Nomination for Levy, Harry Milton, House

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 100240018 (Oct. 1990) JAN - 2 1997 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property Levy, Harry Milton, House historic name - other names/site number - .

Location street & number _ 2383 Observatory Avenue NZ not for publication city or town - N/Avicinity State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this E9 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 Signature of certifying official/Title 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Date of Action - See continuation sheet. - determined eligible for the J removed from the National -other, (explain:) _ Cincinnati Date 12-19-97 state Hamilton Register.

Registration Form National Register United States Department of the Interior Ohio National Park Service entered in the National Register. National Register of Historic Places State or Federal agency and bureau RECEIVED 2280 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or Dept. Head signature of the Ke OH county . code L zip code 45208 meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant 061 comments.) Hamilton County, Ohio . Classification X private Di building(s) - public-local D district L public-State - site - public-Federal - structure - object _ Total 6. Function or Use 7.

Description Late 19th and Early 20th Century walls - other - Stone foundation in the National Register Architectural Classification Historic Functions roof Number of contributing resources previously listed Tudor Revival Narrative Description Materials Noncontributing American Movements: Bungalow/Craftsman/ County and State Terra Cotta tile Current Functions (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Enter categories from instructions) Category of Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Half timber with brick Name of Property Name of related multiple property listing Levy House Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property Domestic, single dwelling (Check only one box) (Check as many boxes as apply) United States Department of the Interlor - Page - Cincinnati, Ohio lot was originally a side-yard for the Levy House, but was sold by the widowed Mrs.

Jeannette Feiss Levy in 1941, and low-rise modern apartment was constructed with a steel frame, a stone first story and brick and very deep eaves. wood railing and surmounted by the large.library window.This vertical geometrically precise appearance. The foundations and entire first floor Continuation Sheet wall-dormer features a herringbone pattern. National Park Service sidelights.The 3-bay west wing contains an enclosed porch on the first corner.Consisting of two-and-one-half stories and a basement, the house dormers and wall dormers. Heavy but crisply shaped brackets support the projecting bay at the first floor is capped by a shallow balcony with a are clad in irregularly laid and shaped pieces of gray and tan sandstone House from this lot as well as observatory Avenue. located at a prominent corner in the Hyde Park section of Cincinnati.

counteracts the horizontal layering of stone and brick and the low roof. although some panels have only headers laid vertically, and the rear The west wing, set back about ten feet, consists of three bays including National Register of Historic Places consists of a series of hips over the various wings and is punctuated by west) hallway, and the kitchen wing extends to the rear at the southeast The north facade is broken into two planes by a setback near the center Levy, Harry Milton, House buildings were built on plantings screen the Levy south, and a triangular lot along Madison Road to the west. The latter Section number 7 the recessed formal entrance near the center #2).The doorway The east portion, containing the living room on the first floor and library above, is dramatized by a single, wide, two-story window bay, the most notable feature of the facade.

The slightly Irregular in plan, the main rooms are arranged along a lateral (east- half-timbering above. The relatively low roof, of flat red tiles, panels are laid in regular alternation of headers and stretchers, subtlety The Harry Milton Levy House is an impressive single-family dwelling with deep mortar joints. The upper walls are clad in red brick, laid in floor and a bedroom and narrow sleeping porch above. on a rectangular property 109-feet wide and 300-feet deep. The Levy The exterior of the Levy House is outstanding in the quality and United States Department of the Interlor Cincinnati, Ohio decorative details include wall-mounted cast-iron light fixtures with Interior woodwork. Continuation Sheet Page rhythm according to the placement and width of the window openings, which are sometimes single but usually grouped.

This rhythmic variety National Register of Historic Places chimneys piercing the roof.The patinated copper the other The half-timbering at the second story consists of a heavy horizontal National Park Service porch at the southeast corner, with its battered stone walls, once open, articulation.The half-timbering is vertical in effect, as are the tall The north entrance, which appears to have been intended as the main. variation of the English Tudor style. new roofed pergola extends, terminating at the southwest corner into a element at the bottom, and slightly lighter ones at window sill height child's head flanked by stylized fish. which is compatible with the half-timbering of the house.

windows lighting the original servants' quarters in the attic (photo social entrance for the house, opens into a lateral east-west hallway has been tastefully enclosed (photo #3).On the rear of.the west wing a handling of materials, gives the design a good deal of its distinction. hand, provide a narrow horizontal line between the walls and roof.other contributes to the subtlety of the whole surface:clearly The windows, which are neatly framed by the half-timbering on the upper a stone arch #6).The fountain consists of a semicircular basin Section number 7 Levy, Harry Milton, House The balance of horizontal and vertical, along with the masterful The low-domed. octagonal pavilion (photo #5). Paired square wood pillars A few minor alterations have been made to the exterior.

