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Recent Ohio Additions to the National Register of Historic PlacesThe following Ohio properties have recently been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior [see attached backgrounder for more on each property]: Cincinnati / Hamilton County Cleveland / Cuyahoga County Cleveland / Cuyahoga County Dayton / Montgomery County Pisgah vicinity / Butler County Wilberforce / Greene County About the National Register The National Register lists places which should be preserved because of their significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering and culture. It includes buildings, sites, structures, objects and historic districts of national, state and local importance. National Register listing often raises community awareness of a property. However, listing does not obligate owners to repair or improve their properties and does not prevent them from remodeling, altering, selling or even demolishing them if they choose to do so. Owners or long-term tenants who rehabilitate income-producing properties listed on the National Register can qualify for a 20 percent federal income tax credit if the work they do follows the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, guidelines used nationwide for repairs and alterations to historic buildings. In Ohio anyone may prepare a National Register nomination. Nominations are made through the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society. Proposed nominations are reviewed by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board, a governor-appointed panel of citizens and professionals in history, architecture, archaeology and related fields. The board reviews each nomination to see whether it appears to be eligible for listing on the National Register, then makes a recommendation to the State Historic Preservation Officer. The final decision to add a property to the National Register is made by the National Park Service, which administers the program nationwide. The Ohio Historic Preservation Office is Ohio’s official historic preservation agency. A part of the Ohio Historical Society, it identifies historic places in Ohio, nominates properties to the National Register of Historic Places, reviews federally-assisted projects for effects on historic, architectural, and archaeological resources in Ohio, consults on the conservation of older buildings and sites, and offers educational programs and publications. -30- 04-HP-1 Background The following properties and districts in Ohio have recently been added to
the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
See attached release. Additional background information on the properties is
available to be faxed on request. Contact Tom Wolf, Public Education Manager,
Ohio Historic Preservation Office, at Cincinnati / Hamilton County A self-contained neighborhood built c. 1884, Mt. Auburn’s Glencoe-Auburn Hotel and Glencoe-Auburn Place Row Houses comprise six detached buildings set on a challenging hillside site. Four of the buildings house three-story brick Italianate style row houses. The fifth, similar in appearance, contains flats and one townhouse. The sixth, the former Glencoe-Auburn Hotel at 10 View Ct., is a three-and-a-half story Queen Anne style building with a round corner turret and sandstone facade. The buildings enclose four streets that lead into the area, circle around, and lead back out again. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared by Margaret Warminski, architectural historian for the Cincinnati Preservation Association, (513) 721-4506. Cleveland / Cuyahoga County By 1914, when the four-story Corlett Building replaced the Victorian-era home of Dr. William Corlett, Euclid Avenue’s heyday as a residential showplace had passed, but a Euclid Avenue address still held cachet for local retailers. Cleveland’s first zoning code would not be introduced until 1929; with nothing to prevent mixing residential and commercial, many of the old mansions were converted to commercial use or replaced by new blocks like the Corlett Building. One of a small number of buildings with terra-cotta facades by the local architectural firm of Knox & Elliott, the Corlett Building was built for the Cleveland Cadillac dealership. Other early auto showrooms including Packard, Pierce-Arrow, Hudson, Essex, Studebaker, Lincoln, and Buick were built nearby; six are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Corlett Building housed Downtown Chevrolet from 1925-65. The property is now owned by Cleveland State University. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared by Robert Keiser of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, (216) 664-2531. Cleveland / Cuyahoga County The National Town and Country Club, a private athletic and social club, hoped that the combination of a Euclid Avenue address and a New York City-style skyscraper offering the kind of sophisticated metropolitan lifestyle depicted in many movies of the era would sell memberships to prominent Clevelanders. The Depression intervened, and the club failed. Fenn College moved into the 21-story highrise in 1937, and it became the main classroom building when Cleveland State University was formed in 1964. Added to the National Register for its local architectural significance, the 1930 skyscraper is one of Cleveland’s best examples of the jazz-age Art Deco style. Designed by New York architects George B. Post and Sons, it was furnished by Cleveland’s Rorimer-Brooks Studio. The property is now owned by Cleveland State University. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared by Robert Keiser of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, (216) 664-2531. Dayton / Montgomery County Exposition Hall was designed by Dayton architect and contractor Leon Beaver and completed in 1874 at a cost of $8,400 as the centerpiece of the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. It is the largest of five surviving eight-sided exhibit halls built in the 1870s and 1880s on fairgrounds in Ohio, products of a 19th century vogue for octagonal buildings. The two-story frame building with a low hipped roof and central clerestory is notable for its unusual form and sophisticated structural system. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared for the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners by historic preservation consultant Margaret Warminski of Newport, KY, (859) 581-2883. Pisgah vicinity / Butler County Built in 1840 on the Cincinnati, Lebanon, and Springfield Turnpike (now U.S. 42), the Spread Eagle Tavern has been added to the National Register as Ohio’s only known example of a Greek Revival style tavern with a U-shaped plan and Palladian-style architectural features of the kind Thomas Jefferson popularized in Virginia. The tavern is red brick with a tooled limestone foundation, white trim, and original louvered shutters. Centered in the symmetrical one-story façade is a recessed portico with Doric columns and triangular pediment. The tavern is a tall single story at the front; as a result, the three public rooms across the front have unusually high ceilings. Rooms in two one-and-a-half story wings of about the same height at the rear have lower ceilings and an attic story above. Reflecting the Jeffersonian influence, stairs are enclosed and tucked into corners of a room in each of the low-ceilinged wings; there is no central staircase. Between the two parallel rear wings is a large courtyard, now enclosed. According to oral tradition, the tavern is said to be the stagecoach stop mentioned in Chapter Nine of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, which is a fictionalized account of a real Underground Railroad incident. Known in the 1940s as the Colonial Farm Restaurant, the tavern is now a private residence. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared by Edeena Jill Vaught Dunlap, county coordinator for the Friends of Freedom Society / Ohio Underground Railroad Association, (513) 875-2349, and Mary Ann Olding of The Union Institute, (513) 487-1224. Wilberforce / Greene County Designed to furnish light, heat, and power to the Combined Normal & Industrial Department (CN&I), a state supported vocational and educational arm of Wilberforce University that later became Central State, the 1930 power plant also housed classrooms and laboratories for students in engineering trades. It is the only historic building on the Central State campus to survive the tornado that ravaged the Xenia area in April 1974, and is one of three remaining historic buildings on the campuses of Wilberforce and Central State, Ohio’s only Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Local Contact: The National Register nomination was prepared by Sheila Darrow,
Central State University Archivist, -30- 04-HP-2
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