Nomination for Rose Hill and Community House

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NPS Form 10.900 RECEIVED 4T3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 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 other names/site number 2. Location street & number not for publication city, town N/AJ vicinity zip code 44141 3. Classification Ownership of Property J private X building(s) Structures _objects 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 State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5.

National Park Service Certification 1, hefeby, certify that this property is: Mentered in the National Register. J See continuation sheet. determined eligible for the National determined not eligible for the other, (explain:) - 035 code Noncontributing Date 3-28-94 district public-Federal Registration Form Total public-State site state National Register. Ohio National Register of Historic Places public-local Category of Property historic name Bay Village Cahoon Road at Lake Road Rose Hill and Community House Number of contributing resources previously Number of Resources within Property National Register of HistoricPlaces and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in36 CFR Part 60. removed from the National Register. Date of Action Signature of certifying official Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- SHPO Register. See continuation sheet. the requested information.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials. X nomination Jrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the In my opinion, the property Jdoes not meet the National Register criteria. L APR APR41994 Entered in the INTER 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) 7. Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) Describe present and historic physical appearance. Cahoon Creek valley to the east. They are located in Cahoon Park, created from the historic Cahoon remodeled fifty-seven years ago into a community center, and a small stone smoke house that was moved to this site about twenty years ago. It is a non-contributing resource.

dating from 1818, is of mortise and tenon construction, with exposed log beams visible in the basement. south wing, west porch and front gable have Gothic Revival influence and the east wing and front porch are Colonial Revival. The exterior of the building is covered with horizontal siding, flush tongue-and- groove in the areas covered by porches, and clapboards elsewhere. The building is crowned by an roof to form a steep gothic dormer in front containing a single window. The roof, formerly wood shingle, Apparently original multi-paned sash were replaced over the years. On the front, or north side, is a central main entrance. The west porch features two doors, one leading to the north into the original the basement has a walk-out entrance on the east wing. section to the south end of the building.

Both porches have flat roofs and the west porch has a trellis built [X See continuation sheet Education/Library other Architectural Classification asphalt walls into its overhanging roof. Government/Fire Station Recreation and Culture/Museum Domestic/Single Dwelling Colonial Revival No Style Social/Meeting Hall intersecting gable roof that extends down over the second floor such that full-size windows are present Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) supported by delicate Gothic-inspired wood columns and extends back from the south end of the original single-pane double-hung windows.A central corbeled brick chimney is the tallest feature of the building. Windows are symmetrically placed on the exterior of the building and are generally two-over-two.

(enter categories from instructions) The additions are all of balloon frame construction.The building's original portion is vernacular, the shaped configuration.This reflects the building's history as a very simple small rectangular building to family farmstead and occupy open grounds at the southeast corner of Cahoon and Lake roads.Lake Erie section and the other east into the south wing. The south wing has entrances on its first and second floors, The nominated property consists of three buildings that occupy a park-like setting overlooking wooded which southern and eastern wings are added.It rests on a foundation largely composed of irregular pieces of sandstone.The newer eastern section has a rock-faced cement block foundation. The earliest portion, only on the gabled portions of the upper floor.

The south wing extends through the ridgeline of the main is about a thousand feet to the north and is visible from the upper levels of these buildings.These The large front or north porch is supported by square wood posts and is about ten feet deep and extends foundation _ Rose Hill is a two-story frame residential building approximately forty by sixty feet in size with a T- is now covered in asphalt shingles. The south roof has two fairly large shed dormers that contain pairs of buildings consist of a frame-residence,Rose Hill, now used as a museum; a former barn extensively almost across the entire north elevation, stopping one bay short at the east end. The western porch is roof sandstone with an open set of steps and small entrance porches providing access.Due to the site sloping to the east, NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No.

