Nomination for Ira Apartments

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OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property other names/site number Cleo's Apartments 2. Location code 095 3. State/Federal Agency Certification request for NATIONAL PI - statewide X Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OHSHPO 43560 nomination state 868 RECEIVED not for publication N/A zip code information requested. Signature of certifying official properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural REGISTRATION FORM subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items historic name Ira Apartments United States Department of the Interior determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering city or town Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A).

does not meet the National Register Criteria.I recommend City of Toledo National Park Service As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio State or Federal agency and bureau vicinity N/A NPS Form 10-900 See instructions in How to Complete the National documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and as amended, I hereby certify that this locally. ( For functions, architectural See continuation sheet for additional comments.) This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual NATIONAL PARK street & number 1302 Parkside Boulevard Complete each item by marking "x"in the appropriate box or by entering the code OH Lucas County, OH criteria. ( 4.

National Park Service Certification I, hereby certify that this property is: other (explain): 5. Classification _*_ private structure meets site object public-Federal Date public-local Ira Apartments public-State National Register of Action removed from the National Register does not meet the National Register See continuation sheet Signature of Keeper USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form determined not eligible for the entered in the National Register Signature of commenting or other official Category of Property (Check only one box) State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property district _x_building(s) Lucas County, OH a multiple property listing.) 6. Function or Use Sub: multiple dwelling Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: VACANT/NOT IN USE 7.

Description Materials (Enter categories from instructions) foundation STONE: sandstone STONE: slate other WOOD structures sites Total buildings objects DOMESTIC Tudor Revival COMMERCE/TRADE Ira Apartments Number of Resources within Property Sub: Cat: Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National specialty store Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Register N/A LATE 19th AND 2OTH CENTURY REVIVALS/ Noncontributing roof WOOD Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section - The Ira Apartments is a 27,550 square foot, three story 44 suite, Tudor Revival #'s 1,2,5,6), a partially enclosed courtyard, a storefront area (Photo #'s 5,6) residential and commercial architecture (Photo #12). The Ira' s decorative elements external chimney, whereas, the south elevation features a flat roofed parapeted Page Narrative Description gabled wall dormers sits three stories above the primary pedestrian entrances on Ira Apartments name of property building dominates its surroundings at the northeast corner of the intersection length along Dorr St.allows for a more complex arrangement of overlapping gables, Style apartment building with Jacobethan elements.

The building is a somewhat relatively good condition and, although some vandalism has occurred since it was wall dormers and roof dormers on the south facade.An exposed rake is visible elevation features two roof dormers with hip roofs, a hipped roof wall dormer and USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form south facade features two pair of front-facing intersecting #5). National Park Service beneath the eaves providing a Craftsman element to the #3).The the central business district in Toledo, Lucas County, ohio. The property is in skintled brick #3),false half-timbering with stucco infill #2),and of Parkside Boulevard and Dorr Street

246) within two and one half miles of principal facades to the west #l),which is a residential setting (8-86) and two attached parking garages #'s 8,lo).The building has a slate roof vacated and secured in 1994,it has had very little alteration since construction. Parkside Blvd.(Photo #l).The south facade #5) extends l5l feet along Dorr are confined to the west, south and north elevations (Photo #'s 1,4,5,9). The A hipped roof section both the west and south elevations (Photo #'s 1,5).

In addition, the west county and state with intersecting gables and is constructed of concrete block with a veneer of irregular rectangular plan and encompasses two gabled residential entrances (Photo and rounded arch roof dormer flanked by two projecting The west facade, which contains the main entrance to the apartments, #ll),and to the south #5),which is the setting for c.l910-1920 mixed Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 CONTINUATION SHEET Section - Narrative Description (cont'd) vertical, diagonal and cross hatched designs.

