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NPS FORM 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) RECEIVED United States Department of the Interior Sept. 16,1997 National Register of Historic Places This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer to complete all items. T. Name of Property 2. Location street & number 505 Jefferson _NB not for publication NZA vicinity 3.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination - request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Dept. Head Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office -- OH SHPO In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional 4. National Park Service Certification - See continuation sheet - determined not eligible for the -removed from the National - other, (explain:). 43604 Registration Form Date Register.

National Register Ohio state National Park Service State or Federal agency and bureau zip code Date of Action Mentered in the National Register. Signature of commenting official/Title by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, Commodore Perry Hotel city or town_ - nationally statewide[x locally. - See continuation sheet for additional comments.) I hereby certify that the property is: Toledo comments.) historic name Beall Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas, Ohio Name of Property 5. Classification (Check only one box) - Private X building X public-local - district - public-state - site - public-Federal - structure -object Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use DOMESTIC: HOTEL 7.

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1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio The Commodore Perry is located in downtown Toledo, two blocks west of the Maumee River, on the southwest corner of the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Superior Street. The hotel fronts northeast on to Jefferson Avenue and is surrounded by busy city streets and concrete sidewalks punctuated by small trees. To the south of the hotel is a surface parking lot and to the southwest a seven-story parking garage. When it was constructed, the Commodore Perry was the third and largest hotel to be built at the intersection of Jefferson and Superior, towering over neighboring buildings and dominating the streetscape. (Photo #38).

Today, the Commodore Perry Hotel is still a central focus on the Toledo skyline though taller modern buildings have since been constructed. Of steel frame and concrete construction, the 275 foot tall, seventeen-story, nine bay Commodore Perry Hotel is in the Second Renaissance Revival style. Sheathed in textured yellow face brick, the building has limestone detailing, terra cotta decorative elements, and a flat, built-up bituminous roof. Designed by the architectural firm of Mills, Rhines, Bellman, and Nordhoff, the sedate structure has minimal decoration and a strong sense of symmetry. When it was constructed in 1927, the 500 room Commodore Perry Hotel was Toledo's largest building at 300,000 square feet. The building has a four- story, rectangular, limestone base housing commercial and public use areas, and two thirteen-story brick towers connected to form an "H" plan.

A base for a third tower exists and, though architectural renderings used by the hotel for advertising purposes show the tower, it was never built (see 1/17/27 The Commodore Perry displays features common to the Second Renaissance Revival style, a popular style for public buildings constructed between 1890-1925. These include a rectangular footprint, solid massing, symmetrical facade, rusticated lower stories and smooth upper stories, small windows on upper stories and large round arched windows on the lower stories, an emphasis on horizontal line, a flat roof, and classic details. Based on the tripartite skyscraper design introduced by Chicago architect Louis Sullivan in the late 19th century, the design of the Commodore Perry mimics the three parts of the Classical column, with each part delineated by its detail and/or materials.

In the Commodore Perry, the first level base is distinguished by the use of pale limestone bevel-edged blocks and tall arched windows. The shaft is of buff colored brick with little or no ornamentation while the cornice, or capital, is emphasized by decorative terra cotta belt courses, brick and terra cotta window surrounds, pedimented windows, and an arcaded cornice line (Photos #1& 2). Exterior Description Continuation Sheet Blade advertisement). (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio The ground floor of the structure was designed for commercial use and consists of a series of rectangular storefront windows which run along the north and east elevations.

According to the building permits, exterior storefront alteration began in 1938. The windows bordering Jefferson Street have all been modernized and altered over the years. Though the windows along Superior Street have been altered, they still retain some original elements including the configuration of a wide picture window and a recessed entryway with glass panel door and transom (Photo #3). Originally, the main entrance to the hotel was located on Jefferson Avenue, in the center of the northeast elevation. The entry was sheltered by a flat-roofed overhang suspended from overhead chain supports, which still exits though the original decorative ironwork has been removed (Photo #4). The doorway itself has been replaced with a modern glass and metal frame door. In 1966, the hotel underwent one of its most extensive renovations.

At that time, the main entrance was relocated to the building's southwest elevation to make it more accommodating to automobile traffic. A modernistic, seventy-five brick and limestone addition houses a bank of automatic sliding glass doors, providing access to the newly relocated guest check-in station (Photo #5). The renovation was designed by the noted Toledo architectural firm of Samborn, Steketee, Otis, and Evans who were responsible for other modern style buildings in the city including the United States Post Office (435 S.St. Clair), the Community Services Building (1 Stranahan Square), and Edison Plaza (300 Madison). A secondary pedestrian entrance, which historically had been located on Superior Street near the building's southeast corner, was eliminated during the 1966 renovation and replaced with a rectangular storefront window.

In 1973, a seven-story, 720 space parking garage, adjacent to the southwest corner of the hotel, was constructed by the H. J. Spieker Company, the same contractors responsible for the construction of the The lobby floor, used for public space such as dining rooms and conference rooms, is distinguished by tall round-arched window wells containing four-over-four double-hung wooden windows topped with fanlights; a row of paired, rectangular, one-over-one double-hung windows; and rectangular windows accented with balconets (Photo #6). Some of the arched windows on the east elevation, located in the hotel dining room, have been replaced with modern metal windows and the fanlights have been covered over (see photo #3). Two windows on the southeast corner have been filled in with glass block (Photo #7). Other decorative elements include swags and cartouches (Photo #8).

