{"nrhp_refnum":"79001806","name":"East Cleveland District 9 School","other_names":["Superior School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14391 Superior Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland Heights","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.509621881000044,"lon":-81.56855081799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story schoolhouse at 14391 Superior Road in Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, built in 1882 as the District 9 school of East Cleveland Township, with a frame second story added in 1915.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare surviving nineteenth century rural schoolhouse of very substantial construction in a metropolitan area. It is the only sandstone schoolhouse in Cuyahoga County, and its stone ground story with a wood second story is described as unique in northern Ohio. It also served as a local district school and later for classes for slow learners.","narrative":"Built in 1882 as the District 9 school of East Cleveland Township, this small schoolhouse on Superior Road in Cleveland Heights is made of sandstone ashlar on the lower story. A frame second story with narrow lap siding was added in 1915, and a small square belfry with a pyramidal roof sits on top. It was the third school building on the site. Classes were held there until 1925, and in the late 1940s and 1950s it housed classes for slow-learning children. It was listed because it is the only sandstone schoolhouse in Cuyahoga County, and its stone-and-frame arrangement is considered unique in northern Ohio. It survived as a country school on a city lot while an upper middle-class neighborhood grew around it, since continued use kept it standing. The city of Cleveland Heights now uses it for storage, and local residents regard it as one of the community's few links to the nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1882; 1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular schoolhouse (sandstone ground story with frame second story)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant and used for storage by the City of Cleveland Heights, with boarded-up windows; new roofing was installed in 1976.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.38171-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001806.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001806/e74fbfc02f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001806/e74fbfc02f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ponceesponce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1010736_-_East_Cleveland_District_9_School.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ponceesponce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1010736_-_East_Cleveland_District_9_School.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000189","name":"Grant Deming's Forest Hill Allotment Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/grant-demings-forest-hill-allotment-historic-district-10000189/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987638","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126732374"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/east-cleveland-district-9-school-79001806/"}