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MAR 2 01998 REGISTRATION FORM NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." architectural classifications, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories form the 1. Name of Property 2. Location Drive, Newport Drive, Overhill Road, Oak Knoll Drive, Brookwood Road, and Alburn Drive state Ohio county Mahoning code 099 4. State/Federal Agency Certification _request for determination of eligibility meets Ehe documentation standards for registering properties in the professional requirements set forth in 36CFR Part 60. nomination city 4-13-98 nationally significant continuation sheets. Boardman Township Historic name RECEIVED 2280 I recommend that this property be considered for individual properties and districts. other names/site number Register Criteria.
As the designated authority under the National Historic to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and zip code Signature of certifying official United States Department of the Interior National Park Service does not meet the National requested.If any item does not apply to the property being Forest Glen Estates Historic District Windsor Road south of Alburn bounded by Market Street, NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES See instructions in How Street and number opinion, the property x meets roughly Forest Hill Road, Mill Creek Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this instructions.
Place additional entries and narrative items on 44512 none date For functions, continuation sheet for additional comments.) This form is for use in nominating or requestingdeterminations marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information Mahoning County, OH does not meet the National Register criteria. ( additional comments.) 4. National Park Service Certification 5.
Classification _X private public - local public - federal structure district meets building site object Date removed from the National Register National Register Forest Glen Estates USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form See continuation sheet for entered in the National Register Signature of commenting or other official determined not eligible for the of action State of Federal agency and bureau page 2 Category of Property only one box public - state In my opinion, the property Ownership of property (Check as many boxes as apply) Mahoning County, OH 0 sites o structures 0 objects TOTAL 40 6. Function Domestic, single dwelling Landscape, park Landscape, street furniture 7.
Description Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial, foundation: block wood (weatherboard, shingle), limestone, brick, stucco, aluminum, vinyl roof: slate, wood shingle, asphalt TOTAL Noncontributing Category: National Register 106 buildings Number of Resources within Property Forest Glen Estates Materials (Enter categories from instructions) French Colonial Revival Number of contributing resources previously listed in the condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Historic Functions categories from instructions) Domestic, secondary structure Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current Current Functions category from instructions) see Continuation Sheet 7 and following USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form page 3 property is not part of a multiple property listing.) N/A roof : other: wood, limestone, brick, sandstone, aluminum, vinyl Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if walls: Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) Mahoning County, OH page 7 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION residential subdivision of approximately 130 acres, platted between 1923 Central Square, at the north side of Boardman Township, between Market landscape architects of Cleveland, Ohio.
148 and 232, 70 and 97 Overhill Road, and the rear lot lines of the west Stratford Road, opened in 1954, is excluded from the district. Brookwood USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form the 1950s. The district was built as the earliest Youngstown area neighborhood Alburn Drive and the streets where no houses were constructed until after Forest Glen Estates Historic District Kreider Entrance of Mill Creek Park on the west side of the street. most houses have front walks that access the driveway, not the street the completion of some streets and the sale of lots along other streets. Housing construction occurred most intensely before 1931,between 1936 side of Market Street (SR 7),with Newport Drive Park facing onto Market imposed by the 1930s Depression and World War II in the 1940s prevented and 1941 and following 1946.
Houses designed by Munroe Copper, the principal architect of record, continued to be constructed into the Kreider-Rotzel Real Estate Company, of Youngstown, Ohio. 4138 Oak Knoll Drive and at lots 319 and 329, 4128 and 4135 Windsor Road. On the west, the district is bounded by the rear lot lines of houses on Windsor Road, Brookwood Drive from its intersection with Overhill Road to the south, the district ends at lot 19, 4845 Oak Knoll Drive and lot 68, The Forest Glen Estates Historic District is bounded on the east by lots In keeping with the auto-dependance of transportation, landscaping and common landscaped areas were designed by Pitkin and Mott, The economic constraints side driveways.