A wide, dentiled belt course separates the building's four-story limestone base from the brick towers. hotel in 1927 (Blade, 7/7/73). The parking garage is considered a non-contributing resource.In 1975, (8-86) foot long canopy supported on precast concrete columns was constructed over a three-lane drive.A red a glass and aluminum breezeway was built to connect the hotel's new entrance with the parking garage. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio The thirteen-story twin brick towers, housing the guest suites, sit on their own limestone base. The towers themselves are devoid of decoration, punctuated only by simple two-over-two double-hung, wooden windows with limestone sills.

The windows on the ninth and tenth floor were replaced with The cornice or "capital" of the tripartite design begins at the fourteenth floor and is marked by terra cotta belt courses that encircle both the top and bottom of this story. The windows above the top belt course are highlighted by window surrounds of brick that give it a rustic look. The windows on the fifteenth story are pedimented. The exaggerated cornice is of arcaded terra cotta and is accented with strong dentils (Photos #10 & 11). Early photographs and postcards of the Commodore Perry do not show the existence of a penthouse and it was probably added in 1928, when the first major addition to the hotel appears on the building permits. The brick, flat-roofed structure has arcaded corbelling along its roofline and is located on the north tower of the building (Photo #12).

On the east elevation of the penthouse, overlooking the river, is a curved bay of floor-to-ceiling windows with an exterior door of curved glass (Photo #13). A roof of pressure- treated lumber was added c. 1975. Exterior decks and a gazebo atop the north tower were additions to the roof include a two-story mechanical room (Photo #14). Today, peregrine falcons roost in nesting boxes which have been placed on the building's roof. In 1977, two raised platform tennis courts, with parking facilities underneath, were constructed to the south of the hotel building. These courts were used by hotel guests as well as rented to the public. They have since been removed. Though much of the interior of the hotel has undergone several renovations, a number of significant and distinctive spaces and architectural features still remain.

As noted earlier, the main entrance to the hotel was moved to the ground floor of the southwest elevation in 1966. At this time a "modern" lobby area was created with dropped ceilings, wood paneling, and stylized metallic fixtures. The elevators, located along a central hall that connects the new lobby with the business arcade at the northeast end of the building, retain their original bronze doors etched with an elaborate floral pattern (Photo #15). While alteration has occurred to the interior of the arcade, including a dropped ceiling and modern carpet, it still retains its historic character through Interior Continuation Sheet (8-86) also added.Other documented alterations to the penthouse occurred in1941,1945,and1947.Other single-pane aluminum windows in the late 1970s when the space was occupied by the Toledo Hospital.

windows located in the limestone bases have flat lintels supported on curved brackets (Photo #9). The NPS Form 10-900-a Section number - Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio the retention of the original oak veneer and single glass panel doors with transoms (Photo #16), large display windows, and a heavily carved cornice molding which runs the length of the hall. The shop interiors have all been heavily altered with dropped ceilings, wall paper, carpet, and new light fixtures. installed on the landing. Once an open area running almost the full length of the hotel with marble floors and walls and square marble columns supporting a balcony or mezzanine, the lobby has been heavily altered over time with the addition of partitions and a dropped ceiling.

The decoratively painted coffered ceiling, which was covered with acoustic tile when air conditioning ducts were installed, still exists though it has sustained some water damage. The original light fixtures (Photo #19), marble walls and columns, and carved cornice molding remain intact. A large room, originally the hotel lounge (later known as the Crystal Room), runs along the northeast elevation (Photos #20 & 21). Decorated in the Colonial Revival-Adam style, the room is painted light blue highlighted with white trim. Decorative elements include paneled wainscotting, Ionic pilasters, crystal chandeliers, decorative panels, carved cornice moldings and festooned lintels over the doors (Photo #22), and fanlight windows (Photo #23). Paneled tri-fold doors are located at the east end of the room (Photo #24).

The original coffered ceiling has been covered with a dropped ceiling and a hotel's grand opening indicate that a writing room with gold leaf walls was once located "adjacent" (northwest) to the lounge (Blade, 1/17/27). Also located to the northwest of the lounge were the hotel gift shop, beauty salon, and barber shop. This area has all been heavily altered, though the green marble walls of the former twelve-chair barber shop are still intact. On the lobby level of the southeast elevation runs the hotel dining room which has retained its historic function throughout the years of the hotel's operation. Originally known as the Travertine Room, this room has undergone a number of renovations. The Florentine marble walls that can be seen today are original. Covered by wood panels and glass mirrors in 1937, the marble was cleaned and restored in 1947 and again in the 1960s.

The original coffered ceiling, elaborately decorative and painted in brilliant hues of madonna blue and red highlighted with gold leaf, can still be seen among the remnants of the acoustic tile dropped ceiling that now covers it. Though it has sustained water damage in some areas, a significant portion of the original ceiling is still in good condition (Photos #25A & B). The Maumee Grill, whose glass block walls once ran the length of the ground floor of the southwest elevation, was important to the social history of Toledo's downtown business culture. The grill was removed in the 1960s when the new entrance was created (Roe, p. 27). The Maumee Grill was open portion has suffered severe water damage.

