Nomination for Weizer Building

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior JAN 04 1988 National Register of Historic Places Register. L 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 2. Location street & number Buckeye Road NLA vicinity state Ohio zip code 44104 Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property X private X building(s) Structure Name of related multiple property listing: listed in the National Register - 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this National Register of Historic Places and meets theprocedural and professional/requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: 2entered in the National Register. determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) - code site Noncontributing object public-Federal public-State RECEIVED district NATIONAL Date public-local Total historic name Weizer Building Registration Form National Park Service removed from the National Register. See continuation sheet.

determined eligible for the National Number of Resources within Property Number of contributing resources previously other names/site number N/A NA not for publication National Register. 2-8-88 Date of Action (Rev. 8-86) city, town Cleveland Register. See continuation sheet. > Signature of the Keeper county Cuyahoga and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions.For additional space use continuation sheets for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking"x"in the appropriate box or by entering 6. Function or Use 7. Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) foundation _ Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals walls - Describe present and historic physical appearance. route from the downtown to the eastern suburbs.

It occupies a prominent site Diagonally opposite the Weizer Buildings is St. Elizabeth's Church, a massive surrounded by other commercial structures, but today it stands alone, with has a terra cotta nameplate between the second and third floors, and a IXx See continuation sheet tile roof brick metal The Architectural Classification Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) on alternating bands with stone quions.The brick is a mottled orange color. The structure is a three-story masonry bearing wall building.Heavy brick Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) church is a major landmark for the neighborhood and is visible for some visible down this side street, which terminates in front of this building. terra cotta also forms lintels and sills for the windows on the second and and an enframement around a large round clock in the center of this parapet.

features of this building are the two towers which rise out of cantilevered decorative parapet above the third floor which is accented by terra cotta urns masonry consists of hard-fired glazed face brick on the facade which is laid The brick on the sides and rear is rough red brick with fairly wide mortar Two flagpoles rise from the towers. COMMERCE/TRADE/business terra cotta The Weizer Building is located on the east side of Cleveland along a major joints.The mortar on the facade is red-tinted.The facade isaccented by an (enter categories from instructions) with red Spanish tile. This tile also forms a steeply pitched facade roof. on the eight piers which extend through all three floors on the facade.The DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling to the rear of the building.

accent the projecting bays below and to form a cornice between the first and limestone faced twin towered building with Baroque-influenced elements.This The Weizer Building was originally have narrow arched windows formed from pressed metal.Metal is also used to distance because of its tall towers. on the northeast side of Buckeye Road opposite East 9oth Street.It is occupies almost the entire site, with a zero setback and plain brick walls on walls support wood floor joists and a shallow wood shed roof above. parking lot on the one side and a vacant lot on the other.The building both sides extending to the lot lines.There isa small amount of open space NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Weizer Building, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio reversable. Original materials are basically concealed from view. The although the soffits above seem to have been added later.

Originally, these simple woodwork. Continuation Sheet ceiling and square columns supported by Corinthian capitals.Of special marble counters extended through the other half of the ground floor space, facade with alternating brick and stone piers, bay extensions, pressed metal stairways in this building.The units are fairly small and unpretentious with The northernmost store has undergone the most drastic change, with clapboard National Register of Historic Places architect, Emile Uhlrich, was attempting an Eastern European flavor.

United States Department of the Interior interest is the elaborate counterspace made of heavily streaked white and National Park Service storefronts have smaller panes of glass in their centers, evidently the result and terra cotta detailing, and twin octagonal tile roof towers, suggests the south half.The removal of the counters is the only significant alteration to The storefronts on the ground level of the facade are framed in wood with siding having been applied over the original glass leaving only a small large marble stairway leading from the street toa corridor which is quite Section number - divided into two sections, was originally all one space. It has an ornate tin Stylistically, the Weizer Building is difficult to catagorize. The lavish bulkheads.

Page recessed between brick and terra cotta piers, which also continue up through The interior of this building features some highly detailed ground level storefront alterations appear to be ten to twenty years old. The changes to the storefronts, while noticeable, are easily black marble.These are very elaborate original elements in the building. 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. century commerical architecture, reflecting Eastern European influence, and Architecture, 1876-1976, architectural historian Eric Johannesen speculates Building. St. Elizabeth's Magyar Church, directly across the street from the Weizer St. Michael's School, St. John's Lutheran Church (demolished in 1986), and a 1913-1928 Architect/Builder Architecture Ethnic Heritage/European of activities serving Hungarian-American community in this neighborhood.

Significant Person See continuation sheet third floors.Narrow arched windows formed from pressed metal punctuate the The Weizer Building is significant as an exceptional example of turn-of-the- towers which rise out of cantilevered projecting bay windows on the second and Cultural Affiliation Weizer Building features a striking facade.Piers of alternating brick and steel in their church designs, replacing heavy stone supports with steel Significant Dates that Uhlrich was attempting an "Eastern European flavor" in the design of the Designed by noted turn-of-the century architect Emile Uhlrich in 1913,the Five years after designing the Weizer Building, Uhlrich designed Emile Uhlrich Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Xlocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) the Weizer Building.

Uhlrich and his partner Godfrey Fugman, made a prominent construction, yet retaining the traditional arches and domes associated with statewide ecclesiastical architecture.Among Uhlrich's noted designs in Cleveland are facade clock.Perhaps the most striking features of this building are the two found throughout.A central parapet is framed by urns on other side of the towers which are topped with tile bell cast towers.In his book Cleveland church on the near West Side at Franklin and West 58th.He was also the nationally 9.