The district is approximately2-i/2 miles south of Youngstown's Forest Glen and Lake Newport Plats but excludes Windsor Road north of The streets, Road between Mill Creek and Oak Knoll Drives did not gain houses until the intersection of Forest Hill Road,including two houses and the Street and landscape design and installation was complete by 1931. Mahoning County, OH page 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 lar housing allotments in other suburbanizing cities, Forest Glen Estates Besides the requirement of each residence to be a single dwelling, each Kreider-Rotzel Realty Company.
Deed restrictions required all residents restricted to lawn, landscaping or flower gardens, vegetable gardens were areas included the park at the east end of Newport Drive, the landscaped Drive, the boulevard strip down the center of Newport Drive and the in winter and other general maintenance (Meub, 1997). center, farther west on Shields Road (Vindicator, 1921; Manning, 1922). layout and landscape details for Forest Glen Estates, the land just north Forest Glen Estates Historic District From its inception Forest Glen Estates was restricted to detached single be Caucasian. present intersection of Shields and Brookwood Roads and Market Street.
Some of the deed restrictions covered landscape issues.The front yard permitted within the Forest Glen Estates plat.Louis S.Kreider, presi- USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form landscaped islands at the west end of Overhill Road at Brookwood.This edge or public sidewalk. triangular park at the intersection of Forest Hill Road and Oak Knoll On the west side of Mill Creek Park, Manning proposed another new village he tied Market Street and Glenwood Avenue to a new village center at the The siting of the district reflected the 1922 urban and park design was to be deeper than the width of the house. The front yard was that maintained common landscaped spaces (Kreider, 1997).
Landscaped dent of the development company, continued involved participation in the mended that Mill Creek be dammed to create a lake in a low, swampy area The Cleveland landscape architecture firm of Pitkin and Mott designed the development of each property as a residence was constructed.Like simi- fund or the development company paid for street sidewalks to be shoveled Manning recom- to be behind the front house lines.Attached garage doorways could not above the creek gorge.The Manning design called for drives on either The new subdivision joined Market and enhance the existing park in the Mill Creek gorge.
Manning had been engaged by the Mill Creek Park Commissioners to expand and plot plan for both residence and outbuildings were approved by family dwellings.Not even along Market area that had gained Mahoning County, OH page 9 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SECTION 7 Street, Forest Glen Estates had substantial, architect-designed single 23). Newport Drive, with a center boulevard strip, ran west to the banks were never constructed, although the plats, streets and landscaping was (Pitkin and Mott, 1926). The detail of the Pitkin and Mott landscape was relatively elaborate. Washington, DC.
Apparently, the cherry trees were not hardy as far north LANDSCAPE CHARACTER as Mahoning County and crab apple trees were substituted.Street lights CONTINUATION SHEET Mott design specified landscape islands or parks at some intersections, Shrubs were in mulched beds.Likely these beds had spring bulbs.Privet that ran east-west up the bank of Mill Creek or ran north-south across yards.The higher elevations of the plat area had remnants of a mature a design feature that had no precedent in greater Youngstown (photo 27). Forest Glen Estates Historic District of Youngstown that had strictly east-west or north-south grid of streets. Each street had low concrete curbs that included a swale for storm water and dramatic of these trees were retained as the backbone of the district edge shade trees.
USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form an elliptical landscaped park on the west side of Market Street (photo bank of Lake Pitkin and Mott design for Forest Glen Estates Along the east the bank. Curving streets were a divergence from the predominant pattern edge tree lawn. beech-maple forest; other parts had mature red oaks. The most healthy were placed on rear lot lines to ensure that street trees could be large planting of Japanese cherry trees, like those then being planted in architects. hedges were popular. Norway spruce and Colorado blue spruce, and deciduous, flowering shrubs.
drainage.The curbs had low catch basins to collect rain water into a and tall.All streets had 4'concrete sidewalks bordering a wide street- Fences were not used at the yard edge or at side The Cleveland firm designed the street layout in gently curving streets had larger lots responding to Manning's suggested "estate houses"(these The landscaped islands had a mix of evergreen, usually Scotch pines, Tree lawn trees were specified by the site landscape Mahoning County, OH page 10 CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 west of Oak Knoll is contained within stone-faced retaining walls, a STREET-BY-STREET DESCRIPTIONS Forest Glen Estates Historic District earliest houses of the district.