Though no outward signs remain, newspaper reports of the The original lobby level is accessed by a marble staircase with decorative wrought iron railings and National Register of Historic Places (8-86) balustrade(Photo #17 & 18).This staircase remains intact though a metal security gate has been Section number _ Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio only to men during the daytime (women were welcome for dinner only) and was famous for its nine murals depicting scenes from Toledo's history that were painted by William Matthews in 1934-5. These murals still exist though some were moved to other locations throughout the hotel when the grill was closed (Photo #26). The grand ballroom is located at the rear (southwest) end of the mezzanine.

Though heavily altered in the 1970s, this room contains at least four "Don Quixote" murals painted on site by the artist William black and white checkerboard floor of terrazzo marble is original. The room has sustained water damage In 1973, the hotel suffered a fire that started on the lobby level in a private room owned by Owens- Illinois. The fire caused extensive smoke damage to the building, especially to the space occupied by the Quarterdeck Lounge, at an estimated cost of $70,000. (Photos #27 & 28). Each floor had a number of two-, three-, and five-room suites. A key marketing feature for the hotel was that every room had an exterior window. A paneled look is achieved on the room walls by the use of decorative wood trim (Photo #29).

"Servidor" doors, a room entrance door which can be accessed from both the interior and exterior of the room, are topped by a metal louvered ventilating transom (Photos #30 & 31). Bathrooms were decorated in black and white and included pedestal sinks, polygonal floor tile, and a decorative tile mural in the bath tub/shower area displaying The penthouse has undergone a number of renovations over the years, though a few of the original features such as the round bay and cornice molding still exist (Photos #34, 35, & 36). In the 1970s the penthouse was used for banquet and entertainment space and alterations, including a skylight and sliding glass doors to the exterior decks, reflect this. In the 1960s, the hotel began to convert guest rooms to offfices, and interior walls were removed to clinic operated by the Toledo Hospital.

These floors were completely remodeled to suit the new use and wood windows were replaced with metal throughout the entire two floors. Continuation Sheet floor (Photo #33). The tower lobbies and guest rooms are as simple in design on the interior as they are on the exterior a naturalistic scene (Photo #32).Porthole laundry chutes are located near the service elevator on each to the ceiling. Matthews during the room's first renovation in the 1930s.The murals remain in good condition. The increase space (Photo #37).In 1978,the ninth and tenth floors were converted to an alcohol abuse (8-86) NPS Form10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio Overall, the integrity of the Commodore Perry is good.

Many essential physical features, both inside grand ballroom and the Crystal Room, as well as other more utilitarian areas of the hotel, have begun of taking steps to correct these problems and stabilize the building's deterioration. Conclusion Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service (8-86) and the Commodore Perry has undergone some deterioration due to water damage.Ceilings in the United States Department of the Interior to fall and some of the floors have been sitting inpools of water.The City of Toledo is in the process Section number - and out, have remained intact and in good repair. Neglect and time have taken their toll in recent years, Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas, Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

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Areas of Significance X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important to prehistory or history. Significant Dates (Mark "x" in all boxes that apply) -A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery.

- E a reconstructed building, object, or structure - F a commemorative property MILLS, RHINES, BELLMAN, & NORDHOFF, ARCHITECTS within the last 50 years. WILLIAM H. MATTHEWS, MURAL ARTIST H.J.SPIEKER & CO., TOLEDO, CONTRACTOR 9.

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Response to this request is required to obtain Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing of this form to the Chief,Administrative Services Division,National Park Service, P. OBox 37127, Washington, DC20013-7127; and the Office of 1 117 Northing OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio Statement of Significance Following in the tradition of the Oliver House (NROHP 1971), the Boody House Hotel (demolished), and the Secor Hotel (NROHP 1976), the Commodore Perry Hotel is the fourth in a series of large- scale, architect designed, luxury hotels constructed in Toledo between 1859 and 1930.

These hotels were developed with the intention of improving amenities while expanding the city's travel and convention business. Daniel Boorstin, writing about hotels as social centers has called them "Palaces of the Public." "In the period of most rapid urban growth, it was not by churches or government buildings but by hotels that cities judged themselves and expected others to judge them." President Herbert Hoover, in dedicating the Waldorf-Astoria in 1931 stated that "Our hotels have become the newest developments in guest amenities, and brought a sense of luxury to their guests. They also served as centers for Toledo society.