Three projecting bays with false Page chimneys are tall with vertically recessed corners and convex sculpted stone cap Ira Apartments rusticated appearance and contributing to the overall Tudor design.A soldier third story are covered primarily with false half-timbering over stucco, combining Windows display decoratively carved wood lintels and sandstone sills.The rounded course sits above the excurvate sandstone water table which tops the massive, five exception of the transom.The original spindlework frieze survives above the random skintled pattern on the first and second stories giving the brick a course, ashlar cut sandstone foundation. The fenestration for the building in sandstone foundation are dual six-light, steel casement with a four-light transom.

United States Department of the Interior county and state National Park Service wall dormer and three roof dormers with hipped roofs.The north end elevation Vacant for much of the building's history, the storefront display window on the providing a Jacobethan element to the design #5).The exterior walls of the residential and commercial buildings in the 2loo block of Dorr Street opposite the USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form foot commercial space appears to be original.The interior has been altered.

The former display area.The double door entrance to the approximately 1i75 square NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES exhibits three uniform bays and a chimney on the gable slope (Photo #9).Both name of property (8-86) (Photo #'s 1,3,9) - decorative terra cotta chimney pots, a chimney iron, and is integrated with the projecting bay to the north of the Parkside entrance.A gabled brick parapet with general includes wood six over six sash on the first, second and third floors. first floor windows supported by multiple, closely spaced, massive wood brackets arch roof dormers have six over six wood sash.

The hipped roof dormers exhibit a Dorr Street facade #6) has been covered with large wood panels with the single wood sash with eight divided lights, although some are missing.The garden mix of architectural styles represented by the one and one half to two story adjacent to the drive to the garage entrance extends a depth of 5o feet and "IRA APARTMENTS" in Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section - Page entryways are characterized by skintled brickwork, a Tudor arch of sculpted Dorr St. entrance, although decorative, is limited to "IRA APTS.". characterized by a single story gabled parapet with stone coping above a soldier original.

The Parkside entrance, the primary pedestrian access to the apartments, the sidewalk.A decorative wood plaque over each entrance announces the Ira county and state To complete discussion of the building exterior, the west facing entrance to the United States Department of the Interior USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form mounted in the brick over the second story window above each of the entrances. The Narrative Description (cont'd) decorative lettering and sports a replica of the stone shield.The plaque over the National Park Service name of property identical slate roofed, gabled #'s 2,6).A sculpted stone shield is Ira #l2)reflects Craftsman and Tudor elements featured on the Ira. (8-86) above the stone water table and rough cut, coursed sandstone foundation.

to the entrance #2),while the south leads directly off Electrical fixtures flanking the entrances do not match and are probably not The first floor apartment entrances on both west and south facades are nearly is reached by a curved, pieced sandstone walkway leading to four sandstone steps The entrance doors on the primary facades are heavy oak with two leaded lights ceramic tile is inset above the garage door. Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Page individual garage doors, also facing Parkside, extends to the north of the brick interior stairway (Photo #15) to the first floor lobby, owing to their function mantle, a tiled hearth and fire box, and tapering breast, is located on the north Section name of property Ira Apartments as the primary entrance to the apartments, have dark oak wainscotting.There is are set with three inch decorative tan colored ceramic tiles of various shadings inset with randomly spaced, smaller pastel tiles with geometric patterns including built during the period of significance.

county and state National Park Service is a sculpted panel reflecting the frieze on the paneling and a sculpted frieze extends to that of the second floor.A four paneled stained glass skylight framed by a Tudor arch and flanking faceted pilasters.Above the fireplace opening Both the Parkside and Dorr St.entrances to the Ira Apartments have vestibules and a medieval motif of a knight-of-the-realm chess piece.The Parkside vestibule and de lis, dolphin, band of rosettes and vase with flowers is placed high on the wall A cinder car garage addition with shingled pent roof overhang and United States Department of the Interior molding.The walls above the paneling have been plastered in such a manner as to attached to the original garage which is part of the apartment building and was Narrative Description (cont'd) of the vestibules and interior stairways to the first floor apartments #l4) USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (8-86) #23), one of the most prominent interior features, is framed by heavy oak molding an interior doorway identical to the exterior doorway #'s 13,26).The floor The lobby is panelled in dark oak to the level of the second floor with a frieze original to the building but was added by 1937.The five bay garage addition is a wood beamed ceiling over the stairway to the lobby #l6).

