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Decorative drawing: a civic town hall with a clock tower and a portico. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Quad Hall

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,753 words across 16 pages, filed in 1988. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 88000642, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service APR 25 1988 Register. L and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property Location street & number 7500 Euclid Avenue NKA not for publication city, town NKA vicinity 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property X private X building(s) 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 the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official 5.

National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) Signature of the Keeper 44103 035 Noncontributing site public-Federal state public-local district public-State NATIONAL object Total structure RECEIVED Cleveland other names/site number Registration Form removed from the National Register. entered in the National Register. Date historic name Ohio See continuation sheet. Signature of commenting or other official determined eligible for the National Number of contributing resources previously National Register of Historic Places State or Federal agency and bureau Number of Resources within Property National Register. Name of related multiple property listing: zip code Date of Action Quad Hall This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.

See instructions in Guidelines Register. See continuation sheet. for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box orby entering In my opinion, the property meets county Cuyahoga 6. Function or Use Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling 7. Description foundation - . Late Gothic Revival The Describe present and historic physical appearance. commercial building made of brick, cast stone, and pre-cast concrete. It features a highly decorated facade with Gothic enrichment, containing the original retail storefront space and common upper floor spaces, a simple, While the long rear section features few decorative elements, the street 1evel.

Among the Gothic details on the facade are a battlement with tracery openings, pronounced piers rising from the storefronts through the facade and X See continuation sheet concrete roof themes.

asphalt brick walls cast stone hung windows and several large parking garage/loading doors at the ground ranks of windows each; the top score round-arched windows with corbelled molds unenriched central section which houses the original residential spaces, and central element contains several utilitarian five story features covering of an intricate basket weave design in cast concrete with dentilling between rear section consists of unadorned brick punctured by regularly spaced double Architectural Classification pre-cast concrete flat roof shows evidence of expandability through covered steel beams Materials (enter categories from instructions) terminating in pointed spires, and various moldings and spires surrounding the that extend through the deck surface.

and six-part vertical glazing suggest Gothic tracery.The window panels are Quad Hall is a four story polychromatic Late Gothic Revival residential and facade is distinguished by its elaborate Late Gothic Revival details.The COMMERCE/TRADE/restaurant (enter categories from instructions) Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) an attached, two story industrial structure "Quad garage") of an earlier VACANT/not in use COMMERCE/TRADE/specialty store mechanical systems. Originally planned to be eight stories, the building's More elaborate arch-and-foliation patterning is at the main entrance.This section contains three full-height window bays with three floors two and three. OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Quad Hall, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio Section number - _ Page - molded archivolts surmounted by cinquefoil enrichment, and the Gothic-lettered north facade's themes -- the west with four indented brick ribbings, and the structures like those on either side of Quad Hall, dating from the 1940s and by vacant property, the result of the wholesale demolition of remaining residential and commercial material, the structure stands just west of the the University Circle cultural center. To the west, a city sponsored Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places a state financed workman's compensation/rehabilitation facility that borders multi-lighted windows throughout and garage doors. structures from Euclid Avenue's mid-past.

building abutting the Quad Hall structure to the south contains large east with two, puncturing a continuation of the north story feature in the The structure stands at 75th Street and Euclid Avenue, once the premiere United States Department of the Interior National Park Service residential street of Cleveland, now considerably altered first by the industrial park (an area called the"Mid-Town Corridor")gives further (ca.1915-1950),and then by the subsequent infill of single story commercial NPS Form 10-900-a rehabilitated upper-Euclid area with its mammoth Cleveland Clinic complex, and These themes are repeated on the first story, which is covered with cast stone form of a single, pre-cast stone belt course.The two story industrial facing recalling smooth ashlar, punctated by corbelled adornments featuring storefront windows (which are currently covered with plywood) are arched with shields, trefoils and quatrefoils, and foliated decoration.The three legend,"Quad Hall."The front east and west sections continue some of the (8-86) Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Xlocally: 1C1 Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance State significance ofproperty, and justify criteria,criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Schneider, the four story brick residential and commercial building features Architectural historian Eric Johannesen, the building's architect was "one of Cleveland's most brilliant eclectics." (1) Trained under other Cleveland and the Shaker Heights City Hall, key features of the Shaker Village Plan, the America." (2) Architecturally, the four bay facade of Quad Hall is made asymmetrical by a Lx See continuation sheet 1924-25 doors.

Architecture Architect/Builder right bay entrance tower with a particularly richly ornamented arched entrance Significant Person Significant Dates Charles S.