1024-00T8 National Register of Historic Places INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION Rose Hill and Community House, Cuyahoga Co., OH Section number _ While most of the building stands on level ground overlooking a fairly steep hillside leading down toward Cahoon Creek, the east wing was built down into this slope. A series of constructed earth terraces provide a fairly level base for this wing at the basement level. Clapboard siding extends down on the eastern and The interior is divided into a series of average size rooms. Entering from the north, a single open room is When the former residence was remodeled into a library years ago, some original interior partitions were southern portion, which is reached via an exterior stairway at the building's south end. The area above the are visible under the original portion. The south wing has a series of storage areas.

form, proportions and many structural features of the 1882 barn. It has an L-shaped plan and rests on a foundation of ashlar sandstone. The site slopes to the south and east, creating a raised basement that is at grade level on these two sides. The building has a wood post and beam structural system remaining from the old barn, to which structural steel columns and trusses have been added. The exterior is faced with clapboard siding accented by wood corner boards, cornices and returns executed in the colonial Revival formerly served the town fire department when the building was converted to community use. Since the windows and the western bay has been converted into an entryway for a senior center now housed in the covered with asphalt shingles. Windows in the building are symmetrically arranged and consist of wood transoms. The east section has simpler windows.

Presently, the windows feature modern aluminum shutters, but old photographs taken after the 1936 renovations do not show shutters. The building is east end of the main section. A narrower chimney is in the east wing. basement. Page Continuation Sheet double-hung six-over-six sash.Those in the main section have six-paned square transoms above and are National Park Service style.This exterior treatment apparently dates from the 1936 renovations.Six south-facing garage bays APR41994 attic space.The lateral eastern section has lower walls and a much lower gable roof. Both roofs are northern portion.The southern portion contains stairways to the basement and the second floor plus partially broken up by a large broad wall containing the central chimney.Old fireplaces here were walled southern elevations of the east wing such that the building appears three stories tall from the creek valley.

louvered.A massive combination chimney and hose drying tower once used by the fire station is at the United States Department of the Interlor largely without alteration.The south wing contains an entrance parlor and a public meeting room in its encountered which features a steep stair with open railing extending up to the second floor. The room is crowned by wood entablatures.Those in the gable ends of the main section have arched louvered RECEIVED 413 The Bay Village Community House was created in 1936from the Cahoon barn and retains the basic over years ago and a wall probably once ran along the line of the chimney to create two separate rooms. 1973 replaced some of these missing partitions and reconstructed the original stairway, which had been ground floor of a 1910 addition that extended the former residence to the east.

It retains its historic form The original portion contains a small hall, storage rooms, a bedroom in its northwest corner and a small removed to create a more open first floor reading room with shelves along its perimeter. A restoration in east parlor is a large bedroom, restored for museum purposes with historic furnishings and decorations. fire department's relocation from the basement twenty years ago, these bays have been infilled with Large gable roofs crown this building. The taller western section has a broad gable roof enclosing a large storage rooms and a kitchen space. The second floor contains an apartment (no longer in use) in its bathroom in its southwest corner.The building has a full basement.

The remains of a cooking fireplace (0-86) NPS Form 10-900-e United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Historic Places (Cuyahoga Co., OH) Section number _ 7 - Page _ the community room on the main level. A major entrance at the east side of the north elevation leads to a east wall and a small stage is set at the southeast corner of the room. East of the community room is a set include a kitchen, office, restrooms and storage rooms. The basement level, formerly the fire department, middle of this space leads up to the central cupola. When the barn was remodeled into the Community House, the basic form of the building and its floor was added at this time.

The exterior was resided and the current windows and doors installed, as the the massive and elaborate central cupola featuring a mansard roof accented by gabled dormers on all four barn seems to have had a lower extension that was on the east end of the present east wing. This was apparently eliminated when the conversion was executed. The third building is a small non-contributing sandstone smokehouse, measuring about ten feet square. It stands between Rose Hill and Community House. While the building is historic, probably dating from the Civil War era, it was not part of the Cahoon farm but was dismantled and moved here within the past twenty years from its former location on Bradley Road. It is a simple building, with an entrance on its building.

Continuation Sheet National Park Service Rose Hill and Community House sides with the present smaller and more delicately proportioned Colonial Revival style cupola.The the north side. The south side had basement-level barn doors.The major change was the replacement of former barn had large barn-type doors and small windows.Its central entrance was a large set of doors on The main entrance is from a stone terrace on the western side of the south elevation.It leads directly into has been completely remodeled into a senior center and features new interior finishes such as a dropped varnished maple and the walls are faced with knotty pine wainscoting.A massive fireplace adorns the massive hewn beams of the 1882 barn but also has a series of triangular steel trusses.A ladder in the massive beams of the original cupola are still present and are used in the structure of the new feature.