When the Commodore Perry was constructed in 1927, it was the wave of prosperity that engulfed Toledo in the early 1920s, the seventeen-story, 500 room luxury hotel was championed in the Toledo Blade as a means "to commemorate Toledo's civil, commercial, and industrial progress" that would carry Toledo "from the class of the big town to [that of] the metropolitan city" (Blade, 1/17/27). The four million dollar structure, with its ballroom and shopping arcade, was a showplace that soon became the new social and business center in the heart of Toledo. Because the Commodore Perry Hotel has made significant contributions to the City's social history and the development of its commerce, it qualifies for the National Register at the local level under Criterion A. Second Renaissance Revival style, a popular architectural style for commercial buildings in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Designed by Toledo's premier architectural firm Mills, Rhines, Bellman, including rusticated lower stories, terra cotta decorative elements, an emphasis on horizontal elements, less decorative then the lower windows which are arched with decorative stonework. Lots 204, 205, 206, 207 of the Port Lawrence Addition, where the Commodore Perry Hotel is now located, were part of the original plat of the City of Toledo when it was incorporated in 1837. As the city developed, the lots were bought and sold by some of Toledo's most prominent citizens including History of the Site Continuation Sheet a thousand community and national activities.."They incorporated the latest styles in hotel architecture, a symmetrical facade, and solid massing.

Also typical of the style, the upper windows are smaller and The Commodore Perry Hotel is significant under Criterion C as an excellent example of the late and the largest building (by square foot) in the City of Toledo(Blade,1/17/27).Riding the crest of a NPS Form 10-900-a "largest hotel between Chicago and Cleveland and one of the largest in the country"(Blade,1/17/27) Section number - Page - 7 community institutions.They are the center points of civic hospitality.They are the meeting place of and largest undertaking to date) the hotel exhibits features common to this style NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio Charles B. Phillips, owner of the city's first railway car company, the Toledo Car Works; Israel Hall, a partner in Toledo's first luxury hotel, the Boody House; James B.

Steedman who gained fame as "Old Chicamauga," General of the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War; and Dennis Coghlin, a partner in the firm of Jacobi, Coghlin and Company, one of Toledo's first brewing companies and the producers of Buckeye Lager Beer. The Polk Directories from the early 1900s list 501 Jefferson (lot 205) as the location of the Buckeye Liquor store, quite possibly a retail outlet for Coghlin's brewery. The 1905 Sanborn map indicates that a number of commercial structures existed on these lots. A photograph, reprinted in the Toledo Blade in 1952, shows that a barber shop operated by Sherman B. Coss was located on lot 205 at 505 Jefferson c. 1910.

The Polk Directories for 1911-1914 list a restaurant, tailor, pool hall, fish market, barber, and bike shop on Jefferson while the buildings bordering Superior Street housed a liquor store, fruit market, restaurant, tailor and boarding house. Building permits indicate that the structures located at 125-130 Superior were demolished in 1922 while the structures at 505-515 Jefferson were demolished in 1924 to make room for the Commodore Perry. Birth of the Commodore Perry Hotel Due to its location at the base of Lake Erie, Toledo has long been a transportation center and a haven for traders and travelers. Toledo's earliest hotels were tavern hotels that provided the traveler with room and board and few other amenities.

In a commentary written by the editor of the Toledo Blade on June 10, 1856 (Toledo Scrapbooks), the Oliver Tavern, constructed in 1817, is credited as Toledo's earliest tavern hotel. The second tavern hotel, the Eagle Tavern, was constructed c. 1835 followed soon after that the first "modern" hotel was constructed in the city. The canal made Toledo a major break-in-bulk point for merchandise shipped from New York City to the Northwest Territory. In 1836, the Indiana House, a two-story, frame structure located at Summit & Perry was built to accommodate Ohio and 1837 there were seven "modern" hotels in the city each of which catered to a specific clientele. These early hotels were located near Summit Street and the river and were oriented toward Toledo's water transportation facilities. The coming of the railroad brought major changes to Toledo's hotel industry.

In 1856, the Island House Hotel was constructed in Middlegrounds, an area located between the Maumee River and Swan Creek. Toledo's main passenger station. According to an article in the Blade, the Island Hotel "did about all hotel, the Oliver House (NROHP 1971), was constructed in the Middlegrounds area. Based on the National Register of Historic Places the transit business and put other houses partially out of business"(Blade,1-23-09).In 1859 a second (8-86) Michigan merchants patronizing the merchandise warehouse located at the foot of Monroe Street.By by the Mansion House c.1836(Summit at Locust).It wasn't until the completion of the Erie Canal United States Department of the Interior This three-story, fifty room hotel had a 300 person capacity dining hall and housed the Union Depot, NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 National Park Service Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio luxury hotels of the east coast, the Oliver House ushered in a new era for the hotel industry in Toledo. Designed by Isaiah Rogers, a nationally known architect in hotel design, the 170 room, Greek Revival the Maumee River (Blade 1/23/09). The hotel featured separate drawing rooms for ladies and gentlemen, a large dining hall, water closets, and mechanical call buttons. The Oliver House provided its patrons with far more than the basic amenities; it lavished them in comfort and style. It also set a precedent in Toledo's social history as the first hotel to become a gathering place for Toledo society due to its sense of elegance, large ballrooms, and ample meeting space. The Oliver House is still standing at its original location in the Middlegrounds.

