Nomination for Port Clinton City Hall

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OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior 1. Name of Property historic name _ 2. Location street & number N/A - not for publication city or town - N/A O vicinity State - code 123 zip code 43452 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this [X nomination Dept. Head Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office - OH SHPO 4. National Park Service Certification - See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other, (explain:) comments.) Date National Register Register.

Adams Street Ohio Registration Form Port Clinton National Park Service Port Clinton City Hall National Register of Historic Places request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of entered in the National Register. In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.( See continuation sheet for additional This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and dstricts.Seeinstructions in How to Complete the NPS Form 10-900 X meets does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant State of Federal agency and bureau IAN | | 2000 code Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.

In my opinion, the property I hereby certify that the property is: RECEIVED Date of Action other names/site number 0.H.I. OTT-3-10 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property (Do not include previousty listed resources in the count.) X building(s) - district _ sites - structure L object - Total Name of related multiple property listing 6. Function or Use GOVERNMENT / firehouse . RECREATION & CULTURE/museum 7.

Description private Historic Functions public-local Architectural Classification limestone roof walls Narrative Description Materials in the National Register Neo-Classical Revival EDUCATION/library Noncontributing asphalt shingle Number of Resources within Property wood Current Functions GOVERNMENT/city hall Number of contributing resources previously listed public-Federal (Enter categories from instructions) public-State Port Clinton City Hall Name of Property (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) (Check only one box) (Check as many boxes as apply) County and State other Ottawa County, Chia foundation United States Department of the Interior Port Clinton City Hall Ottawa County, Ohio The Port Clinton City Hall sits on the northwest corner of Adams and Second streets, two blocks east of Madison Street, which is the main commercial thoroughfare in the city.

Adams is a divided street with a 50-foot wide median of grass and trees, providing a park setting that separates the commercial section of Second Street to the west from the residential area to the township offices, fire station, and library in a single building. In style a subtle combination of Richardsonian Romanesque and Neo-Classical Revival elements, this two-story building is rectangular in plan with a central projecting pavilion on the primary facade and narrower pavilions at all four corners (photos #2-4). Coursed, rock- faced limestone block walls are laid on a raised basement with a cut stone watertable. A recessed corner entrance features two round-arch portals of smooth stone, under stone panels with both individual and continuous lug sills and lintels of smooth stone, carved drip molds on some of the lintels, and multi-pane transom lights on the first floor fenestration.

The building's wood cornice has a plain narrow frieze with moldings and paired brackets, below low parapets on the facade and the corner pavilions. The central pavilion also displays a decorative metal window balcony on the second floor and a wood pediment with garland and urn detailing on the parapet. A low-pitched hip roof on the main building block is finished with asphalt shingles. At the west end of the building is a 1 1/2 story wing with a garage- style door for the fire department's engines. Over the door a carved stone panel denotes the "fire station," and a decorative stone corbel panel is emplaced above the second-floor windows. The wood bell tower and bell on the firehouse roof were moved there from their original location on the 1875 city hall (photo #5). A one-story brick extension to the fire station was constructed in 1969(photo #6).

Warren Callahan was the architect and Roth Construction Company was the contractor. The City Hall interior still retains significant integrity on the second floor, where city offices were located, with the original floor plan largely unaltered. Wood baseboards, window sills, and turned corner protectors are intact (photo #7-8); doorway transoms still loss of integrity on the first floor (photo #10), with alterations to the floor plan and modern drop ceilings, although original wood door, window, and baseboard trim still survives. Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Narrative Description National Park Service bearing the carved legend,"City Hall"(photo #3).Windows are double-hung 1/1 wood sash, retain their patterned glass(photo #9); and the plaster walls are still sound. There is some Section number 7 NPS Form 10-900- OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 Although not original, an Art Deco style fluorescent entry light (photo #11) is also notable. east (photo #1).Constructed in 1911-12,the City Hall combined the functions of city offices, Page National Register of Historic Places Kilometers LAKE National Park Service northwest Ohio United States Department of the Interior Continuation Sheet Toledo Port Clinton City Hall Sketch Map of the Port Clinton region, Section number 7 Ottawa County, Ohio ERIE OHIO MICHIGAN NPS Form 10-000- Marblehead Island Kelleys NPS Form 10-900d United States Department of the Interior Port Clinton City Hall Section number - Ottawa County, Ohio Ir High R. 16 E IR.