wall of the lobby (Photo #17)- consisting of a vignette of flowers, leaves, vines and grape clusters (Photo #'s The fireplace opening of the stone mantel is garage entrance. Records indicate that the five car addition may not have been The paneling is separated from the plastered walls above by scrolled give the appearance of having been applied over rough stone walls, contributing of rosettes supporting the mantel top.A painted plaster plaque featuring a fleur to the Tudor style of the building.A gas fireplace with a sculpted sandstone Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Page Narrative Description (cont'd) to the first floor lobby, is supported by six massive two-story, four sided oak Although the first floor lobby and building exterior feature elaborate Although currently boarded, the building is subject to random acts of vandalism Section Ira Apartments CONTINUATION SHEET its original architectural integrity. finial supports a decorative twisted metal stair rail.The pattern of the stair skylights are located in the third floor corridors. The stairway to the six garden apartments is located beneath the stairway to the due to being vacant.Evidence of trespassers can be found throughout the building name of property National Park Service room with a tapering, rounded breast and a decorative plaster shield above a tiled end of the kitchen and the living room.

county and state United States Department of the Interior featuring five efficiency apartments,.35 one bedroom apartments and four two and set in the slightly arched and beamed ceiling.The second floor corridor, open USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Photo #'s 20,2l).A decorative scrolled metal starter newel topped by a brass (8-86) way of an enclosed stairway #21,center leading from the open second architectural detail, the Ira is conservative in its living arrangements, as an amenity. second floor and features a similar railing.The third floor lobby is reached by fixtures have been replaced or removed, but overall, the building retains much of railing is repeated along the second floor gallery between the two story posts. bracketed staircase leads to the second floor along the east wall of the lobby #'s 2l,22).

The original brass sconce lighting fixtures are still somewhat The fireplace (Photo #24) is situated in the corner of the living loosely mounted to the support posts on the first floor #22).An open, Lucas County, OH 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. C a birthplace or a grave. a cemetery. a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. Period of Significance 1929-1946 Significant Dates 1929 Davis, Sam past. COMMERCE ARCHITECTURE Property is associated with events that have made a significant Cultural Affiliation removed from its original location. contribution to the broad patterns of our history. distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form in prehistory or history.

less than 5o years of age or achieved significance within the past Ira Apartments or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Areas of Significance categories from instructions) 50 years. Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our Applicable National Register "x"in one or more boxes for the Lucas County, OH 9.

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Major Bibliographical References Previous documentation on file (NPS) - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been Other 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property less than one Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a University sheet.) recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey requested. Ira Apartments Local government Federal agency previously listed in the National Register See continuation sheet.

designated a National Historic Landmark State Historic Preservation Office Other State agency Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form one or more continuation sheets.) UTM References additional UTM references on a continuation sheet) Primary Location of Additional Data previously determined eligible by the National Register Architect/Builder Aftel, Sidney E._ Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Zone Easting Northing Name of repository: Local History Room, Toledo-Lucas County Public Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 Page building construction, ownership, and operation at a time when the burgeoning, and upwardly mobile, local middle class was seeking to escape the crowded living Section Manor.) a large apartment building. the rare combination of the parapet end with false half timbering.Construction Ira Apartments CONTINUATION SHEET possesses high artistic values". linking Toledo's newly created green spaces represents the suburban movement while conditions surrounding the central business district. To date, no properties in association with either Sam Davis or Sidney Aftel.

the attached parking garage embodies the emergence of the automobile as a major Narrative Statement of Significance attributable to Sidney other is the National Register listed Ann USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Toledo appear to be listed in the National register of historic places for their National Park Service The unusually stylish design of the Ira Apartments, along with that of the Ann Manor, exhibits many of the hallmarks of eclectic American Tudor design including United States Department of the Interior of the with the Ann Manor, coincides with development of several other distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, and that (8-86) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Aftel is the architect responsible for designing several other architectural merits and associations described above, the Ira meets National significant in our county and state The Ira represents the contributions of commissioned by the Sam Davis Company.