The 1860s were a time of growth for Toledo which had become a major port for grain distribution to the northern states during the Civil War. This was the decade when Toledo's upper and lower towns merged and the city qualified as one of Ohio's first class cities with a population of 20,000. As streets were graded and the city's infrastructure emerged, a new downtown area began to develop to the west of Summit Street and away from the river. In 1869, local business leaders formed the Toledo Hotel Company with the intent of building a new first class hotel to help meet the demands of the burgeoning city. The result was the Boody House Hotel, located on the corner of Madison and St. Clair. No expense was spared in the construction of this Second Empire style hotel built of Medina stone. It had 133 rooms, a bath on every floor, a passenger elevator, and a fireplace in every room.

It was the resting place of some of the era's most famous people including the actress Ellen Terry, boxer John L. Sullivan, and Presidents Hayes, Cleveland, and Grant. During its heyday it was known as the finest hotel between Chicago and the east coast (Toledo Times, 3/28/28). The Boody House Hotel quickly took the place of the Oliver House as the heart of Toledo society and remained there for the next fifty years. The success of the Boody House Hotel was ensured when two successive floods occurred in 1881 and 1882 leaving the passenger station at the Island Hotel under four to six feet of water (Toledo Scrapbooks). In 1886, a new Union Depot was constructed on higher ground at the foot of Knapp Street, just south of downtown.

The improvement of the city's streets and the development of the electric rail line made transportation to the new depot from the growing business district along Madison Street quick and easy. The Boody House Hotel, Toledo's grand dame of luxury hotels, reigned supreme from 1870 to 1890. prosper a larger, more modern, fireproof hotel was needed. In 1908, the Secor Hotel (NROHP 1976) was constructed on the corner of Jefferson and Superior. The 400 room, ten-story hotel, designed by Toledo architect George M. Mills, was Toledo's most elegant and fashionable hotel in the early 1900s. Following in the steps of the Oliver House and the Boody House Hotel, the Secor became a center of decline.

National Register of Historic Places (8-86) style hotel brought a metropolitan air to Toledo and "loomed like a castle" to passengers traveling up Continuation Sheet United States Department of the Interior Section number - Page _ As the focus turned from water to rail transportation, the importance of the Oliver House began to However, by the end of the century she was beginning to show her age. As the city continued to NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio social life within the city. By the 1920s, the City of Toledo was prospering as a result of the World War I government contracts that had been secured by local industries.

In 1924, the City of Toledo experienced a building boom that was greater than any the city had experienced to date. A $20,000,000 building program was implemented in the downtown area, concentrated along Jefferson Avenue. The project was to include the construction of a new office building to house the Chamber of Commerce (Jefferson at St. Clair), Commodore Perry (Blade, 7/23/24). According to the Polk Directory, by 1927 there were 671 manufacturing companies in the city. The Toledo-based Willys-Overland Company had become one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world employing over 23,000 by 1928. Glass manufactories, such as Libbey and Owens, began to experience unrivaled success making Toledo the "Glass Capital of the World." Standard Oil's largest plant was located in the city. As business boomed and job opportunities abounded, people flocked to Toledo.

The city's population almost doubled between 1910 and 1930 increasing from 168,497 to 290,718, respectively. According to the 1927 Polk Directory, the number of building permits issued within the city increased from 3,162 in 1920 to 6,034 in 1926. Toledo's business district blossomed as theaters, hotels, and department stores were built downtown. The Toledo Art Museum received endowments from the Libbey family that resulted in its tripling in size by 1926. A new suspension bridge was planned to span the Maumee River and the last remnants of the old canal were filled in to provide more space for growth and development downtown. This spirit of growth led the writer of the city's history in the 1927 Polk Directory to declare "since the last census Toledo seems almost like a new city ...

a vital influence has been the birth of a real civic The business leaders of Toledo felt that an updated luxury hotel, with large-capacity banquet and meeting facilities was needed to make Toledo a successful business and convention center. The exhibition hall constructed in 1924, had provided 100,000 square feet of floor space and an auditorium with seating capacity for 3,000 (Polk Directory 1930, p. 13). In order to attract the attention of the largest corporations, Toledo needed a hotel and conference center that would stand as one of the finest in the Midwest. The Commodore Perry was planned to fill that void and continue the tradition of Iuxury hotels in Toledo started by the Oliver House, the Boody House Hotel, and the Secor Hotel. The site for the hotel was chosen to be near the downtown's hotel district, the theater district on St.

Clair, president of the Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Company, and Willard I. Webb, chairman of the board of the George M. Jones Company, showed their faith in the city's future by backing the proposed enterprise. According to a 1986 article in the Toledo Magazine, Jones wanted the Commodore Perry (8-86) and the new exhibition hall.(See map) Two prominent Toledo businessmen, George M. Jones, a five-story Western Union building (Jefferson and Huron),a mercantile exhibition hall (S.Erie at Market) and three major hotels: the Ft.Meigs (St.Clair),the Lorraine (Jefferson at 12th),and the spirit." NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio to be the modern equivalent of Toledo's famous Boody House Hotel.

This elegant but aging structure was purchased by Jones and demolished c. 1928, after the opening of the Commodore Perry, to make way for the Ohio Bank and Trust Building. The $4 million dollar Commodore Perry Hotel was intended to be a celebration of Toledo's, past, present, and future. The hotel was named in honor of Commodore Oliver Perry, the naval commander who's victories on Lake Erie during the Battle of 1812 helped the Americans to win the war against the British. Mills, Rhines, Bellman, and Nordhoff, Toledo's most influential and successful architectural firm, was awarded the contract for the building's design.