The east globe shades and a charming wall-fountain facing the rear patio within resting on stone pedestals support the pavilion's heavily timbered roof, whether casements on the front and sides or double-hung sash at the yet with a certain freedom. The frieze and soffit of the eaves are of The openings of the main block are narrow, or grouped with vertical and at the top.Between these, the vertical timbers vary somewhat in entrance has been enlarged with an overdoor on heavy brackets and a new of smooth stone with a bas-relief plaque in the wall above featuring a stoop with two stone posts topped with stone globes (photo #4). The United States Department of the Interlor Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio off the driveway. room, the tall windows on the stair-landing, and an upstairs bedroom originally faced east. Large windows open to the north and south, with west (photo #10).

The walls have very shallow regular panelling, now arranged in a complex geometric pattern, with starbursts and Tudor room. century. solarium. Continuation Sheet The dining room features long casement windows flanking a double door to kitchen installed. This delightful space now serves as the family living. triangular side-yard.

The original main.living quarters seem to have been oriented away from the golf-course.only two narrow windows at the east end of the living The original elaborate kitchen complex in the southeast service wing was generous arched openings in the west wing that originally faced the National Register of Historic Places secondary entrance, which has become the main family entrance, directly rosettes as accents, derived from Jacobean examples of the early-l7th probably altered when the house was split into two apartments, and has well-proportioned,and elegant living room,lit by the shallow quadruple through a three-centered arch.The arch was closed when the house was the rear terrace, with a continuous transom (photo #ll).Glass doors respectively.

At the east end of the main stairhall opens National Park Service wear and an earlier been replaced by French limestone received the major changes in the recent renovation #13).The doors #i2).The front of the solarium wing now contains Section number _ divided into two units at the end of World war II, and has been square bay on the north, two slender mullioned casement windows on the round arches filled with sturdy mullions, leaded windows, and French removed, the interior walls panelled, and a completely contemporary east flanking the understated fireplace, and a similar window on the Page a lavatory and wet bar, and may always have been separate from the The interiors of the formal rooms of the Levy House are perhaps more open into the original solarium to the west.The solarium features bold North of the corridor is the large, and marble.From the solarium is to the the living #9).The original brown Rookwood tile by hard NPS Form 10-800 United States Department of the Interlor Page _ 4 Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Nevertheless, when the most recent renovation began in 1994, the room Setting National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Continuation Sheet lawn edged with flowerbeds and containing a swimming pool.The property associated bathrooms and closets.

There is an original angled bay facing unpainted wood railing consists of long panels filled with curvaceous, remain from the original occupancy by servants. and even the sides of the beams. are defined by metal fences rather than walls or heavy plantings. recent renovation added the terrace at the rear.An original six-foot- service) wing, with exposures on three sides. The third floor contains high stone wall runs straight south from the southwest corner of the through the use of steps, terraces and garden-walls.

In this vein, the seemed inadequate as a major room of the house.It was therefore redone central corridor to create a sitting room.Built-in wooden lockers concrete floor.The master bedroom suite is now in the south south over the dining room, and wide windows over the.solarium wing.At with its white plaster walls and a few leaded-glass fronted cupboards kitchen wing to the south boundary a long rectangular buildings to the west.The country club grounds on the east and south artist's studio, with its huge north-facing window, high ceiling, and a Cincinnati Times-Star article dated June 26,1941,it suggests an The main feature of the perhaps the entire the Section number - central second-story hall, with low straight-headed openings except for as a library, with magnificent mahogany panelling incorporating recessed The main staircase rises to a high landing with three tall leaded three bedrooms.

