Nomination for Robinson, Byron W., House

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NPS Form 10-800 AUG 19 1991 1. Name of Property Location street & number city, town zip code 44224 Classification X private X building(s) _sites _ objects 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 Park Service Certification I, hereby, certify that this property is: National Regiete Ventered in the National Register. . -see continuation sheet. Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) - code structure district Noncontributing Date public-State public-Federal NATIONAL Akron REGISTER vicinity state Total Registration Form historic name National Register.

National Park Service Number of Resources within Property Number of contributing resources previously National Register of Historic Places other names/site number Ownership of Property not for publication and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions.For additional space use continuation sheets determined eligible for the National State or Federal agency and bureau This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts.See instructions in Guidelines Category of Property 715 East Buchtel Avenue Signature of commenting or other official United States Department of the Interior Signature of certitying official removed from the National Register. Date of Action Name of related multiple property listing: (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. the requested information.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, Robinson, Byron W., Residence public-local Ohio for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking"x"in the appropriate box or by entering National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Cntorod in the 6. Function or Use 7. Description The tiled wood, glass Basically rectangular in plan, the Robinson house was built on a raised brick foundation flat-roofed wing on the west and a one-storey hipped roof wing on the east, flank the main bond pattern, and is side-gabled with parapets capped by stone. A lower, parapet front the house. The roof, with a central cupola, was probably tile when built, but is now and carriage house.

Architectural Classification land. foundation_brick Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) the house. the rest of the house, this room also displays Ionic rather than Corinthian capitals on (enter categories from instructions) capitals, wainscoting, pocket and round-arch doors with carved surrounds and original central entry porch is supported by Ionic brick corner piers with stone Ionic columns in gable rises over the carriage entrance, which has a stone lintel above the original doors. although the dining room was finished in mahogany.The front entry has leaded and beveled Describe present and historic physical appearance.

DOMESTIC/single dwelling roof is set off by stone capped parapets, two massive fluted chimneys on the east end, and Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) sideboard and a heavily beamed ceiling with dentils are found in the dining room; unlike The interior of the Robinson Residence is largely intact.Most of the woodwork is oak, commercialized.However, the house still retains its original setting on 2.3 acres of Materials (enter categories from instructions) hardware, window seats, fireplaces, crown moldings, and molded plaster ceilings and The Byron W.Robinson Residence is a massive 2 storey building, completed in 1906 and divided into smaller rooms (sometime after 1936),has recently been completely restored.

To the rear of the Robinson house is located a large carriage house designed in a Tudor Revival (Jacobethan Revival) COMMERCE/TRADE/specialty store a similar chimney set in from the west end of the house. other - located on the east side of Akron in an area that has subsequently become largely corners.* Flanking the porch are two 2-storey squared bays, which exhibit windows grouped The ornately carved open staircase is set off by three large walls brick stone See continuation sheet roof shingled.A brick wall at the rear of the estate dates to the construction of the residence lintels cornices, and parapets. its fluted pilasters. *A low portico extends across the entire front facade of block of the house.Dominating the rear facade isa large porte-cochere which echoes the 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.

many of the elements that distinguish this style, it still retains a high degree of tile roof, but also on the lower gabled wall dormers, portico, and porte-cochere, as massive chimneys, stone trim, and by the magnificent interior of the house, notably the doors, fluted Corinthian and Ionic pilasters, mosaic tile work, and open staircase with houses of this era were built after the Byron Robinson house, in a variety of English Whitmore, Robinsons & Co., a clay products company & See continuation sheet 1906 Architecture Significant Dates Architect/Builder Significant Person fenestration, with strings of three and five windows, paired windows in the dormers, Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance and tall windows with multipane glazing in the west wing, are additional distinguishing Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: croaching commercialization produced a shift to Akron's west side as the preferred area The Byron W.

Robinson Residence is significant under Criterion C, for architecture, and Colonial Revival styles. houses in this style date from around the turn of the century, and many of them were one of the last two large industrialist residences constructed on the east side. W.Robinson Residence is the only house of this style recorded in the Ohio Historic examples of the various Tudor designs.Parapeted gables with ridge tablets are a prominent feature of the Robinson Residence's design, found not only on the side-gable built 1930),Stan Hywet (N.R.1975),and most of the other architecturally distinctive integrity in its architecture and setting, and it is the only example of the Jacobethan Hopkinson, Charles W.

The Tudor Revival style was "loosely based on a variety of late Medieval English Byron Robinson was born in 1860 and started work at age 17 as a bookkeeper in Cultural Affiliation X locally and on the carriage house, are also typically found on Jacobethan houses. Jacobethan houses are generally rare, and in Akron especially so; to date, the Byron Inventory. In contrast, large numbers of later Tudor houses are documented, nearly all of which are located on the west side of Akron, reflecting the fact that this house was patterned after styles popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods of English by parapeted gables, and this subtype is generally uncommon compared to the later statewide large stained glass windows.

distinctive oak and mahogany woodwork which reflects Renaissance influence in the arched Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) elements of the style.The overall design is further heightened by the use of elaborate nationally Akron, Summit County, Ohio Section number - products. Byron Robinson was again named secretary, and in 1906, the same year he moved into this house, was designated to succeed his uncle, Henry Robinson, as of Jacobethan style architecture, embodying most of the elements that distinguish this exterior and interior integrity, and is apparently the only noteworthy example of this not only in the clay products industry, but also as a bank president, president of the brick wall built at the same time and located at the rear of the estate contribute to the historic integrity of the nominated property. Hall.