Register Criterion B:" a property that is associated with the life of a person The Ira represents one of the only two local Tudor Revival Style buildings name of property It's setting at the outer limits of the city along a boulevard significant buildings in the community, at least two others of which were USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Lucas County, OH OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET county and state businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, Sam Davis (b.1883-d.1945).

The Ira his daughter, Leora, likely also to have been designed by Aftel, was apparently was connected for a number of years with the firm of Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Sam Davis Building, located at 1510 Elm Street, Toledo, a six story brick and listing the Fort Meigs Hotel, the Lorraine Hotel, the former B'Nai Israel Madison, in Toledo's central business district, which catered to motoring tourists Travertine marble in a local building. Along with the Ira, the Ann Manor, the Sam Section Page Ira Apartments stone structure visible from the northwest corner of the central business district National Park Service Architect, Sidney Aftel came to Toledo shortly after the turn of the century and name of property Sam Davis Company headquarters, as well as housing other offices.

United States Department of the Interior featuring fireproof construction and climate control.The building served as the Although Mr.Aftel's obituary indicated that he designed many buildings in Toledo, canceled possibly due, at least in part, to the nation's deepening recession.

buildings attributed to Aftel, only the Ira and the Ann Manor are in the Tudor prominent architectural design firms in the state, before establishing his own To elaborate on the building's significance, the Ira is one of a pair of similarly (b.1880-d.l933).Construction of a planned third apartment building named after Apartments, named after his youngest son, and the Ann Manor, which is located in NPS Form 10-900-a Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) a majestic ten story, 2oo room hotel on St.Clair Street between Jefferson and Nordhoff & oldest and one of the most (8-86) Synagogue, the Ira Apartments, Ann Manor, and the Sam Davis Building, efforts to The Fort Meigs Hotel, completed in 1925, also for Sam Davis, was Davis Building and the Lorraine Hotel survive, but the majestic Fort Meigs Hotel the National Register listed old West End Historic District and named in honor of identify additional buildings designed by him were not successful.of the six It represented the first use of was touted as a state of the art warehouse facility when it was built in l927 and conventions until it was closed in l966.

Lucas County, OH OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section Page Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) baths, is similar, but more modest in design. Apartments, also owned and managed by Sam Davis at one time. The Del Mar, similar in size to Ann Manor, is also located in the National Register listed O1d West between 1912 and 1925 intermixed with three smaller 1950s infill, the design of city at that time. Aside from Westmoreland, the frequency of the Tudor design is north, with its smaller, more modest examples of Tudor design, depended more on Westmoreland area. Ira Apartments automobile transportation being nearer throughways than streetcar routes. End Historic District. name of property CONTINUATION SHEET Toledo.

The Westmoreland neighborhood, which is currently listed in the National The design of the Ira reflects the popularity of the Tudor Revival Style in the was removed for replacement with the 30 story Fiberglass Tower building in 1966 United States Department of the Interior county and state The appeal of the location of the Ira was enhanced by its proximity to the upper middle class development to the northwest, is also located in proximity to contains the most lavishly designed single family homes of the 1920s and 1930s in time the Ira was built.Many of the homes in Westmoreland are of Tudor design, National Park Service USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) Other than the Ann Manor, the Ira is one of several large apartment buildings affluent Westmoreland neighborhood, less than one quarter mile to the north which also evident in other contemporaneously platted single family housing developments Westmoreland neighborhood along Parkside by fourteen relatively large homes built the Ira still provides a sense of balance in the architectural landscape with the built in Toledo during the first part of the 2oth Century such as the Del Mar the greenway.