Originally there were four, but one was combined with a retains mature trees at the periphery supplemented with denser planting the service wing.The main staircase leads to a modest rectangular simpler but handsome back staircase is adjacent to the main stairs in to assure privacy from observatory Avenue and the adjacent apartment The stone first-story walls have always extended into the landscape relieved by delicate Adamesque swags and vertical reeding on the frieze The woodwork is a segmental arch leading to the southeast service wing. The west wing of the second floor consists of three bedrooms and United States Department of the Interior Cincinnati, Ohio slightly wider. Square in plan, the garage has three or four arched bays on each side.

The unifying hipped roof, of the same flat red terra-cotta original orange glazed-tile surfaces, wall radiators, concrete floor, on the east elevation, redesigning the library, and relocating the front Alterations Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places enlarging the original kitchen by removing pantries, enclosing the porch National Park Service Anchoring the southeast corner of the lot stands the stone garage with and a rotating car-wash device on the ceiling. blocking off the main stairway and installing a kitchen on the second walk farther away from the house. T-shaped elevation.The utilitarian interior of the garage retains the present owners who converted the house back to a single-family dwelling.

and adding the timber-framed pergola on the rear, enhancing the entrance are only three wide segmental-arched double garage doors, the center one an apartment above.Although according to the 1941 Times Star After several years of rehabilitation, they took residence in 1995. Levy, Harry Milton, House tiles as the house, is also slightly flared over the deep eaves. On all the garage was intended to house "five machines"(automobiles),there Section number 7 Between 1935 and the end of World war II, the Levy House was converted four sides there are distinctive dormers. Their roofs are jerkin-headed; their windows are cut back into the slopes of the roof, forming a quaint Section number _ Cincinnati, Ohio North Scale: 1 inch = 20 ft.

Bar Kitchen First floor Page Continuation Sheet Hall National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Levy, Harry Milton, House Unlted States Department of the Interior Second floor 341 431 Den 20'1 Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

[X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, ormethod of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. - 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. LG less than 50 years of age or achieved significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 E State Historic Preservation Office D Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register D Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government D University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other D recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Drecorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1917 Bibilography Register religious purposes. Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations individual distinction. unknown Cultural Affiliation Property is: for National Register listing.) Levy House Significant Person Architecture, Significant Dates Architect/Builder (Enter categories from instructions) our history.

A Property is associated with events that have made Narrative Statement of Significance County and State Areas of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Name of repository: Primary location of additional data: Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A significant in our past. distinguishable entity whose components lack A owned by a religious institution or used for a significant contribution to the broad patterns of CFR 67) has been requested (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) B Property is associated with the lives ofpersons within the past 50 years. (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualitying the property Hamilton County, Ohio 10. Geographical Data Cincinnati East, Ohio Quadrangle - - See continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By Walter E.

Langsam, Beth A. Sullebarger - date _ September 19, 1997 - telephone (513) 721-4506 city, or town - - state Ohio Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. Jamison, III 2383 Observatory Avenue (513) 321-4753 street & number _ - telephone - zip code a benefit in accordance with the National Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.

Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 45208 Cincinnati name Easting organization Photographs Additional Documentation Maps Cincinnati Preservation Association Continuation Sheets County and State Additional items Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Less than one acre Ohio Boundary Justification UTM References Property Owner Northing Acreage of Property A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Levy House Name of Property Estimated Burden Statement:Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1hours per response includinig time for reviewing (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Includes city lot on which the building is located.

Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name/title _ zip code45202 properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. Zone Paperwork Reduction Act Statement:This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate United States Department of the Interlor Cincinnati, Ohio Tudor Revival styles, which is rare in the Cincinnati area. The design blends elements that were modern for the time, reflecting the of the 16th and early-17th century, to form a unique amalgam.

The : quality of craftsmanship, particularly the exterior brickwork, is materials, half-timbering, and grouped casement and double-hung windows. infilling between the timbers, but brick, often arranged in decorative Continuation Sheet century American Tudor Revival.Additional vernacular examples have been articulation of the second-story surfaces, emphasizing the apparently include the rustic stone work; the horizontal division created by the National Register of Historic Places observed in Kent, outside London. 17th-century cottage in Coughton, Alcester, Warwickshire--and the other infilled timber framing is a common feature of the Tudor Revival style.

could then be infilled with a suitable material." In the book, English The characteristics of the Craftsman style reflected in the Levy House use of different materials at the first and second floors; the low roof integrate the building with the landscape.However, the house also with broad, overhanging eaves and brackets; wide dormers; and a porch Based on English building technique of the early 17th century, timber National Park Service under Criterion C as a distinguished design combining the Craftsman and The Levy House is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places Levy, Harry Milton, House English architecture of the Tudor and Jacobean periods the house to a single-family dwelling, after 50 years of two-family use.