Page Continuation Sheet to the architectural significance of the nominatied property.The parapeted gables capped president of the company.He continued in this position until his death two years with stone and the gabled dormers with vergeboard echo major desing elements in the house. 198l, and has now been saved from demolition and restored for use as Akron's Steinway one of the nation's largest manufacturers of vitrified clay sewer pipe and other clay As with many high style residential structures of this time period, the carriage house move into this house until two years before his death;it thus has little direct United States Department of the Interlor association with the majority of his productive life.

National Register of Historlc Places National Park Service Chamber of Commerce, and as a director of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,he did not The large carriage house located in the rear portion of the lot also contributes OMB Approve Na.1024-0018 NPS Form 10-000e founded by the Robinson family in 1856.Robinson was named secretary of the firm when until 1973.It then became the Lone Star Fraternity House, followed by office use in it was incorporated in 1887, but soon thereafter resigned and worked in the local is designed in the same style as the main house.Both the carriage house and the several other companies were combined in 1902 to form Robinson Clay Products 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Urban Development, 1988. Akron and Summit County, by Carl H. Grismer, 1951. Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) [X State historic preservation office Survey # Record # Acreage of property - 11. Form Prepared By organization - June 20, 1991 telephone 216 438-0404 city or town - Can ton state Ohio _ zip code 44702 University Other Northing See continuation sheet recorded by Historic American Buildings Verbal Boundary Description Specify repository: Local government Boundary Justification Ohio Historic Preservation Office UTM References has been requested recorded by Historic American Engineering Ohio Historic Inventory designated a National Historic Landmark 10.

Geographical Data Federal agency Akron Historic Landmarks Survey, prepared by the City of Akron's Dept.of Planning and Primary location of additional data: Other State agency Boundary is based upon historic and legally recorded lot lines. Pahlau, in Progress Through Preservation Newsletter, March 199l. in Plat Book 10,Page 3l in the Summit County Records of Plats. 2.3 acres Zone Easting previously listed in the National Register street &number 209 W. Tuscarawas Street, Rm. 511 Fifty Years and Over: Akron and Summit County, by Samuel A. Lane, Beacon Job Dept., 1891.

Zone previously determined eligible by the National Register Ambrose L.Cotter Farm in Tract 7, made for the heirs of Henry Robinson, as recorded Lots 38in the A11otment of 14:514712:0:01 FLOOR PLAN- CANOPIED AREA OUER FRONT DOOR WINDOW SEAT BOOKCASE MOSE FIREPLACE MAIN STAIRS VF STERS UO FROM DRIVEWAY LEVEL ROEINKON, BYRON W.

RESIDENCE CLOSET LADIES REAR ENTRY FOYER CUPEOARD ROBINSON MANS ACCESS HALL POORs CHUTE: L TO ZND HOOR SJMMIT COUNTY AKRON, OHIO SLIDING LEVEL HALL SUDING CUPBOARD RESTRoom ACCESS HALL MAIN STAIR ROBINSON MANS RND FLOOR PLAN SUMMIT COUNTY HALL CLOSET FIRE FIREPLACE RESTROOm DOWN WINDOW SEAT seevic REAR PARKING AREA ESCAIE LAPIES: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE OTHER : N PDIL: N PERIOD: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : 10/03/91 8/19/91 9/20/91 REJECT DATE RETURN MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE ACCEPT REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA DATE RECEIVED: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: Entered in the DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: National Regleter __count STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _current _descriptive text _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of areas checked _relating significance to the resource _context _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception __other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA -verbal boundary description -presentation FUNCTION materials acreage Builder/Architect DESCRIPTION SIGNIFICANCE Period historic BIBLIOGRAPHY CLASSIFICATION boundary justification Date Phone ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION OTHER COMMENTS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Specific dates _architectural classification Signed Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Statement of Significance one paragraph) _summary paragraph _resource type UTMS photographs _sketch maps USGS maps Phate by U.D.

Brown, Feb. 1991 looking ROBINSON BYRon W., Residence View of rear (north) & west facades, AKRON AKRON Photo Photo by V.D Brown, Feb. 1791 AKRON above the staircase. Akron AKRON EAST QUADRANGLE ROAD CLASSIFICATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO AKRON EAST, OHIO 1.9 1991 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 August 13, 1991 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 Residence of Gerald B. and Robinson, Byron, W. Residence WRL/ jw: dh SOCIETY 614/297-2470 County HISTORICAL Cuyahoga NATIONAL nrohp/trans.rev Fax:297-2411 Enclosures Ohio Historical Center Ohio Historic Preservation Office REGISTER New Submission Please contact me if you have any questions.

Cleveland Discount Building National Register of Historic Places Sincerely, Dear Carol: National Park Service Beverly Tonkens Department of the Interior SINCE 1885 Residence of Gerald B.and Beverly Tonkens nomination is being submitted for document to the NHL office for consideration.All notification procedures Enclosed are National Register nominations.Please note that the have been followed for these new submisslons. toric Preservation Officer Summit Luce OHIO