Incorporated in 1912, this nationally renowned firm was responsible for the construction of a large number of Toledo's most important buildings including Burt's Theater (NROHP; Jefferson at Ontario), the Ohio Building (Madison at Superior), the Building (Erie at Jackson) and many of the buildings for the University of Toledo. For the Commodore Perry, the architects utilized the Second Renaissance Revival style, a popular style for public buildings at the turn of the century, though not as prevalent in Toledo as the Chicago style. Other Toledo Gardner Building (506 Madison) and the Lucas County Jail (Jackson at Speilbusch).

Built in 1908 and designed by George Mills, a partner in the architectural firm that designed the Commodore Perry, the Secor Hotel (located across from the Commodore Perry) is an excellent example of this style with its sharply contrasting quoins and strongly rusticated lower floors. Built twenty-one years after the Secor, the Commodore Perry's Second Renaissance features are more refined and sedate in their execution. Other Toledo buildings that utilized this style, the Coghlin Building (Jefferson and St. Clair) and the worked with the architects on the construction of the Toledo Club, Lamson's Department Store, and the Ohio Building and were also responsible for such Toledo landmarks as the Toledo Blade Building, the Toledo Art Museum, the Toledo Public Library, and the Willys-Overland Administration Building. Local contractors were used in the hotel's construction.

Bricks were furnished by Kuhlman Builders Supply and Brick Company on Nicholas Street. Norcross Marble of Cleveland supplied marble for the interior, some of which was imported from Italy. Finish work was done by the Stollberg Hardware and On the eve of the Commodore Perry's grand opening in January 1927, the Toledo Blade published a nine-page tribute emphasizing the hotel's elegance and importance to the future of the city proclaiming that the hotel "opened a new era in civic growth" for Toledo (Blade, 1/18/27). Every detail of Company, incorporated 1901, served as general contractors on the project. They had previously Company.Interior lighting features were supplied by the Gillet and Kohler Lighting Company. Port Lawrence Building (Michigan and Jefferson),have since been demolished. The Henry J.

Spieker Paint Company and millwork was supplied by Toledo's Campbell Lumber and Manufacturing buildings constructed in the Second Renaissance Revival style that are still in existence include the Department Store(Jefferson at Huron),the Toledo Club (NROHP;14th at Madison),the Safety Edison Building(Madison at Superior),the Secor Hotel (NROHP;Jefferson at Superior),Lamson's Section number - Page - (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio construction and service was highlighted along with profiles of its managers and key employees. Over seven hundred invited guests attended the gala events planned for the hotel's dedication.

Grove Patterson, then editor of the Toledo Blade, presented George Jones and William Webb with a painting by Toledo artist Carlton Chapman which depicted Perry's naval battle on Lake Erie. The painting hung for years in the hotel's lobby. The hotel officially opened to the public on January 19,1927 and, according to the Toledo Blade, the first registered guest was the opera singer, Marion Talley. As predicted, the Commodore Perry quickly became the social center of Toledo society. Military balls, weddings, proms, and graduations filled its ballrooms while clubs, societies, and businessmen utilized its meetings rooms. Over the years, the hotel became the heart of life in downtown Toledo.

In a 1996 article from the Toledo Blade, local citizens recalled that the Commodore Perry "was the place to meet downtown" where "locals outnumbered people who were staying in the hotel" and its restaurants were "like a club, where people from O-1, Owens Corning, Ohio Bell... came to do business, to socialize, some of the nation's most prominent and important public figures including President Harry Truman, Vice President Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jimmy Stewart, Vincent Price, Joe Dimaggio, Guy Lombardo, Jack Benny, Carl Sandburg, and Ethel Barrymore. In 1953, the hotel was the site of a banquet given by the Queen and King of Greece to honor the City of Toledo for its support of the allied cause during World War II. In 1956, the hotel gained national attention when Elvis Presley was engaged in an altercation in its lobby.

In 1967, the hotel hosted the wedding reception for Bob Hope's son as well as a tea for presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey. In addition to its contribution to Toledo's social scene, the Commodore Perry became a prominent industry in itself, employing over 450 While the Commodore Perry was successful in bringing recognition to the city and providing a focal point for local business and social life, it was never a money-making enterprise for its investors. The Great Depression, which struck the nation soon after the hotel opened, made the realization of its full potential an impossibility.It also spelled disaster for the Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Company and the Commodore Perry's sponsor, bank president George Jones, when the bank was forced to close in 1931. In 1934, the hotel was sold to the Commodore Perry Hotel Company headed by Daniel J.

O'Brien, then managing director of the Towers Hotel, the largest hotel in Brooklyn, New York. Soon after taking over, the company began renovations on the building. In March of 1935, O'Brien commissioned New York artist William H. Matthews (1868-1966) to paint a series of historical murals depicting the early history of Toledo for some of the hotel's public rooms. Matthews, a graduate of the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, had worked as a set designer for the era's most prominent theatrical producers including Florenz Ziegfeld, the Shuberts, and George Abbot. He also founded the Brooklyn Society of Painters and Sculptors and was a member of the Art League of New York (Blade, 1/18/35).