In the use of exposed brick Levy house is unlike other Section number _ 8 Page - at Ampthill, Bedford, Bedfordshire, dating from 1812-1816. Both also outstanding, and has been maintained in the recent renovation to return exemplifies the Tudor Revival style in some aspects: the combination of examples of Tudor Revival in Cincinnati.A Field Guide to American contrast than the brick and dark-stained timbers of the Levy House. with battered piers.other strong characteristics are the gridlike structural half-timbering, and the use of stone walls and terraces that approach of the Arts& Crafts evocations of the historic in the early Cincinnati tended to be brick or stone; United States Department of the Interior Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio of Tudor Revival, mostly dating from the 1920s and 1930s.

Cincinnati has be stucco or concrete or used flatter stone, for a less textured effect. Southampton, NY; a house in Ridgefield, Connecticut (1908); the James Byrne Residence (1909) in Oyster Bay; the Charles A. Peabody, Jr. 1920s, while the other three homes were all built in the late 1920s. Grosvenor Atterbury graduated from Yale in 1891, and studied at Columbia Continuation Sheet The Architect Grosvenor Atterbury None display the unique combination of Tudor Revival and Craftsman beautifully textured Germano-Tudor structures." Here Atterbury employed National Register of Historic Places National Park Service A definitive attribution of the design of the Levy House to an architect walls at the ground floor to anchor the houses to the landscape. the flat red tile roofs and crisply shaped dormers, and the use of stone styles, the massing, or combination of materials seen in the Levy House.

street plan and the lavish plantings, while Atterbury was in charge of Lee,.or Elzner & Anderson--could possibly have authored the design.A Sheldon Close in Mariemont. The Mariemont project was built in the early Hyde Park;"Cobble Court,"the Marjorie Maxwell Graydon house in Indian Hill; the Harry Linch House in Avondalei. and a group of ten houses on Queens, New York. known for his design of Forest Hills planned garden city in a handful of Craftsman or Arts & Crafts dwellings, but these tended to Section number - firms who worked in that period--such as Burroughs & Deeken, Tietig & For Forest Hills, "Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.

developed the flowing Page 1956).The published work of this New York-based architect includes search among Cincinnati's early-2oth-century homes yielded many examples prominent examples of the unusual half-timbering with brick nogging seen Stylistic and geographical evidence points to Grosvenor Atterbury (1859- and the Ecole des Beaux Arts.A 1920 profile of Atterbury in Country Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York (begun 19o8).Atterbury did at. Life (Vol.38,no.5l) placed him among five other"Distinguished United States Department of the Interlor Cincinnati, Ohio Atterbury gradually altered his Southampton residence, known as "The The James Byrne Residence (1906) in Oyster Bay, was a large and rambling stone. (The Craftsman, April 1908, p.

105.) architecture, he was also praised in The Craftsman for his original National Register of Historic Places National Park Service patterns, and windows with small vertical panes. all shapes and sizes are most effectively set in unexpected places Continuation Sheet evident on the exterior of his house with its half-timbered walls and projecting, at times, from the most startling positions.

Levy, Harry Milton, House garden are harmoniously tied together through the use made of the local kept English type of country that forms.the environment.Windows of brick is an excellent example of Mr.Atterbury's versatility.The cement, and the second story is built of over-burned brick with half- well with the dark woodwork and add an accenting note to the well- whole."Unusual for the time was the construction of the exterior walls differences in height, and the varying colors of the brick contrast handling of the surfaces was another Atterbury trademark.This was 1940,in which the author comments,"The vigorous and highly textured foundation and first story of the house are of field rubble set in slates in what he considered one of his best efforts.

is featured in Long Island Country Houses and their Architects,1860- together at different periods and is a growth of Section number . his concern with texture, using rough wood, brick and multicolored timber construction, giving a delightful color effect." The house and dramatic lines of the tile roof, brick nogging in various roof line, always an important point for Atterbury, was formed of a The house is definitely English in type and in the way it settles ofdormers Page 3 multi-patterned brickwork resting on rough stone masonry.