Schneider Cultural Affiliation parapet and terminate above in a lancet-like motif;narrower smaller scale ribbed pinnacles, an open tracery parapet, and a richly molded and textured Applicable National Register Criteria building extends from behind the facade and terminates at an industrial Revival of his own residence and F.A.Seiberling's Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, architects of a slightly earlier generation, partners Frank Mead and Abram vertical light transoms are contained in the other three bays, and are divided reflected in the careful stateliness of his preferred forms --the Tudor and the Georgian Revival symmetry of many of the residences he designed in the contains numerous windows (to the residential area) and several large garage Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) structure of an earlier vintage. The middle section is unadorned, but pinnacles separate windows within each bay.

The long, middle section of the pinnacles between the bays.The pinnacles soar through the open tracery According to Cleveland Van Sweringen's Shaker Heights.This form was perfected in Plymouth Church Three arched storefronts with tall, wall surface to characterize its Gothic Revival style. Garfield, Schneider's later training at the famed L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts was by cast stone piers rising through the second floor.T of pre-cast concrete and cast stone. former an instance of the "Wren-Gibbs type of London church transplanted to the facade have 3/3windows (arched on the third floor) which are separated The top three floors of 9.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Johannesen, Eric. Cleveland Architecture: 1876-1976 (Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Soceity, 1979) Pamplet, 1924 Scott, Jane, "Leo's Casino to live in Statler." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 3, 1983, "Quad Hall to house newest nightclub." Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 8, 1963. Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: X State historic preservation office previously determined eligible by the National Register Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 10. Geographical Data Permanent parcel #118-16-1, City of Cleveland 11. Form Prepared By name/title - Mary L. Reeb, Ph. D. organization .

(216) 932-9794 city or town - state - Northing date Zone Easting Other Local government telephone Cleveland Heights University Verbal Boundary Description See continuation sheet Ohio Other State agency previously listed in the National Register January 1987 UTM References Historic Preservation Consultant Specify repository: Acreage of property designated a National Historic Landmark Federal agency has been requested recorded by Historic American Buildings Boundary Justification A Selection of Photographs Illustrating the Work of Charles S.Schneider, et.al. with the property. page 42. street & number_ zip code 44118 Less than one acre. 2560 Stratford Road This boundary includes the entire city lot that has historically been associated [4|46|880] 1451941780| NPS Form10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Quad Hall, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio Stockbridge Apartment at 40th and Euclid, NR 1985), from the beginning Quad decade, the neighborhood had changed both economically and demographically and by the late 1950's, it had become largely commercial with its neighborhood In 1963, Leo Frank and Jules Berger took over the first floor from a local repertory theatre, Dohama, to transform it into "Leo's Casino," a jazz entertainment. In the ten years it operated at Quad Hall, the finest jazz and Little Richard, made it a point to stop by for a drink when they were in town. (4) The neighborhood and the building have since fallen on harder times. broken; the interior has been vandalized. However, the building remains National Register of Historic Places Page Continuation Sheet Section number recreations of historic themes in American domestic architecture. being predominantly black.

became, perhaps because of the Crash and the Depression which so closely Quad Hall's storefront windows are boarded, and its apartment windows are National Park Service historic style reference books in preparing some of the most polished market was intended to be--workers or the well-to-do.Unlike the few United States Department of the Interior which had private baths, there is scant evidence of a central dining room nightclub replacing another so named which had burned down.The convergence barber shop, and several generations of bars and restaurants, as well as a The building's design and placement in history are somewhat confusing.

Containing some 125 individual rooms, none of which had kitchens and few of the Drummond-Miller Company who operated it briefly until it was taken over Schneider specialized in early 20th century period revival architecture, most c.1925 and managed by the Ancaster Company asa"club residence for men." Schneider's work in the Late Gothic Revival style of Quad Hall reflects his Casino closed in 1972 and the building has been vacant since the late 1970s.

America."(3)Leo's Casino rivaled Boston's reknowned Storyville and New 1uxury apartment buildings for the wealthy on Euclid Avenue of a jazz emporium and the black neighborhood produced what one of its Thus, the building resembled the hotel for transients it soon however, by 1931 it had become a transient hotel surrounded by boarding houses headliners, Dick Gregory, called "the most fully integrated nightclub in Quad Hall is a departure from his own tradition for Schneider. While Hall contained commercial space on its first floor, including a grocery, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Nancy Wilson. Others, like Bill Cosby performers in America appeared there:Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing for residents.