shrubs are replaced,yet similar to original deciduous planting.Lots Glenwood Avenue Extension).It was part of the first plat of Forest Glen East-West Streets from the south: a side was set aside for landscaping.Forest Hill Road has three of the The Newport Drive boulevard strip survives with several original crab The creek that crossed the backyards on the north side of Newport Drive the east endof Newport Drive retains original Scotch pine trees.The remain with a few original Scotch pines 29).Some of the original USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form remained part of the park land with sidewalks and original street lights. east of Oak Knoll and the south backyards of Newport/Mill Creek Drives house has raised berms with conifers planted. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES valued part of several yard landscapes.
landscape character streets curve gently street. The two Estates in 1923. It was platted to be 60' wide with 17 house lots overhead wires.The deep setback of houses masks the closeness of each remain as back yard trees along Mill Creek Drive and Forest Hill Road. The mature canopy of deciduous trees is enhanced by the lack of traffic islands at the intersection of Brookwood and Overhill Roads Conifers are planted only as Mahoning County, OH page 11 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SECTION 7 two blocks between Market and Brookwood, including the residence on the was platted to be 60' wide with 31 lots. Most lots are between 70' and The east end of Mill Creek Drive has three of the earliest houses and 110'. Oak Knoll Drive between Newport and Overhill was platted in 1929 lots on each side of the street in 1929. An additional 15 lots were the district.
CONTINUATION SHEET Forest Glen Estates Historic District in the historic district. The eastern block of Newport Drive was part of the second plat in Forest USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form most elaborate houses built in Forest Glen Estates. North-South Street from the east: Windsor Road runs from Overhill Road north to Midlothian tree-planted boulevard strip in the center(not noted on the1924 plat Newport Drive runs from an elliptical park at Market Street to the bank 130' in the later plat.A creek runs on the north side of the north lots Overhill Road were platted in 1928 on the east side of the street and in Glen Estates, in 1924 with 19 lots. Overhill Road runs northeast from the intersection at the start of Hill Road have 60'-70' frontage, except for the pie-shaped, irregular border of the City of Youngstown).
It was platted as 60' wide with six earliest plat of Forest Glen Estates.The fifteen lots south of Forest northwest side of Brookwood, are part of the district.Mill Creek Drive The street from Oak Knoll Drive to 1-1/2 blocks of Mill Creek Drive was part of the first 1923. Mahoning County, OH CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 Glenwood Avenue, it was one of the main roads south from the city of well as lots nearer Market Street, perhaps because Manning, Pitkin and the twentieth century: Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, French Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Many houses have been unaltered since their construction. For many, the original clapboard. Several other houses have had the slate roof styles.
Forest Glen Estates Historic District district has houses of various revival styles popular after the turn of BUILDING STYLES/TYPES are wood frame construction. cohesiveness of the district are the similarity of scale with all houses primary exterior alteration has been the enclosure of the rear porch or been demolished or severely altered since the beginning of Forest Glen USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form streets of the new village at Shields Road and Market Street.The eight NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES elaborate houses are along Newport Drive and at street corners. the other new streets of Forest Glen Estates.
The district is a cohesive collection of housesof similar scale and Mott and Kreider conceived the street as more of a traffic artery than Brookwood Road was known as Glenwood Avenue Extension in 1923.As with most being 7o'-8o'.windsor Road is the only straight street in the page 12 added on the west side of the street in 1931. These are not a part of Windsor Road lots are 65' to 145' clear presentation of architectural style with much detail. The most being 1-1/2 or two-stories. terrace.
small panes.All houses have masonry block full foundations.All houses slate or wood shingled.windows are usually double-hung and always have Most display the Forest Glen Estates Historic District because only four houses were mass with "additions."Houses usually have gabled roofs which often are Nearly all houses are composed of a main, lots along it southeast of Mill Creek Drive were part of the original The integrity of three houses has been Several houses have had aluminum or vinyl siding cover the Mahoning County, OH page 13 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SECTION 7 Mill Creek Drive had the front doorway replaced, 4845 Oak Knoll Drive had nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania farmhouse characteristics.
