Bay View Hospital

Description of the property

stone, steel and concrete. Despite the materials, the general mass of color, as the walls are yellow brick and the roof is red tile. the south facade there is an octagonal tower, the east one of two stories, the west of three. They have steep pyramidal roofs. A facade. Its piers have carved Romanesque foliated capitals. A at the turn of the century is notable, although this building is by JUL 2 NATIONAL - CONDITION REGISTER Ruins the original residence.

The general line of the house is predominantly horizontal, even no means unique.The interior rooms have been almost completely This is a large three-story building constructed of brick, The interior structure of the walls and floors is entirely of zoning restrictions, the basic exterior aspect of the original mansion hallway is partially preserved, and a mahogany panelled dining room of the building is marked by tall chimneys. from Lake Road is virtually intact.The nomination includes only added to the north side of.the house. However, because of intelligent though there is a tall hipped roof.The roof is punctuated with wide porte-cochere projects from the east end of the building.

loggia of three Romanesque arches is west of the center of the steel and concrete.The residential application of these materials modified since 1946 for the needs of the hospital.The main interior Fair is nearly intact.The oak staircase with turned balusters in a Neo- (Check One) Good - Moved [X Original Site various dormers and gables, all tile-roofed. At each corner of This leads to the present main entrance. Finally, the silhouette is Richardsonian Romanesque.The first striking impression is one Colonial manner has been preserved.A large patient wing has been PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian!

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Statement of significance

eland, which had been formed five years earlier by another assoc- consolidated over twenty carbon and battery companies. Their products included electrodes, brushes, flashlight batteries, radios, however, until 1946, when it was acquired by the Cleveland Osteo- 1898 Commerce Communications Engineering SIGNIFICANCE Conservation losophy Architecture NATIONAL REGISTER Aboriginal innovative. Science Education itarian Agriculture Theater pathic Hospital. Sculpture Washington H. Lawrence was originally associated with Charles Social/Human- eclectic architecture in its own right, as well as being structurally Lawrence organized the National Carbon Company, taking over the hearing aids and related products.

While many of Cleveland's late nineteenth century industrial- F.Brush as superintendent of the Brush Electric Company. In 1886 was built in 1898 and designed by the noted Cleveland architectural iate of Brush.In a dozen years National Carbon had bought and One was Washington H. Lawrence, founder and president of the plant of the Boulton Carbon Company on East 55th Street in Clev- Lawrence had had a smaller lakeshore summer residence in ists went east to Bratenahl or west to Lakewood for their summer mansion was the residence ofmembers of the Lawrence family, Invention Dover Bay Park (Bay Village) from 1883-1897.The existing house of a type built by a certain class, but is a spectacular example of Industry Landscape. JUL 2 Music firm of Coburn and Barnum.

Unfortunately Lawrence died in 1900, so that he did not live long to enjoy the use of the house.The 1950), 476. Cleveland City Directories, 1893-1900. Bay Views, XXII, No. 10, October, 1973, 1-4.