{"nrhp_refnum":"88000436","name":"Murray Hill School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2026 Murray Hill Rd. and 2043 Random Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50757810700003,"lon":-81.59849035899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-04-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Murray Hill School is a pair of brick public school buildings in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood, joined by a ground-level corridor. The older building dates to 1908 and the larger annex to 1916.","why_significant":"The school is cited under Criterion A for its link to Little Italy, where it offered special programs for a student body that was about 95% Italian, and for hosting the first medical dispensary in public education in 1908. It is cited under Criterion C because the 1916 annex, with its brick and tile work, bell tower and clay tile roofs, alludes to Italian architecture and is described as unique in Cleveland.","narrative":"Murray Hill School occupies two brick buildings in the heart of Cleveland's Little Italy. The first, completed in 1908 and designed by Frank S. Barnum, is a two-story fireproof school. The larger annex, finished in 1916 and designed by Walter R. McCornack, has decorative brick and tile work, a square tile-roofed bell tower and clay tile roofs that recall the architecture of Italy. Its design is described as unique among Cleveland schools. The school served a neighborhood whose Italian-born population grew from about 3,000 in 1900 to nearly 19,000 in 1920, and a 1922 census found about 95% of its pupils were Italian. It offered English, citizenship, housekeeping and open-air classes. In 1908 it opened what is described as the first medical dispensary in public education, an idea that spread through Cleveland and to other schools. The school closed in 1978. Later, the original building became offices and studios, and the annex was being turned into condominiums.","period_of_significance":"1908-1940","architect_builder":"Barnum, Frank Seymour; McCornack, Walter Roy","architectural_style":"Other: 20th Century Eclecticism/Italian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The school closed in 1978. The original building has been converted to offices and studios, and conversion of the annex to condominiums was under way at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.571723-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/88000436.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000436/c4edb988c8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000436/c4edb988c8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murray_Hill_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murray_Hill_School.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000897","name":"Euclid Heights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-heights-historic-district-12000897/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987859","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137708486"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/murray-hill-school-88000436/"}