Similarly the with real just veneer." Here Atterbury again showed Grosvenor Atterbury,"who was recognized for "the charm and originality structure with diverse shapes of the and and help to give the suggestion that the house has been put The house shares the sophistication of the Levy house in its varied Lodge," over time from a house given him by his father.It United States Department of the Interlor Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio In Mariemont (NROHP 7/24/1979), Atterbury designed the grouping of these ten houses of timbered field stone and stucco are designed for built, designed the Powel Crosley, Jr. House in College Hill in 1926-28 "Dutch Colonial" house in Lockland for Philip Carey, ca. 1930. parallels with the Levy House that Atterbury's work does, as shown above.

National Register of Historic Places been designed by Atterbury. surface texture that was probably the work of an out-of-town architect. Revival mansion for Lawrence Jones, also in Indian Hill.Baum, who had before the Levy House was built.Delano & Aldrich were engaged by John just opened his office in New York one year before the Levy House was green lined with duplex cottages. The 1925 brochure for Mariemont:The Atterbury's office was located. Theoretically, the camp could also have A handful of high-quality New York firms in addition to Grosvenor Development in Hyde Park National Park Service Harry Linch, which appeared in.The Architect in June 1928, is a French families..." The end houses of the grouping each have studio windows, tower at the end. and each house has a steam-heated garage, like the Levy House.

large estates.Both sides of observatory Avenue east of Madison Road Shinnecock. As'it happens the Levys also had a camp at Tupper Lake in At the turn of the century, this area of Hyde Park was divided into Continuation Sheet Schmidlappis a Spanish Eclectic villa with buff stone walls;low- at the ground hipped tile with a circular stair Section number _ .

Page - the Adirondack Mountains, indicating a connection to New York, where country house with textured stone walls, tall windows and French doors New Town, describes the design."Elizabethan in style of architecture, integrated with the sloping site through the use of terraces and garden treatment of rustic log structures on Long Island at Water Mill and frame the view of the river to the south.The house for J.Emery in the late 192o's to assist with Carew Tower and design his United States Department of the Interlor Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Andrew Erkenbrecher, W. B. Kahn, John Stettinius, and the Longworth for the Erkenbrecher and Fischer subdivision, the Cincinnati Golf Club The house was described in the 1941 Times-Star article as being built of Road.

Page Continuation Sheet Levy's fortune derived from a wholesale whiskey business, distributing The Levys National Park Service Stettinius house had been demolished by that time, apparently to create had already been developed into generous residential properties--for sold these lots (now occupied by the Levy house) to Henry Stettinius, From city directories and his is known that Harry Milton years as a "capitalist and philanthropist" to extensive donations which The first president of the Golf Club was William Howard Taft, then judge from the J.V.B. Scarborough Estate, which extended north from Grandin since the late-l9th century, and were further subdivided for residences National Register of Historic Places were sold to Jeannette Levy, and the Levys completed construction of a new house by the next year.

contributed to the stability of the large house, and to the reputed cost In the winter of 1897 when the land on Observatory Avenue was platted were part of the early development of Hyde Park.The land east of the president of the United States and Chief Justice of the U.S. all of the subdivision was taken for the golf course.Six in the early-2oth century. triangular property at 2379 Madison Road.In 1916,these combined lots for the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth District of $200,000,a small fortune in 1917.A 1922 atlas shows that the Section number - Hoffheimer nephew of the Levys who spent.quite a bit of leased it to expand their golf course, which grew out of several who resided with his wife Barbara, in a wood-frame house on a large family. The properties along observatory had had large-scale development Supreme Court).