17 E O MILE 7000 FEET 585 1000 5000 4000 2000 3000 Disposa 338 Sewage Page Hospital Sch National Park Service Magruder National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet 1969 Map of Port Clinton (from U.S.G.S.7.5 topographic map) 339 OMB Approvel Na. 1024-0018 6000 NPS Form 10-900- United States Department of the Interior Section number - Ottawa County, Ohio 1875 city hall Site of 1911-12 City Hall Page PORT CLINTON Continuation Sheet National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Port Clinton City Hall 1900 Map of Port Clinton (from Goodman's Atlas) OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 SPACE MARKET cou OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Port Clinton City Hall Ottawa County, Ohio Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service United States Department of the Interlor PORT CLINTON,O.

1874 Map of Port Clinton (from Hardesty's Atlas) Section number Page NPS Form 10-000~ FOURTH Page PORTAGE Pablic 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, ormethod of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Miller, William (builder) Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 E State Historic Preservation Office - Other State agency -previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National - Local government - University - Other -recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1912-1949 Architecture Bibilography Architect/Builder Register Criteria Considerations Social History individual distinction. religious purposes.

Areas of Significance Cultural Affiliation Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A Applicable National Register Criteria Significant Person Significant Dates for National Register listing.) Name of repository: distinguishable entity whose components lack recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Property is: Period of Significance Name of Property County and State Shively, Samuel H. designated a National Historic Landmark (Enter categories from instructions) significant in our past. Primary location of additional data: B Property is associated with the lives of persons CFR 67) has been requested 'A owned by a religious institution or used for (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Ottawa County, Ohio Name of Property 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of Property - - See continuation sheet (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By - telephone 330-438-0404 city or town - state Ohio Submit the following items with the completed form: A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). instructions,gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

Zone Canton Northing Photographs Maps Additional Documentation Ohio Continuation Sheets Easting Boundary Justification Verbal Boundary Description Property Owner Port Clinton Port Clinton City Hall County and State less than one Jeffrey D. Brown/Historic Preservation Administrator _ zip code_44702 A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. name City of Port Clinton - telephone 419-734-5522 (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) organization _ street & number _ 1868 E. Perry Street 43452 UTM References name/title Estimated Burden Statement:Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing additional UTMreferences ona continuation sheet.) OMB Aoprovel No.

1024-0018 Port Clinton City Hall Ottawa County, Ohio Statement of Significance The Port Clinton City Hall is nominated under Criteria A and C, as a significant representative of the city's definitive period of development around the turn of the twentieth century, and as a locally distinctive example of stone architecture, reflecting the importance of limestone quarrying and construction in the region's economic and architectural history. Port Clinton, the county seat since the organization of Ottawa County in 1840, was platted in 1828 at the mouth of the Portage River, on the south shore of Lake Erie. The village never developed into a major lake port as its founders had hoped, and from 1846 to 1870 the population grew from only 357 to 543 people.

The first city hall was built on Madison Street in 1875 (still standing, but altered), and also housed fire fighting equipment after a fire fighting company was formally organized in 1890. Port Clinton graduated its first high completion of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad through the area in the early in the county. By the turn of the century, 600,000-700,000 bushels of peaches, 6-7 million pounds of grapes, and 500 freight cars of fish were being shipped out annually. The lime building stone each day (Goodman), and there were also sizable limestone quarries on nearby Kelleys Island and at Clay Center in western Ottawa County. The resultant economic impact is still reflected in much of Port Clinton's appearance today.