The vestibule that opens onto the community room. This large room comprises almost the entire main level of of doors leading to the east wing.This wing contains a central corridor anda series of rooms.These ceiling and paneled walls. The vast attic is reached via a ceiling opening in the vestibule.It displays the north side and an exterior comprised of rough sandstone rectangular blocks. A gabled roof crowns the levels were apparently unchanged. The building's foundations were improved and the sandstone facing Rose Hill and Community House, Cuyahoga Co. OH 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

[x locally Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Architect/Builder Cahoon, Joseph (original house) State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Martha Cahoon and was granddaughter of the township's first settler. She bequeathed intact the 128 acre family farmstead, bordering on Lake Erie and specified that Rose Hill "shall be forever maintained and used as a Library and Museum." At the time of its donation, this gift to the Village of Bay was the largest - preservation of an historic building, and served as a model for later philanthropy in the Cleveland area. conversion of the former Cahoon barn into Community House in 1936, coupled with extensive federally social activities of Bay Village.

The Development of a Metropolitan Park System When Ida Cahoon began to plan for the disposition of her family farmstead around the turn of the century, leader in the development of telegraph lines, donated 75 acres of land around Doan Brook to the city of death in 1892 for use as a park. This was once one of the finest parks in the nation, with beautifully landscaped grounds, but was largely destroyed in 1952 when Lakeland Freeway bisected the grounds Under Cleveland Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who served from 1902-1909, a comprehensive plan for park X See continuation sheet 1917-1943 Social History Significant Person Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Dates Rose Hill and Community House are significant under Criterion A because of their association with the was established to manage the development of park lands.In 1897 John D. and Laura Spelman Cleveland businessman William J.

Gordon donated his 122-acre lakefront estate to Cleveland upon his Gordon Park through to Wade Park and up into the Shake Lakes of Shaker Heights.Washington Park there were few precedents upon which she could call for guidance.Jeptha Wade, Cleveland financier and Cultural Affiliation innovative philanthropy of Ida Maria Cahoon.Miss Cahoon was the last surviving child of Joel and lakefront park in the Cleveland area and was second in size only to Rockefeller Park on Cleveland's east Rockefeller donated what was to become a 270-acre chain of parks stretching along Doan Brook from Certifying official has consideredthe significance of this property in relation to other properties: Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Two years later the city acquired land along Doan Brook to link Wade and Gordon parks and a city board and Woodland Hills Park, each about 100 acres in size, were acquired by 1900.

expansion was developed and the city developed a park system which had reached a size of 2,160 acres by side. It was the first such donation of property to any greater Cleveland community that specified the nationally After the will's acceptance in 19i9,these lands became a focal point for community activities.The Cleveland in 1882,forming the basis for what is now the park around which the city's University Circle assisted development of the park lands greatly augmented the role of these lands as a center of civic and NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Historic Places Rose Hill and Community House, Cuyahoga Co., OH lakefront park in the Cleveland area. Unfortunately, these other parks, developed from former estates, did nearby Dover (later to become Westlake) in 1926.

After his death in 1934 as the last surviving child of pioneer settler Robert Clague, he donated the entire farm to the community. The 1882 Italianate style its more unusual provisions, including the banning of all activities in the park on Sundays. , representative examples of the architecture of their times, Community House being a well preserved example of 1930's Depression-era architecture and Rose Hill retaining its form from its historic period of from 1818. Extensive additions made after 1842 were also essentially vernacular but display the influence of the then prevalent Gothic Revival style. The final addition to Rose Hill, made to commemorate the community's centennial celebration in 1910, is also vernacular, but with Colonial Revival influence. Joseph Cahoon and his wife Lydia Kenyon and their family arrived at this site, Lot 95, October 10, 1810.

Ohio west of the Cuyahoga River. He soon built a sawmill nearby and used it to build the present house in 1818. It produced all the materials except for the moldings, sash and doors, which were all made by Joseph and Lydia and a veteran of the War of 1812. He and his wife, Margaret Allen, whom he married in 1831, returned to the family farmstead in 1842 with their six children. It had been vacant since the death of Joseph Cahoon in 1839. He enlarged the property and the house, which his wife christened Rose Hill. The porches, south wing and front gable were added at this time. They had five more children while they began to reflect on the future of this large lakefront farmstead in what was soon to become a summer resort area for greater Cleveland. Ida Marie Cahoon, the last surviving child of Joel and Margaret, devised a detailed will that ceded the architecture.

