National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: __Reeber Building_______________________________ Other names/site number: ______________________________________ Name of related multiple property listing: ____N/A_______________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: __3363 Michigan Avenue_____________________________________ City or town: __Detroit__________ State: ____Michigan________ County: _Wayne_____ Not For Publication: Vicinity: _________________________________________________________________ ___________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, 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. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide _X_local Applicable National Register Criteria: _X_A ___B _X_C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Reeber Building Wayne County, Michigan Name of Property County and State ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. 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 the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Reeber Building Wayne County, Michigan Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ____1________ ______0______ buildings _____________ _____________ sites _____________ _____________ structures _____________ _____________ objects _____1_______ _______0______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ___0_____ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) COMMERCE/TRADE: specialty store DOMESTIC: multiple dwelling ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) VACANT_________ WORK IN PROGRESS ___________________ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Reeber Building Wayne County, Michigan Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) LATE VICTORIAN _ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: Brick, stone Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Reeber Building is located at 3363 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. Situated on the west side of the city, the building is a two-story commercial building designed in the Late Victorian architectural style and constructed of masonry. The building is trapezium- shaped in plan, with its façade angled to meet the angle of Michigan Avenue as it radiates westward from the center of the city. The first floor is separated into two storefronts by a brick wall that runs the length of the building, the larger occupying two-thirds of the first floor on its eastern side. Historically, the second floor contained residential space but division of this area is no longer clearly defined as a result of a previous attempt at rehabilitation and a collapse of the roof into the second floor interior space. The first-floor entrances, storefronts, and all but two of the second-floor windows are now covered by wood boards and plywood. The second-story window openings are round-arch with repeating stone mouldings set below a series of decorative dental and stepped brick courses under a decorative brick cornice. A brick parapet surrounds the flat roof and six stone caps accentuate the top of decorative pilasters running the entire height of building. The face brick shows evidence of painting, including faded signage for “The Reeber Furniture Co.” The building has undergone two major alterations since its construction in 1887, occurring in 1894 and 1899. The property is in poor condition, with the roof, second floor and rear elevation having collapsed due to years of disuse and the impacts of scrapping and water infiltration. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and accessories have been removed or are unusable due to exposure to water, scrapping or age. The rear alley-facing brick elevation and roof have collapsed, as well as portions of the second floor interior floor and walls. ______________________________________________________________________________ Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Reeber Building Wayne County, Michigan Name of Property County and State Narrative Description Setting The Reeber Building is a two-story commercial building located at 3363 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The building stands one parcel east of the southeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Twenty-Third Street two miles from downtown Detroit, west of the Corktown and south of the Chadsey Condon neighborhood, both historically ethnic, and now working-class enclaves of the city. The building footprint sits at the northern lot line, bounded by Michigan Avenue to the north and the public alley to the south, abutting the Grosfield Building at 3365 Michigan Avenue on the western elevation. Michigan Avenue is a seven-lane roadway running west from downtown Detroit to Chicago and beyond. It is a spoke of Augustus B. Woodward’s plan for the city’s major traffic arteries, inspired by the plan for Washington, DC, created by Pierre L’Enfant, and implemented in 1806 after a disastrous fire ravaged the downtown a year earlier. Michigan Avenue intersects with Twenty-Third Street which ends one block south of Michigan Avenue at Risdon Street, closed at that point to accommodate both large-scale industrial and commercial operations and the Michigan Central Railroad tracks. South of the rail line Twenty-Third Street reopens to traffic ultimately terminating at Riverside Park along the Detroit River. North of Michigan Avenue Twenty-Third Street ends at McGraw Avenue on the city’s northwest side. Also commonly known as US-12, Michigan Avenue originates at Campus Martius, near the center of downtown Detroit, and stretches west past the city limits to New Buffalo at the southwest corner of the state where it continues beyond Michigan on its east-west trajectory. In 2004, US-12 was formally designated a Historic Heritage Route by the Michigan Legislature, and commemorated the avenue as “among the oldest road corridors east of the Mississippi