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OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior RECEIVED DEC - 3 1987 MAR 1 7 1988 (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Location N/A not for publication city, town State zip code 44106 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property _sites _ structures _objects 0 Total Name of related multiple property listing: 4. State/Federal Agency Certification 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Dentered in the National Register. determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) code REGISTER district private NATIONAL public-local public-Federal RECEIVED Date public-State N/Avicinity Registration Form National Register.
Number of contributing resources previously Contribyting Signature of the Keeper 4-28-88 Signature of commenting or other official Cleveland State or Federal agency and bureau removed from the National Register. listed in the National Register other names/site number building(s) See continuation sheet. historic name Number of Resources within Property Signature of certifying official Noncontributing determined eligible for the National National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.
National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Chio As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966,as amended, I hereby certify that this and areasof significance.enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions.For additional space use continuation sheets Date of Action Hill Road and 2043 Random Road (Rev NPS Form 10-800 street & number X nomination _request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation sfandards for registering properties in the In my opinion, the property Murray county Cuyahoga School This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking x"in the appropriate box or by entering 035 6.
Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description OTHER: 20th CENTURY ECLECTICISM/ walls - Located at the heart of Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood, Murray Hill School facing Paul Avenue, is a larger three-story-and-basement building with an asymmetrical another, smaller asphalt parking lot at the southeast corner of the site. The surrounding neighborhood is a dense mix of brick and frame shops, houses, and bell tower, and clay tile roofs reminiscent of the architecture of Italy, the The older of the two Murray Hill school buildings, 90 by 127 feet in size, has a designed to contain 13 classrooms, an auditorium, library, and medical dispensary. ground level, these consist of paired double-hung sash with 1/1 lights and fan- in the building consist of double-hung wooden sash with 2/2 lights.
- See continuation sheet foundation BRICK ASPHALT The Italian roof Architectural Classification CERAMIC TILE Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Describe present and historic physical appearance.
EDUCATION/school degree of architectural integrity.With its decorative brick-and tile-work, Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) in progress) The building features a diaper-patterned brick frieze wherever walls without entrance.An asphalt parking lot adjoins both buildings at the rear, and there is A stepped corridor accommodate a change in grade) at the southwest corner of the tracks of the Norfolk & Western Railroad.Both school buildings retain a high double-hung sash with 2/2 lights and fanlights capped by stone dripmolds.At brick laid in common bond and sandstone trim.H-shaped in plan,the building was COMMERCE/TRADE/professional first Murray Hill School connects it to the later and much larger annex.This later school building is especially notable.
Small apartment buildings hemmed in by Lake View Cemetery,Cedar Hill,and the STONE/sandstone and there isa tall octagonal smokestack at the rear. DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling (work corridor. The older of the two (1908), facing Murray Hill Road, is a two-story- building, approximately 100 by 200 feet in size, is also constructed of steel and reinforced concrete, with coarse brown windows occur, and stone stringcourses and sills throughout.The facade incorporates consists of two substantial brick buildings joined by a ground-level utility ranks of eight round-arched windows.In the second story, these consist of paired brick foundation with a molded stone water table and a flat tar-and-gravel roof.
and-basement building with a central entrance.The adjacent "annex"(l9l6), Murray Hill School, Cleveland, Ohio Item number 7 with a molded brick water table and a flat tar-and-gravel roof with a Aside from changes to the doors and windows already described, both facade, and the addition of a small audio-visual room at the rear of Inventory-Nomination Form The National Register of Historic Places the same building, represent the only significant alterations to the courses of sawtooth brick and pointed arch and herringbone designs.
central corridors off which classrooms and other rooms open.Both windows in the southeast elevation consist of sliding casements with These feature maple floors (over concrete), plaster walls and ceilings, National Park Service original doors of the annex were replaced ca.1950,although the transoms closed off and made into a tiled gable roof; this is supported by engaged cylindrical brick United States Department of the Interior are still intact. two buildings are similar in are not visible from the street.) bell school building recalls the architecture of Italy.The exterior of the school complex. Above the main entrance is a decorative round-arched brick hood with NPS Form 10-900-a Page 1 brick- and tile-work, and the incorporation of a square tile-foofed a tiled shed roof and window boxes suoported by stone brackets.
school buildings are little changed. and blackboards. Continuation sheet Cuyahoga County H-shaped in plan, the building was designed to contain 28 classrooms transoms.) The cornice features intricate arcaded corbelling, with buildings were planned to allow the unilateral lighting of classrooms. (7-81) north and south are virtually spandrels brick walls laid in English bond.It has a patterned brick foundation The construction of a white and a five-room housekeeping suite.with its extensive use of decorative Many of the original light globes are still intact. extant), built on an adjacent lot in 1903. 1908-1940 HEALTH/MEDICINE architectural integrity.
ARCHITECTURE Cleveland's Italian-born population grew rapidly in the first two decades the first medical dispensary in the history of public education opened Barnum planned more than 75 school buildings, many of which dispensary led to the creation of a medical department in the Cleveland special programs--English, citizenship, housekeeping, and open-air other modern fireproof schools designed by Frank S. Barnum during this public schools and the establishment of similar facilities elsewhere in Significant Person ETHNIC HERITAGE/EUROPEAN those of the 19th century. Additional characteristics of Barnum's work represented in the Murray Hill School Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: include the use of windows on only one side of each classroom, and large expanses of 8. Statement of Significance