Many of the city's most distinctive buildings were erected in that era, including the Ottawa County Courthouse (1899- 1901), waterworks building (1895), the Methodist Episcopal Church (1890, demolished 1964), St. Thomas Episcopal Church (1897, NR 1999), Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (1922). Port Clinton's population more than doubled through this period, from 1600 people in 1880 to 3928 people by 1920. Despite the title "City Hall" on the building, Port Clinton's population stabilized thereafter and did not exceed the 5000 resident threshold for an incorporated city until 1951. Port Clinton's expansion heightened the need for new government and public service streets was purchased as the site for a new city hall.

Completed late in 1912, and constructed of native limestone, the City Hall design incorporated multiple public services into one those in Camden (Preble Co., NR 1998) and West Salem (Wayne Co.), a late 19th-early 20th plant at nearby Marblehead was the largest in Ohio, shipping up to 80 carloads of lime and 1870s that facilitated expansion of the limestone, gypsum, fishing, and agricultural industries National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet school student in 1885; by 1894 the graduating class was up to eight.

However, it was the National Park Service United States Department of the Interior building.In concept it was an outgrowth of earlier town hall/opera house/fire stations such as facilities, and in 1911 the Sylvester property on the northwest corner of Adams and Second (1901-02),City Hall (1911-12),St.John's Lutheran Church(1913-15),and the high school NPS Form 10-000e Page Section number 8 Port Clinton City Hall Ottawa County, Ohio Statement of Significance century building type that provided both governmental and public functions within a single building. Port Clinton city offices, Portage Township offices, and the city fire department were joined in this building by the new public library in February 1913. Founded in 1908 in a private home as the Ladies' Literary and Social Club, the library occupied two rooms in the City Hall until a 1928 move into the building's auditorium.

Their original two rooms became the home of the Ottawa County Historical Museum in 1931 (Bailey: 58-59). The library remained at that location for the next forty years until moving into a new facility on South Madison Street in 1968.The Historical Society museum and Portage Township offices also moved to new buildings in 1968, and the city offices were relocated to larger quarters in 1995. Since that date most of the City Hall has been vacant, with the exception of Port Clinton's emergency medical service in the former fire station. Limestone quarrying has been a major industry in Ottawa County through most of the 19th later Kelleys Island, originally part of Ottawa County, but transferred to Erie County in 1846) throughout the Great Lakes. The famous Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, were built of Marblehead limestone.

By the turn of the century, rapid growth in the steel industries of quarries, to be used as flux in the steel-making process. Even in the midst of the Great more than any other Ohio county (Ohio Department of Industrial Relations, 1938). While Despite the local abundance of high quality limestone and its economic importance to the region, few stone buildings were erected in Port Clinton, a contrast to both the smaller village of Marblehead and to the city of Sandusky in adjacent Erie County, where limestone residences, commercial buildings, and churches are numerous (Sandusky MRA, 1982). While certainly due in part to Port Clinton's much smaller size compared to Sandusky, the full reasons for this relative disparity are unknown. Port Clinton's most prominent building, the Ottawa County Courthouse (NR 1974), was built of Amherst (Ohio) sandstone, leaving City Hall, St.

John's Lutheran Church, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, and the True residence as the only four notable limestone buildings in the city. production today. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Lorain, Cleveland, and Youngstown required huge quantities of crushed limestone from these National Park Service and 20th centuries. Beginning operations as early as the 1820s, quarries at Marblehead (and United States Department of the Interlor Depression,Ottawa County was producing between 1.5-2million tonsof limestone annually, quarrying on Kelleys Island ceased in 1940, the Marblehead quarries are still in active eventually supplied much of the construction limestone used across northern Ohio and NPSForm 10-900e CMB Approval Na. 10240018 Section number - Page NPS Form 10-000 United States Department of the Interior Port Clinton City Hall Samuel H.

Shively (1855-1929) was born in Fremont, Ohio, and after short periods in other cities, practiced architecture for 48 years in the city of his birth. His commissions in Fremont included St. Ann's Church, St. John's and St. Mark's Lutheran churches, Grace Church, Trinity Evangelical Church, St. Joseph's School, the Kline and Gott blocks, Lutz and Croghan built of limestone) and several houses in Sandusky, high schools in Port Clinton (1922) and Oak Harbor (both now Junior highs), and the Port Clinton City Hall. Over his long career he worked capably in a variety of architectural styles, and at the time of his death was noted as one of the more prominent architects in northwest Ohio. Although no longer used for its original purposes, the Port Clinton City Hall remains a significant element of the city's architectural history, reflective of the era that primarily shaped modern Port Clinton.