The Deveaux neighborhood approximately two and one half miles to the as part of the Urban Renewal movement. The Lorraine 150 rooms with Register of Historic Places, is a 90 acre plat of 2l6 large single family homes Lucas County, OH OMB No. 1024-0018 Section Page Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) spite of its suburban location.

Fronting on Dorr Street, it complemented other have been vacated in the early 1940s, remaining vacant until recent years when it Ira Apartments county and state with the initiation of construction of University Hall.The three story rusticated the 337 room Gothic Revival Style University Hall.The Ira is further connected Ottawa Park.Although the three apartment buildings exhibit gabled parapets and Whereas, the Ann Manor and the Del Mar were designed to attract more affluent name of property with the development of the university over the years having frequently included to the growing middle class.Having significantly expanded the city's sandstone, lack overlapping gables, and all windows are metal casement.

buildings of that time and is distinct from the Ann Manor in that it incorporated The popularity of the Tudor Revival Style for the period is also evident on the USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form nearby main campus of the University of Toledo.Scott Hall and Libbey Hall, small businesses mixed in with duplexes and single family homes.The commercial NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NPS Form 10-900-a which was replaced by a Kroger Grocery and Bakery by 1940.The space appears to tenants, when constructed in 1928-l929, the Ira was particularly suited to appeal at least one attached garage, they differ in that they are sided with uncoursed United States Department of the Interior opposite the old Orchard neighborhood, were constructed to house faculty and a2,350 square foot grocery store in order to provide shopping convenience in (8-86) was altered for use as a laundromat, and again for use as a.disco.

of the period in the community appear tobe1imited to three smaller 14 to 16unit National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET university faculty, staff and students among its tenants. The design of the Ira is unique when compared to most other local large apartment limestone buildings with steeply pitched slate roofs were designed to complement Other than the Ira and the Ann Manor, examples of Tudor'style apartment buildings space housed one of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company stores in the 1930, Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 Page Using the automobile as a measure of standard of living, in Toledo there Located at the western boundary between Adams Township and the city, two and one acres of gently rolling terrain with a pond, located less than a mile to the attorneys, teachers, social workers, newspaper reporters, buyers for the Lasalle Section business district. Ira Apartments county and state convenient access to the central business district for the Ira tenants, while the school system.

The building contains primarily one bedroom suites and tenants building's location immediately adjacent the Dorr Street interurban line provided name of property indicate that tenants were primarily married couples with occupations listed the church and five two story dwellings on the west side of Parkside Boulevard The city ranked 26th in the nation in population, manufacturing output exceeded the city was experiencing its highest standard of living achieved by that time.

& Koch Department Store, and even the superintendent of the affluent Ottawa Hills further enhanced the feeling of country living away from the bustle of the central parking garages catered to the growing number of automobile owners.Situated on NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES the boulevard system established at the turn of the century to connect the city's half miles from downtown, the Ira offered the best of suburban life styles.The USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Cleveland at that time. National Park Service Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) corporation boundaries in 1900,the population had grown from 131,822 to nearly United States Department of the Interior (8-86) that of Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton.

green spaces, tenants have had easy access to Ottawa Park, a city park of 311 The Sam Davis Company made certain the building was well maintained, establishing CONTINUATION SHEET variously as salesman/woman, business owners and upper and middle managers, Higher wage standards and recent years. The broad open space of the 126 acre Calvary Cemetery located behind Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 his own business ventures in 1904 collecting feed from rural farmers by bicycle, Investing in real estate, he became the principal owner of the Toledo Factories Section Page Ira Apartments a characteristic of his many business ventures including the Ira Apartments, he CONTINUATION SHEET neighborhood provided a geographical connection as well. including the forerunner of Sheller-Globe of automotive part fame.

name of property purchased a fleet of 58 gasoline powered trucks and built a service garage to his interests into the moving business with use of the trucks and eventually into modest means seeking to move up the economic ladder.Proximity to the Westmoreland county and state While Westmoreland catered to the upper middle class home buyer seeking luxury industries, many of which went on to become important businesses in the community major rail lines and installed a warehouse, silos and conveyors for most efficient house them. homes on spacious lots, the Ira catered to members of the middle class of more company and working for his father's grocery, coal and feed business.He initiated moved in and out frequently as incomes increased and families were established.