Continuation Sheet Neither Rose Hill nor Community House are major architectural landmarks.Instead they are National Park Service usage as a community resource. Rose Hill displays vernacular architecture in its original section, dating into place. Hand-wrought iron strapwork was used to form hinges. Joel B. Cahoon was the third son of acquisitions was the former summer estate of Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist John Huntington. acquainted with Ida Cahoon as they were fairly close neighbors and shared friendships with others in the Dover Township area. The unusually stringent conditions and careful wording of the will of Ida Maria Wade, Gordon and Huntington mansions were all destroyed.

Cahoon died and bequeathed Cahoon Park to Bay Village.One of the new park system's early Clague residence is now a museum operated by the Westlake Historical Society.Walter Clague was property to Bay Village upon her death in 1917.She specifically called for the creation of Cahoon Walter Clague also specified that the historic family residence be preserved when he donated lands to ninety. He was survived by three unmarried daughters and two unmarried sons. After their father's death, He and his sons built a log house northeast of Rose Hill and made preparations for farming. they traded Cahoon have made it legendary in the region. The community is still bound by court judgment to enforce with the Indians for supplies.He erected a grist mill on the property in 1813,one of the first in northern Section number _ 8.

This large tract lies directly west of Cahoon Park and the two facilities combined constitute the largest hand. To conserve nails, which had to be purchased in Pittsburgh, the plaster lath strips were dovetailed 1916. An independent Metropolitan Park Board for Cuyahoga County was established the year Ida at Rose Hill. In 1882 Joel had the large barn erected south of Rose Hill. He died later that year at age Page Community House is a fine and well preserved example of Depression-era Colonial Revival style public United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 1930's the community took advantage of Works Progress Administration funds to develop the area into a community park. In 1936 the Cahoon barn was converted to Community House, and town activities moved to this more spacious location from the old red brick schoolhouse.

The basement of Community became a historical museum. In 1973 the fire department moved out of Community House, leaving it exclusively for social functions. These two buildings are the most prominent built features of Cahoon Memorial Park and serve not only as of Federal and Greek Revival residential architecture that still stand in the community. However, none is pioneer family as does Rose Hill. While Rose Hill has undergone alteration, most notably some interior was the residence of the Cahoon family.

Community House, in contrast to Rose Hill, is the only example of Depression-era public architecture in Colonial Revival style town hall, compromised in 1984 by the insertion of a tall gable roof over the original flat roof and the installation of a pseudo-Colonial clock tower, and Parkview School, built in 1922 did experience alterations and minor additions when the Fire Department moved out of the basement and level is essentially unchanged and no additions of any size have impaired its basic form. Continuation Sheet intrusive replacement windows and extensive additions and other alterations. While Community House House became the town fire department. The library moved out of Rose Hill by 1964 and the building to its state when it was a residence.

The exterior is basically unchanged from the time when Rose Hill restrictive will, whose provisions continue to this day, also provided"that the dwelling house no standing infludences helped Ida Cahoon to develop her innovative philanthropy. Natlonal Register of Historic Places Kirtland and the Samuel Andrews family.The philanthropy of the Andrews family and the Kirtland were one of the three principal families behind the founding of the Cleveland Museum of Art.These Bay Village and is representative of Colonial Revival public buildings of the 1930's.Because of its fairly Rose Hill is not a major architectural landmark of Bay Village, there being more sophisticated examples According to Ida Cahoon's will's provisions Bay Village Council in 1921 established the Bay Public family manifested itself in a number of Cleveland institutions.

Miss Cahoon's neighbors, the Huntingtons, Page _ 2 Rose Hill and Community House, Cuyahoga Co., OH Memorial Park and "that no boating, bathing, games of sports be permitted in said Park or property on on said land and which was built in 1818 shall be forever maintained and used as a Library and Museum". Ida Cahoon had friendships with several prominent Cleveland families, including Jared a social and cultural center for Bay Village but also as a rich legacy passed down from the Cahoon family. from such an early timeframe and none has had the history of public use or longtime association with a changes when it was converted to a library early in this century, it retains its historic form under Cahoon family ownership.