It represents a period (late 1800s-1960s) when the Erie Ordinance Depot at Camp Perry, the Standard Products Company, Matthews Boat Company, U.S. Gypsum (Celotex) Company, and area fishermen and fruit growers were economic mainstays of the community. With the exception of the Celotex Company and a few principal economic focus of the Port Clinton region. The City Hall is also a distinctive example of limestone construction, representative of that material's major economic role in the history of Ottawa County. It provided an efficient combination of public services for a small town from a single building that served Port Clinton well for much of the twentieth century.

National Register of Historic Places Page Continuation Sheet National Park Service remaining fishermen and farmers, all are gone, with expanding Lake Erie tourism now the Statement of Significance schools, and numerous residences. Shively was also the architect for fire station #5 (1906, Section number 8 Ottawa County, Ohio OMB Approvel Na.10240018 OMB Approvel Na. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior Anonymous. "Council Meeting," The Ottawa County News-Democrat, May 19, 1911. 12, May 19, 1911; September 13, 1912. Anonymous. "Samuel Shively Architect Dead." Obituary, 1929. Anonymous. Port Clinton Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration 1828-1978. The Sesquicentennial Book Committee, 1978. Bailey, Barbara J., ed. The Heritage of Port Clinton, Ohio. Published by the Port Clinton Area Heritage Foundation and The Ottawa County Historical Museum, n.d. (ca. 1990?). Goodman, H.S.

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, Ohio. Port Clinton, 1900, reprinted by the Ottawa County Historical Society, 1989. Hardesty, H.H. Illustrated Historical Atlas of Ottawa County, Ohio. Chicago, 1874, Ohio Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics. Statistics of Ohio Coal Mines and Quarries for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1937. Columbus, 1938. Verbal Boundary Description The nominated property is located on Lots Nos. 10 and 11 in Block No. 3, as recorded in the original plat of the City of Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio. (Deed Records of Port Clinton, p. 487, May 26, 1911 , transferring Sylvester property 17/25 share to Port Clinton and 8/25 share to Portage Township; and September 5 (recorded Sept. 17), 1968, transferring Portage Township interest to Port Clinton).

Boundary is based upon a legally recorded lot description, and includes the property Bibliography Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Boundary Justification historically associated with the nominated building. Anonymous."Council Proceedings,"Ottawa County Herald, February 17,April 14,May Port Clinton City Hall Ottawa County, Ohio Section number 9, 10 Page 1 (8-85) NPS Form10-900- United States Department of the Interior Ottawa County, Ohio The following information is the same for all photographs: Adams Street at Second Street, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio Name of Photographer: Jeffrey D. Brown Date of Photograph: October 21, 1999 (#1-6); December 14, 1999 (#7-11) Location of Negative: In possession of the photographer Description of Views: #1. View of the City Hall in its setting, looking northwest. #2.

The facade and south elevation, looking northwest. #3. The City Hall facade, looking west from Adams Street. #4. The north elevation, looking southeast. The south elevation, showing the 1969 addition to the fire station, looking northwest. View of the fire station, looking northeast. #7. Interior view: second floor stair landing. Interior view: second floor window. Note the turned wood corner protector, baseboards, and window sill. Interior view: second floor doorway with its original pattern glass. #10. Interior view: first floor hallway, looking west from the building entrance. Interior view: Art Deco style fluorescent light inside the main entrance.

Address: Section number Photographs Page Continuation Sheet Property Name: National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Port Clinton City Hall (8-86) PHOTOS: Historic Postcards of the Port Clinton City Hall as-built photo (bottom, undated), especially the panel inscribed "Library" over the 1st-floor windows, the 2nd-floor balcony, and the fire station cornice and bell tower. (top) A conceptual picture, postmarked April 13, 1911. Note the small variations from the City Hall, Port Clinton, O. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NAME : N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N RECOM.

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