NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION NPS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev
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NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION NPS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 1 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 1. NAME OF PROPERTY Historic Name: Village of Mariemont Other Name/Site Number: None 2. LOCATION Street & Number: Not for publication: N/A Located ten miles east of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, bordering both sides of US 50 (Wooster Pike); bounded by Westover industrial section, Beech Street, Murray Avenue, Grove Avenue, Pocahontas Avenue, Miami Bluff Drive, and acreage south of Norfolk & Western rail lines. City/Town: Mariemont Vicinity: N/A_ State: Ohio County: Hamilton Code: 061 Zip Code: 45227 3. CLASSIFICATION Ownership of Property Category of Property Private: X__ Building(s): __ Public-Local: X District: X Public-State: ___ Site: __ Public-Federal: Structure: __ Object:__ Number of Resources within Property Contributing Noncontributing 1014 57 buildings 09 0_ sites 3_ structures 2 0_ objects 1030 Total 60 Total Number of Contributing Resources Previously Listed in the National Register: 182 Name of Related Multiple Property Listing: Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830 to 1960, MPS NPS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 2 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 4. STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this ___ 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 ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. Signature of Certifying Official Date State or Federal Agency and Bureau In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of Commenting or Other Official Date State or Federal Agency and Bureau 5. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is: Entered in the National Register Determined eligible for the National Register Determined not eligible for the National Register Removed from the National Register Other (explain): Signature of Keeper Date of Action NFS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 3 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 6. FUNCTION OR USE Historic: Domestic Sub: Single Dwelling Domestic Sub: Multiple Dwelling Domestic Sub: Secondary Structure Domestic Sub: Hotel Commerce Sub: Business Commerce Sub: Professional Commerce Sub: Financial Institution Commerce Sub: Restaurant Commerce Sub: Trade (Archeology) Social Sub: Meeting Hall Government Sub: Fire/Police Station Education Sub: School Religion Sub: Religious Facility Funerary Sub: Cemetery Funerary Sub: Graves/Burials Recreation/Culture Sub: Theatre Recreation/Culture Sub: Sports Facility Recreation/Culture Sub: Outdoor Recreation Recreation/Culture Sub: Monument/Marker Recreation/Culture Sub: Work of art Agriculture/ Sub si stence Sub: Agricultural Outbuilding Agriculture/ Sub si stence Sub: Agricultural Industry/Processing Sub: Manufacturing Facility Industry/Processing Sub: Industrial Storage Landscape Sub: Park Landscape Sub: Plaza Landscape Sub: Garden Landscape Sub: Forest Landscape Sub: Street Furniture Landscape Sub: Conservation Area Transportation Sub: Road-related (vehicular) Current: Domestic Sub: Single Dwelling Domestic Sub: Multiple Dwelling NFS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 4 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Domestic Sub: Secondary Structure Domestic Sub: Hotel Commerce Sub: Business Commerce Sub: Professional Commerce Sub: Specialty Store Commerce Sub: Restaurant Commerce Sub: Financial institution Government Sub: Government Office Government Sub: Fire/Police Station Education Sub: School Education Sub: Library Religion Sub: Religious Facility Funerary Sub: Cemetery Funerary Sub: Graves/Burials Recreation and Culture Sub: Theatre Recreation and Culture Sub: Sports Facility Recreation and Culture Sub: Outdoor Recreation Recreation and Culture Sub: Monument/Marker Recreation and Culture Sub: Work of art Agriculture/ Sub si stence Sub: Agricultural outbuilding Agriculture/ Sub si stence Sub: Agricultural Industry/Processing Sub: Manufacturing facility Industry/Processing Sub: Industrial storage Health Care Sub: Medical business/office Landscape Sub: Park Landscape Sub: Plaza Landscape Sub: Garden Landscape Sub: Forest Landscape Sub: Street furniture Landscape Sub: Conservation area Transportation Sub: Road related (vehicular) NPS Form 10-5 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 5 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 7. DESCRIPTION Architectural Classification: Early Republic Federal Early 19th & 20th Century Revivals Tudor Revival Colonial Revival Italian Renaissance Revival Late 19l & early 20 century American Movements Bungalow/Craftsman Modern Movement Art Deco MATERIALS: Entries on following pages in this section provide specific descriptions of properties and structures. Materials described below provide a general listing of materials for buildings documented. Foundation: Stone, concrete, brick Walls: Stone, brick, stucco, wood Roof: Asphalt, metal, stone Other: NFS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-S OMBNo. 1024-0018 VILLAGE OF MARIEMONT Page 6 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Summary Distinctive for its cohesive plan that incorporates both formal and informal elements and its overall landscape design that encompasses a network of parks and tree-lined streets and avenues, the Village of Mariemont is an outstanding model of American garden-city design (1920-1962). The work of preeminent and pioneering American planner and garden-city practitioner John Nolen and his associate Philip Foster, the village is the most complete, comprehensive, and intact example of Nolen's community designs. Stemming from the financial support and like-minded vision of Cincinnati philanthropist Mary Emery and her advisor Charles Livingood, the community also represents one of the nation's most notable philanthropic efforts to relieve the housing shortage after World War I and to provide a model for reforming the character of American housing and neighborhoods for working-class families. Emery and Livingood envisioned a well-balanced community that offered a variety of attractive, modestly priced rental units; a wide range of well-constructed, architect-designed single family homes; and neighborhood amenities such as streetcar transportation to downtown Cincinnati, parks for recreation and inspiration, schools, a church, tree-lined roads and avenues, and a range of recreational facilities. Originally promoted as a "national exemplar" of domestic design, the village exhibits a variety of twentieth century housing types—groups of attached houses, apartment buildings, duplexes, and detached homes— primarily in the Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles. The earliest housing groups built in the 1920s are the work of American architects whom Livingood carefully selected with Nolen's recommendations. Among these architects were nationally recognized architects from New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, whose reputations in domestic design were well established, including Grosvenor Atterbury, Richard B. Dana, Edmund B. Gilchrist, Lois L. Howe, Louis E. Jallade, Eleanor Manning, and Carl A. Ziegler. It was also the proving ground for a number of Cincinnati architects, especially Charles A. Cellarius, whose designs and role as Mariemont's Resident Architect gained him national recognition and an invitation to serve on the Committee for House Design at the 1931 President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, a landmark event in the history of America's suburbanization. Viewed as a whole, Mariemont's dwellings provide a revealing index of domestic design as practiced in the United States between 1920 and 1960 and an indicator of the changing methods and materials of construction and garden design that marked the evolution of suburban housing in the twentieth century. The Village of Mariemont possesses an unusually high degree of historic integrity. This is evident in the nearly complete and intact character of the community plans designed by John Nolen in the 1920s and executed under the leadership of Mary Emery, Charles Livingood, and the Mariemont Company. It is also evident in the pervasive park-like ambience, the streets lined with mature trees, home plantings of shrubbery and shade trees, and ingenious layout of streets that integrate the radial geometry of formal planning and the informality of naturalistic curvilinear streets. And finally it is evident in the siting, setting, architectural character, and relatively unaltered condition of detached, semi-detached and apartment houses as well as commercial