The founders leased land for the original course in 1895 have not been identified except for his loyalty to his law-school alma Cincinnati Country Club merged in 1924 with the Cincinnati Golf Club.) time there as a child remembers that there were once ponds in the yard. high-quality Kentucky whiskey.He retired early and devoted his later informal small courses on private property nearby on Grandin United States Department of the Interlor Section number _ Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati may well be proud of this firm, which has long been outside itself as a jobbing market for fine Kentucky whisky: possible." Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places whisky house in the country. another house in the country. Page Levy & Bro.is closely identified with the development of the Art Museum director J.H.Gest and historian Charles T.Greve.

annually to the jobbing trade more fine Kentucky whisky than recognized by the straight whisky trade as the exclusively certainly is entitled to the fullest recognition as a philanthropist, National Park Service for local high school contestants at the old Cincinnati gym grounds on there is no evidence of his having practiced law.

presumably being the brother.The 1888.Centennial Review of Cincinnati for his benefactions for years have been of the most generous nature schools and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1882,although events in 1912,along with such illustrious Cincinnatians as attorney Levy, Harry Milton, House James Levy & Brother,33 Sycamore Street.The name of James promotional publication, City of cincinnati and Its Resources): impossible the recognition by the jobbing trade of any city was listed as a salesman for the firm of James Levy & Bro.,Albert yet the firm of James Levy& Bro.has not only made Cincinnati first year that local scholarships to the university were made MPS Form 10-800-e Elliott Pendleton, department-store magnate Stewart Shillito, Cincinnati recognized as such, but has plucked the laurels Louisville, the firm being now able to boast of selling described him as "one of Cincinnati's foremost capitalists, and Twenty years ago Louisville would have considered as The concern for quality on which this business depended is also Among his earliest philanthropies was his personally financing the [Harvard] Club [of Cincinnati] used to sponsor a scholastic field meet attendance ofa group of Cincinnati students at Harvard in 1892, the after 1914,when the Cuvier Press Club's Newspaper Reference Book It appears that Harry Milton Levy was a son of Albert Levy because he United States Department of the Interlor Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Avondale, to which many Jewish families moved during the early 20th Before World War I, Cincinnati's social directories were published under century.

National Register of Historic Places attention to those institutions of charity and philanthropy that have various names, most outside Cincinnati. These were remarkably inclusive Continuation Sheet retreat for the wealthy. elaborate pressed-brick Chateauesque residence. time to encourage public improvements in his city and to give especial associated with the tobacco and clothing industries, and thus connected was conducted under the firm of Krohn, Feiss & Company...Mr. Feiss found National Park Service associated with both "the extensive shoe manufacturing firm of Krohn, His wife Jeannette Feiss Levy was a member of a prominent Jewish.family without regard to their mercantile and manufacturing occupations.It is 1908 Blue Book. Levy was born Jeanette Feiss,.and that the couple had a summer residence Albert and James Levy in 1886, and Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Milton Levy in the philanthropy.The Levys playeda role in the most "exclusive"aspects of Sarah Wyler, who married in 1869. Feiss was "a very prominent business done so much.to lessen suffering and encourage higher education in Jeanette Feiss Levy was the daughter of Leopold Feiss.(1832-1901)and Jews were still included.The 1919-20 Blue Book informs us that Mrs. After World War II, however, Mrs. Devereux's Blue Book of Cincinnati MPS Form 10-800 Section number _ is, about 1910, shortly before the Hyde Park house was conceived. Before moving to Hyde Park, Harry M. Levy lived in East Walnut Hills, at 2933 World Wars I and II.

Hyde Park, where the house is located, was for the period, listing many prominent German-Americans and/or Jews, and although a sampling of the area's most prominent German-Americans and Page Fechheimer & Company...[and] with the wholesale tobacco business, which developed at the turn of the century as a modern residential community, The 1940 Enquirer obituary indicates that Levy had "retired from active Fairfield Avenue, from at least 1904 until 1916 in an impressive and with some of the leading Jewish families of the area and a tradition of participation in distillery interests approximately 3o years ago," that United States Department of the Interlor Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Country Club and Golf Club, and not far from East walnut About 1935, during the Great Depression, the Levys moved from the house to the Hotel Alms, a then-fashionable residential hotel in nearby Walnut It was probably subdivided before the end of World war II into two.

Cousy, then a University of Cincinnati basketball coach and later a war. philanthropies. Page Continuation Sheet renowned coach for the Boston Celtics. The property was acquired in 1992 by the present owners. After several 1940,Mrs.Levy sold the property, including the triangular lot facing graduate of the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and only the vacant triangular lot on Observatory was developed. The Levy Hills.