Matthews painted nine murals of Toledo's early history with titles such as "The Recruiting for the (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Section number - Page - people and housing its own print shop and laundry. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio painted on site on canvas panels attached to the walls (Toledo Times, 10/31/37). They still hang in their original places in the Grand Ballroom and are in good condition. Matthews eventually moved to Toledo and lived in the Artist's Club on Collingwood throughout the 1950s. He also painted the Charles Dickens murals for Toledo's Willard Hotel (Adams at St. Clair), a 150 room luxury hotel patterned after an old English club that was created in the Valentine Building, Toledo's former City Hall, in 1936.

By the mid-1960's Toledo's downtown was suffering from the effects of its burgeoning suburbs. As services and industries followed the trail of cars to the city's edge, the central business district began and business began to suffer. In an effort to make it more accessible to automobile traffic, the hotel underwent a major renovation in 1966 moving its main entry to the south facade. This change did little to stop the hotel's decline. In 1969, the Holiday Inn hotel chain made plans to construct a nineteen- story, 257 room hotel downtown. Known as the Riverview Tower, it was the first new hotel to be built in Toledo in almost forty years. Increased competition from this new, modern hotel was the final blow use and by 1973, the hotel's board of directors discussed closing the hotel.

Instead, a new general manager was hired, the colorful Victor Giles, and a plan was implemented to convert hotel rooms to office space. In 1978, the Toledo Hospital located its Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in the space had been converted to offices and, after fifty-three years, the operation of the Commodore Perry as a guest hotel ceased (Blade, 7/2/80). In 1984, with plans in place for a new convention center and two new hotels (the Seagate and Radisson) to be constructed downtown, Willard Webb IV revealed When it was constructed, the Commodore Perry Hotel symbolized an era of growth and excitement for the City of Toledo. Following in the footsteps of the city's other great luxury hotels, the Oliver House, the Boody House Hotel, and the Secor Hotel, the Commodore Perry fulfilled its mission by attracting attention to Toledo and increasing its convention and tourist trade.

During its heyday, the Commodore The Hotel's Decline National Register of Historic Places City of Toledo. to decline. The Commodore Perry was not immune to the changes occurring in society during that time business enterprises in the structure, left. The Commodore Perry building is now the property of the for the Commodore Perry.In1970 only fifty percent of its rooms were still reserved for transient guest a $20 million dollar renovation plan to restore the Commodore Perry to its old elegance.(In 1984,The five murals based on the story of Don Quixote for the hotel. The murals were so large that they were Keeper of the National Register determined the hotel was eligible for the National Register). has stood vacant since 1986 when the Toledo Hospital and Oliver's Restaurant, the last remaining facility, eventually expanding to take over two complete floors.

By 1980, forty percent of the building's Unfortunately, due in part to Mr. Webb's death, the renovation plans never materialized. The building (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a National Park Service Lucas County, Ohio Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Perry Hotel brought a dazzling array of public figures to the city and served as a center for Toledo's Commodore Perry Hotel United States Department of the Interior social life. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number - Page - 14 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio The Blade newspaper articles: "Construction Boom in City Sets Record." 23 July 1924. "Hotel Opens New Era in Civic Growth." 18 January 1927. "George M. Jones Taken by Death." 13 March 1935.

"New Commodore Perry Hotel Signals Welcome to Public." 17 January 1927. "Toledo Owners Sell Commodore Perry." 21 June 1934. "Paints Mural for Hotel Here." 18 January 1935. "Perry's Impressions Endure." 24 December 1996. Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Democratic Experience, New York: Vintage Books, 1973 Files. State Historic Preservation Regional Office. Bowling, Green, Ohio. Green, William. "$19 Million Plan is Announced for Commodore Perry." The Blade. 1 March 1986. Kane, Kathy Mast. National Register of Historic Places nomination form. State Historic Preservation Office, Columbus, OH. January 1985. Mariani, John. America Eats Out. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991. Ogdon, William. "The Famous Boody Passes." Toledo Times. 25 March 1928 Ohio Historic Inventory Form. State Historic Preservation Office, Columbus, Ohio. December 1979. Porter, Tana Mosier.

Toledo Profile: A Sesquicentennial History. Toledo: Toledo Sesquicentennial Commission and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 1987. Roe, Aslynn. "Carl Sandburg, Jimmy Stewart, and Eleanor Roosevelt Slept Here." Bend of the River. August, 1996. Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. References Continuation Sheet (8-86) National Register of Historic Places Cound, J.E.Henry J. Spieker Company.Toledo:Fred J.Wenzel Company. "Three Downtown Blocks, Share of Bank Sold." 2 July 1980. Section number "Some of the Early Hotel History of Toledo." 1 January 1909. Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio Toledo, Ohio City Directories, 1911-1990. Taylor, MI: R. L. Polk & Company. Toledo History Scrapbooks. Local History Room, Toledo Public Library.

