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NFS Form 10-900 0MB No. 1024-0018 (3-82) Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NPS use only National Register of Historic Places received MAR I 9 1986 Inventory Nomination Form dateente^ ( ^ See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries complete applicable sections________________________________ __ 1. Name - r , __________________________ Historical Resources of the University-Cultural Center: historic Partial Inventory Historic and Architectural Resources in Phase II Pro.lect Area and or common N/A 2. Location street & number Streets of Project Area, Detroit, Michigan N/A not for publication city, town Detroit vicinity of state Michigan code 026 county Wayne 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use district public X occupied agriculture museum building(s) private unoccupied commercial park structure X both work in progress educational X private residence site Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment X religious object in process yes: restricted government scientific Multiple being considered _X_. yes: unrestricted industrial transportation Resource N/A no military other: 4. Owner of Property name Multiple Owners (see attached list) street & number city, town vicinity of state 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Wayne County Reigster of Deeds street & number City-County Building city, town Detroit state Michigan 6. Representation in Existing Surveys__________ N/A title Detroit Urban Conservation Project has this property been determined eligible? __yes __no date 1976-1977 federal X state county X local depository for survey records Michigan, Bureau^ of'History_____ city, town Lansing state Michigan 7. Description Condition Check one Check one X excellent __ deteriorated __ unaltered .JL_ original site __ good ; __ ruins _X_ altered .._._ moved date __ fair __ unexposed Describe7 the present and original (if known) physical appearance See attached continuation sheets. 8. Significance Period Areas of Significance Check and justify below prehistoric archeology-prehistoric community planning landscape architecture X religion _.._ 1400-1499 archeology-historic conservation ..... law ........ science ...__ 1500-1599 .agriculture ........ economics literature ._.. sculpture _ . 1600-1699 X. architecture education military social/ _._.. 1700-1799 art engineering ........ music humanitarian _X_ 1800-1 899 commerce exploration/settlement philosophy ..._.-.-. theater _ZL 1900- communications industry politics government transportation invention -X _ other (specify) _ ____.____......_...... .._...._..._._.. .. .. .......... ........ __.............. .... _Hpus ing ___ Specific dates See inventory Builder/Architect See inventory Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) See attached continuation sheets. 9. Major Bibliographical References See general and individual property bibliographies 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property See attached Quadrangle name Detroit, Michigan Ontario Quadrangle scale 1 ; 2^000 UT M References Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing Cl i I I I . I 1 I °UJ I I i I i . I I i I . El . I 11,1,11 I I I , I ! I I Fl i I I I I I . I I i I . , , a LU I I i I i i I I i I . I "i i I Hi , I I I l I , , I I , I , I I_I Verbal boundary description and justification See individual properties List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state HA. code county code state code county code 11. Form Prepared By name/title Thomas A. Klug, Project Manager date street & number ^735 Gass Avenue telephone (313) 577-3559 city or town Detroit state Michigan 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state J/local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- 665), I hereby nominate thrs property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature title Director, Bureau of History date For NFS use only I herebytertlfy that this property is included in the National* Register .Keeper of the National Register Attest: date Chief of Registration -on 804-788 NPS Form 10-900-a 0MB No. 1024-0018 (3-82) Expires 10-31-87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number Page v CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 1-2. , Physical Features of the University-Cultural Center 3-6. Historical Overview of the University-Cultural Center: The 7-22. Last One Hundred Years The Architecture of the University-Cultural Center 23-32. General Bibliography 33-35. Property Owners List 36. Nominated Properties: 1. Chatsworth Apartments 37-42. 2. St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church 43-51. 3. Sante Fe Apartments 52-55. NFS Form 10-900-a 0MB No. 1024-0018 (3-82) Expires 10-31-87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number Page INTRODUCTION This document contains nomination materials, for three historically and architecturally significant structures in Detroit, Michigan. As no archeological work was done as part of this study, this nomination gives no consideration to possible archeological sites within the Study Area. The Study Area of this Multiple Resource Nomination is known as the University Cultural Center (UCC), located along Woodward Avenue in Detroit's inner city between the downtown Central Business District and the New Center business district at Grand Boulevard. The core of the UCC is located at the Woodward Avenue sites of the Detroit Public Library and the Institute of Arts. The boundaries of the UCC extend westward to the Lodge Expressway (US-10), taking in most of the main campus of Wayne State University, and to the Chrysler Expressway (1-75) on the ease. The northern line is located at the Grand Trunk railway tracks, and the southern border follows Selden from the Lodge to Cass, Parsons between Cass and Woodward, E. Willis from Woodward to John R, one block of E. Canfield from John R to Brush, and finally E. Warren from Brush to 1-75. The UCC is rich in historically and architecturally signficant structures and the following are among those already on the National Register: the distin- guised residences of David Whitney, Colonel Frank J. Hecker, George L Beecher, Lemuel C. Bowen, and David Mackenzie; the Institute of Arts, Bilberry Theatre, Scarab Club, and Orchestra Hall; the Public Library, Rackham Memorial, and the Maccabees Building, and Wayne State*s Old Main. There are also several historic districts within the UCC: splendid residences on two blocks of E. Ferry and one block of W. Canfield, and the Frederick Street district; separate Cultural Center and Wayne State University historic districts, each comprised of three structures; and a thematic district of Woodward Avenue religious institutions that includes two churches in the UCC. In addition, eleven other structures within the UCC were offered for nomination to the National Register following a summer 1984 re search project (known as Phase I.) conducted by Preservation Wayne and funded by a grant from the Michigan Bureau of History., Preservation Wayne was founded in 1975 by students at Wayne State University with the goal of promoting and assisting the preservation of structures having historic and architectural importance. Through the identification and documenta tion of significant structures, Preservation Wayne immediately began to lobby on behalf of those structures and influence planning decisions by major insitutions in the area. To this end, in 1978 Preservation Wayne undertook its own historic buildings survey of buildings owned by the University. Two years earlier, many NFS Form 10-900-a 0MB Wo. 1024-0018 (3-82) Expires 10-31-87 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number Page 2. Wayne members worked on the Detroit Urban Conservation Project, surveying and photographing every building within the area bounded by Grand Boulevard and a block by block survey for the remainder of the city.. The survey area, of the 1984 Phase I. project covered an area from W. Warren to the Ford Expressway OV94), and from Woodward on the east to Second Avenue (known as Gullen Mall on the Wayne State campus) on the west. While Phase I, was still underway, the two member project staff and an advisory board made up of experts in history and architecture decided that fourteen buildings (one church, seven single family residential structures, and six apartment buildings) located west of Gullen Mall on Wayne State's campus should be researched as part of a Phase II. project. On the basis of the evidence gathered by a team of volun teer researchers, those among the fourteen buildings that met National Register creteria would then be offered in nomination. Preservation Wayne applied for and received a grant from the Bureau of History, Michigan Department of State, to pursue its Phase II. project which began on July 23, 1985. As was the case with Phase I., the grant was coordinated through Wayne State's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the History Department. Much of the labor required for in-depth building research was supplied by some fif teen volunteers from Preservation Wayne, Wayne State University, and Lawrence Institute of Technology. At the third meeting of the advisory board held on August 7, 1985, advisors and project staff analyzed the body of research accumulated to that point and determined that only three out of the fourteen buildings under consideration met National Register criteria. Those three buildings - St. Andrew's Memorial Episco pal Church, the Santa Fe Apartments, and the Chatsworth Apartments - are presented in this document for nomination to the National Register.

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