He then proceeded to build one of Cincinnati's finest residences National Park Service fashionable Hyde Park neighborhood, adjacent to the grounds of the elite successful real-estate firms.The senior Shells are said to have moved herself vice-president of the Morton [shoe] Last Company, shared the in the Cincinnati city directories, the house was occupied in 1943-44 by high-quality whiskey business about 1910 when he was less than 40 years Mrs.Elizabeth Weatherhead) of Charles Morton and The 1941 Times-Star article announced that the "palatial residence built National Register of Historic Places By 1945, one was occupied by West Shell, Sr.,a well-respected insurance residence survived intact and was purchased in 1942by John J.Morton. home in 1995.Their architect was Donald Beck 1949),a talented on the brink of American entry into World War I.

duplex with West Shell, and after 1949 with John J. Morton, president of agent whose son West established one of the area's most here from the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming.after their sons left.for NPS Form 10-8004 the family firm, until about 1951. A series of socially and commercially prominent families occupied the two units throughout the 1950s, years of rehabilitation, they occupied the residence as a single-family Section number separate horizontally-divided apartments. According to annual listings Hills, reputedly owing to a financial crisis. During this time the house may have been rented for income.After Harry Milton Levy's death in Madison Road west of the house site to developer George J. Hare & Son.

Hebrew circles"--perhaps providing a model for Harry M.Levy's Levy, Harry Milton, House Section number _ Cincinnati, Ohio Page historically appropriate enlargements and renovations of older buildings Continuation Sheet National Park Service for a distinguished clientele. Interior Design.Donald Beck & Associates are known for their National Register of Historic Places Unlted States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-800-e Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Atlas of City of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: E. Robinson, 1883-4. The Cincinnati Address Book, Elite Family Directory, Club Membership. The Cincinnati Country Club 1903-1965. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Country Club, 1965. Thomson, 1879. Cuvier Press Club, 1914. "Distinguished Architects," Country Life, Vol. 38 (1920) 51. Suburbs. Cincinnati: The Graphic Press, 1886. Representative Citizens.

Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1904. Biography of Leopold Feiss, II, 779-80. Harry M. Hoffheimer. Telephone Interview, 15 September 97. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Museum Center, 1997. 1988. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet to Greater Cincinnati. Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Historical Society, Langsam, Walter E., with photographs by Alice Weston. Great Houses of Unlted States Department of the Interior Cincinnati Society Blue Book and Family Directory.Cincinnati:Peter G. Giglierano, Geoffrey J., and Deborah A.Overmyer.The Bicentennial Guide Cincinnati "The Queen City," Newspaper Reference Book.

Cincinnati:The Langsam, Walter E."A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Who Worked The Graphic Blue Book and Family Directory, 1886-87, Cincinnati and "Contributor to Charities Is Dead," Cincinnati Enquirer 11, 194o) [Cincinnati Historical Society]. Dau's Blue Book of Selected Names of Cincinnati& Suburban Towns.New York City, 1908. Section number Page OMB Approval Ma 10240018 Page Evans, Tony, and Candida Lycett Green. English Cottages.Introduction by in the Greater Cincinnati Area before World War II."(Unpub.,1996.) John Betjeman. New York:The Viking Press,1983,pp.32-33,72-73. United States Department of the Interior Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Mackay, B. Robert, Anthony K. Baker, and Carol A. Traynor. Long Island Norton & Co., 1997. York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Mrs. Devereux's Blue Book of Cincinnati Society, 1919-20, 1926-27, 1937-38.

Cincinnati: Marion Devereux, 1919, 1926, 1937. Olding, Mary Ann. "Gruen Watch Company-Time Hill, Nomination to the Real Estate Atlas of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: Sanborn Insurance Map. Co., 1922. Records of the Hamilton County Recorder's Office, Cincinnati, Ohio. XLV, 45 (Winter 1987). Publications Inc., 1979. 26, 1941) [Cincinnati Historical Society]. Williams City Directories, 1914-97. 313. National Park Service Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the Continuation Sheet the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in association with W.W. National Register of Historic Places," 1995. & Virginia.A Field Guide to American Houses.New Section number Page . Page Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940.