Efforts have been made, beginning with a 1972 restoration, to bring the interior back large size and its placement in a spacious park setting, the building is a highly visible architectural landmark. Other than Community House, the only historic public buildings in Bay village are the 1914 Sunday" and that "no intoxicating liquors" or "gambling of any form shall be permitted". This unusually with its third floor added in 1925. This Neoclassical style building has had its integrity compromised by the former bay doors were infilled with windows and a new entryway created on the west end, its main Library and Museum in the farmhouse.The grounds initially continued to be farmed but during the Section number . Bay Village Historical Society, Bay Village: A Way of Life. 1974, pp. 10-12. 114-116, etc. Van Tassel, David & Grabowski, John, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

Indiana University Press, 1987, pp. 460, 752, 838, 1021, etc. interviews with Gay Menning, local historian, and Mariorie Dwyer and other members of files at the Bay Village Historical Society, including old photographs, etc. _Jpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: X State historic preservation office previously determined eligible by the National Register Jrecorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Other Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # 10.

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

Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description - Beginning at the southeast corner of old Cahoon Road and Lake Road, the boundary moves east 200 feet along Lake Road, then due south 700 feet, then due west 200 feet and due The boundaries include only a portion of Cahoon Memorial Park, formerly the Cahoon family 11. Form Prepared By name/title _ city or town - _state Ohie - zip code 44109 Zone Northing Cleveland date Federal agency September 1993 Boundary Justification farmstead, because other portions of the grounds, also owned by the City of Bay Village, the Bay Village Historical Society without any built features. Steven McQuillin, preservation consultant Local government Zone Easting the Smoke House and Community House. See continuation sheet Other State agency north 7oo feet to the point of beginning.It includes three buildings:Rose Hill, designated a National Historic Landmark S.

Major Bibliographical References previously listed in the National Register has been requested University UTM Reterences Rose Hlill and Community House, Cuyahoga Co., OH organization - street & number 3515 Archwood Avenue telephone (216) 749-3515 Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A Steven McOuillin & Associates UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NOMINATOR: STATE SLR DRAFT: N ACCEPT RECOM.

/ CRITERIA MULTIPLE REJECT DISCIPLINE DATE RETURN 5/05/94 REVIEWER 5/19/94 PERIOD: NAME: OTHER: NATIONAL: PDIL: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: Entered in ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 4/04/94 DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N LESS THAN 5O YEARS: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REQUEST: N DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: COMMENT WAIVER: N PROPERTY National Register SAMPLE: 4/19/94 Rose Hill and Community House DATE OF PENDING LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _sketch maps SIGNIFICANCE DESCRIPTION CLASSIFICATION acreage FUNCTION OTHER presentation current materials count clarity BIBLIOGRAPHY completeness Period Builder/Architect historic descriptive text summary paragraph architectural classification Date Signed boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION Phone relationship of integrity to significance resource type applicable criteria verbal boundary description USGS maps Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relating significance to the resource _photographs Specific dates UTMS Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Statement of Significance one paragraph) context OTHER COMMENTS justification of areas checked Sam MeQuillie Augare 1993 Cyahuga Co.) Rox Ix!

Phod No. 3 Mmsust1993 (Cuyahoga Co.) Photo No. 4 (Cuyahoga Co.) Photo No. 5 RH.S Houn Bau Wilaye (Cuya hoga Co.) (Cuyahoya Co.) 1993 intenbr Community Ausut Houn (Cuya hoga Co.) (Cuya hoga Co.) Augut 1993 Ohib NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RoseHill and NORTH OLMSTED QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 17/422650/4593120 Community 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2546 April 1, 1994 P. O. Box 37127 Washington, DC 20013-7127 Dear Ms. Shull: INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION James Ilill House W.

Ray Luce 614/297-2470 COUNTY enclosures Cuyahoga Sincerely, Middle Sandy Presbyterian Church Rose Hill and Community House National Park Service Columbiana State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historical Center Lorain Station Historic District Archwood Congregational Church Ohio Historic Preservation Office National Register of Historic Places NEW SUBMISSION HISTORICAL If you have questions or comments about these documents, contact this office. been followed for these new submissions. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration SINCE 1885 appropriate notification procedures have APR APR41994