Label
The Clerk Reports
Title
Declaring the intent to designate the building located at 424 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio a historic landmark; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Architectural Significance of the Building for consideration to become a Designated Landmark.
The building at 424 East Manhattan Boulevard was built by the Toledo Public Schools in 1921 and is a rectangular, brick and stone, flat roof structure. It has a symmetrical layout, in Collegiate Gothic style. The building received interior renovations in 1948 and 1974. The building measures 162 feet wide (east/west) and 162 feet long (north/south). The building is three levels with a garden-level basement with a height of sixty-four feet from grade to top of parapet wall. It features two slightly projecting entrance bays on the front (north) fa?ade which feature gothic detailing. Between the projected bays are intervening bays with glass block enclosed windows. The south elevation is identical to the front except for the single-story boiler room between the entrance bays. The west and east elevations feature glass block enclosed windows in each bay and lack the gothic detailing. On all elevations, each bay is separated by brick piers with masonry capitals. At the first-floor line and the bottom of the parapet are masonry belt courses. Modification of the exterior of the structure include replacement of the original windows with glass blocks and the entrances with modern aluminum storefront systems. The interior of the building has wood flooring, exposed on the third floor and covered in sheet vinyl on the first and second floors, plaster walls, and drop ceilings with the original plaster ceilings above. The wood trim and corridor doors remain as does the original first floor fireplace.
The Webster School was built due to the increase in population of Toledo and the citizens approval of a bond issue to build new schools. At this time Toledo's population was increa...
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