{"nrhp_refnum":"84002915","name":"Doan School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1350 E. 105th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.52045647700004,"lon":-81.61586764299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story public school building at 1350 East 105th Street on Cleveland's east side, built in two stages beginning in 1904 and designed by Frank S. Barnum. It sits on a lot of about two acres near Superior Avenue and Rockefeller Park.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an unusually fine example of turn-of-the-century Second Renaissance Revival public school architecture, with far more ornament than other Cleveland schools of its period. Its two-stage construction shows the shift in classroom lighting, from windows on two sides to one side as electric light improved. It is also a significant work of Frank S. Barnum, principal architect for many Cleveland Board of Education schools.","narrative":"Doan School is a three-story public school at 1350 East 105th Street on Cleveland's east side, named for the street's former name, Doan Avenue. Frank S. Barnum designed it, and it was built in two stages: the first two floors in 1904 and the third floor two years later. Glazed yellow brick with red mortar joints rises from a cut sandstone foundation, and buff terra cotta marks the entrances, windows, string course and a massive modillioned cornice. Open-book panels refer to education. After the school board required fireproof buildings, Barnum gave this school a monumental, five-part facade without the towers and large roofs of earlier schools. The blank third-floor corner walls, patterned in terra cotta and brick, show the board's move to classroom windows on one side only as electric lighting improved. Two smaller wings were added in the early 1950s. The building is described as a likely model for Barnum's later Memorial School, and it reflects the once fashionable neighborhood around Rockefeller Park.","period_of_significance":"1904-1906-1950","architect_builder":"Frank S. Barnum","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good and altered; the form checks work in progress as its status and notes two wings added in the early 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.869406-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84002915.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002915/377bad2e0f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002915/377bad2e0f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 1.0","author":"Christopher Busta-Peck | Talk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doan_Elementary_School_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Busta-Peck | Talk</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 1.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doan_Elementary_School_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000382","name":"Rockefeller Park and Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/rockefeller-park-and-cleveland-cultural-gardens-historic-district-05000382/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987634","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137707320"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/doan-school-84002915/"}