with furnished rooms and much unoccupied apartment space.By the end of that of his works were in the Tudor Revival and Georgian Revival styles.Charles versatility as well as his ability to manipulate styles from the past as did other eclectics of his generation who consulted large personal libraries of The building was intended to be a residential hotel, and was so designed for York's Village Vanguard in its reputation as a showcase for jazz followed on its construction.Equally unclear is just who the building's OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 Quad Hall, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, Ohio sound, with its elegant Gothic exterior intact, giving promise of a potential and collegiate architecture, Cleveland has fewer examples of the Late Gothic Revival style used in commercial architecture, particularly to the degree of numerous spires, but has an unadorned mid-section and completely altered Cornel1 Road near East. 115 Street, more Jacobethan in influence and less detailed in ornament; and the Notre Dame Academy at 11325 Ansel Road, a (1) Johanessen, Eric, Cleveland Architecture: 1876-1976, (Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1979) p. 169. (2) Ibid, p.169. (3) Scott, Jane, "Leo's Casino to Live in Statler," Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 3, 1983, p. 42. September 8, 1963. in emphasis. Continuation Sheet architect Charles Schneider.

National Register of Historic Places mixed-use commercial-residential building designed by noted Cleveland designed by Cram/Ferguson/Robinson;the Fayne Apartment Building at 2085 the Late Gothic Revival style but differs in detailing.The building features National Park Service Quad Hall remains a good example of Late Gothic Revival architecture used in a United States Department of the Interior area include the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church,1909-11,at 11205 Euclid, a high pitched roof and cornice line enlivened with steep pediments and built c.1926,is also in the inner city east section of Cleveland and is in (4) "Quad Hall to House Newest Nightclub,"Cleveland Plain Dealer, NPS Form 10-900-4 Section number _ storefronts.

Other Late Gothic Revival, but non-commercial, buildings in this Collegiate Gothic building of red brick with limestone details, less vertical Page revitalization.While the Late Gothic Revival style was popular for religious detailing in Quad Hall.The Euclid Studio Building Euclid Avenue), (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 APR 25 1988 Fed. Reg. Date: Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: - -appeal -sample Jrequest Reviewer - Discipline _ - 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 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 7.

Description -excellent J unaltered -original site -moved Category ruins Status Ownership Condition REJECT completeness unexposed deteriorated dates Cuyahoga County Recom./Criteria RETURN clarity fair alterations/integrity resubmission Working No. Substantive Review: Accessible Public Acquisition summary paragraph NR decision Present Use Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance owner objection Reviewer's comments: Has this property been determined eligible? boundary selection yes Check one Quad Hill ACCEPT good 88000642 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below relating significance to the resource Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 11.

Form Prepared By _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature J Maps Questions concerning this nomination may.be directed to - - Date - GPO 918-450 Builder/Architect context Signed completeness Period state title national applicable criteria Phone UTM References clarity Specific dates Photographs relationship of integrity to significance Verbal boundary description and justification justification of exception The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: Quadrangle name summary paragraph 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification justification of areas checked Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH Photo: Terry Harper; October, 1986 Facade; looking South 7500 Euclid Avenue Quad Hall Suite 9, Cleveland, OIl 44106 Neg:Deluxe Management, 2033 Cornel1 Road, DELICATESSEN Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH Photo: Terry Harper; October 1986 Facade and east elevation; looking S 7500 Euclid Avenue Quad Hall Neg: Deluxe Management, 2033 Cornell Road, Suite 9,C1eve1and,OH44106 ELB CORP DBA DISCOUNT AUTOM OXFORD.MOTOR SALES 7402 EUCLID -A COMPLETE MOTOR TRAISMIS Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH Photo: Terry Ilarper; October 1936 Suite 9, Cleveland, OH 44106 Front part of west elevation; looking East 7500 Euclid Avenue Neg: Deluxe Management, 2033 Cornell Road, Quad iall Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Suite 9, Cleveland, Ohio 44196 East elevation toward rear; looing Nest 7500 Euclid Avenue Quad Hall Photo: Terry Harper: October, 1936 Neg: Deluxe Ilanagement, 2033 Cornell Load, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Dhio Photo: Terry Harper; October 1936 Neg: Deluxe Management, 2033 Cornell Road, Front part of east elevation; looking South 7500 Euclid Avenue Quad Hiall Suite 44106 CLEVELAND NORTH QUADRANGLE CLEVELAND NORTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO_CUYAHOGA COl N: 4594780 UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus.

Ohio 43211 April 21, 1988 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Merryman, Dr. James, House . W. Ray Luce APR 2 5 1988 Montgomery Enclosures SOCIETY County Sincerely, Cuyahoga Stark HISTORICAL New Submissions Franklin National Park Service Hilliard Methodist Episcopal Church Hyman Schriber Building Enclosed are 6 new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate 614/297-2470 Frances Building Department of the Interior Ohio Historic Preservation Office Dear Carol: WRL:bp:dh Please contact me if you have any questions. Quad Hall Odd Fellows Hall State Historic Preservation Officer notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.