Nomination for Olney, Charles, House and Gallery

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OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 8-86) APR 2 5 1988 1. Name of Property 2. Location street & number city, town zip code Classification Ownership of Property x private _buildings _structures Name of related multiple property listing: 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 Signature of certifying official Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: /entered in the National Register. Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) _ Signature of the Keeper 44109 035 site vicinity district public-local public-Federal NATIONAL public-State REGISTER object Registration Form RECEIVED National Register. Total See continuation sheet.

Ohio Noncontributing Number of contributing resources previously historic name Cleveland Date state other names/site number Number of Resources within Property National Park Service State or Federal agency and bureau National Register of Historic Places This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.See instructions in Guidelines removed from the National Register. not for publication National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. determined eligible for the National for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking"x"in the appropriate box or by entering United States Department of the Interior Category of Property (Form 10-900a). Type all entries.

Date of Action NPS Form 10-900 and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets nomination LJrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the 6. Function or Use RECREATION & CULTURE/museum 7. Description foundation _ other - Describe present and historic physical appearance. Street, a major street in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. story bay window on the house's south side, which is more characteristic of Olney Gallery was built in 1893 at a cost of $20,000. The Roman brick story windows have been glass blocked, but the window openings have not been stone asphalt brick Renaissance walls Colonial Revival ornamentation remains intact.

Architectural Classification aluminum siding (enter categories from instructions) Ionic capitals.The house's south side has two small round arched second Materials (enter categories from instructions) first story porch with paired Ionic columns.Porch ornamentation includes The Olney Residence and Gallery are two buildings connected by a passageway story Classical inset with fluted colonettes.While the house's facade gives SOCIAL/civic Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) the appearance of the Colonial Revival style, evidence of an older house is has a projecting center bay with a double door entrance, second story Although this house has been aluminum sided, the house's original modillioned and dentilled cornice is supported by slender fluted columns with Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) apparent to the rear.Evidence that the house predates its present appearance story 20' wide and 30' deep projection to the rear.This symmetrical house bead molding, and the use of the egg and dart motif.The building's first include a stone foundation, long narrow two over two windows, and the two DOMESTIC/single dwelling elements include a dentilled and modillioned cornice.The full porch with XX See continuation sheet Palladian window, and topped by a gable roofed dormer.

Colonial Revival style was built in 1893. Both buildings are set back behind a cast iron fence, and are major contributions to the historic residential character of West 14th roof exterior walls are relieved by dressed stone ornament.There is a projecting story windows, with stained glass in the transoms.There is also a first stone plaques with representations from mythology and of a variety of angels. located on W.14th Street south of downtown Cleveland.The residence was The house is connected by a passageway with Roman brick walls to the Olney altered.The tiled porch floor has a representation of anartist's pallet, built c.1870,and renovated c.1895.The Second Renaissance Revival style Gallery Gallery.Set back 50'from the street,the gallery hasa 35'wide facade with The two and a half story Colonial Revival style Olney Residence is set back NPS Form 10-800-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Olney, Charles, House and Gallery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Section number . exhibit space, both of which are devoid of ornamentation. Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service United States Department of the Interior capped chimneys with bead molding rise above the roof line.In 193l a two of $9,0o0.The interior of the Gallery includes an auditorium and the former story yellow brick addition was added to the rear of the building ata cost 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

]nationally -locally Community planning/development Significant Person Charles F. Olney State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. industrialist, Lamson was an important figure in Cleveland's industrial Augustus Dickerman in Mt. Carmel, Connecticut for the manufacture of bolts. Cleveland in 1869 to be closer to raw materials and located on Scranton Avenue to live in the house. In 1887 she was remarried to Professor Charles O1ney of 200 oil and water color paintings, statuary, and porcelains. O1ney's collection, along with Charles Brush's and W. J. White's, was considered one *See continuation sheet 1899 1919-1938 1887-1907 1893 Architecture Art Architect/Builder Significant Dates the growth of the Tremont neighborhood.

Applicable National Register Criteria The Olney Gallery is architecturally significant within the Tremont Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) After Thomas Lamson's death in 1882,his widow Abbie Lamson Bradley continued in Cleveland's industrial valley.A large number of the company's Connecticut Ethnic Heritage - European (now West 14th Street).At this time the Tremont neighborhood was the home to Period of Significance Coburn and Barnum (gallery) exhibited at the Olney Gallery included Michael Muhkassy's"Christ Before avid devotee of art and music.olney built a gallery, which was open to the Cultural Affiliation Pilate","The Last Moments of Mozart",and Gerome's "Crucifixion"and "The LAstatewide Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Cleveland's art community, ethnic history, and association with Charles 01ney. and Thomas' younger brother Isaac.

The Lamson-Sessions Company moved to Famous paintings of the finest in Cleveland.Neither Brush nor White maintained separate people living along Jennings Avenue.Olney was a teacher that had become an New York City.The couple took up residence in the house on Jennings Avenue The Olney Residence and Gallery are significant because of their role in public, that was connected by passageway to the house.Important in the early neighborhood as a representation of the Second Renaissance Revival style.

growth.In 1866 Thomas Lamson had formed a partnership with John Holt and Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: history of Cleveland's art community, the gallery was opened in 1893 with over From 1870 to 1882 the 0lney Residence was the home of Thomas Lamson.An King of Desert".Upon 0lney's death in 1907,the art collection was donated Holt's and Dickerman's interests were late bought out by Samuel W.Sessions galleries nor had the notoriety of Olney's collection. to Oberlin College,0berlin,0hio.At about the same time as the gallery's NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service O1ney, Charles, House and Gallery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio Cleveland.

