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NO= OIMSTED LANmMARKS OQNA'1ISSION ANN[JAL REPOI;T 1985 In September of 1984 the North O]msted Iandmarks Carunission reoeived werd that the omsn.ission had received a matching grant fran the Ohio Historic Pre- servation Office to oonduct a Ccmprehensive Historic S.irvey of Pre-1920 properties in North Olmsted. The grant cam froan the United States Depariznent of the Interior as"an inoentive to provide eventual Certified Local Grant (CLG) Status. The funds were available to om7plete necessary requirmmts for this CLG status., 1985 was the aanmission's "Year of the Grant". Although the grant period began in 1984 little was oompleted until January, 1985. A street by street visual survey was taken by Landmark Cmmission menbers pinpointing all buildings suspected to be pre-1920. 'Ihis infonnation was then ocmq.?iled with auditor's records. Extensive planning and organization preceded the ini.tial step of the job posting for a historic research intern. A number of people applied for the position. Ektensive i:nterviews wpxe held with the two most qualified applicants for the position. The position was filled in March by Leslie Trew. She was to oouplete an indepth archival research on all pre-1920 buildings as selected through auditor's rewrds and the.coaYplete viSU3l survey. The goal was to have documented building dates,for each pre-1920 building in North Olmsted. By May it becam apparent that the job could not be ccopleted as planned in the grant proposal. Many oamussion meetings were held over several wee7c.s to reach agreemealt as to how to best proceed. Input frc¢n the Director of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office was sought. In early June it was agreed that the project could not be ocmpleted under existing corrlitions. Ms. Trew resigned and the cmru.ssion hired a consultant to ocoplete docunented research on the 80 oldest buildings in town. Mr. Steve McQuillin spent several days visually surveying, photographing and oollecting local infor?nation on North O]msted buildings with can- mission member help. He oaopleted 120 Ohio Historic Inventory Forms for the grant. The remaining 114 properties were researched, photographed and docunerited by ocar mission mimbers. In addition, the North O]msted Landmarks CcmmLi.ssion was allowed access to title records at a local Title Qaipany to omiplete title chains on all buildings thought to have been built before 1920. Following the guidelines of the grant agreeTeit a lengthy report was prepared by the Landmarks Ccnnission to acoompany the 234 O.H.I. fonns. The report included historical background of North O]msted, a proposed local historic district for Butter- nut Ridge R4ad, a Natianal Register nonination for a Butternut Ridge Road Historic District, local plans to meet CLG requirnsents, local publicity, and maps docLune-nting the newly-acquired information. The grant was delivered to Coltunbus on July 31, 1985, culminating a hectic exciting few months when mem]ers of the Landmarks Catanission spent days and weeks campleting the Comprehensive Pre-1920 Historic Building Survey. In Nlay, 1985, the Landmarks CaYanission held a public meeting to reoognize eleven historic buildings on Butternut Ridge Road. H.B.R. (Historic Building Reoogriition) plaques were presented to the awners for placeqnent on the exterior of the builclings. A slide presentation was made representing the growt-h of North plTsted, Accordinq to LwKIna_rk Carmission guidelines plaques are only presented upon receipt and acceptance of docunented information. A large crawd wras present to sha.re this evening with the awners of the buildings. Buildings presented with a H.B.R.P. plaque are located at 27040, 25226, 27501, 26902, 27132, 26031, 27304, 25746, 27137, 25896 and 27615 Butternut Ridge Road. This brings the total H.B.R.P. plaqued buildin gs to 15. In addition 3 buildings have been declared North Olmsted Landmarks in previous years. - 1 -