National Park Service contributions to the City of Toledo.A lifelong resident of the City, Mr.Davis to acquire an entire block of what had been swamp land on Elm Street adjacent and distributing coal with a horse and cart.A successful businessman, he was able United States Department of the Interior (8-86) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form By 1923,Sam Davis had become the largest retail coal dealer in the city.He Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) storage facilities for storing a great variety of commodities.The company served incorporated the Sam Davis Company that year and continued to expand and diversify coal loading.

Eager to equip his business with the latest technological advances, made use of the experience gained in his teens as a real estate agent for a local Building had been organized in l9l2 as the first industrial business incubator in the area and one of the first in the country.Davis expanded and improved the as agents for North American Van Lines and Gray Van with rights for six states. Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) the downtown and promoting tourism, taking the initiative to construct the 210 Company) - serving as offices for the company headquarters and other business concerns itself as "Toledo' s largest apartment operator and developer of real estate".

Upon Section Page name of property Ira Apartments Designed to attract the motoring tourist and conventions; the Fort Meigs Hotel CONTINUATION SHEET NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES shared the limelight over the years along with other prominent local hotels such burglar alarms. Architect designed, the amenities in the office area included the Sam Davis continued to expand his real estate and investment business owning and county and state United States Department of the Interior persons were reported to have attended.

he owmed and managed eight additional apartment buildings housing a total of over As a trustee with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, Davis was committed to improving well as the most up to date warehouse storage facility.The fireproof construction provided a suite for a live in watchman to protect his investment.The building, his death at the age of 62 in 1945,he was reported to have constructed buildings In 1927 the six story Sam Davis Building was completed on the Elm Street property USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 300 units.Encouraging family members to participate in the company as it grew, (8-86) as the Secor, the Commodore Perry, the Hillcrest, the Plaza (demolished) and the including temperature controlled rooms for pianos and musical instruments, and occupied at that time by Graybar Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric, Wel-Ever featured open space for automobile storage and rooms for furniture storage, Piston Ring, and Ideal Laundry, as well as having acquired many more.Along with liberal use of marble and terrazzo.As with the Ira and the Ann Manor, Davis which survives today under new ownership, was opened with such fanfare that 15,000 Iucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET Page Narrative Statement of Significance (cont'd) Section county and state Register of Historic Places. hardships endured by the general populace during the depression, he donated band The Ira Apartments was designed in an unusually stylish fashion incorporating the the Ira, the building remains as an excellent representation of the collaboration the Sam Davis Company continued to expand.Though the coal and moving businesses Ira Apartments architectural environment in the sphere of middle income housing.Likewise, the trend toward suburban living and increased dependence upon the automobile.In Toledo Public Health Association for undernourished city youth. house telephone system and attached covered parking.

While Davis did not live in and served on a number of national Jewish organizations.Sensitive to the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES name of property Zoological Board of Managers.He was honorary chairman of the United Jewish Fund, investment business with offices in the community.Although management of the Ira building and its setting remains an-excellent example of the period's growing (8-86) by the Sam Davis Company continued until the 1980s, the period of significance has stands in Ottawa Park and Willys Park, and provided funds for public concerts. a number of the larger popular animals to the Toledo Zoo, served as trustee and USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Having begun construction of the 44 suite Ira Apartments in 1928,and construction moved into the Ann Manor with his wife and resided there until he died in 1945.