Toledo Times. "Charity Art." 31 October 1937. Waggoner, Clark. History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County. Toledo: Munsell and Company, Van Tassel, Charles Sumner. The Story of The Maumee Valley - Toledo and the Sandusky Region. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, 1929. 1888. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service 18-86) Section number - Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio Verbal Boundary Description The boundaries selected for this nomination include lots 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 243, 244, 245, Hotel Boundary Delineation. Lots 204-207 comprise the original site on which the hotel was constructed. Lot 208 incorporates the 1966 addition to the south elevation of the structure and the breezeway addition connecting the parking garage to the hotel.

Lots 243, 244, 245, 246, 247 contain the parking garage, a non- contributing structure, which was constructed in 1973. Continuation Sheet Boundary Justification National Park Service 246, and 247. The boundary line is shown on the accompanying map entitled Commodore Perry National Register of Historic Places (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 National Park Service Section number Photos Page - 1 Lucas County, Ohio The Following information is the same for the Commodore Perry Hotel Photographs February, 1997 Overview shot Superior Street elevation - 1st and 2nd story windows Superior Street elevation- window detail Superior Street - south corner Jefferson Street Elevation - 2nd story window detail Cornice detail - north tower - from 17th floor Cornice detail - south tower - close up Penthouse - Bay window Mechanical Room addition - top of 17th floor Elevator Door -first floor Arcade - Glass panel entrance door with transom PHOTO Description Dates: Direction North Continuation Sheet Southwest National Register of Historic Places Northeast (Jefferson Street) and northwest elevation 1966 addition Jefferson Street Elevation Commodore Perry Hotel United States Department of the Interior Jefferson Street elevation-1st and 2nd stories(Close up) (8-86) Property: NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 Section number Photos Page - Lucas County, Ohio Main Staircase - ground floor Lounge - Wide Angle Lounge- close-up of tri-fold door Main Dining Room - Ceiling Dining Room - Lobby Level - Mural Elevator Lobby - 12th floor Guest Room - 418 "Servidor" door and transom - Room 1527 "Servidor" door - detail of inner compartment Guest Room Bathroom - close-up of decorative tile over Penthouse - close-up of window hood 7th Floor - Opened up rooms Skyline View - Downtown Toledo, c.

1928 Southwest 25a 25b bathtub Penthouse Penthouse Curved Bay Porthole garbage chute National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Lounge - close-up of door lintel and cornice National Park Service Commodore Perry Hotel Lounge- Close up Lobby - Close up of original light fixture (8-86) Lounge - close-up of fanlight United States Department of the Interior Lucas County Circa late 1920s Commodore Perry Hotel, Toledo, Ohio COMMODORE 1870 Birdseye View Lucas County, Ohio HURON Commodore Perry Hotel (Site) SUPERIOR - HOUSE MILL MACHINE SHOR Commodore Perry Hotel (Site) Lucas County, Ohio 1881 Atlas 205 249 FEED 305 204 303 203 WHEELER 250 OPERA 299 209 269 265 180 298 Gin 246 309 243 306 295 244 245 310 BASH HOTEL STEAM 202 242 302 319 293 297 2.92 210 : 240 A 269 MACHINE SHOP M Commodore Perry Hotel (Site) Lucas County, Ohio 1891 Atlas 248 298 273 236 209 305 299 265 268 235 295 249 303 266 296 242 297 AMERICAN 215 262 140 291 293 720.

HOUSE 239 2.59 307. 124 2 60. 779 120k] 205y 130 2 - 728 % 245 292 294 322 HOTEL 135 274 12.25.25. MARKET 204 722 304 272 270 275 218 247 207 UNYON 302 1661 60 0 Lucas County, Ohio 1895 Sanborn Map MONROE WASHINGTON Commodore Perry Hotel (Site) SUPERIOR JEFFERSON HURON A N. SUPERIOR N. HURON 1905 Sanborn Map 155 JEFFERSON MONROE WASHINGTON Commodore Perry Hotel (Site) Lucas County, Ohio 156 154 1930 Chadwick Plat Book 244 HURON ST. Lucas County, Ohio Commodore Perry Hotel SUPERIOR ST. City Bk. Farmere Tr. Co. N.Y. L. W. Wachenhelmer et al. The Toledo Tr. Co. Tr. Port Toledo 130-32 502 Morrison The Bond Hotel Toledo Garages Inc. Sinclalr Walbridge Dennis Coghlin et al. (021) 1971 Sanborn Map JEFFERSON WASHINGTON MONROE Commodore Perry Hotel Lucas County, Ohio AUTO PAR N SUPERIOR 5-71 N.rd Lucas County, Ohio 1976 Sanborn Map MONROE WASHINGTON Commodore Perry Hotel N.

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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TOLEDO QUADRANGLE OHIO-MICHIGAN UNITED STATES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) HOTEL Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 Fax: 297-2496 September 18, 1997 National Register of Historic Places 1849 C. Street, NW NEW SUBMISSION Glen Echo Historic District Amos J. Loveday, Jr. State Historic Preservation Officer COUNTY 614/297-2470 Sincerely, SOCIETY Lucas enclosures HISTORICAL Franklin If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact this office. Dear Ms. Shull: SINCE 1885 Commodore Perry Hotel Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Park Service (2280) Washington, D. C. 20240