Olney supported the Cleveland Architectural Club, an organization public buildings for Cleveland was a much talked about issue, the federal, at the Chicago Exposition, the club arranged a competition in March in which Charles F. O1ney, one of the judges, became an enthusiastic supporter of the Commerce, and introduced to that body in January, 1899, a resolution providing of a number of ethnic groups, including Greeks, Russians, Polish, and the headquarters of fraternal, athletic, and educational organizations, and the Gothic Romanesque style George Howe house, built in 1894 and Case-Western Ukrainian-American Youth Center.

Continuation Sheet feature is the projecting first story porch with paired Ionic columns.The National Register of Historic Places gallery was designed by the noted local architectural firm of Coburn and members competed to produce a grouping of Cleveland's public buildings. Olney was active in late 19th century civic affairs and organizations in was used for church services before the completion of St. Vladimir's Ukrainian of junior architects, draftsmen, and artists which formed in 1894.Proposed by the Ukrainian American Center until 1969 when it was sold to the of all the Ukrainian cultural and social 1ife in Cleveland.The complex was isa good local example of the Second Renaissance Revival style.The Roman Reserve University's Guilford Cottage (NR 1974) built in 1892. Section number - associated with O1ney in Cleveland.

The Olney Gallery and Residence were located in Cleveland's Tremont The 01ney Gallery, built in 1893, and connected by a passageway to the house Page residence and gallery complex.The Ukrainian American Center was the center interest citizenship in the Group Plan advantages. county, and city governments each planning to erect monumental structures to brick exterior walls are accentuated by dressed stone ornament.A significant brought to Cleveland, and a vigorous program was launched by the club to In business between 1878 and 1897 the firm was noted for design for Group Plan idea. Olney was also a leading member of the Cleveland Chamber of (8-86) 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Cuyahoga County Commissioners, 1981) Company, Cleveland Public Library - History Department Vertical File Rose, William Ganson. Cleveland, The Making of a City. Cleveland: The World Publishing Co. 1950. -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: * State historic preservation office recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Record # 10. Geographical Data Acreage of property Verbal Boundary Description Permanent Parcel #004-12-036, City of Cleveland 11.

Form Prepared By organization Cleveland Landmarks Commission street & number 601 Lakeside Ave., Room 519 Easting Northing Other Zone state Local government University less than one Boundary Justification Federal agency UTM References Ohio See continuation sheet Specify repository: The boundary includes the entire city lot that has historically been associated Other State agency Cleveland City Directories previously listed in the National Register with the property. designated a National Historic Landmark has been requested previously determined eligible by the National Register recorded by Historic American Engineering Previous documentation on file (NPS): City of Cleveland Building Permits Cuyahoga County Archives, Photographs from the Collection Board of 4 4,23,0,0 _ date December 22, 1986 Cimperman, John D.

Cleveland Landmarks Files (n.p., n.d.) Preservation Planner NPS Form10-900- OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 88000633 Cuyahoga Section number DISTRIBUTION: Page State County Continuation Sheet Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) Property Name Date Listed:6/6/88 National Register property file in the nomination documentation. This property is listed in the National Register of Historic United States Department of the Interior Multiple Name National Park Service National Register of Historic Places The nomination form selects Art and Ethnic Heritage as areas of Charles Olney House and Gallery Signature of the Keeper Date of'Action Edwards of the OH SHPO agrees with this change on 6/6/88.

notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included Amended Items in Nomination: Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Olney, Charles, House and Gallery APR 25 1988 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: _ _ RETURN nomination by person or local government REJECT - owner objection -appeal L sample -request IV NR decision Reviewer's comments: -see continuation sheet 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 -excellent J deteriorated - original site Category moved Ownership completeness Status Accessible Date unexposed resubmission Condition fair unaltered ruins Action: clarity Cuyahoga County boundary selection SLR alterations/integrity Federal Agency: 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 88000433 summary paragraph Present Use Substantive Review Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Working No. Public Acquisition Discipline Has this property been determined eligible? Check one yes Recom./Criteria good Wistovicr 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) J summary paragraph J applicable criteria relating significance to the resource J justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name 11.

Form Prepared By _local - Date - Questions concerning this nomination may.be directed to _ - Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet context Signed Builder/Architect Period completeness national Maps clarity state UTM References Photographs Verbal boundary description and justification State Historic Preservation Officer signature The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: justification of areas checked 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification relationship of integrity to significance Specific dates title HOlney Residence and Olney Gallery Photographer: Warner Thomas July 30, 1986 #1 of 4 Looking southeast Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Negative on file at Photography Department Olney Gallery, 2241 West 14th Street *Olney Residence and Olney Gallery Olney Gallery, 2241 West 14th Street (rear) Photographer: Warner Thomas July 30, 1986 #2 of 4 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Looking northwest Negative on file at Photography Department July 30, 1986 Looking northeast Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Warner Thomas Negative on file at Photography Department -Olney Residence, 2255 West 14th St.

Olney Residence and Olney Gallery July 30, 1986 Negative on file at Photography Department Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Photographer: Warner Thomas Olney Residence and Olney Gallery Olney Residence, 2255 West 14th St. #4 of 4 Looking Southwest OHIO-CUYAHOGA CO CLEVELAND SOUTH QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) CLEVELAND SOUTH, OHIO UNITED STATES Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 April 20, 1988 Ms. Carol Shul1, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Olney, Charles, House and Gallery W. Ray Luce WRL: bp SOCIETY County Enclosures Cuyahoga 614/297-2470 Sincerely, HISTORICAL New Submissions State Historic Preservation Officer Department of the Interior notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.

East 89th Street Historic District National Park Service Dear Carol: Enclosed are 3new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate SINCE 1885 Please contact me if you have any questions. APP 2 5 1938 Notre Dame Academy