of the 62 suite Ann Manor, which opened a few weeks before the Ira in 1929,Davis were sold in the 1950s, the Davis Company is still a prominent real estate and these respects, the Ira meets criteria "B" and "C" for listing in the National numerous philanthropic projects throughout the years.He donated materials and contribution to the community included prominent positions in public service and been limited to 1929 to 1946 in deference to National Register guidelines. of Sam Davis and architect Sidney Aftel for their contribution to Toledo's Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 August, Vol 15, N. 9, Pp.26-27. Community Renewal Program: A Community Description, City of Toledo, 1969. PP. 671-673. McAlester, Lee and Virginia A Field Guide to American Houses. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York. PP.355- Toledo, Ohio City Directory. R.I. Polk & Co., Taylor, Michigan. Toledo Blade.

Newspaper. Obituary, January 23, 1933. 1930-1945 Section Page Ira Apartments Bibliographical References CONTINUATION SHEET name of property "Sam Davis started major firm with horse, wagon and determination". Toledo Profile: A Sesquicentennial History. Toledo Sesquicentennial NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES county and state Bend in the River.The Magazine of the Historic Maumee. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Commission and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio. Brief interviews with Mr. Guy Michael Davis, grandson of Sam Davis, March 13,1996 Killits, John M. in Horse and Cart".Front page story of accomplishments. Oct.25,1945. USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 1969 Toledo Lucas County Plan Commissions. and Mr. Melbourne Harris, son-in-law of Sam Davis, March 14, 1996. Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, 1623-1923. S.J. Clarke, Chicago.

Vol.3, "Heart Attack is Fatal to Sam Davis: Business Leader Started His Career 1933 1987 Porter, Tana Mosier 1933"Sidney Aftel Dies Suddenly:Heart Disease Fatal to Toledo Architect". (8-86) 19237 Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 Bibliographical References (continued) Toledo Blade (cont'd.) October 25, 1945. "Warehouse of Sam Davis Co. Equipped For All Kinds Of Storage, Is Completed". March issue. p.5. "Apartment Houses Completed By Sam Davig". December issue, Vol. 7, No. 12, Toledo Times, Newspaper. "Sam Davis, Civic Leader, Expires of Heart Attack: Stricken Suddenly Toledo's Past & Present: Financial, Industrial and Economic Facts About Toledo. Pp.35-68.

1929 1945 1966 1927 Section Page National Park Service CONTINUATION SHEET NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Toledo's Businesses.Journal published by the Toledo Chamber of Commerce.(8-86) Ira Apartments USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form name of property county and state Ohio Savings Bank & Trust Co.and Nevin O.Winter United States Department of the Interior "Hotel's Farewell Party Recalls Years Of Glory:Old Friends assemble As (8-86) Cover, pp.13-14. to Building Hotel Which Will Open Next Month".May1925.pp.4,22. "Sam Davis Assisted Civic Philanthropic Projects: Business Leader Started Fort Meigs Hostelry Nears Closing, Demolition". May 28, 1966. in Apartment at Ann Manor". October 25, 1945. 1925 Career in Uncle's Grocery: Was owner of Many City Buildings". Obituary. Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.

1024-0018 Ottawa Park Addition Lots 23, 24, & 25 The boundary includes the original parcel, which includes lots 23, 24 and 25, that Section Ira Apartments Page Boundary Justification National Park Service has historically been associated with the property. CONTINUATION SHEET county and state Verbal Boundary Description United States Department of the Interior name of property NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (8-86) Lucas County, OH 11. Form Prepared By name/title Patricia J. Croninger/Cultural Research Associate organization Midwest Environmental Consultants, Inc. date March 18, 1996 telephone (419)865-6324 _ state OH zip code 43614 Additional Documentation A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) Cleo & Hazel L.

