer's collection Columbiana County RLCR-4 Richard L. Cawood Residence 2600 St.

Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 Steven McQuillin, photographer interior - dining room, looking southeast RLCR-5 negatives in photographer's collection Columbiana County Richard L. Cawood Residence 2600 St. Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 carriage house, looking northeast RLCR-6 negatives in photographer's collection Columbiana County Steven McQuillin, photographer 2600 St. Clair Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio May 1987 garage, looking east RLCR-7 Columbiana County negatives in photographer's collection Richard L. Cawood Residence Steven McQuillin, photographer OHIO-PENNSYLVANIA-WEST VIRGINIA EAST LIVERPOOL NORTH, OHIO- PA. - W. VA.

REPRESENTED BY THE UNITED STATES EAST LIVERPOOL NORTH QUADRANGLE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC - State Route AND OTHER STATE AGENCIES DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1:24,000 STATE OF OHIO Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 December 17, 1987 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Cawood, Richard L., House Sheets, Andrew, House W. Ray Luce WRL : ae SOCIETY Enclosures deterioration.

County Miami 614/297-2470 Erie Sincerely, Columbiana HISTORICAL Department of the Interior National Park Service Cable Park Historic District State Historic Preservation Officer Dear Carol: notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.We National Register of Historic Places New Submissions request a substantive review for the Sheets House, due to its state of Enclosed are 3new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate Please contact me if you have any questions. SINCE 1885 OHIO