These hung windows with small panes, usually 6/6 or 8/8 above and 9/6 or 12/8 below, gabled wall dormers, second stories that overhang the first story Most often, Colonial Revival materials used in this district are a mix of coursed rubble limestone fieldstone and clapboards. Often the clapboard is beaded. have cornerboards, occasionally have cornice returns on the gable sides. date of photo 3 1930 1928 1936 1927 1932 1926 const. arch./builder Colonial Revival Forest Glen Estates Historic District Architectural style architect unknown Most frequently,Forest Glen Colonial Revival houses interpret early Details that are frequently repeated throughout the district are double- CONTINUATION SHEET Dunn and Copper the wood shingles replaced by clapboard.
USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 4135 Windsor Road 136 Forest Hill Road 50 Forest Hill Road 4802 Oak Knoll Drive 84 Mill Creek Drive often on the front or a main a massive center ridge chimney. Dunn & Copper 414l Windsor Drive 109 Overhill Road 4125 Oak Knoll Drive occasionally, shingles or stucco. Colonial Revival This is the most common style of house in the district. 1937 1929 doorwayswith These Colonial Revival houses never Mahoning County, OH page 14 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SECTION 7 photo 5 photo 4 photo 3 photo 2 4580 Brookwood Road photo 14 Dunn & Copper photo 3, 9 1940 1930 1939 1928 1938 1932 1929 1941 1936 1937 stone 1926 shingles end.
brick Clarence Kissinger clap architect unknown Clarence Kissinger photo 10 CONTINUATION SHEET This is the next most common style of house in the 122 Forest Hill Road Forest Glen Estates Historic District central decorative element. is more restrained than on the Georgian Revival residences. The Classical Revival one bay additions that often have a complementary"addition"on the other 4139 Windsor Road USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 171 Newport Drive 152 Forest Hill Drive 26 Mill Creek Drive 4263 Oak Knoll Drive Dunn & Copper Dunn & Copper photo 11 156 Overhill Road 221 Overhill Road 4129 Oak Knoll Drive cornices than do the Colonial Revival houses.
Their decoration, however, 4845 Oak Knoll Drive buildings."Additions" are restricted to end porches or other one-story, photo 13 They also often have more elaborate window These houses usually have the front doorway or portico as the Mahoning County, OH page 15 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 GEORGIAN REVIVAL HOUSES arch. unknown photo 8 70 Overhill Road photo 4, 20 photo 6, 7, 23, 24 photo 16 4251 Oak Knoll Drive 4455 Oak Knoll Road photo 10 1940 1930 1929 1932 1936 1926 1928 1941 materials. architect unknown The Tudor Revival designs are decidedly asymmetric with projecting gabled Forest Glen Estates Historic District Tudor Revival USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 4128 Windsor Road 78 Newport Drive with the doorway centered in the front. has a three-part house cornice. no architect Often the window above the doorway or the staircase clapboard and brick.
123 Forest Hill Road Often the stucco has half-timber detailing. One Tudor These houses are gabledor hip roofs that are prominent design elements of the residences. Meade & Hamilton window is a part of the decorative embellishment.Usually the residence 151 Newport Drive All are end-gables or have hip 25 Mill Creek Drive Small & Rowley Dunn & Copper 4229 Oak Knoll Road It has a heavy entablature, often pilasters or the Georgian, Classical and Dutch Colonial houses. variation. Dutch Colonial central design element. Some Tudor Revival houses have some diamond pane windows.
Most are generally symmetric The Tudor houses have Four of the houses are Dutch Colonial with end gables, slide roofs and great window style Construction is usually of brick or stucco and may be a mix of the two Mahoning County, OH page 16 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SECTION 7 photo 1, 27 photo 17 Dunn & Copper the street. 1930 1928 1923 1926 brick. glass roof. Barton Brooke Forest Glen Estates Historic District architect unknown no architect FRENCH COLONIAL are dissimilar in design, unified by the use of casement windows and CONTINUATION SHEET SECONDARY STRUCTURES DUTCH COLONIAL 89 Newport Drive All the Forest Glen houses have garages.Design guidelines required that Most are attached with entry from the rear.
USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form residence.One house has a non-historic garage that has its doors facing 26 Forest Hill Road garage photo 19 trellising.Two are brick,one is stucco and one is a mix of stone and 25 Mill Creek Drive garage style and similar construction materials as the residence(photo 2o& 26 Forest Hill Road photo 26 66 Mill Creek Drive the design of the house. photo 10 Usually the design of the garage looks like a wing of the house.Two 4812 Oak Knoll Drive and/or brick. Their architects are unknown. garages. summerhouse with an attached greenhouse.The greenhouse has lost its earliest houses of the district.The designs utilize shingles, clapboard behind the house.
The design of the garage was supposed to complement French Colonial Revival Four houses are French Colonial Revival.They prominent roofs.One has a hip-gambrel roof, one has a jerkin-head roof, houses have original flat-roof garages that do not complement the the garage doorway beon the back of the house or that the garage be Mahoning County, OH page 17 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 photo 105 Overhill Road summerhouse photo 21 4296 Oak Knoll Drive 76 Overhill Road NON-CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS Of the eighteen houses built between 1947 and 1950, eleven were not other eligible houses in the district. materials and age, these houses are considered non-contributing.
These seven houses meet the criteria of the historic district in design, other houses in the district.For others, mass and roof line are not Pennsylvania farmhouse design of a central mass with gabled additions. Forest Glen Estates Historic District USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form a mix of fieldstone and clapboard in a style that alludes to eastern 26 Mill Creek Drive garage 104 Newport Drive 144 Mill Creek Drive 4229 Oak Knoll Drive garage 108 Overhill Road 147 Mill Creek Drive photo 22 architect is unknown.
buildings as only their age separates then from meeting the criteria of CONTRIBUTING BUILDINGS LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OLD Eighteen houses were added between 1947 and and 1951 city Mahoning County, OH page 18 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET SECTION 7 NON-CONTRIBUTING STRUCTURES 130 Forest Hill Road 105 Newport Drive 25 Forest Hill Road 33 Newport Drive Forest Glen Estates Historic District The four-lane beam bridge is faced with fieldstone. Oak Knoll Drive 4879 Brookwood Road 4138 Windsor Road USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form 4231 Brookwood Road 141 Mill Creek Drive over Newport Drive at the Kreider Entrance to Mill Creek Park (photo 12). 97 Overhill Road 85 Mill Creek Drive HOUSES INSIDE PROPOSED DISTRICT AND DATING AFTER 1950 Mahoning County, OH page 4 8.
Significance type, period, or method of construction or represents Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information a cemetery. a reconstructed building, object or structure. Period of Significance: 1923-1947 Significant Dates: 1923 purposes. Architecture, history. Landscape Architecture, Areas of Significance entity whose components lack individual distinction. Register listing) a commemorative property. boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for the National important in prehistory or history. values, or represents a significant and distinguishable the work of a master, or possesses high artistic less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.
significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a Forest Glen Estates USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form removed from its original location. Community Planning and Development Criteria Considerations (Mark"x"in all the boxes that apply.) a birth place or a grave. owned by a religious institution or used for religious within the past 50 years. Applicable National register Criteria one or more Property is associated with events that have made a Mahoning County, OH page 5 Cultural Affiliation: N/A Dunn and Copper, Architects Meade and Hamilton, Architects Heller Brothers, builders Heller and Murray, builders Clarence Kissinger, Architect Barton Brooke, Architect Pitkin and Mott, Landscape Architects Warren Manning, Landscape Architect 9.
Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing 10. Geographical Data B 17 527400 454400 17 528300 454400 D 17 528830 454500 property on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By 44 Audubon Road Architect/Builder: See continuation sheet Significant Persons: N/A Narrative Statement of Significance