Syph street & number 1515 Cherry Valley Road Toledo name telephone Photographs Ira Apartments Continuation Sheets Maps Representative black and white photographs of the property. Property Owner or numerous resources. USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form street & number 5902 Southwyck Blvd. city or town Submit the following items with the completed form: Additional items with the SHPo or FPo for any additional items) Lucas County, OH NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Consultants, 5902 Southwyck Blvd., Toledo, OH 43614. Ira Apartments, west (Parkside/principal) elevation. to first floor, and on fireplace hearths in main lobby and (main) lobby. beamed ceiling, west entrance to first floor Description 10/26 7/26 5/26 6/26 4/26 2/26 Facing 3/26 8/26 9/26 1/26 Camera Page elevation.

county and state Ira Apartments, decorative ceramic floor tile representative of Ira Apartments Ira Apartments, north and east elevations. CONTINUATION SHEET Ira Apartments, close up of Dorr St. entrance and altered store Photo Ira Apartments, streetscape view of Parkside Blvd.. Ira Apartments, close-up of stone fireplace mantel, north wall Ira Apartments, south (principal) elevation and corner of east United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Ira Apartments, west entrance. Ira Apartments, west (principal) elevation of integral eighteen Ira Apartments, west and south (principal) elevations. Apartment 202. name of property front area. Ira Apartments, west (main) entrance vestibule. Ira Apartments, south (principal) and east elevations. Ira Apartments, streetscape view of Dorr St.. (8-86) Ira Apartments, west (principal) and north elevations.

USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Ira Apartments, north wall of first floor (main) lobby. car brick garage and five car frame addition of first floor (main) lobby. wainscotting, west entrance to first floor 11, 1996. Ira Apartments, view above west (Parkside/main) entrance. that found in west (main) and south vestibules and stairways Section Photo Lucas County, OH OMB No. 1024-0018 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Ira Apartments, fireplace, Apartment 202. Ira Apartments, south entrance (Dorr St.) lobby. Description 26/26 24/26 Facing 20/26 21/26 25/26 23/26 19/26 Camera Page garden apartments. Ira Apartments county and state Ira Apartments, west wall of main lobby. Ira Apartments, open second floor corridor overlooks main lobby. Photo Ira Apartments, close-up of decorative plaster and carved wood frieze, north wall of first floor main lobby.

National Park Service United States Department of the Interior USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Ira Apartments, stained glass skylight, ceiling of main lobby. Ira Apartments, main lobby staircases to second floor and to (8-86) name of property NPS Form 10-900-a (cont'd.) 22/26 Ira Apartments, arcaded third floor lobby and tinted skylight. Ira Apartments / Lucas County, Ohio SCALE OF FEET BY SANBORN MAP COMPANY. INC 200 100 LEGEND: 2104 STORE SPACE POTOMAC IGHT DORR STREET ORIGINAL PARCEL Sanborn Map Company c.1970's Sanborn Map page 634 30 w p 2 WP PARKSIDE BOULEVARD 1325 CAN LEGION HALL NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - architectural importance of the building under criterion C, but Davis and was not his residence, or company headquarters, or one deleted.

Lucas DISTRIBUTION: Multiple Name Page Amended Items in Nomination: notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation.

Ira Apartment Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places The National Register nomination form establishes the National Park Service SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD State: This property is listed in the National Register of Historic National Register property file Property Name: (8-86) County: United States Department of the Interior subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, Datel of Action for properties most importantly associated with a persons does not justify listing the property under Criterion B for its most directly associated with his achievements.Criterion B is NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Lucas DATE 8/15/96 REFERENCE NUMBER: 96000868 NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: COMMENT WAIVER: N 8/01/96 7/01/96 TELEPHONE REJECT MULTIPLE RETURN DATE OTHER: NAME: DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF PENDING LIST: 7/16/96 DOCUMENTATION see attached conments Y/N'see attached SLR Y/N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: PROPERTY REVIEWER ACCEPT Ira Apartments 1 926 Tra Apartments Lucas Co.

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