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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service FEB 1 3 1991 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property historic name other names/site number 2. Location street & number 1465 Chester Avenue not for publication city, town zip code 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property X private X building(s) 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 ofHistoric Places and meets the procedural 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 5. NationalPark Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Gentered in the National Register. Ldetermined eligible for the National determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) Signature of the Keeper 035 Date public-local site vicinity structure REGISTER district Total object public-State Registration Form NATIONAL state National Register. Noncontributing Greyhound Bus Station Cleveland Ohio public-Federal National Register of Historic Places 302 (Rev. 8-86) Number of Resources within Property Number of contributing resources previously See continuation sheet. Date of Action for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16).
Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box orby entering the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, Register. See continuation sheet. and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets 2-5-91 nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) TRANSPORTATION: road-related (vehicular) COMMERCIAL: restaurant 7.
Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) foundation - Moderne: Streamlined Moderne Concrete, Block Concrete with Composition Roof other _ Aluminum, Steel Describe present and historic physical appearance. Situated on the north side of a downtown business street, 1465 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, Is the Greyhound Bus Station, a free standing "island" structure of irregular shape with a frontage of 250 feet and a depth of 150 feet. The bullding is constructed of Is comprised of fireproof plaster walls, soundproof celling tiles, and terrazzo flooring. There Is a cantilevered marque over the main entrance to the terminal which extends to the bullding is banded with black terra-cotta which runs the length of the front of the access to the vestibule and ticket lobby.
To the left of the entrance, a restaurant ends, the second story presents a counter point with a rounded corner on the right side and a squared corner on the left side. Centered over the entrance and to the right of the of the sign tower, glass block windows extend to each end of the second story and wrap the entrance to the bus station. / tower to the right extremity of the marque. It reflects thehorizontal window style of the second story with glass block windows running from the right side of the sign tower to the Concrete walls Architectural Classification commercial use which originally housed a Gray's Drug Store. around the corner. These windows.feature four evenly spaced horizontal aluminum moldings occupies one wing of the building,and to the right there is similar accommodation for roof level and is topped by the Greyhound corporate symbol, a racing greyhound.
The interior one to four floors which, if constructed, would house additional office space. right of the sign tower forming a large "L" shaped accent. The edge of the marque-tower The color of the marque is a pale rose. A portion of the bullding facade on each side of level portion of the buliding. While the street level portion has rounded corners at both sign tower are three large rectangular window panels. The window Iine of the second floor The third floor is centered above the main entrance and runs from just left of the sign tower is square in harmony with the second floor level. building.Beneath the marque there are seven standard sized doors giving passengers which run.the length of the windows.and wrap around each corner. The center window panels NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Greyhound Bus Station, Cieveland, Ohio, Cuyahoga County Docking for buses is provided to the sides and rear of the terminal lobby and it is executed in a sawtooth style to facilitate bus access and withdrawal. The boarding The entire area on the sides and at the rear of the building is paved with asphalt. The commercial steam heating company that serves other downtown buildings. The lobby area is totally open and unobstructed. The ceiling rises to the top of the ticket counters are on the side directly opposite the main entrance, and face the The third floor is not accessable to the public. Access to the bus docking area is The lobby area runs the entire length of the building.
The Greyhound Bus Station is operating today as a Greyhound/Trailways Terminal and has been continuously used as a who executed murals for the luxury liner America of the United States Lines. This has was nine feet high by thirty feet long and illuminated by special lighting. The original lighting was added along the front of the building just above the marque level with three preparer's knowledge, these are the only noticeable alterations to the building as originally bullt. left of the property is a ground level parking lot and to the right, another ground level National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet second story level and the entire area is bathed in direct and indirect lighting. The of the United States with symbolic sketches of tourist attractions across the nation.It Section number - Page - ground area along the front of the building is all concrete sidewalk.
The root of the and over the entrance area is a gracefully curved balcony faced with oak veneer which is served by a semi-enclosed staircase rising on each side of the balcony from the lobby Greyhound Terminal since it opened March 31, 1946. When Greyhound opened the Cleveland terminal it contained some features it does not now the ticket counters was a giant travel mural by Glenn Shaw, a prominent Cleveland artist lobby furniture has been removed. The sound-proof ceiling remains intact, but the spotlight lighting has been replaced by suspended florescence lights. On the exterior, greyhound on the top of the sign tower was added subsequent to its opening. Sidewalk lights to the left of the tower and four to the right of the marque. To the best of the neighborhood. The building was designed to be an "island" structure, free and isolated side of the building.
A row of commercial bulldings that stood across from the station on covered by a canopy supported by steel beams.The docking area can accommodate 21 buses. the name "Greyhound" has been replaced on the sign tower by the word "Bus".The racing parking lot.Avery small one story building is adjacent tothe property line on the left features echoing those on the front of the building.The entire bus boarding area is building is composition and hot tar over a flat base.Heating is by steam furnished bya NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number 7 1946, and is now a residential building, and a multi-story residential/commercial/office construction of the Greyhound Terminal, and many others.
Page Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior National Park Service maintained an office.It was in this office that he designed and directed the area include a large 1920s building that was the Allerton Hotel when the station opened in downtown Cleveland in which the terminal's architect, William Strudwick Arrasmith, (8-86) Chester Avenue were razed and a multi-level parking lot constructed on the land.There complex.The first street south of the station contains the Play House Square district of 8. Statement of Significance