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Major Bibliographical References 1979; Pages 120-121 PP. 169-170 Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested X State historic preservation office Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property - 11. Form Prepared By organization - -date February 1987 street & number 3515 Archwood Avenue _telephone(216) 749-3515 state Ohio _ zip code 44109 property.

University Other Northing Easting Zone Local government Federal agency Verbal Boundary Description previously listed in the National Register Specify repository: Other State agency UTM References Boundary Justification The boundary includes the entire city lot that has historically been associated with the See continuation sheet recorded by Historic American Buildings previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark Permanent Parcel Number 126-14-040 less than one acre 1916 Cleyeland City Directory Pap, Michael S., ed., Ethnic Communities of Cleveland, John Carrol1 University, 1973 nametite Steyen Mcquillin, Preservation Consultant A 17 NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Weizer Building, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio integrity, having suffered only minor storefront alterations.

working parents, Weizer immigrated from Hungary to this country shortly after developing Hungarian-American community. Hungarians were motivated to from the early 1900s, emphasizing the building's role in the neighborhood Stylistically, Weizer Building is quite unique. It is a noteworthy building, built during a period when, in general, the commercial vernacular architecture Continuation Sheet here primarily for economic reasons.

shown in the Hudson store, and was consistent with the Weizer Building facade building were a steamship ticket office and a currency exchange business which building.This newer building apparently then became the center of Weizer's Johannesen refers to as the commercial vernacular type which appears over and activities, establishing a period of fifteen years during which the Weizer National Register of Historic Places problems, while exhibiting a Renaissance type of boldness and freedom was catered to the Hungarian-American community.The elaborate marble counters National Park Service excellent example of the architect's commercial work.Uhlrich's principle of business empire worth over half a million dollars.Also operated from this United States Department of the Interior Building.at its time of construction, was the center of a real estate and architect of the remarkable c.1903 Art Nouveau style J.L.Hudson Store (long these businesses, additionally reflecting the building's role in the (Ohio Architect and Builder).The building maintains a high degree of Weizer's business empire.

Reflected in its monumental design, the Weizer The Weizer Building was erected by John Weizer to house his businesses which catered to the Hungarian-American community in Cleveland.The son of poor since demolished) in downtown Cleveland.The Weizer Building remains an building remained a hub of Hungarian-American business.A visual analysis of encompassing the large ideas typical in church architecture to modern business subdivide them into residential parcels, facilitating the emergence of this and teller windows, tin ceiling.and marble faced Corinthian posts remain from during a time of neighborhood growth and expansion. a notary public and a naturalized citizen.

Weizer's later work in real estate over again in the neighborhood shopping streets of the teens:a typical two (8-86) the neighborhood dates most of the housing stock around the Weizer Building Cleveland by the job opportunities present growth),and 1ocated In 1928,Weizer erected a larger building about 20 blocks east from his first NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Weizer Building, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Page - Architecture, 1876-1976). Distiguishing features frequently included a tile and the Kennedy Block, both of which were erected within five years of the immigration. Continuation Sheet Eastern European influence, and reflecting a time of once thriving Hungarian National Register of Historic Places Weizer Building, are examples of this prevalent commercial type.

The Weizer Building remains a spectacular commercial building, exhibiting story block with ground floor stores and second floor apartments United States Department of the Interior Section number 8 pent roof and second floor iron balconies.The Cernack Block (NR 10/18/84) WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET JAN - 4 1988 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: - nomination by person or local government REJECT - owner objection Federal Agency: - Lappeal L NR decision Nomination returned for: . _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 Lunaltered - original site I moved summary paragraph Accessible Category Condition yes Ownership dates completeness unexposed alterations/integrity sample resubmission ruins deteriorated request RETURN Reviewer Recom./Criteria Cuyahoga County clarity Discipline ACCEPT Weizer Building Working No. Has this property been determined eligible? Public Acquisition see continuation sheet 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Reviewer's comments: boundary selection Substantive Review: Present Use Status Check one Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance good fair 2-8-88 88000055 8. Significance summary paragraph - applicable criteria -justification of areas checked J relating significance to the resource J relationship of integrity to significance -justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to - Signed . Phone: _ GPO 918-450 Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet Date completeness context Builder/Architect national clarity Photographs Maps local title UTM References Specific dates 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Quadrangle name State Historic Preservation Officer signature The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) _state Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Period 1420 AM Cleveland, Ohio February 1987 WB-1 negatives in photographer's collection Weizer Building Steven McQuillin, Photographer front and south side, looking north Cleveland, Ohio rear and north side, looking south WB-2 negatives in photographer's collection Weizer Building February 1987 Steven McQuillin, photographer Cleveland, Ohio February 1987 interior, ground floor, looking toward the rear WB-3 Weizer Building negatives in photographer's collection Steven McQuillin, photographer 17-447950-4592620 SHAKER HEICHTS, OHIO Shaker Heights Quadrangle Map OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC)| SCALE 1:24 000 N41225W8130/7.5 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus.

Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 December 30, 1987 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief Glidden, Francis K., House W. Ray Luce WRL : ae Enclosures 614/297-2470 County SOCIETY Cuyahoga Franklin Weizer Building HISTORICAL National Park Service notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. State Historic Preservation Officer Department of the Interior Berry Brothers Bolt Works New Submissions Dear Carol: Ohio Historic Preservation Office Sincerely. National Register of Historic Places Enclosed are 3 new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate Please contact me if you have any questions. P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 OHIO