New York:Society for "The Theory of Grosvenor 1909) 300- Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Range (2) in the City of Cincinnati, County of Hamilton, State of Ohio, eighty nine (89 ) degrees, Forty two (42') minutes east, one hundred and 73/100 (162.73) feet being measured along the south line of observatory westwardly on a curved line, tangent to the last described course and detlecting towards the south, having a radius of one hundred and forty and 12/100 (140.12) feet for a distance of twelve and 04/100 (12.04) fifty (50') minutes fifteen seconds west, twelve and 04/100 (12.04) south eighty-nine (89 ) degrees, forty two (42') minutes east for a. (1 ) degree, thirteen (13') minutes east for a distance of three hundred in Deed Book 3668, page 842, Hamilton County, Ohio Recorder's Office.

Verbal Boundary Justification historic signifiance and integrity.

The boundary for this nomination coincides with the legal boundary of National Park Service Verbal Boundary Description Being the same premises conveyed to the grantor herein by deed recorded and being more particularly described as follows, to wit: Continuation Sheet line of observatory Avenue and the east line of Madison Road produced to National Register of Historic Places Unlted States Department of the Interior an intersection (the above mentioned one hundred and sixty two and distance of one hundred and twenty two feet; thence north one forty two (42')minutes west along the south line of observatory Avenue sixty two and 73/100 (162.73) feet from the intersection of the south Section number 10 Page Avenue produced westwardly): thence north eighty-nine (89 ) degrees, Page the property, as described above, which is essential to the property's Beginning at a point in the south line of Observatory Avenue, South Lying and being in Section Thirty Two four Fractional (3oo) feet to the place of beginning.

feet of said curve bearing south eighty seven ) degrees, Section number _ Levy, Harry Milton, House Cincinnati, Ohio Page Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places 2383 Unlted States Department of the Interior 1221 Levy, Harry Milton, House, Cincinnati, Ohio. Atlas of-City of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: E. Robinson, 1883-84 584 33 2089 1673. 7.11 EASTBOURI 7282 Neff Andrew William NPS Form 10-000+ United States Department of the Interior Section number _ Cincinnati, Ohio Observatory Avenue, Cincinnati September 11, 1997 342 West Fourth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 1. Front elevation, looking southwest 3. South & east elevations, looking northwest 4. Entrance, east elevation, looking west 5. South elevation, looking north 6. Detail of wall fountain, looking east 7. West elevation, looking southeast 8. Garage, looking southeast 10.

Living room, looking east 11. Dining room, looking south 12. Solarium, looking south 13. Kitchen, looking south 14. Main Stair, looking east 15: Library, looking east Address: Building: Photographer: Page Cincinnati Preservation Assn. Beth Sullebarger Date: Location of negatives: List of Photographs Continuation Sheet The following information pertains to all photographs: County/State: National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Levy, Harry Mil ton, House Hamilton County, ohio OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 9.

Hallway, 1st floor, looking east UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NAME : DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE DATE REJECT MULTIPLE RETURN DISCIPLINE 2/16/98 REVIEWER 1/25/98 1/02/98 RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE RECEIVED: National Register Entered in the REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: APPEAL: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton LESS THAN 5O YEARS: HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. Levy, Hamy huiton, House HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO, HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. Ley, Hamy milton, Howe HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO. HAMILTON CO.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CINCINNATI EAST QUADRANGLE 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) - State Route ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES CINCINNATI EAST, OHIO City Planning Department RECD BY OHPO NOV2, 41997 Suite 720 Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513) 352-4880 (513) 352-4853 Fax Leon A. Meyer November 20, 1997 Director of City Planning Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board c/o Barb Powers, Department Head, Planning Inventory & Registration Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 At its meeting on November 17, 1997, the City of Cincinnati's Historic Conservation House located at 2383 Observatory Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Board found that the Harry Milton Levy House meets criteria "C" for listing in the Christopher A.

Cain MMH/mmh Sincerely City of Cincinnati Equal Opportunity Employer Urban Conservator Two Centennial Plaza Dear Barb, National Register.If you have any questions concerning this letter please call me at 805 Central Avenue Board voted to support the National Register nomination for the Harry Milton Levy